University of Bayreuth

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Bayreuth*

Formality and Informality in Online Performances: Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 5:1 (2022)

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger & Susanne Mühleisen

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Internet Pragmatics, 5:1] 2022. | special issue

Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean

Edited by Susanne Mühleisen

Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics

[Varieties of English Around the World, G67] 2022. | monograph

Corpus approaches to social media

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] 2020. | edited volume

Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger & Susanne Mühleisen

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] 2020. | edited volume

Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization

Edited by Natalia Igl & Sonja Zeman

Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] 2016. viii, 185 pp. |

Language Policy and Identity Construction: The dynamics of Cameroon's multilingualism

Eric A. Anchimbe

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 32] 2013. xxvi, 250 pp. | monograph

Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English

Susanne Mühleisen

Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 118] 2010. xiii, 245 pp. | monograph

Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes

Edited by Heiko Hausendorf & Alfons Bora

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociology

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 19] 2006. viii, 368 pp. | edited volume

Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains

Edited by Tom Güldemann & Manfred von Roncador

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 52] 2002. xii, 425 pp. | edited volume

Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria

Jonathan Owens

Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 4] 1998. xiii, 396 pp. | monograph

The Foundations of Grammar: An introduction to medieval Arabic grammatical theory

AuthorJonathan Owens

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of linguistics | Medieval linguistics | Syntax

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 45] 1988. xii, 371 pp. | monograph

Adnan, Muhadj & Jonathan Owens 2025 Imperfect verbal prefixes as discourse markers

Keywords: pragmatics | discourse markers | imperfect prefixes | Egyptian Arabic | Iraqi Arabic | procedural function

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022, Alqassas, Ahmad (ed.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 14] pp. 158–179

Groß, Alexandra & Malte Rosemeyer 2025 Accountability and type-fittedness as indicators of conditional relevance in interaction: Evidence from German proposals for joint action

Keywords: conditional relevance | response mobilization | accountability, modal verbs | interrogatives, action formation

Interactional Linguistics 6:1 pp. 1–33 | article | open access

Otundo, Billian Khalayi 2025 Noun forms of address among matatu touts in multilingual Kenya: Pragmatic functions beyond politeness theory

Keywords: matatu touts | multilingualism | noun forms of address | politeness | urban spaces | soundwalking

Pragmatics and Society 17:2 pp. 223–244 | article

Keivan, Marjan, Alireza Jalilifar & Ahmad Izadi 2025 Uncovering global cohesion patterns in the introductory sections of Applied Linguistics research articles

Keywords: cohesion | cohesive devices | cohesive patterns | global cohesion | research articles.

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:1 pp. 37–65 | article

Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. & Sofia Rüdiger 2025 Discourse-pragmatic like in East Asian Englishes: Focus on Taiwan

Keywords: Asian Englishes | discourse-pragmatics | Expanding Circle Englishes | like | Taiwan

In: World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein & Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 9] pp. 317–334 | open access

Löhr, Doris 2024 Review of Language and Education in Africa: A fresh approach to the debates on language, education, and cultural identity by Bert van Pinxteren (2022)

Language Problems and Language Planning 48:2 pp. 218–223 | book review

Mühleisen, Susanne 2024 Review of Conversation in World Englishes: Turn-Taking and Cultural Variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English by Theresa Neumaier (2023)

English World-Wide 45:1 pp. 125–128 | book review

Owens, Jonathan 2024 Review of The foundations of Arab linguistics V. Kitāb Sībawayhi, The Critical Theory. edited by Manuel Sartori & Francesco Binaghi (2022)

Historiographia Linguistica 52:2 pp. 322–331 | book review

Mühleisen, Susanne 2022 Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean

In: Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean, Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G67] p.  ff.

Rüdiger, Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen 2022 Introduction: Formality and informality in online performances

Keywords: (in)formality | front– and backstage | (online) performances | social media | online interactions | Goffman

Internet Pragmatics 5:1 pp. 1–11 | introduction

Rüdiger, Sofia 2021 Intimate consumptions: YouTube eating shows and the performance of informality

Keywords: (in)formality | performance | Mukbang | eating shows | front- and backstage | language and food | genre

Internet Pragmatics 5:1 pp. 115–142 | article

Mühleisen, Susanne 2021 Brutal spoons and cheesy gloves: The formal, the informal and the spoof cooking show on web stage

Keywords: genre development | cooking show | online spoofs | presentation of self | formality | informality

Internet Pragmatics 5:1 p. 92 | article

Weisser, Martin 2021 Profiling learners through pragmatically and error annotated corpora

Keywords: error annotation | pragmatic annotation | Chinese learners | learner profile

In: Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education, Pérez-Paredes, Pascual & Geraldine Mark (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 102] pp. 121–148

Steiner, Petra 2021 Linking the dependents: Quantitative-linguistic hypotheses on valency

Keywords: semantic and syntactic valency | morphological case | functional equivalents | frame semantics | FrameNet

In: Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton & George Mikros (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 356] p. 93

Mühleisen, Susanne & Sofia Rüdiger 2020 Introduction: Food and talk in social life

In: Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] pp. 1–12

Mühleisen, Susanne 2020 Formality and informality in cooking shows: Paula Deen and the development of a genre

In: Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] pp. 189–208

Anchimbe, Eric A. 2020 Naming food in English in multilingual Cameroon

In: Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] pp. 257–276

Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger 2020 Talking about women: Elicitation, manual tagging, and semantic tagging in a study of pick-up artists’ referential strategies

Keywords: automatic semantic tagging | corpus-based discourse analysis | PUA | references to women | vocabulary

In: Corpus approaches to social media, Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] pp. 63–86

Drescher, Martina 2020 The moral taste of food: A discourse analysis of social media discussions about vegetarianism and veganism

In: Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] pp. 35–56

Bieswanger, Markus 2020 The local and the global in airline food

In: Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] pp. 57–78

Rüdiger, Sofia 2020 Dinner for One: The use of language in eating shows on YouTube

In: Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] pp. 145–166

Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter 2020 Corpus approaches to social media

In: Corpus approaches to social media, Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] p.  ff.

Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter 2020 The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language

In: Corpus approaches to social media, Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] pp. 1–12

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger 2020 Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety: Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) English

Keywords: Expanding Circle Englishes | Korean(ized) English | topicalization | left-dislocation | non-canonical syntax | corpus linguistics

English World-Wide 41:1 pp. 33–58 | article

Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen  2020 Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities

In: Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger , Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47]

Steigertahl, Helene 2019 Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses

In: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] p. 97

Anchimbe, Eric A. 2018 Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma, and Saudah Namyalo, eds. 2016. Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-Protectorate

English World-Wide 39:1 pp. 117–121 | book review

Mühleisen, Susanne 2016 Review of From Creole to Standard. Shakespeare, language, and literature in a postcolonial context by Roshni Mooneeram (2009)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:1 pp. 242–244 | book review

Igl, Natalia 2016 Chapter 4. The double-layered structure of narrative discourse and complex strategies of perspectivization

Keywords: cognitive poetics | distance | dynamic relation | genre | irony | macro-structure | mediation | metafiction | metalepsis | metanarration | modernism | observer | perception | perspectivization | storyworld | text-world

In: Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization, Igl, Natalia & Sonja Zeman (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] p. 91

Wagner, Silvan 2016 Chapter 5. Narrator and narrative space in Middle High German epic poetry (Parzival, Ehescheidungsgespräch, Prosalancelot)

Keywords: diachronic narratology | epic poetry | genre | Middle High German | narrative space | narrator | orality/literacy

In: Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization, Igl, Natalia & Sonja Zeman (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] pp. 115–138

Böhm, Elisabeth 2016 Chapter 6. Seeing or meaning?: Perspective and perspectivization in drama

Keywords: German drama | perspective in drama | perspectivization | play within play | spectator | theatrical communication

In: Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization, Igl, Natalia & Sonja Zeman (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] pp. 139–160

Owens, Jonathan 2014 The morphologization of an Arabic creole

Keywords: Arabic | theories of language change | morphological restructuring | morphological change | creoles

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 pp. 232–298 | article

Owens, Jonathan 2013  The centrality of language to Arabic culture. Studies presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday Edited by Bilal Orfali

Historiographia Linguistica 40:1/2 pp. 268–272 | book review

Anchimbe, Eric A. 2013 ‘Motions of support’ and the communicative act of thanking in political discourse

In: The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures, Fetzer, Anita (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 228] pp. 219–242

Drescher, Martina 2012 Crosscultural perspectives on advice: The case of French and Cameroonian radio phone-ins

In: Contrastive Media Analysis: Approaches to linguistic and cultural aspects of mass media communication, Hauser, Stefan & Martin Luginbühl (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 226] pp. 11–46

Anchimbe, Eric A. 2012 Private dialogue in public space: ‘Motions of support’ letters as response 
to political action

In: Dialogue in Politics, Berlin, Lawrence N. & Anita Fetzer (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 18] pp. 127–148

Mühleisen, Susanne 2011 Review of Dictionary of the English / Creole of Trinidad & Tobago On Historical Principles edited by Lise Winer (2009)

English World-Wide 32:2 pp. 246–249 | book review

Anchimbe, Eric A. 2011 Review of Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World by Adrian Blackledge (2005)

Journal of Language and Politics 10:2 pp. 292–299 | book review

Migge, Bettina & Susanne Mühleisen 2010 Earlier Caribbean English and Creole in writing

In: Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G41] pp. 223–244

Birkner, Karin 2010 Multimodal laughing: Comments on Cecilia Ford and Barbara Fox “Multiple practices for constructing laughables”

In: Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber & Margret Selting (eds.) [Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] pp. 369–372

Reineke, Brigitte & Gudrun Miehe 2008 Diathesis alternation in some Gur languages

In: Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 64] pp. 337–360

Güldemann, Tom, Manfred von Roncador & Wim van der Wurff 2008 16. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] pp. 363–415

Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador 2008 Preface

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] p. vii ff.

Drescher, Martina 2008 The negotiation of affect in natural conversation

In: Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda & Marcelo Dascal (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 214] pp. 183–196

Owens, Jonathan 1996 Idiomatic Structure and the Theory of Genetic Relationship

Diachronica 13:2 pp. 283–318 | article

Owens, Jonathan 1995 The comparative study of medieval Arabic grammatical theory: A Mollusc replies to A. E. Houseman, Jr.

Historiographia Linguistica 22:3 pp. 425–440 | other

Owens, Jonathan 1994 Review of Language change and national integration: Rural migrants in Khartoum by Catherine Miller & Al-Amin Abu-Manga (1994)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2 pp. 351–355 | book review

Breu, Walter 1994 Interactions Between Lexical, Temporal and Aspectual Meanings

Studies in Language 18:1 pp. 23–44 | article

Schäfer, Barbara 1993 Die verbalmodi in den grammatiken von manuel alvares (1572) und Bento Pereira (1672)

Historiographia Linguistica 20:2/3 pp. 283–308 | article

Harnisch, Rüediger 1992 Johann Andreas Schmeller Zwischen Universeller Lauttheorie und Empirischer Dialektlautkunde

Historiographia Linguistica 19:2/3 pp. 275–300 | article

Owens, Jonathan 1990 East African Nubi: Bioprogram Vs Inheritance

Diachronica 7:2 pp. 217–250 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.