Professor

Heiko Motschenbacher

Department of Language, Literature, Mathematics and Interpreting
Heiko Motschenbacher
Tel: +47 55 58 72 30
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Bergen
KRONSTAD, A821
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Field of work

English linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, inclusion in English language teaching

Responsibilities:

Course coordinator MGU/BEN 550 (MA thesis)

Course coordinator MGUEN 102

Course instructor MGU/BEN 503

Course instructor MGUEN 201

Research group leader: Discourses of Gender and Sexuality (DoGS)

 

Short CV

Ph.D. in English linguistics with a thesis on advertising language and gender (2005, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Completion of post-doc project (Habilitation) on language and European identity formation (2012, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Former professorships at universities in Bayreuth, Siegen, Mainz and Braunschweig

Full Professor of English as a Foreign Language at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (since 2017)

Marie Curie Global Fellowship with a project on language and sexual normativity (2017-2020, Florida Atlantic University, USA)

General Editor of the Journal of Language and Sexuality (since 2010)



Courses taught
  • English linguistics
  • Linguistic research methods
  • Applied linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Discourse Analysis

Research areas
  • Language, gender and sexuality
  • English in Europe; English as a lingua franca
  • Politeness; compliments; intercultural communication
  • Contrastive linguistics; English vs. other European languages
  • Linguistic methods: critical discourse analysis; linguistic landscape analysis; corpus linguistics
  • Advertising language; language in the media; language in pop music
  • European language policy; language and national identity; language and Europeanisation
  • Language and inclusion in ELT; linguistic representation in EFL teaching materials; schoolscapes; critical applied linguistics; language and normativity
  • English grammar: relativisation, personal nouns, pronouns, names, grammatical gender, coordinative structures (binomials), proper names and their grammar

Research groups
  • Info on projects and publications
  • Discourses of Gender and Sexuality (DoGS)
  • Analyzing and Assessing Linguistic Multicompetence (AALM)
  • Journal of Language and Sexuality (General Editor)
  • Gender & Language (Editorial Board Member)
  • GLAD – Language, Gender and Sexualities/Revue sur le langage, le genre, les sexualités (Editorial Board Member)
  • YLMP - Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznan (Advisory Board Member)
  • Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference (Advisory Board Member)
  • Language Teaching Research Quarterly (Editorial Board Member)
  • Names: A Journal of Onomastics (Editorial Board Member)
  • Journal of Language and Popular Culture (Editorial Board Member)

  • Memberships: International Gender and Language Association [IGALA], American Name Society [ANS], DiscourseNet Association, Eurovision Research Network [ERN], International Network of Address Research [INAR], Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik [GAL], International Association of Applied Linguistics [AILA], Early Language Learning Research Association [ELLRA]

Courses taught
  • MGBEN550, English 3, module 4 - Master’s thesis, 24/25, subject responsible
  • MGUEN102, English 1, module 1 - English language with didactics, 24/25, subject responsible
  • MGUEN201, English 1, module 2 - English language, literature and culture with didactics 2, 24/25
  • MGUEN503, English 3, module 3 - Diversities and Change in English language, literature, and culture , 24/25
  • MGUEN550, English 3, module 4 - Master’s thesis, 24/25, subject responsible

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