Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber
Chair of Variation Linguistics
Contact:
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstraße 12-20
D - 48143 Münster
Room: 127
Phone: +49 (0) 251 - 83 - 2 56 03
E-Mail: deuber
Consulting hours: by appointment
Administration: Jutta Heuger
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Research Foci
- varieties of English world-wide (special focus: Caribbean)
- English-based Pidgins and Creoles
- language contact
- sociolinguistics
- corpus linguistics
- language use in media
CV
Academic Education
- Post-doctoral degree (‘Habilitation’) in English Philology, University of Freiburg
- PhD in English Philology, University of Freiburg
- PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
- Visiting PhD student, Department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria (DAAD scholarship)
- MA in English, German and Romance Philologies, University of Freiburg
- Visiting student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (DAAD scholarship)
- Visiting student, University of Durham, UK (DAAD scholarship)
Positions
- Chair of Variation Linguistics, English Department, University of Münster
- Assistant professor, English Department, University of Freiburg
- Visiting researcher and lecturer, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (DAAD scholarship)
- Research assistant, English Department, University of Freiburg
- Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg
- Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg
External Functions
Projects
Granted
- Variation in English on the internet and its implications II: an empirical study of web registers in the Anglophone Caribbean ()
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/3-2
In Process
- Variation in English on the internet and its implications: an empirical study of web registers in South Asian countries ()
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/3-1 - Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception ()
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/1-2
Finished
- International Corpus of English - Trinidad and Tobago component – ICE-T&T ()
Own Resources Project - Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean: Regional, global and transnational aspects in standards of English ()
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/1-1
- Variation in English on the internet and its implications II: an empirical study of web registers in the Anglophone Caribbean ()
Publications
Books (Monographs)
- Deuber, Dagmar. . English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting London: Battlebridge.
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
- Deuber, Dagmar, Shakir, Muhammad, and Oyebola, Folajimi Kehinde. . “Conventionalization and variation in computer-mediated communication New perspectives on Nigerian Pidgin spelling.” English World-Wide 46 (1): 1–27. doi: 10.1075/eww.24018.deu.
- Shakir, Muhammad, Deuber, and Dagmar. . “Code-switching in South Asian English CMC.” English World-Wide 45 (3): 311–341. doi: 10.1075/eww.23068.sha.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Lacoste, Véronique. . “Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica.” Lingua 308: 1–19. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103777.
- Meer, Philipp, Fuchs, Robert, Deuber, Dagmar, Lacoste, Véronique, and Hänsel, Eva Canan. . “Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad.” World Englishes 42 (1): 48–72. doi: 10.1111/weng.12615.
- Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Compiling a corpus of South Asian online Englishes: A report, some reflections and a pilot study.” ICAME Journal 47 (1): 119–139. doi: 10.2478/icame-2023-0007.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Hackert, Stephanie, Hänsel, Eva Canan, Laube, Alexander, Hejrani, Mahyar, and Laliberté, Catherine. . “The norm orientation of English in the Caribbean: A comparative study of newspaper writing from ten countries.” American Speech 97 (3): 265–310. doi: 10.1215/00031283-8791736.
- Hänsel, Eva Canan, Westphal, Michael, Meer, Philipp, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Context matters: Grenadian students' attitudes towards newscasters' and teachers' accents.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37 (1): 16–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00085.han.
- Westphal, Michael, Lau, KaMan, Hartmann, Johanna, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Phonetic variation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37 (2): 357–394. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00098.wes.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Westphal, Michael. . “Quotative be like in Trinidadian English.” World Englishes 40 (3): 1–23. doi: 10.1111/weng.12465.
- Meer, Philipp, Westphal, Michael, Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Trinidadian secondary school students' attitudes toward accents of Standard English.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34 (1): 83–125. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee.
- Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “The interplay of the national, regional, and global in standards of English: A recognition survey of newscaster accents in the Caribbean.” English World-Wide 40 (3): 241–268. doi: 10.1075/eww.00031.han.
- Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “A multidimensional analysis of Pakistani and U.S. English blogs and columns.” English World-Wide 40 (1): 1–23. doi: 10.1075/eww.00020.sha.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Leimgruber, Jakob R. E., and Andrea, Sand. . “Singaporean internet chit chat compared to informal spoken language.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33 (1): 48–91. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00002.deu.
- Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “A multidimensional study of interactive registers in Pakistani and US English.” World Englishes 37 (4): 607–623. doi: 10.1111/weng.12352.
- Wilson, Guyanne, Westphal, Michael, Hartmann, Johanna, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “The use of question tags in different text types of Trinidadian English.” World Englishes 36 (4): 726–743. doi: 10.1111/weng.12247.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Leung, Glenda. . “Investigating attitudes towards an emerging standard of English: Evaluations of newscasters' accents in Trinidad.” Multilingua 32 (3): 289–319. doi: 10.1515/multi-2013-0014.
- Hänsel, Eva, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago.” World Englishes 32 (3): 338–357. doi: 10.1111/weng.12035.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Towards endonormative standards of English in the Caribbean: A study of students' beliefs and school curricula.” Language, Culture and Curriculum 26 (2): 109–127. doi: 10.1080/07908318.2013.794816.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Modal verb usage at the interface of English and a related Creole: A corpus-based study of can/could and will/would in Trinidadian English.” Journal of English Linguistics 38 (2): 105–142. doi: 10.1177/0075424209348151.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Standard English and situational variation: Sociolinguistic considerations in the compilation of ICE-Trinidad and Tobago.” ICAME Journal 34: 24–40.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “"The English we speaking": Morphological and syntactic variation in educated Jamaican speech.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24 (1): 1–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.24.1.02deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Hinrichs, Lars. . “Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.” World Englishes 26 (1): 22–47. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-971X.2007.00486.x.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “"First year of nation's return to government of make you talk your own make I talk my own": Anglicisms versus pidginization in news translations into Nigerian Pidgin.” English World-Wide 23 (2): 195–222. doi: 10.1075/eww.23.2.03deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Ethnicity versus national integration in Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective.” Journal of Cultural Studies 2: 206–218. doi: 10.4314/jcs.v2i1.6243.
Review (Journals)
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of David Jowitt, Nigerian English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019).” English Language and Linguistics 25 (3): 671–675. doi: 10.1017/S1360674320000416.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Carolin Biewer, South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2015).” Anglistik 27 (2): 198–199.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Dele Adeyanju, ed., The Sociolinguistics of English and Nigerian Languages (München: Lincom, 2009).” English World-Wide 33 (2): 231–235. doi: 10.1075/eww.33.2.10deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Farzad Sharifian and Gary B. Palmer, eds., Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for Second Language Learning and Intercultural Communication (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007).” Multilingua 28 (4): 471–474. doi: 10.1515/mult.2009.020.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of John Holm und Peter L. Patrick, eds., Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars (London: Battlebridge, 2007).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 33 (2): 338–341.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Michael Aceto und Jeffrey P. Williams, eds., Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31 (2): 250–253.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Paul Skandera, Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English (Tübingen: Narr, 2003).” World Englishes 24 (4): 551–552. doi: 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00439.x.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Susanne Mühleisen, Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 30 (1/2): 271–274.
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Youssef, Valerie. . “Teacher language in Trinidad: A pilot corpus study of direct and indirect creolisms in the verb phrase.” in Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by -. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
- Youssef, Valerie, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “ICE Trinidad and Tobago: Teacher language investigation in a university research class.” in Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by -. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
Book Contributions
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Westphal, Michael, Brüggemann, Katharina, Fischer, Kathi, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Sociolinguistic competence and TEIL: A study of the sociolinguistic awareness and perceptions of be like among German learners of English.” in Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany, edited by Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, Philipp Meer and Michael Westphal. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106-10.
- Meer, Philipp, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Standard English in Trinidad: Multinormativity, translocality, and implications for the Dynamic Model and the EIF Model.” in Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Englishes, edited by Sarah Buschfeld and Alexander Kautzsch. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445863.003.0013.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Hänsel, Eva Canan. . “The English of current Caribbean newspapers: American, British, in between or neither?” in Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture, edited by Viola Wiegand and Michaela Mahlberg. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110489071_003.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “The Indian tabloid in English: What type of community does it speak to, and how?” in Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination, Vol. 190 of Cross/Cultures, edited by Susanne Mühleisen. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004335288_009.
- Hackert, Stephanie, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago.” in Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, edited by Peter Collins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/scl.67.16hac.
- Leung, Glenda Alicia, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch.” in English in the Indian Diaspora, edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g50.02leu.
- Hackert, Stephanie, Deuber, Dagmar, Biewer, Carolin, and Hilbert, Michaela. . “Modals of possibility, ability and permission in selected New Englishes.” in Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-Native Englishes, Vol. 13 of Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change, edited by Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee. Helsinki: VARIENG.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Sand, Andrea. . “Computer-mediated communication in Singapore: Spoken language features in weblogs and a discussion forum.” in Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings, edited by Katrin Röder and Ilse Wischer. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Youssef, Valerie. . “Trinidadian Creole.” in The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English, edited by Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110280128.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Biewer, Carolin, Hackert, Stephanie, and Hilbert, Michaela. . “Will and would in selected New Englishes: General and variety-specific tendencies.” in Mapping Unity and Diversity in English World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Vol. 43 of Varieties of English around the world, edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g43.04deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “The creole continuum and individual agency: Approaches to stylistic variation in Jamaica.” in Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency, edited by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.37.09deu.
- Hinrichs, Lars, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Writing non-standardized Pidgin/Creole languages in computer-mediated communication: A comparison of orthographic strategies in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.” in Sprach- und Kulturkontakt in den Neuen Medien, edited by Ulla Kleinberger Günther and Franc Wagner. Bern: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0079-2.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems - properties - prospects.” in World Englishes - Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g40.08deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis.” in Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789042029101_022.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures.” in Structure and Variation in Language Contact, edited by Ana Deumert and Stéphanie Durrleman. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.29.14deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Oloko, Patrick. . “Linguistic and literary development of Nigerian Pidgin: The contribution of radio drama.” in The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies., edited by Christian Mair. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789401200929_022.
Entries in Encyclopediae (Book Contributions)
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Syntax.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Substitution test.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Style.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Interactional sociolinguistics.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Creole continuum.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Kortmann Bernd. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Constituent test.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Supervised Theses
Supervised Doctoral Studies
- Hartmann, Johanna (): Mobile outer circle speakers’ attitudes towards different varieties of English
- Durgasingh, Ryan (): Influences on Trinidadian English Morphosyntax
- Supervisors
- Gut, Ulrike
- Gao, Cuicui (): Metadiscourse in Academic Lectures: A Comparative Analysis of MOOCs
and University Lectures
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Hänsel, Eva Canan (): Standard accents in the Grenadian secondary and tertiary educational system: A study of attitudes and usage
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Lau, Ka Man (): Language use in social media marketing in Hong Kong: Variation and attitudes
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Meer, Philipp (): Standard English in Trinidadian Secondary Schools: Accent Variation and Attitudes
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Reviewers
- Deuber, Dagmar
- Gut, Ulrike
- Gerfer, Anika (): White appropriation of Jamaican Creole in reggae and dancehall music
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Reviewers
- Gut, Ulrike
- Schneider, Edgar
- Jansen, Lisa (): English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Li, Zeyu (): Acquisition of Rhoticity by Second Language (L2) Learners of English
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Reviewers
- Gut, Ulrike
- Deuber, Dagmar
- Muhammad, Shakir (): A corpus based comparison of variation in online registers of Pakistani English using MD analysis
- Oyebola Kehinde, Folajimi (): Attitudes of Nigerians towards Accents of English
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
- Westphal, Michael (): Linguistic variation in Jamaican radio
- Wilson, Guyanne Alexis (): The Sociolinguistics of Singing: Dialect and Style in Classical Choral Singing in Trinidad
- Further Supervisor
- Gut, Ulrike
Supervised Postdoctoral Study