Dr. Theresa Neumaier
Habilitation project: Threatening speech in the history of English
With Sven Leuckert (TU Dresden) and Asya Yurchenko (TU Chemnitz): English in Madeira
With Sven Leuckert (TU Dresden): Non-Canonical Syntax in English as a Lingua Franca (as part of the scientific network Syntax Beyond the Canon: Cutting-edge Studies of Non-Canonical Syntax in English (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG))
- Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics
- World Englishes
- Historical pragmatics
- Threatening Speech
- Non-canonical Syntax
- English in Madeira
- In prep. Conversation in World Englishes: Turn-Taking and Cultural Variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Forthc., New Englishes and Conversation Analysis: Turn-taking as a factor in explaining syntactic variation . In: G. Wilson & M. Westphal, eds. New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological Considerations for the Study of New Englishes. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- 2021. English in Madeira: History and features of a lesser-known variety in the Atlantic: Exploring English as the dominant language of tourism in a former quasi-colony. English Today, 1-10. (with Sven Leuckert and Asya Yurchenko) doi:10.1017/S0266078421000328
- 2019. Patterns of conversational interaction in varieties of English. Dissertation, Universität Regensburg: epub.uni-regensburg.de/40436.
- 2016. Copula deletion in English as a Lingua Franca in Asia. 10plus 1. Living Linguistics 2. 86-103. (with Sven Leuckert).
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09/22 "English in Madeira or English in Portugal? - A corpus-based study of lexical and morphosyntactic variation" (with Sven Leuckert and Asya Yurchenko, 9th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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10/21 Invited talk: "Turn-taking and cultural variation – patterns of conversational interaction in varieties of English“, Brown Bag Speaker Series, Universität Duisburg-Essen.
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06-07/21 "A historical perspective on threatening speech acts", 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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06-07/21 Panel organisation: “Historical Perspectives on Aggression and Rapport in English Speech Acts” (with Sofia Rüdiger), 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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06/21 Invited talk: "Turn-taking in World Englishes – conversational patterns in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English interactions", MA Seminar Conversation Analysis, Universität Duisburg-Essen.
- 06/21 “We all speak at the same time – using CA to investigate World Englishes“, 6th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
- “Less is more? – Zero person and number marking in Asian and European ELF“ (with Sven Leuckert), 6th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
- 06/20 Accepted as original paper: “Turn-taking patterns and emerging grammar – topicalisation in New Englishes as a case in point“, European Conference on Conversation Analysis (ECCA), Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- 05/20 Accepted as full paper: “Zero marking in ELF – a case of probabilistic indigenisation?“ (with Sven Leuckert), ICAME 41, Heidelberg.
- 07/19 Invited talk: “Patterns of conversational interaction in varieties of English“, Universität Regensburg.
- 07/18 “Analysing talk-in-interaction-in-culture – conversational patterns in varieties in English“, 5th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), University College London, UK.
- “Let me tell you somethin’! – Turn-claiming and turn-holding in Southeast Asian and Jamaican English conversations“, 5th International Conference of Conversational Analysis (ICCA), Loughborough University, UK.
- 05/18 “Interaction and culture – conversational patterns in Caribbean and Southeast Asian varieties of English“, ICAME 29, University of Tampere, Finland.
- 10/17 “You guys are not listening! – Are conversational patterns culturally sensitive?“, ISLE Summer School 2017: Variation in World Englishes: Advanced issues in theory and methodology, Universität Regensburg.
- 09/17 “Feature omission in ELF interactions“ (with Sven Leuckert), New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English, TU Dresden.
- 06-07/17 “Turn-claiming and turn-holding strategies in Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes“, 22nd conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), Syracuse University, NY.
- 09/16 “Turn-taking in Outer and Expanding Circle English conversations“, FJUEL (Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern) 6.0, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg.
- Poster presentation: “Zero copula in spoken Asian ELF” (with Sven Leuckert), 4th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
- 06/16 Invited talk: “Patterns of interaction in Southeast Asian ELF conversations“, Universität Bielefeld.
- 12/15 Invited talk: “Analysing conversation“, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
- 10/15 “Patterns of conversational interaction in an English variety“, 21st conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.