Curriculum Vitae

Sandra Jansen studied English and Pedagogy at the University Duisburg-Essen. She finished her studies in May 2006 with a thesis on ‘Endangered Languages and Language Death'.

Research Interests

Sandra currently works in the Linguistics section of the English department where she teaches courses on the undergraduate level. She is preparing her doctoral thesis on language variation and change in Carlisle, a city in the Northwest of England. She is also interested in the sociolinguistics of music and becomes more and more a fan of acoustic phonetics.

Publications, Conference Papers & Talks

Publications

(i. E.) ‘High back vowel fronting in the north-west of England.’ Proceedings of Sociophonetics at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication.

Conference Papers

Forthcoming

‘“[J]ust rest content with the wealth and vigour of Carlisle’s living dialect.” Carlisle English – then and now.’ UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC 8). Edge Hill University, September 2011.

‘Central vowel fronting in Carlisle English.’ Methods in Dialectology 14. London, Ontario 02.-06.08.2011

‘The emergence of an ethnic variety in rural north-west Germany.’ Methods in Dialectology 14. London, Ontario 02.-06.08.2011

‘A variety without identity markers? Dialect levelling in Carlisle English.’ 4^th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 4). Osnabrück 19.07.-23.07.

2011

‘High back vowel fronting in the north-west of England.’ 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), 29.06.-01.07.

‘The emergence of an ethnic variety in rural north-west Germany?’ 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), 29.06.-01.07. [Poster]

‘Variation and Change in the north-west of England.’ Second Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 2). Boston (17.-21. Juni 2011).

2010

‘High-back vowel fronting in the north-west of England.’ Sociophonetics, Pisa (not attended).

'Variation in the Spoken Corpus of Carlisle English - The Case of GOOSE-fronting.' 31st International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Giessen (26-30 May 2010). [Poster]

'GOOSE-fronting in Carlisle English.' Northern Englishes Workshop 4, Sheffield (7-9 April 2010).

2009

'Close-mid vowels in Carlisle English.' Accents 2009. Accents in Time and Space. III International conference on native and non-native accents of English, Lodz (11-13 December 2009).

'GO FACE it! Close-mid vowels in Carlisle English.' UKLVC 7, Newcastle (1 - 3 September 2009). [Poster]

'Plosive Lenition in Carlisle English.' The Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 3), London (14 - 17 July 2009).

2008

'Accent Attitudes in Carlisle/Cumbria.' First Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, Freiburg (8 - 11 October 2008). [Poster]

'Evidence of dialect contact in the accent of Carlisle'. AILA 2008 - 15. Weltkongress für Angewandte Linguistik, Essen (24 - 29 August 2008).

mit Thorsten Brato '"You used to gerri' in yer fishnets, now you only gerri' in yer nightdress" - Regional and supraregional accents in English Indie Rock songs.' The Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XIII), Leeds (4 - 8 August 2008).

'Supraregional features in Carlisle English.' The Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XIII), Leeds (4 - 8 August 2008). [Poster]

Courses Taught

• Brush up your English
• Endangered Languages and Language Death
• English world-wide
• Introduction to English Linguistics
• Languages and Corpora
• Major Varieties of English
• Varieties of English in the British Isles
• English Morphology and Word Formation
• Introduction to the History of English
• Foundation Course
• Recent Trends in Sociolinguistics
• Analysing Visualised Speech (An Introduction to Acoustic Phonetics)
• First Language Acquisition
• English in the British Isles
• Pragmatics
• Contrastive Linguistics