Chair of Variation Linguistics

The chair of variation linguistics focuses on the following areas:

  • varieties of English world-wide
  • sociolinguistics
  • corpus linguistics
  • language use in media

Special interests in research and teaching include the following:

  • English in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia

  • Pidgins and Creoles

  • English in England

  • language attitudes

  • language  in computer-mediated communication

  • language in music

  • language in education

  • grammar

  • sociophonetics

  • historical varieties of English

     

Foto: Vortrag von Dagmar Deuber
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber giving a lecture on our current research
© Centre for English Language Studies – University of Hyderabad

A major completed project is the compilation of the Trinidad & Tobago component of the International Corpus of English. We have also compiled and analysed synchronic and diachronic corpora of anglophone Caribbean newspapers.

Foto: Deuber Haensel Wissen Leben
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber (left) and research assistant Eva Hänsel (right) studying a historical issue of the Trinidad Guardian
© Pjer Biederstädt

Source: wissen | leben November 2013 p.2, reproduced by permission of Pjer Biederstädt

Current research foci include spoken English in the context of  education in the Caribbean, which is analysed from the dual perspective of language use and language attitudes, as well as South Asian and Caribbean web registers.