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Theses supervised

  • Indonesian English (MA 2023)
  • English and Creole in Translation (MA 2023)
  • English-Chinese code switching in film (BA 2023)
  • African American Vernacular English and its role in the world of rap and hip hop (Zula Gymn. 2022/23)
  • The Role of Language in the Reid Technique: A Comparative Study of Police Communication Strategies in the Interview and Interrogation Stages and their Impact on Suspect Responses and Confessions (Zula Gymn. 2022/23)
  • Building identity through TH-stopping in UK grime music (Zula Gymn. 2022)
  • The linguistic landscape of Hawai’i Creole English (MA 2022)
  • An analysis of English emergency calls: Linguistic indicators for deceptive language (MA 2022)
  • A sociolinguistic analysis of China English” (MA 2022)
  • Linguistic creativity among Mandarin Chinese speakers of English (MA 2022)
  • Philadelphia English (BA 2022)
  • Giving ‘Ordinary People’ a Voice: Dialect Authenticity in the Television Series Derry Girls (BA 2022)
  • Grammaticalization in Tok Pisin (MA 2021/22)
  • Mood and modality in Bahamian Creole English (MA 2021/22)
  • The evolution of Indian English (BA 2021/22)
  • The Coventry dialect: A folklinguistic study focusing on dialect perception and language attitudes (BA 2021)
  • Singaporean Englishes as identity markers (BA 2021)
  • Rhoticity in Singapore English (MA 2021)
  • Multimodality, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Political Discourse: Hamilton: An American Musical and the Presidential Election 2020 (Zula Gymn. 2021)
  • Language acquisition patterns and code switching (BA 2021)
  • English and creole in computer-mediated communication in Barbados (MA 2020/21)
  • Caribbean English in letters: A linguistic analysis of a historical correspondence corpus from Panama (MA 2020)
  • Morphosyntactic variation in educated Bahamian English: The use of zero copula in university classroom lessons (MA 2020)
  • Code-switching in Hawai’i Creole English (BA 2020)
  • Morphosyntactic processes in German-English code-switching and borrowing (MA 2020)
  • Whe(r)e a(r)e we going, bey? Rhoticity in Bahamian English (MA 2019)
  • Rhoticity in Bahamian English: Broadcast Texts (MA 2019)
  • Verb complementation in Bangladeshi English as compared to Indian English: A corpus-based study of clausal verb complementational preference (MA 2019)
  • Linguistic representations of female authority and submissiveness in the New York Times‘ coverage of #MeToo (MA 2019)
  • A linguistic comparison of historical and contemporary Bahamian speeches (MA 2019)
  • Bangladeshi English (MA 2019)
  • A linguistic analysis of the Me Too and Time’s Up debates (MA 2019)
  • Rhoticity in Bahamian English (MA 2019)
  • English-Swahili: A typological comparison (BA 2018-19)
  • Korean(ized) English in the diaspora: A longitudinal study of an American second-language speaker (MA 2018)
  • Verb complementation patterns in Hong Kong and Singapore English (MA 2018)
  • "All in all ist das echt amazing": Structural characteristics of German-English intrasentential code-switching in computer-mediated communication (BA 2017-18)
  • African American Vernacular English in the film Fences: An accurate depiction of the variety? (BA 2017-18)
  • Postvocalic /r/ in Bahamian English: An auditory-impressionistic study (StEx 2017)
  • The a-vowels in acrolectal Bahamian English: A sociophonetic analysis (StEx 2017)
  • African American Vernacular English in computer-mediated communication: A corpus-based study of weblogs (BA 2017)
  • Manipulating pitch and speech rate: gender and variety differences in the effects of voice quality features on the perception of personality characteristics (BA 2017)
  • English as a lingua franca among students in Munich (BA 2017)
  • Attitudes towards South African English accents (BA 2017)
  • A discourse analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debates (BA 2017)
  • A linguistic analysis of Aboriginal English sociolinguistic interviews (BA 2017)
  • On the use of African American Vernacular English by white hip hop artists (Iggy Azalea) (BA 2017)
  • He is easy to please vs. Er ist leicht zufriedenzustellen: A contrastive analysis of raising constructions in English and German (StEx 2016)
  • Word formation in Hong Kong English (BA 2016)
  • A diachronic study of modality in Indian English newspapers (MA 2016)
  • The use of English in Indian newspapers: Research on genitive variation (BA 2016)
  • The functions of Anglicisms in the recontextualization of German hip hop cultural hybrids (StEx 2016)
  • Automated analysis of conversational narrative (BA 2015-16)
  • The representation of social actors: An analysis of social studies textbooks (StEx 2016)
  • A diachronic analysis of Jamaican newspaper language (MA 2015)
  • A study on the spontaneous production of the Present Perfect by German learners of English
    (StEx 2015)
  • Cajun English (StEx 2015)
  • Pronunciation features of English-language pop singers (BA 2015)
  • English-French Language Contact in Canada: A quantitative and comparative analysis of lexical borrowing (MA/StEx 2014)
  • Possessive constructions in postcolonial Englishes (StEx 2014)
  • The influence of the native language on language creation (MA 2014)
  • English-Chinese code switching in New York City (MA 2014)
  • Dublin English and its spread through Ireland: A study of accent (BA 2014)
  • Spelling variation in Canadian English: A study of blogs (BA 2014)
  • Negation in Urban Bahamian Creole: A Variable Analysis (StEx 2014)
  • Past tense marking in colloquial Singapore English (Magister/StEx 2014)
  • The copula in earlier AAVE: The Hoodoo texts (BA 2014)
  • Patterns of conversational interaction in Bahamian Creole English (Magister/StEx 2013)
  • African American English in film (BA 2013)
  • A corpus-based, sociohistorical analysis of negation patterns in Late Modern English (Magister/StEx 2013)
  • Barbadian Standard English: Americanized or Creolized Queen’s English? (StEx 2013)
  • American versus British Linguistic Influences in Virgin Islands Press Texts (Magister 2013)
  • Anglicisms in business talks (Magister 2013)
  • On the dubbing of humour: Language plays, cultural elements and slang terms. A parallel corpus analysis of the comedy series Scrubs (StEx 2013)
  • Whether I am real or not? An analysis of a European American speaker’s use of AAVE (Magister 2013)
  • Discourse Strategies of Face-Work in Football Discourse (Magister 2013)
  • Do accents still matter? A matched guise survey comparing contemporary attitudes towards Received Pronunciation and regional accents in Great Britain (StEx 2013)
  • A comparative study of the pronunciation of vowels in white second language South African English speakers and white first language South African English speakers (StEx 2012)
  • Jamaican proverbs – imagery, symbolism, and creole identity (Diplomarbeit Wirtschaftspädagogik 2012)
  • English as a lingua franca in international exchange students' communities of practice (StEx 2012)
  • Canadian English on the West Coast: Its Status and Relation to British and American English (StEx 2012)
  • White Hip Hop in the U.S.: A Sociolinguistic Investigation (StEx 2011)
  • The Boarder Words: A Sociolinguistic Enquiry into the Lexicon of Skateboarding (StEx 2011)