Dr. Michael Westphal

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Varieties of English
  • Creole languages
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language in the media
  • Variational Pragmatics
  • Language attitudes
  • Linguistic Landscaping

Academic Education

since 10/2016Post-doc University of Münster
10/2010 - 03/2016Phd University of Münster
10/2004 - 05/2010M.A. University of Freiburg
08/2007 - 12/2007Exchange student at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica

Work Experience

since 10/2010Research assistant, Chair of variation linguistics, University of Münster
04/2021 - 03/2022Acting Professor for English Language Teaching at the University of Greifswald

Functions and Memberships

since 2018Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) Research network
since 2018Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.
since 2013ISLE The International Society for the Linguistics of English
since 2011GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies)
05/2011 - 05/2013Treasurer of GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies)

Publications

Jansen Lisa, Westphal Michael (2022)
Type of Publication: Other scientific publication
Westphal Michael (2022)
In: Journal of Pragmatics, 192
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Westphal Michael (2022)
In: Frontiers in Communication, 6
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Hänsel, Eva Canan; Westphal, Michael; Meer, Philipp; Deuber, Dagmar (2022)
In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Westphal, Michael; Lau, Ka Man; Hartmann, Johanna; Deuber, Dagmar (2022)
In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37(2)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
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Projects

Duration: 01/10/2006 - 30/06/2022
Type of project: Own resources project

Talks

Variational Pragmatics and World Englishes: Speech acts and discourse markers
Westphal, Michael (14/01/2022)
Guest lecture, University of Bremen, Germany
Type of talk: scientific talk
Global Englishes in Language Teaching
Westphal, Michael; Hehner, Stefanie; Meer, Philipp (25/09/2021)
Online Sprachentag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprachen M-V, Germany
Type of talk: scientific talk
Multilingual question tags in Nigerian and Philippine English
Westphal, Michael (10/07/2021)
Current Trends in Linguistics Conference (CuTLi), University of Hamburg, Germany
Type of talk: scientific talk
Eh across Englishes: A corpus-pragmatic analysis of the GloWbE corpus
Westphal, Michael (04/06/2021)
6th International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) conference, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Type of talk: scientific talk
The multilingual pragmatics of New Englishes: Question tags in Nigerian English
Westphal, Michael (30/04/2021)
New Methods for Pragmatics of New Englishes, online, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim and University of Paderborn
Type of talk: scientific talk
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Prizes

Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018
Awarded by: German Association for the Study of English
Award given to: Westphal, Michael
Announced at: 15/09/2018 | Date of awarding: 15/09/2018
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Graduate Award of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Awarded by: Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Award given to: Westphal, Michael
Announced at: 15/06/2011 | Date of awarding: 15/06/2011
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Faculty award 2009 of the Philological Faculty of the University of Freiburg for the MA thesis A History of Jamaican Creole in the Jamican Broadcasting Media
Awarded by: Philologic Faculty of the University of Freiburg
Award given to: Westphal, Michael
Date of awarding: 15/02/2010
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Linguistic variation in Jamaican radio
Candidate: Westphal, Michael | Supervisors: Deuber, Dagmar
Period of time: 01/10/2010 - 18/03/2016
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster