Allgemeine Linguistik|Semantik|Gender und Sprache|Diskursanalyse|Empirische Forschung in der Linguistik|Interkulturelle Kommunikation

General Linguistics| Semantics| Gender and Language| Discourse Analysis| Empirical Research Methods in Linguistics| Intercultural Communication

Sprache in Migrationskontexten|Sprache und Medien|Sprache, Gender and Queere Theorien |Multilingualismus (Spanglish und Kiez Sprache)|Perzeption und Diskriminierung ausländischer Akzente (Linguistic Profiling) 

Language in Migration Contexts|Language in the Media|Language, Gender and Queer Theory| Multilingualism| Linguistic Profiling

International Pragmatic Association (IPRA)

Institut für Allgemeine und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

Migremus Research Network

Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies

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LINGUISTIC PROFILING

Based on the Gardner and Lambert's matched guise technique, my new study tests the effects of Turkish, American and German accents and its relation to housing discrimination. Both qualitative and quantitative data is investigated in regard to structural patterns of investigative telephone conversations and statistical significant outcomes. The data is generated by my Empirical Methods in Linguistics students from Bremen University.

Baugh, John. 2007. Linguistic Contributions to the Advancement

of Racial Justice Within and Beyond the

African Diaspora. Language and Linguistics Compass

1/4 : 331–349.

Lambert, W.E., R.C. Hodgson, R.C. Gardner, and S. Fillenbaum. 1960. Evaluational reactions to spoken
language. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 60.1: 44-51.

KANAK SPRAK

I investigate new grammatical, semantic and lexical features of so-called "Kanak Sprak," a migrant youth variety of German.

URBAN SPACE -MEMBERSHIP -PLACE NAMES

I currently look at the collective and individual meaning of spatial temporal expressions in immigrant narratives. In narratives, we speak of the "multiscale nesting of contexts" in which a narrating person has embedded and sustained him- or herself (Streeck& Jordan, 2009). The physical body is hence a heterochronic semiotic device and self-sustaining embodiment of contexts.