Dr. Manuela Vida-Mannl
- Multilingualism
- Sociolinguistics
- English in international contexts
- World Englishes
- Language Acquisition
- Morpho-syntax of English
- Language and Social Justice
- the use and value of English around the Globe
Current Projects
- Habilitation/post-doctoral project: Multilingual encounters in international contexts in Croatia – English and beyond (working title)
- Tourism communication in Croatia and Cuba: Investigating language characteristics, language use and attitudes in a multilingual societies
- 2022: Offermann-Hergarten Preis for outstanding contributions to the field of Humanities at the University of Cologne for The Value of the English Language in Global Mobility and Higher Education: An Investigation of Higher Education in Cyprus.
- 2023: TU Dortmund Young Academy project funding ‘English in tourism and beyond: Multilingual encounters in international contexts in Croatia’
Monographs / Textbooks:
- fc. Multilingualism: A Sociolinguistic and Acquisitional Approach (with Sarah Buschfeld & Patricia Ronan). Heidelberg: Springer.
- 2021. The value of the English language in global mobility and higher education: An investigation of higher education in Cyprus. London: Bloomsbury.
Edited Volumes
- In prep. ed. Global English in its local multilingual ecologies (with Peter Siemund & Gardy Stein). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- fc. ed., Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches (with Mirjam Schmalz, Sarah Buschfeld & Thorsten Brato). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Articles in edited volumes:
- fc. “Parental language ideologies and children’s language use – raising speakers of ‘Standard’ English?”. In T. Brato, S. Buschfeld & M. Schmalz (eds.), Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
- fc. “English in Cyprus” (with Sarah Buschfeld). In R. Hickey (ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reviews:
- 2021. Review of: Blommaert, Jan & Dong Jie (2020). Ethnographic Fieldwork: A beginner’s guide, 2nd Ed. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. (https://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-2373/)
- 2020: Review of: Horner, Kristine & Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer (eds.) (2020). Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging. Bristol: multilingual Matters. (http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2432.html)
- Sociolinguistics
- the history of Global English
- Morphology
- Multilingualism
- Syntax
- (Second) language acquisition
- core linguistics