Bielefeld University

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

The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries

EditorTanja Ackermann & Christian Zimmer

Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 238] 2025. | edited volume | open access

Non-canonical control in a cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann & Beata Trawiński

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 270] 2021. | edited volume | open access

The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety

Edited by Anne Schröder

Subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Varieties of English Around the World, G65] 2021. | edited volume

Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Edited by Paula Prescod

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp. |

Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication

Edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks & Stefan Kopp

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Philosophy | Psycholinguistics | Sociology

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 6] 2013. viii, 231 pp. | edited volume

Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective. Special issue of Interaction Studies 14:2 (2013)

Edited by Iris Nomikou, Karola Pitsch & Katharina Rohlfing

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

[Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 14:2] 2013. | special issue

Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas

Edited by Friederike Kern & Margret Selting

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in Language Variation, 8] 2011. vi, 321 pp. | edited volume

Constraints on Spelling Changes: Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 10:2 (2007)

Edited by Guido Nottbusch & Eliane Segers

Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy

[Written Language & Literacy, 10:2] 2008. | special issue

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

Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness: Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 9:1 (2006)

Edited by Martin Neef & Guido Nottbusch

Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy

[Written Language & Literacy, 9:1] 2006. | special issue

Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium

Edited by Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser & Henk Zeevat

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 114] 2003. xii, 400 pp. | edited volume

Juillet, Melissa, Sophia Fiedler, Loanne Janin & Sam Schirm 2025 Review of Developing interactional competence at the workplace: Learning English as a foreign language on the shop floor by Hanh thi Nguyen & Taiane Malabarba (2025)

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:1 pp. 192–198 | book review

Duran, Daniel, Melanie Weirich & Stefanie Jannedy 2025 Experimental assessment of phonetic register variation in situated interaction

Keywords: stylistic/intra-individual variation | speech register | phonetic detail | video-interaction task | formality | addressee | private/public space

Register Studies | Online First Publication, 46 pp. | article | open access

Schildhauer, Peter & Alexander Brock 2024 Format as the locus of negotiating media procedures: The case of a Zoom seminar session

Keywords: communication form | genre | format | negotiation | video conferencing | affordances

In: Media as Procedures of Communication, Luginbühl, Martin & Jan Georg Schneider (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 348] pp. 40–65

Boden, Ulrich J., Friederike Kern, Sofia Koutalidis, Olga Abramov, Anne Nemeth, Stefan Kopp & Katharina J. Rohlfing 2024 Four-year-olds’ visuospatial cognitive abilities and their relation to observer‑viewpoint gestures across three communicative tasks

Keywords: language as situated multimodal system | gesture-as-simulated-action (GSA) framework | viewpoints in gesture | cognitive abilities | mental imagery

Pragmatics & Cognition 31:1 pp. 49–96 | article

Moormann, Mareike, Antje Lorenz, Lyndsey Nickels, Neville Hennessey & Britta Biedermann 2025 From ‘jellyfish’ to ‘poisson de gelée’ : Compound production in bilingual aphasia

Keywords: bilingual aphasia | compound processing | compound production | multiple lemma account | language mixing | language mixing errors | language dominance | language proficiency

The Mental Lexicon 19:2 pp. 308–339 | article

Schirm, Sam 2024 From doing work on your own talk to doing work on others’ talk: The longitudinal development of also ‘so’ in L2 German

Keywords: interactional competence | L2 grammar-for-interaction | interactional linguistics | longitudinal CA | discourse markers | particles

Interactional Linguistics 4:1 pp. 68–96 | article

Hartmann, Jutta M. 2025 Locative-based expletives as situation proforms: Dutch er, German da and English there

Keywords: expletive | existential | situation proform | correlate | modifiers

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 p. 94 | article | open access

Pütz, Ole & Hafsa Hassan 2024 The quick termination of verbal conflicts expressed through disagreement: Three patterns of conflict minimization during computer science project meetings

Keywords: verbal conflict | conflict termination | mitigated disagreement | preference organization | power relations

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article

Kleineberg, Désirée 2023 Collection nouns as a derivational category in Spanish1 : Analysing the productivity of collective suffixes on the basis of ad hoc constructs

Keywords: collective nouns | morphological productivity | nonce-formation | nominal aspectuality

In: Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga & Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 34] pp. 28–56

Jabeen, Farhat & Bettina Braun 2023 How cross–linguistic influence affects the use of duration in the production and perception of corrective and non–corrective focus types

Keywords: corrective focus | non–corrective focus | duration | cross–linguistic influence | Urdu

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:2 pp. 152–178 | article

Schirm, Sam, Budimka Uskokovic & Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm 2023 The competence in little words: Response patterns in German L2 interaction

Keywords: interactional competence | response tokens | third-position responses | German L2 speakers | assessment | video-mediated interaction

Applied Pragmatics 5:2 pp. 142–168 | article

Wullenkord, Ricarda, Jacqueline Bellon, Bruno Gransche, Sebastian Nähr-Wagener & Friederike Eyssel 2023 Social appropriateness in HMI: The Five Factors of Social Appropriateness (FASA) Model

Keywords: social appropriateness | FASA Model | social robotics | social assistance systems | human-robot interaction | human-machine interaction

Interaction Studies 23:3 pp. 360–390 | article

Gramley, Stephan 2021 Review of African American Language: Language Development from Infancy to Adulthood by Mary Kohn, Walt Wolfram, Charlie Farrington, Jennifer Renn & Janneke Van Hofwegen (2020)

English World-Wide 43:1 pp. 124–129 | book review

Schröder, Anne 2021 A land in transition: The representation of linguistic diversity in Joseph Diescho’s Born of the Sun and Troubled Waters

Keywords: Namibian English | Namibian novel | literary linguistics | multilingualism in literature | ficto-linguistics

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 241–272

Schneider, Edgar W. & Anne Schröder 2021 The dynamics of English in Namibia: A World Englishes perspective

Keywords: Dynamic Model | models of World Englishes | Namibian English | South African English | southern African Englishes

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 275–298

Schulte, Marion 2021 The linguistic landscape and soundscape of Windhoek

Keywords: linguistic landscape | linguistic soundscape | public language use | language and power

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] p. 83

Schröder, Anne, Frederic Zähres & Alexander Kautzsch 2021 The phonetics of Namibian English: Investigating vowels as local features in a global context

Keywords: World Englishes | Southern African Englishes | English in Namibia | Namibian English | phonetic variation | ethnic variation

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 111–134

Zähres, Frederic 2021 Broadcasting your variety: Namibian English(es) on YouTube

Keywords: YouTube | digital ethnography | phonetics | phonology | vowels

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 135–168

Schröder, Anne & Klaus P. Schneider 2021 A variational pragmatic approach to responses to thanks in Namibian English: From quantitative to qualitative analysis

Keywords: Namibian English | variational pragmatics | responses to thanks | quantitative and qualitative analysis

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 195–216

Schröder, Anne 2021 The dynamics of English in Namibia: An introduction

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65] pp. 1–18

Hartmann, Jutta M., Anne Mucha & Beata Trawiński 2021 Non-canonical control in a cross-linguistic perspective: Introduction to the volume

In: Non-canonical control in a cross-linguistic perspective, Mucha, Anne, Jutta M. Hartmann & Beata Trawiński (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 270] pp. 1–12 | open access

Schröder, Anne 2021 The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety

In: The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G65]

Šabanović, Selma, Malte Jung, Ana Paiva & Friederike Eyssel 2021 Special section editorial

Interaction Studies 22:1 pp. 81–85 | other

Hindemith, Lukas, Jan Philip Göpfert, Christiane B. Wiebel-Herboth, Britta Wrede & Anna-Lisa Vollmer 2022 Why robots should be technical: Correcting mental models through technical architecture concepts

Keywords: human-robot interaction | mental models | interaction design | robot architecture | technical concepts | robot transparency

Interaction Studies 22:2 pp. 244–279 | article

Keijsers, Merel, Christoph Bartneck & Friederike Eyssel 2021 What’s to bullying a bot?: Correlates between chatbot humanlikeness and abuse

Keywords: human-chatbot interaction | verbal aggression | chatbot abuse | chatbot humanlike-ness

Interaction Studies 22:1 pp. 55–80 | article

Schaller, Franziska, Brittany Lee, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, Lucinda O’Grady Farnady & Karen Emmorey 2020 Cross-linguistic metaphor priming in ASL-English bilinguals: Effects of the Double Mapping Constraint

Keywords: metaphor | iconicity | sign language | bimodal bilingualism

Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2 p. 96 | article

Schröder, Anne 2020 Eric A. Anchimbe. 2018. Offers and Offer Refusals: A Postcolonial Pragmatics Perspective on World Englishes

English World-Wide 41:1 pp. 125–129 | book review

Schröder, Anne, Frederic Zähres & Alexander Kautzsch 2020 Ethnic variation in the phonology of Namibian English: A first approach to Baster English*

Keywords: World Englishes | Southern African Englishes | English in Namibia | Namibian English | ethnic variation | Baster English | Rehoboth Basters | phonetics | phonology | acoustic phonetics

English World-Wide 41:2 pp. 193–224 | article

Alber, Jan, Jessica Jumpertz & Axel Mayer 2021 How professional readers process unnatural narrators: An empirical perspective

Keywords: unnatural narrators | processing of the impossible | defamiliarization | cognitive approaches to literature | empirical literary studies

Scientific Study of Literature 10:2 pp. 193–213 | article

Schulte, Marion 2019 The semantic development of borrowed derivational morphology: Change and stability in French-English language contact

Keywords: derivational morphology | semantics | morphosemantics | morphological borrowing | language contact | semantic map

Diachronica 36:1 pp. 66–99 | article

Skopeteas, Stavros, Caroline Féry & Rusudan Asatiani 2018 Prosodic separation of postverbal material in Georgian: A corpus study on syntax-phonology interface

In: Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude & Martine Vanhove (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] pp. 17–50

Schröder, Anne & Klaus P. Schneider 2018 Variational pragmatics, responses to thanks, and the specificity of English in Namibia

Keywords: variational pragmatics | World Englishes | Southern African Englishes | Namibian English | English in Namibia | contrastive linguistics | cross-cultural pragmatics | responses to thanks

English World-Wide 39:3 pp. 338–363 | article

Kok, Kasper, Kirsten Bergmann, Alan Cienki & Stefan Kopp 2016 Mapping out the multifunctionality of speakers’ gestures

Keywords: communication | gestures | discourse | multifunctionality

Gesture 15:1 pp. 37–59 | article

Nomikou, Iris, Malte Schilling, Vivien Heller & Katharina. J. Rohlfing 2016 Language-at all times: Action and interaction as contexts for enriching representations

Keywords: rich representation | language acquisition | interaction | synchrony | contingency | sequentiality

Interaction Studies 17:1 pp. 128–153 | article

Weingarten, Rüdiger 2013 Comparative graphematics

In: Typology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. & Terry Joyce (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 51] pp. 13–40

Nomikou, Iris, Karola Pitsch & Katharina J. Rohlfing 2013 Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective

Interaction Studies 14:2 pp. vii–xii | article

Nomikou, Iris, Katharina J. Rohlfing & Joanna Szufnarowska 2013 Educating attention: Recruiting, maintaining, and framing eye contact in early natural mother–infant interactions

Interaction Studies 14:2 pp. 240–267 | article

Pitsch, Karola, Anna-Lisa Vollmer & Manuel Mühlig 2013 Robot feedback shapes the tutor’s presentation: How a robot’s online gaze strategies lead to micro-adaptation of the human’s conduct

Interaction Studies 14:2 pp. 268–296 | article

Schröder, Anne 2012 Review of Cameroon English Morphology and Syntax. Current Trends in Action by Paul N. Mbangwana & Bonaventure M. Sala (2009)

English World-Wide 33:1 pp. 105–111 | book review

Grimminger, Angela, Katharina Rohlfing & Prisca Stenneken 2012 Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development

In: Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc & Michèle Guidetti (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 39] pp. 129–155

Nachtigäller, Kerstin & Katharina Rohlfing 2011 11. Mothers’ talking about early object and action concepts during picturebook reading

In: Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3, Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 13] pp. 193–208

Rohlfing, Katharina 2011 Meaning in the objects

In: Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] pp. 151–176

Lohse, Manja 2011 The role of expectations and situations in human-robot interaction

In: New Frontiers in Human–Robot Interaction, Dautenhahn, Kerstin & Joe Saunders (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 2] pp. 35–56

Weingarten, Rüdiger 2011 Comparative graphematics

Written Language & Literacy 14:1 pp. 12–38 | article

Fischer, Kerstin, Kilian Foth, Katharina J. Rohlfing & Britta Wrede 2011 Mindful tutors: Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robot

Interaction Studies 12:1 pp. 134–161 | article

Gülich, Elisabeth & Katrin Lindemann 2010 Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction: A multidimensional single-case analysis

In: Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber & Margret Selting (eds.) [Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] pp. 269–294

Broekhuis, Hans & Ralf Vogel 2010 Crash-proof syntax and filters

In: Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 3] pp. 245–268

Grimminger, Angela, Katharina J. Rohlfing & Prisca Stenneken 2011 Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development

Keywords: gestural motherese | Late Talker | maternal multimodal input | task-oriented dialogue

Gesture 10:2/3 pp. 251–278 | article

Lohse, Manja, Marc Hanheide, Karola Pitsch, Katharina J. Rohlfing & Gerhard Sagerer 2009 Improving HRI design by applying Systemic Interaction Analysis (SInA)

Interaction Studies 10:3 pp. 298–323 | article

Sahel, Said, Guido Nottbusch, Angela Grimm & Rüdiger Weingarten 2009 Written production of German compounds: Effects of lexical frequency and semantic transparency

Written Language & Literacy 11:2 pp. 211–227 | article

Mihatsch, Wiltrud 2008 The construction of vagueness: “Sort-of“ expressions in Romance languages

Keywords: approximation | approximator | hedge | kind of | pragmatic marker | pragmaticalisation | reanalysis | sort of | taxonomy

In: Aspects of Meaning Construction, Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg & Peter Siemund (eds.)  pp. 225–245

Pitsch, Karola & Vivian Raithel 2004 International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Multimodal Communication at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research: Bielefeld University (Germany), January 9–10, 2003

Gesture 4:1 pp. 109–113 | other

Carson-Berndsen, Julie & Dafydd Gibbon 2008 Visualising lexical prosodic representations for speech applications

In: Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999, Mc Kevitt, Paul, Seán Ó Nualláin & Conn Mulvihill (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] pp. 29–38

Aremu, Daniel Focus marking in Ìkálẹ̀ and the final-over-final condition

Keywords: Ex-situ focus | FOFC | phases | spell-out | head-finality | extended projections

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 33 pp. | article | open access

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