Professorship for English Linguistics

Organisational unit: Professoship

Main research areas

The focus of research at the Chair of English Linguistics is on language use and interaction in context. Broadly put, we are interested

  1. in how conventions of language use and interaction vary across varieties and cultures (Intercultural Pragmatics, Variational Pragmatics, Contrastive Genre Analysis)
  2. in how pragmatic variation across varieties can be studied methodologically and theoretically
  3. in the conventions of use Irish English, and particularly in how these conventions vary vis-à-vis other varieties (the Pragmatics of Irish English)
  4. in how foreign and second language learners use language in context and how they develop such competencies over time (L2 Pragmatics). In this area, particular emphasis is placed on pragmatic development during stay abroad and on language use and interaction in the online telecollaborative context and
  5. in how conventions of language use can be taught using corpora, text-books and telecollaboration.

In addition, major international editing projects, including The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics (Routledge) and Pragmatics of Discourse: Handbook of Pragmatics III (De Gruyter, Mouton) have also been carried out.

  1. 2025
  2. "Don't worry, I will take care of this": First date payment negotiation sequences and gender in Nigeria. Talk presented at the 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE8)

    Barron, A. (Speaker), Olajimbiti, E. O. (Speaker), Osisanwo, A. (Speaker) & Odebunmi, A. (Speaker)

    01.09.202504.09.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Requests in Nigerian English and British English conversational interactions

    Flöck, I. (Speaker), Inya, O. (Speaker) & Barron, A. (Speaker)

    01.09.202504.09.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. To burn but not to burn out: Emojis as affective signifiers in organizing for societal change.

    Barron, A. (Coauthor)

    03.07.202505.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. The effects of explicit instruction on directives and modifiers in written ELF peer feedback

    Çiçek, O. (Coauthor), Flöck, I. (Coauthor), Birdman, J. (Coauthor) & Barron, A. (Coauthor)

    22.06.202527.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. External Examiner for the subject area Linguistics

    Barron, A. (Reviewer)

    12.06.2025

    Activity: Other expert activitiesOther

  7. “Contrastive Pragmatics and Variation”

    Barron, A. (Speaker)

    17.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Digi-CLIL: Virtual exchange for intercultural and sustainable learning.

    Birdman, J. (Speaker), Barron, A. (Coauthor), Çiçek, O. (Coauthor) & Schmidt, T. (Coauthor)

    24.03.202526.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. The effects of pragmatic intervention on directive speech acts in a virtual exchange CLIL context at university level.

    Çiçek, O. (Speaker), Barron, A. (Coauthor), Schmidt, T. (Coauthor) & Birdman, J. (Coauthor)

    24.03.202526.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. European Commission: Quality Control expert für den Ausschuss im 2025 EIC Accelerator Program (Event)

    Barron, A. (Reviewer)

    01.03.202531.03.2025

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  11. Requests in Nigerian and British English conversational interactions: A corpus-based approach.

    Flöck, I. (Speaker), Inya, O. (Speaker) & Barron, A. (Speaker)

    06.02.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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