PhD Candidate

Sarah Schwarzenberg is a scientific researcher at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf (IDGS), Universität Hamburg. Her research interests are multimodality and sign language acquisition (both L1 and L2). In her master’s thesis at Universität Hamburg, she investigated the use of finger counting and number signs and their modality-specific features. In 2021, she started her doctoral thesis on metaphors in German Sign Language (L1) and written German (L2), focusing on the identification of metaphors with a multi-methodological approach, using corpus data and experimental methods.