Doctoral AbstractThesis
Standard accents in the Grenadian secondary and tertiary educational system: A study of attitudes and usage
- Supervisors
- Doctoral Subject
- Englische Philologie
- Targeted Doctoral Degree
- Dr. phil.
- Awarded by
- Department 09 – Philologies
The proposed dissertation addresses the issue of whether endonormative standards are emerging in the small island countries of the Caribbean by using the educational system in Grenada as an example context. The degree of endonormativity of Standard English in Grenadian secondary and tertiary educational institutions will be evaluated based on an analysis of the accents of students, teachers, and lecturers as well as on an investigation of students’ attitudes toward the accents used by their educators. Reading passages will provide the data for an acoustic and auditory accent analysis and a ttitudes will be elicited by means of a verbal guise survey and interviews. By shedding lig ht on the question of whether endonormative national standards are emerging in the small Caribbean island nation, the proposed dissertation will contribute to the discussion of the situation of standards in the Caribbean as well as to the question of whether emerging standards are generally national in nature .CV
Academic Education
- M.Ed. in English and Spanish, University of Münster
- Exchange student at Vassar College, USA
- B.A. in English and Spanish, University of Münster
- Exchange student at the University of Valladolid, Spain
Positions
- Research Assistant, Chair of Variation Linguistics, University of Münster
- Lecturer, Chair of Variation Linguistics, University of Münster
- Language assistant (German) at Vassar College, USA
Honors
- Graduate Award of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) – Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Teaching
Seminar
- Seminar: Variation in Englishes - corpus linguistic perspectives [098766]
(in cooperation with Michael Westphal)
Colloquium
- Colloquium: Promotionskolleg Empirische Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
(in cooperation with Michael Westphal)
Seminar
- Seminar: National and Transnational Aspects of English Worldwide [096831]
(in cooperation with Michael Westphal)
Other Course
- Workshop: Promotionskolleg Empirische und Angew. Sprachwissenschaft
(in cooperation with Jun.-Prof. Dominik Rumlich and Ryan Durgasingh)
- Seminar: English in the Caribbean [094791]
(in cooperation with Michael Westphal)
- Seminar: National and Transnational Aspects of English Worldwide [092865]
(in cooperation with Michael Westphal)
- Practice: Gruppe IV: Communicating Linguistic Methods and Theories [095517]
- Practice: Gruppe VIII: Communicating Linguistic Methods and Theories [095555]
- Practice: Gruppe IX: Communicating Linguistic Methods and Theories [095560]
- Practice: Gruppe VIII: Communicating Linguistic Methods and Theories [095555]
- Seminar: Variation in Englishes - corpus linguistic perspectives [098766]
Projects
- Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception ()
Individual Granted Project: | DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/1-2 - 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
- Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception ()
Publications
- Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Meer, Philipp. . “Comparing attitudes toward Caribbean, British, and American accents in Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States.” World Englishes 1), № 42 : 130–149. doi: 10.1111/weng.12618.
- Meer, Philipp, Fuchs, Robert, Deuber, Dagmar, Lacoste, Véronique, and Hänsel, Eva Canan. . “Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad.” World Englishes 1), № 42 : 48–72. doi: 10.1111/weng.12615.
- 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 3), № 97 : 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 1), № 37 : 16–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00085.han.
- Hänsel, Eva Canan. . “Standard language ideology revisited: The case of newscasters in St Vincent and the Grenadines.” in Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts, edited by Katja Sarkowsky and Mark U. Stein.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Westphal, Michael. . “Quotative be like in Trinidadian English.” World Englishes 3), № 40 : 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 1), № 34 : 83–125. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee.
- 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.
- 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 3), № 40 : 241–268. doi: 10.1075/eww.00031.han.
- Hänsel, Eva, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago.” World Englishes 3), № 32 : 338–357. doi: 10.1111/weng.12035.
Scientific Talks
- Hänsel, Eva Canan : “A first approach to Standard English pronunciation in Grenada”. 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE 8), University of Bamberg, .
- Hänsel, Eva Canan : “Context matters: Attitudes toward accents of newscasters and teachers in Grenada”. 20. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Osnabrück, .
- Hänsel, Eva Canan : “Does size matter? Opinions on an endonormative standard among teachers and students in Grenada”. Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality: Models, Varieties, Approaches, University of Muenster, Germany, .
- Hänsel, Eva Canan : “Attitudes toward different accents of standard English in Grenadian schools”. International Conference of Sociolinguistics 1: Insights from Superdiversity, Complexity and Multimodality, Budapest, Ungarn, .
- Meer, Philipp; Hänsel, Eva Canan : “Attitudes towards Standard Accents in the Education Context in the Anglophone Caribbean”. 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics - Caribbean Languages 2 di World: Caribbean Languages in a Globalized World, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, .
- Hänsel, Eva Canan : “Standard Grenadian English? Students’ and teachers’ opinions on an endonormative standard”. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 - Attitudes and Prestige, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spanien, .
- Hänsel, Eva Canan : “Newscaster accents in St Vincent and the Grenadines and their implication for the standard language ideology”. 26th annual GAPS conference: Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts, University of Münster, .
Eva Canan Hänsel, M.Ed.
Professur für Variationslinguistik (Prof. Deuber)
