supervision

JGU Mainz (2015- )

2024

Exploring Genitalia Terminology: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Usage and Taboos (L. Majewski, MEd; 2nd examiner)Silver-Tongued Devil: The Linguistics of MJF’s Professional Wrestling Promos (H. Jourdan, BEd)A linguistic analysis of the representation of female nerds in television series (C. Hochscherf, MEd)Linguistic strategies for eliciting emotions in campaign advertisements from the 2020 US presidential election (N. Gehres, BEd)„A ship is a big ass boat“ - Navigating Language Boundaries concerning Swear Word Usage in Schools (S. Romero Ramirez, MEd)Lost in Translation: Language In the Bermuda Triangle of Culture, Context, and Connotation (M. Schütz, MEd)Reading Angela’s Ashes with a Linguist (E. Hopfe, MEd; 2nd examiner)

2023

Constructing a public persona through language - the case of the radio show host Dean McCullough (I. Pollentzke, MEd)Immigration as a Tremendous Problem or an Enrichment for the Nation of Immigrants? - Comparative Analysis of the Political Discourse on Immigration of Presidents Trump and Biden (P. Dietz, MEd)Gender-Specific Turn-Taking in Private Conversations (C. Frey, MEd)Constructed languages under the linguistic lens (H. Hirt, BA Linguistics, 2nd examiner)

2022

Getting to Net Zero: A Linguistic Analysis of Climate Change Terminology (K. Welsch, MEd)Does the Birmingham Accent Ever Get a Break? A Qualitative and Quantitative Study on Accent-Related Attitudes (N. Leibold, MEd)Politicizing the Female Body – A Corpus-Linguistic Approach to the Dichotomous Rhetoric of the US-American Abortion Discourse (L. Webb Weilacher, MEd)„I will not be judged by you or society“ - (Linguistic) Representations of Femininity in Sex and the City (1998-2004) (J. Gülükoglu, MEd)Jetzt geht’s los, Bitches! – Attitudes, Obscenity and Semantic Change of English Swearwords in German (N. Kessler, MEd)Analyse der Identitätsbildung bilingualer Muttersprachlerinnen anhand ihrer Sprachfertigkeiten und soziokultureller Einflüsse (R. Rezvani, BA Ling.)

2021

“We don’t care about your numbers, that’s them man - They ain’t gonna be here in the end man“ - The impact of MLE on the Authenticity and Success of Grime Artists (N. Pape, MEd)A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Car Commercials Across Time (M. Andres, MEd, 2nd examiner)The linguistic development of Apple’s Advertisement - An analysis of press releases as a genre and the corporate language of Apple (D. Nguyen, MEd)Attitudes towards EIL - An online survey among German EFL teacher trainees (V. Flemming, MEd)#schnitzelgate - Promoting Meat Alternatives Through Viral Marketing on Instagram (L. Fiederer, MEd)Stereotyping at Its Best or Authentic Linguistic Representation? Latinx Characters in the US American TV Series „Jane the Virgin“ (2014-2019) (S. Schlabow, MEd)A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Emoji Usage (L. Sentz, MEd)

2020

The Power of Language in Society - A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Spike Lee’s Blackklansman (2018) (M. Baron, MEd)“Pin a rose on your nose“. The use of idioms and idiomatic expressions in TV sitcoms - A linguistic analysis of Full House and Fuller House. (D. Vogt, MEd)Colorism in Hip Hop (K. Nickstadt, MEd)Ambiguity and Wordplay in Modern Family - Issues in Translating Humor into German and Spanish (J. Huber, MEd, 2nd examiner)An Empirical Analysis of Onomastic Idioms in Audiovisual Texts and their Translation into German (M. Schwarz, MEd, 2nd examiner)„I’m so London, I’m so South“ - An Analysis of Hip Hop Artist Stormzy’s Language and Identity in the Context of Multicultural London English (P. Singh, MEd)(In-)authentic Code-Switching in Spanish-English Context (N. Nickels, MEd)„Shut up and dribble.“ African American English, the NBA, and Instagram (R. Wagner, MEd)The Acquisition of Indirect Speech Acts - A Case Study (K. Claus, BEd, 2nd examiner)„Come off it,“ said Harry. An American View on the Harry Potter Series (S. Ober, MEd)„Everyone Knows about the Pronoun Problem, Don't They? Awareness and Acceptance of Singular They Among German Non-Native Speakers of English“ (K. Schmidt, MEd)„Adjektiv-Intensivierung im Englischen und ihre  ́wirklich interessante ́ Übersetzung ins Deutsche - Eine Studie am Beispiel der Serie „Grace and Frankie“ (A. Goltsche, MEd)Linguistic Stereotypes in Terry Pratchett ́s Watch Series (M. Roath, MEd)

2019

Norah Jones: Jazz and African American English? (K. Krüger, MEd)Why do you roll your R’s? Attitudes towards Spanish-accented English in the USA (P. Steul, MEd)Intensification in the TV Series Young Sheldon (C. Metz, MEd)L1 Influence on L2 Motion Event Encoding (H. Lipke, BEd)Sprache und Macht: Annalise Keating aus "How to get away with murder" (S. Kocjan, BA Linguistik)Machine Translation of English Lyrics into German: Errors and implications (K. Paladiienko, MA Linguistik)Subjectivity levels in paper talk: writing styles in football match reports (J. Schindler, BA Linguistik)„It ain’t easy“: Linguistic Proficiency and Cultural Awareness in the German Educational System (J. Maas, MEd)No, No, You’re Joke- Blocking Us - The Translation of Wordplay and Lexical Ambiguity in The Big Bang Theory (S. Zeis, MEd, 2nd examiner)„Don’t talk black to me“ - Translating Funny Fathers in Modern Family and Jane the Virgin (S. Reitz, MEd, 2nd examiner)„I don’t pop in peach“ - The Translation of Dad Humour in Modern Family and Jane the Virgin (S. Yildiz, MEd, 2nd examiner)English in today's corporate world: the online presence of multinational companies (C. Huber, MA Linguistk, 2nd examiner)Irish heritage on the Southern Avalon: Identity and perceived linguistic relation of Newfoundlanders to Ireland (D. Böhme, MEd)

2018 

Does English GOT a new verb? - The use of possessive GOT in the TV series NCIS (L. Altenkirch, MEd)Tabloidisation in British newspapers? A linguistic analysis of tabloids and broadsheets in Britain (D. Müller, MEd)"Get up, stand up for your rights" - is Reggae still black protest music? (A. Kohmer, BEd)

2017 

"Kombi", "Lifesaver", "Stroomlijnen" & Co. A Comparison of Different Swimming Teams as Communities of Practice: Linguistic and Social Aspects (M. Erbach, MEd)Scottish English – Authenticity in Singing: The example of Billy Boyd (U. Planz, MEd)Eine bidirektionale Studie: Lernersprachensyntax kontrastiv betrachtet. Doppelobjektkonstruktionen in Englisch und Deutsch als Fremdsprache (L. Haberstock, MEd)Investigating Language Attitudes in British Society: Evaluative Reactions towards Gendered Regional Varieties (E. Koch, MEd)"Scouse. It just sounds horrible. I don’t like it." - Language Attitudes and Identity in Ellesmere Port (Y. Itik, MEd)"Mr. Trump: The media is no longer your friend." - Capturing Linguistic Change in American News Media (A. Gasze, MEd)"Every rhyme I recite got to speak my mind" - An analysis of stylistic devices and their socio-linguistic meaning in Hip Hop Lyrics (M. Haschke, BEd)Sprachvarietätenspezifische Betrachtung der deutschen Synchronfassung am Beispiel der Serie Orphan Black (E. Adam, BA Linguistik)Genderspezifische Sprache in Deutschen Commercials (J. Rauer, BA Linguistik)Current trends in the word formation of the English internet language (K. Paladiienko, BA Linguistik)Das Komplexitätsprinzip in präpositionalen Konstruktionen im Varietätenvergleich (S. van den Berg, BA Linguistik)A Novel Gone Wilde? Teleny; Or, The Reverse of the Medal as a Case Study in Corpus-based Authorship Analysis (M. Mittag, MEd, 2nd examiner)Language Attitudes towards Code-Switching among Spanish Heritage Speaker in the United States (L. Jakob, MEd, 2nd examiner)

2016 

Pretty different - intensifiers in World English (R. Rudisile, MEd)"We don’t want no confusion": a corpus-based analysis of multiple negation in selected varieties of English (K. Schwab, MEd, 2nd examiner)Digital Zeitgeist in Sprachgefuhl und Weltanschauung - German loans in English online newspapers worldwide (S. Hansen, BEd, 2nd examiner)

University of Oxford (2012-2015)

Hashtags on Twitter: The Linguistics of a Sociolinguistic Phenomenon (2014)International Art English (2014)Literary representations of Multicultural London English (co-supervisor; 2014)Exploring vernacular Irish English features in the second part of the nineteenth century in a selection of emigrant letters (2013)The symbolical meaning and implications of using English in Swiss printed advertisements (2013)
Non-sexist language use – a comparative study of inner, outer and expanding circle varieties (2015)The linguistic representation of Food in Rap (2015)Job titles in varieties of English – beyond gender-marking? (2015)Literary representations of Nigerian Pidgin in Okonkwo and Achebe (2014)MLE in radio presenters' speech (2014)

TU Chemnitz (2009-2012)