Projects
I am currently working on the following research projects:
Indirect Complaints from a Diachronic Perspective
Focus: speech act analysis, diachronic pragmatics, ego documents
Focus: morpho-syntactic patterns in Korean(ized) English, acceptability of Korean(ized) English forms, language attitudes
English in Taiwan – Forms and Functions (with Prof. Jakob Leimgruber, University of Regensburg)
Focus: corpus compilation (comparable to the Korean English SPOKE corpus), morpho-syntactic patterns in Taiwanese English
The Discursive Behavior of Pick-Up Artists (with A/Prof. Daria Dayter, Tampere University)
Focus: narrativity and frames, lexical choice, persuasive language, discourse analysis
Mukbang – Eating Shows on YouTube
Focus: text types and speech events, discourse analysis, audience design, formality and informality
Non-Canonical Syntax (with Dr. Sven Leuckert, TU Dresden)
Focus: dislocation, topicalization, Korean(ized) English, CMC, information-structuring