Currently (co-)supervised MA projects:

Humor and Politeness in Customer Service Situations in British Comedy

 

How can I say things that are pictures:
A stylistic analysis of subjective memory in Toni Morrison's Beloved and
its cinematic adaptation (M. Haas- with John Bateman)

 

Wandel der betrieblichen Interessenvertretung im Zuge von Reorganisationsmaßnahmen verdeutlicht am Beispiel der Gruppenarbeit im deutsch-britischen Vergleich (N. Kastner)

 

German Hip-Hop and Linguistic Identity of Migrant Youth

 

 

 

Currently supervised BA projects:

 

Spanish English Codeswitching in US-American Movies

 

Multimodality in Social Advertising

The Semantics of Football News Headlines

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Intensifiers in Celebrities' Interviews

Humor and Gender in American Sitcoms "How I met your mother" and "Friends"

 

The Function of Pronominal Deixis in Political Debates 

Language attitudes towards English and Chinese in Hong Kong 

Language and power in intercultural communication 

 

 

Currently co-supervised BA projects (selection):

 

Multimodality in Children's Advertising 

Swearing in Irish English

The influence of media on personal satisfaction with body shape  

African American and Asian American stereotypes in the media

Anglicisms in the German youth magazine 'BRAVO' and how German
teenagers use Anglicisms in their speech 

The politeness of salespersons on the telephone in areas of German cities that are and are not highly frequented by international tourists  

The use of "Denglish" in social online networks Facebook and Studi-VZ 

Language Attitudes: Ghanian English