This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised
Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific …

This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration
context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this …

The present contribution examines how interlocutors resolve reference problems concerning
the second singular person (2sg) in ongoing conversation. Apart from its 'normal'reading as …

The metaphors nation-as-body and nation-as-person have been used widely in xenophobic
discourses targeting migrants as diseases, taboo body parts or flawed character traits of the …

Talking about language use in touristic encounters is a fruitful starting point for the
investigation of positioning: mobility brings people into contact, which frequently results in …

The meaning of pronouns in the construction of subjectivity is to divergent levels context
dependent in different languages. In English and German, the pronoun as an indexical sign …

This thesis offers a text-worlds-approach to the study of linguistic identity in discursive
interaction. It focuses on how settled Chinese migrants in Sheffield, who migrated …

This paper reports on the effects of foreign accents and names on the chance of receiving an
apartment viewing in the city of Bremen in Germany. Almost 300 phone calls were placed in …

Digital humor expressed through memes plays a vital role in facilitating social interaction in
online environments. This paper reports on age and gender-related differences in …

This article explores the function of code-switching in talking about absent third parties. The
basis for the investigation is a corpus of sociolinguistic individual and group interviews with …