University of Southern Denmark
Institute of Business Communication
and Information Science
Alsion 2
DK-6400 Sønderborg
Phone +45 6550 1255

Presentations

• "Enligsh as a Lingua Franca - (where) does it exist?" Invited lecture. English Department. Febuary 2011, University of Giessen.

• "Lingua franca interaction in English across academic speech genres." Paper to be presented at the 43 Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. September 2010, University of Aberdeen (UK).

• "Discourse markers in high-stakes L2-L2 academic interaction: Oral exams." Paper presented at the Second International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. April 2009, Southampton (UK) (with Juliane House).

• "Appraisal and speaker identities in translational Business English: The CEO in letters to shareholders". Paper presented at the XVII European Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes. August 2009, Aarhus (DK).

• "Code-switching as appraisal resource in talking about third parties." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS). March 2009, Osnabrück (with Inke Du Bois).

• "The construction of speaker identities in translational Business English". Paper presented at the 14th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, December 2008, Hong Kong.

• "The construction of speaker identities in academic ELF interaction". Paper presented at the ELF Forum, 6-8 March 2008, Helsinki.

• "The construction of speaker identities in English L2 interaction: A pilot study of student academic discourse". Poster presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics (ICCLING 2008) 14-16 January 2008, Stellenbosch (SA).

• "The expression of speaker stance in native and non-native English conversation." Poster presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Gothenburg, 8-13 July 2007.

• "Subjectivity in native and non-native English discourse." Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism. May 30 - June 2, 2007, University of Hamburg (with Juliane House).

• "Linguistic variation through language contact in translation". Paper presented at the International Colloquium on Language Contact and Contact Languages, University of Hamburg, 6 - 8 July 2006 (with Demet Özçetin).

• "Oh, James!: Modalität, Explizitheit und Kohäsion in Filmübersetzungen". Invited lecture at the Institut für Dolmetschen und Übersetzen, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, 13 June 2006.

• "Text-forming in a cross-linguistic perspective: Hierarchical and non-hierarchical discourse structuring in English and German texts". Paper presented at the 28. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), University of Bielefeld, 22-24 February 2006.

• "AND now for something completely different: Language contact induced changes in the conventions of cohesion in English and German popular scientific texts". Paper presented at the 27. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) University of Cologne, 23-25 February 2005.

• "Konventionen der Kohäsionsbildung in deutschen und englischen Texten: AND und UND als makrosyntaktische Verknüpfung in populärwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenartikeln". Paper presented at the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), University of Wuppertal, September 2004.

• "Towards a model for analyzing language use in visual media". Paper presented at the international conference "Reconciling Anglistik", University of Trier, 2-4 October 2003.

• "The applications of a small special-domain translation and parallel text corpus: Necessity and obligation modals in English and German popular scientific writing". Paper presented at the "International Conference on Corpus-Based Translation Studies", University of South Africa, Pretoria, 25-28 July 2003.

• "Modality as stance marker in English and German popular science texts". Paper presented at the "Colloquium on Linguistic Variation in Bilingual Communication, Acquisition, and Diachronic Change", University of Hamburg, 16 - 18 October 2003 (with Julia Probst).

• "Potentials and limitations of an integrative approach to the investigation of speaker stance and addressee-orientation in texts". Paper presented at the "Colloquium on Category Formation in Multilingual Data and Corpus Analysis", University of Hamburg, 14-15 November 2003 (with Julia Probst).

• "Stance: Einstellung des Sprechers zum Gesagten." Paper presented at the 24. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) "Mehrsprachigkeit heute", University of Mannheim, 27 February - 1 March 2002 (with Julia Probst).

• "Close or distant: constructions of proximity in translations and parallel texts". Paper presented at the "Euroconference 2002 on Textology and Translation", Charles University Prague, 14-16 March 2002.