Habilitation
2022 On the Use of GenX So in Present-Day English. University of Mainz.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susanne Wagner
Dissertation
2014 "Emotive Interjections in British English. A Corpus-Based Study on Variation in Acquisition, Function and Usage", Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günther Lampert
Curriculum Vitae
seit 10/2012
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, JGU Mainz
04/2011-09/2012
Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, JGU Mainz
18/2010-03/2011
Stipendiatin (Graduiertenförderung)
10/2009-07/2010
Lehrbeauftragte, JGU Mainz
04/2009-06/2014
Promotion (Englische Sprachwissenschaft), JGU Mainz
10/2004-03/2009
1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (Englisch, Französisch), JGU Mainz
10/2003-09/2008
Magister (Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Romanische Philologie – Französisch, Anglistik), JGU Mainz
09/2005-05/2007
University of Wales, Bangor; non-graduating student (Modern Languages, Language and Linguistics)
Publications
Monographs
(2016) Emotive Interjections in British English: A Corpus-Based Study on Variation in Acquisition, Function and Usage. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 75). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(2009) The Acquisition of Interjections in Early Childhood. Hamburg: Diplomica.
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
(accepted) "You're so not going to believe this - The Use of GenX so in Constructions with Future going to in American English". American Speech.
(2016) "I was sat there talking all night: A Corpus-Based Study on Factors Governing Intra-Dialectal Variation in British English". English Language and Linguistics 20 (3): 511-531.
Contributions to Edited Volumes
(2016). With Matthias Eitelmann. "The Pragmatics Explication: Making sense of nerds in The Big Bang Theory (2007–)". In: Beers Fägersten, Kristy (ed.). Watching TV with a Linguist, 114-138. New York: Syracuse UP.
(2014) With Damaris Nübling. "Interjections". In: Müller, Cornelia; Fricke, Ellen; Cienki, Alan & David McNeill (eds.). Handbook of Body - Language - Communication. Multimodal perspectives on language in communication. Vol. 38.2. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter Mouton, 1982-1989.
(2013). With Marcus Callies & Matthias Eitelmann. "LINGUA - eine Einführungsvorlesung in die Englische Sprachwissenschaft im Spannungsfeld von Massenveranstaltung und individuellen Lernprozessen". Gute Lehre – von der Idee zur Realität. Innovative Lehrprojekte an der Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Hrsg. vom Gutenberg Lehrkolleg der Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz. (Motivierendes Lehren und Lernen in Hochschulen: Praxisanregungen 18.) Bielefeld: Universitätsverlag Webler, 13-23.
(2013). "Joseph Roth in englischer Übersetzung. Linguistische Betrachtungen zu stilistischen Aspekten in Romananfängen". In: Shchyhlevska, Natalia & Nora Hoffmann (eds.). Joseph Roth als Stilist. Annäherung durch Theorie und Übersetzung. (Studien zur historischen Poetik). Heidelberg: Winter, 169-193.
Reviews
(2017) Review of Yule, George (2017) The Study of Language. Sixth edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2016) Review of Jones, Christian and Daniel Waller (2015) Corpus Linguistics for Grammar. A guide for research. (Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides). London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis). ICAME Journal 40: 166-172.
(2015) Review of De Rosa, Gian Luigi; Bianchi, Francesca; De Laurentiis, Antonella and Elisa Perego (eds.) (2015) Translating Humour in Audiovisual Texts. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Link
(2015) Review of Pérez-González, Luis (2014) Audiovisual Translation. Theories, Methods and Issues. London: Routledge Chapman & Hall.Link
(2014) Review of Kruger, Alet; Wallmach, Kim and Jeremy Munday (eds.) (2013) Corpus-Based Translation Studies. Research and Applications. (Continuum Advances in Translation). London: Bloomsbury. Link
(2013) Review of Alcina, Amparo (ed.) (2011) Teaching and Learning Terminology. New Strategies and Methods. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Book Notice] Link
Presentations
2017
"Emotive Interjections in British English." Keynote presented at Interjection Day, 11 October 2017, Institute for Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. [Invited Talk]
"'We are so going to kick your butts.' - The use of GenX so in constructions with going to in American English". Paper presented at UK Language Variation and Change 11, 28-30 August 2017, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom.
"Beyond Adjectives - So going to in the SOAP Corpus." Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology XVI, 7-11 August 2017, National Institute of Japanese and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan.
2015
"Wow! - A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of Emotive Interjections in Child Speech". Poster presented at CLS - Child Language Symposium, 21-22 July 2015, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
"I was stood there ironing! A Corpus-Based Study on the Distribution of Pseudo-Passives with sat and stood in British and American English". Work-in-progress Report presented at ICAME 36, 27-31 May, Trier, Germany.
2014
"Wow! – A Corpus-Based Study on Differences in the Use of Emotive Interjections i
n Child- and Adult-Directed Speech". Poster presented at ICAME 35, 29 April-4 May, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
(with Claudia Huschto and Anabela Mendes Passos) "Konzeption und Umsetzung kompetenzorientierter Lehre im Fach Englisch". Talk presented at dghd 2014, 17-19 March 2014, Braunschweig, Germany, and DOSS 2014, 26-28 May, Dortmund, Germany.
2013
"Whoops! – A New Approach to Identifying Stages in Cognitive Development". Poster presented at CLS – Child Language Seminar, 23-24 June 2013, Manchester, United Kingdom.
"I was sat there talking all night: A corpus-based study on factors governing intra-dialectal variation in England". Paper presented in the pre-conference workshop on "Processing in corpora: 'Support strategies' in language variation and change" (Britta Mondorf/Javier Pérez-Guerra), ICAME 34, 22-24 May 2013, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2012
"Whoops! Spill Cries as Indicators of Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: A Corpus-Based Study". Poster presented at ELA - Early Language Acquisition, 05-07 December 2012, Lyon, France.
"Ugh! & Yuck! A Corpus-Based Study on Naturalness of Expression". Poster presented at PiF - Psycholinguistics in Flanders goes Dutch, 06-07 June 2011, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2011
"The Use and Function of Ow! and Ouch! in Adult and Child Speech". Poster presented at PiF - Psycholinguistics in Flanders, 25-26 May 2011, Antwerp, Belgium.
Teaching
Vorlesungen
Introduction to English Linguistics
Introduction to English Linguistics (LINGUA-Modell)
Proseminare
Regional and Social Variation of British English English in the British Isles
Morphology
Grammatical Differences between British & American English
Morphological Differences between British & American English
Seminar (Bachelor)
British-American Differences in Grammar (Blockseminar)
Intensifiers in English
Übungen
Introduction to English Linguistics
Spoken English
Spoken English (Blended Learning)