News & Events

One of the first tasks of language acquisition is to identify words in the incoming speech stream (word segmentation). This presents a challenge to the learner, as speech does not contain any ostensive pauses between words which would signal a word boundary (Cole & Jakimik, 2005). Yet, infants solve this problem during the first year of life (Jusczyk & Aslin, 1995) and early mastery of word segmentation correlates with faster language development, for example vocabulary growth (e.g. Von Holzen, Nishibayashi, & Nazzi, 2018). Infants learn language specific segmentation strategies (Cutler, 2001), which are difficult to overcome when processing speech in a new language (e.g. phonotactic cues; Weber & Cutler, 2006). Studies with adult ab initio leaners show initial difficulty in speech segmentation (Snijders, Kooijman, Cutler, & Hagoort, 2007), unless that speech contains cues that match prior-language knowledge, such as lexical transparency [cont on flyer]

Veranstaltungsort

Please open the image below in a new tab for more! | For registration, contact Dr. Melody Ann Ross | Digital Meeting

Ansprechpartner

Sociolinguistics Lab
Dr. Melody Ross
melody.ross@uni-due.de

Download ICS

18.05.2022 - 20.05.2022
19:30 Uhr - 20:30 Uhr

Sonstiges

The Duisburg University English Thespians
"Say the Magic Words!"
A poetry show by DUET

"Say the magic words" is not a poetry recital, but rather a creative, imaginative and inventive poetry show. It will bring to life a selection of international poetic jewels (all in the English langua...

Details

19.05.2022
10:15 Uhr - 11:45 Uhr

Vortrag

Institut für Anglophone Studien
Dr. Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Biologizing Race, Appropriating Blackness: Carnival Row and the Limits of Self-Reflexivity

Carnival Row is a neo-Victorian gothic television series, which, on the surface, seems invested in critiques of British coloniality via its fantastic diegesis, its 'integrated casting', and its refuta...

Details

24.05.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Kajillionaire (2020)

The Department of Anglophone Studies kindly invites you to join its the English Language Movie Society (ELMS)! The English Language Movie Society was founded in 2007 and is a group of students and sta...

Details

25.05.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Christiane Alexandra Nsom, Universität zu Köln
Exploring Directives on the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon

Signs are crucial means of communication in human environment. The current work investigates directives on the Linguistic Landscape of both public and private domains in Cameroon from a language polic...

Details

02.06.2022
18:00 Uhr - 19:30 Uhr

Vorlesung

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
Carolin Schwegler, Handeln für die Zukunft vs. Handeln in der Zukunft. Diskurslinguistische Perspektiven auf Nachhaltigkeitsappelle in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

Details

07.06.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Last Night in Soho (2021)

Details

08.06.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Professor Dr. Kazuko Matsumoto (University of Tokyo) & Professor Dr. David Britain (Bern University)
A panel study of the obsolescence of a Pacific Japanese colonial koiné

This paper reports early results from our research on structural obsolescence in the postcolonial Japanese variety spoken on Palau in the Western Pacific (hereafter PJ). During Japanese rule (1914-194...

Details

14.06.2022
16:00 Uhr - 18:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Professor Alex Blue V (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA)
There's an Echo: Ghosts, Repetition, and Remix in Detroit Hip-Hop

Details

15.06.2022
18:00 Uhr - 20:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Department of Anglophone Studies
Professor Gavin Jones (Stanford University)
The Short Story and Other Media

The American Studies program of the Department of Anglophone Studies is proud to announce a guest lecture by Prof. Gavin Jones (Stanford University) on Wednesday, 15 June 2022. His talk is titled “The...

Details

15.06.2022
14:00 Uhr - 17:30 Uhr

Workshop

The Linguistic Landscapes of Tourism

Details

21.06.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
The Green Knight (2021)

Details

22.06.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

Vorlesung

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Katie Von Holzen, Department of English Linguistics at the University of Braunschweig (Germany)
doyouunderstandwhatimsaying : How learners break into speech stream segmentation

Details

23.06.2022
18:00 Uhr - 19:30 Uhr

Vorlesung

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
David Higgins, The Philosophy of Climate Pessimism

Details

23.06.2022
16:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Das Ruhrgebiet 2030 – Strukturwandel in Zeiten des Klimawandels (UDE4future)
Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr, Klima-Kommunikation und Literatur

Details

30.06.2022
18:00 Uhr - 19:30 Uhr

Vorlesung

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
Nassim W. Balestrini, Climate Change Theatre: Reflections on Aesthetics and Activism

Details

05.07.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
West Side Story (2021)

Details

06.07.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

Vorlesung

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Université de Lausanne
Linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource for critical multilingual awareness in higher education

This talk will present a collaborative linguistic landscape (LL) project as a pedagogical tool in higher education that is increasingly attracting attention in the academic literature. This project, “...

Details

07.07.2022
18:00 Uhr - 19:30 Uhr

Vorlesung

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
Kirk Junker, Cassandra's Error: Thirty Years in the Rhetoric of Climate Science

Details

14.07.2022
17:30 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Gesa Mackenthun (University of Rostock)
"Romantic Agriculturalism and the Invisibility of Indigenous Land Tenure"

Details

15.07.2022
17:00 Uhr - 18:30 Uhr

Vortrag

Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds)
"Transatlantic Abolition and the Unquiet Library: Print Culture and the Making of a Celebrated Philanthropist"

Libraries have long been viewed as locations of peaceful – even silent – work, as well as critically important sites of sociability. While the physical site of the library is frequently a place of sa...

Details

20.07.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

Vorlesung

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Guyanne Wilson, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Investigating attitudes and ideologies in diverse data sets: Choral singing and memes

In Trinidad, an English-lexifier creole, Trinidad English Creole (TEC), is spoken alongside a local variety of standardized English, Trinidadian Standardized English (TSE). Early work on language atti...

Details

05.09.2022
11:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Linguistic Hauntings and the Discursive Chronotopes of Waste
Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

This talk emerges from my own recent turn to waste as an attempt to consider what kind of contribution sociocultural linguists might make to the interdisciplinary field of discard studies (see Thurlow...

Details

05.09.2022
13:30 Uhr - 15:30 Uhr

Workshop

Messy Methods and the Semiotics of (Urban) Waste
Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

In this hands-on workshop, and following on from my more conceptual talk earlier in the day, I will introduce my own approach to so-called messy methods (cf Law, 2004). In short, messy methods is abou...

Details

05.10.2022
14:00 Uhr - 18:00 Uhr

Informationsveranstaltung

Einführungsveranstaltungen für Erstsemester

Einführungsveranstaltung Bachelorstudiengänge (2-Fach BA Anglophone Studies, LA BA Englisch), Zeit: 14:00-15:30 Einführungsveranstaltung Masterstudiengänge (2-Fach MA Anglophone Studies, LA MEd Eng...

Details

06.10.2022
12:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr

Informationsveranstaltung

Studiengangspezifische Einführung

Studiengangspezifische Einführung 2-Fach Bachelor Anglophone Studies// (Dr. Torsten Caeners) / R11 T00 D03 Studiengangspezifische Einführung Lehramt BA Englisch// (Dr. Michaela Meyer) Datum: 06.10...

Details

11.10.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Details

24.10.2022
18:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Ursula K. Heise, Department of English at UCLA
Environmental Crisis and the Problem of Realism

Environmental journalists, novelists, film-makers and artists have traditionally preferred realist genres and styles to highlight the materiality and scientific grounding of environmental crises. Ov...

Details

25.10.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Turning Red (2022)

Details

27.10.2022
15:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr

Vortrag

The Foreigner in the European Socio-legal Culture. From the past to the present day. An Aurora Virtual Serie Lectures
Prof. Valerio Nitrato Izzo (University of Naples Federico II) - Territorial belonging between law and politics: the case of urban citizenship

The event focuses on the role of higher education in cultural and socio-legal processes of inclusion and the fight against social inequality. It aims to promote awareness-raising around migration topi...

Details

28.10.2022
10:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Assessment Test Winter Term 2022/23

All students wishing to study English are required to take an Assessment Test on our campus in Essen (PC-Raum A-009 - Altendorfer Str 9, entrance no. 3, first floor). There are no exceptions. It is no...

Details

04.11.2022
15:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr

Vortrag

The Foreigner in the European Socio-legal Culture. From the past to the present day. An Aurora Virtual Serie Lectures
Prof. Flora Di Donato & Dr. Alessandro Campo, (University of Naples Federico II, University of Turin) - Narrating asylum stories: attempts of authenticity and institutional boundaries

Details

08.11.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Details

22.11.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Nope (2022)

Details

29.11.2022
10:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer (Koblenz)
Responding to Poetry: From Affect to Answer

Rita Felski's Hooked. Art and Attachment (2020) suggests a subjective approach to art as complement or alternative to a quasi-objective approach of detached analysis. The gap between the alienation of...

Details

06.12.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Details

20.12.2022
18:00 Uhr

Sonstiges

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Klaus (2019)

Details

New Study Programme, MA Anglophone Popular Culture

Both the increasingly globalized job market and the continuous advancement of academia require graduates from research-focused master programmes with competencies in more than one culture and language. By guiding students towards independent, competitive research projects and by teaching exclusively in English, students’ intercultural competencies (esp. in terms of Anglophone Popular Culture) as well as their problem-solving skills are advanced and strengthened. Since organised thinking and theoretically informed approaches to complex problems are necessary for both areas, the MA programme prepares students for a career in the academia as well as the job market beyond the university. Read more

The Department of Anglophone Studies now has its own Instagram account. There we‘ll be providing information about selected events and all the latest happening in the department. You will also get a look into what we do here and may even snatch a little glimpse into individual lecturers‘/professors‘ research. Sounds good? Then please give us a follow and spread the word!

Anglophone Studies on Insta

News & Events

Sociolinguistics Lab LinguisTisch: Dr. Katie Von Holzen, Department of English Linguistics at the University of Braunschweig (Germany) doyouunderstandwhatimsaying : How learners break into speech stream segmentation

Veranstaltungsort

Ansprechpartner

Download ICS

The Duisburg University English Thespians "Say the Magic Words!" A poetry show by DUET

Institut für Anglophone Studien Dr. Felipe Espinoza Garrido Biologizing Race, Appropriating Blackness: Carnival Row and the Limits of Self-Reflexivity

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) Kajillionaire (2020)

Sociolinguistics Lab LinguisTisch: Christiane Alexandra Nsom, Universität zu Köln Exploring Directives on the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication Carolin Schwegler, Handeln für die Zukunft vs. Handeln in der Zukunft. Diskurslinguistische Perspektiven auf Nachhaltigkeitsappelle in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) Last Night in Soho (2021)

Sociolinguistics Lab LinguisTisch: Professor Dr. Kazuko Matsumoto (University of Tokyo) & Professor Dr. David Britain (Bern University) A panel study of the obsolescence of a Pacific Japanese colonial koiné

Professor Alex Blue V (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA) There's an Echo: Ghosts, Repetition, and Remix in Detroit Hip-Hop

Department of Anglophone Studies Professor Gavin Jones (Stanford University) The Short Story and Other Media

The Linguistic Landscapes of Tourism

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) The Green Knight (2021)

Sociolinguistics Lab LinguisTisch: Dr. Katie Von Holzen, Department of English Linguistics at the University of Braunschweig (Germany) doyouunderstandwhatimsaying : How learners break into speech stream segmentation

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication David Higgins, The Philosophy of Climate Pessimism

Das Ruhrgebiet 2030 – Strukturwandel in Zeiten des Klimawandels (UDE4future) Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr, Klima-Kommunikation und Literatur

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication Nassim W. Balestrini, Climate Change Theatre: Reflections on Aesthetics and Activism

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) West Side Story (2021)

Sociolinguistics Lab LinguisTisch: Dr. Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Université de Lausanne Linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource for critical multilingual awareness in higher education

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication Kirk Junker, Cassandra's Error: Thirty Years in the Rhetoric of Climate Science

Gesa Mackenthun (University of Rostock) "Romantic Agriculturalism and the Invisibility of Indigenous Land Tenure"

Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds) "Transatlantic Abolition and the Unquiet Library: Print Culture and the Making of a Celebrated Philanthropist"

Sociolinguistics Lab LinguisTisch: Dr. Guyanne Wilson, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Investigating attitudes and ideologies in diverse data sets: Choral singing and memes

Linguistic Hauntings and the Discursive Chronotopes of Waste Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

Messy Methods and the Semiotics of (Urban) Waste Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

Einführungsveranstaltungen für Erstsemester

Studiengangspezifische Einführung

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Ursula K. Heise, Department of English at UCLA Environmental Crisis and the Problem of Realism

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) Turning Red (2022)

The Foreigner in the European Socio-legal Culture. From the past to the present day. An Aurora Virtual Serie Lectures Prof. Valerio Nitrato Izzo (University of Naples Federico II) - Territorial belonging between law and politics: the case of urban citizenship

Assessment Test Winter Term 2022/23

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) Nope (2022)

Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer (Koblenz) Responding to Poetry: From Affect to Answer

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Department of Anglophone Studies English Language Movie Society (ELMS) Klaus (2019)

New Study Programme, MA Anglophone Popular Culture

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Katie Von Holzen, Department of English Linguistics at the University of Braunschweig (Germany)
doyouunderstandwhatimsaying : How learners break into speech stream segmentation

The Duisburg University English Thespians
"Say the Magic Words!"
A poetry show by DUET

Institut für Anglophone Studien
Dr. Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Biologizing Race, Appropriating Blackness: Carnival Row and the Limits of Self-Reflexivity

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Kajillionaire (2020)

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Christiane Alexandra Nsom, Universität zu Köln
Exploring Directives on the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
Carolin Schwegler, Handeln für die Zukunft vs. Handeln in der Zukunft. Diskurslinguistische Perspektiven auf Nachhaltigkeitsappelle in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Last Night in Soho (2021)

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Professor Dr. Kazuko Matsumoto (University of Tokyo) & Professor Dr. David Britain (Bern University)
A panel study of the obsolescence of a Pacific Japanese colonial koiné

Professor Alex Blue V (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA)
There's an Echo: Ghosts, Repetition, and Remix in Detroit Hip-Hop

Department of Anglophone Studies
Professor Gavin Jones (Stanford University)
The Short Story and Other Media

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
The Green Knight (2021)

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Katie Von Holzen, Department of English Linguistics at the University of Braunschweig (Germany)
doyouunderstandwhatimsaying : How learners break into speech stream segmentation

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
David Higgins, The Philosophy of Climate Pessimism

Das Ruhrgebiet 2030 – Strukturwandel in Zeiten des Klimawandels (UDE4future)
Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr, Klima-Kommunikation und Literatur

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
Nassim W. Balestrini, Climate Change Theatre: Reflections on Aesthetics and Activism

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
West Side Story (2021)

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Université de Lausanne
Linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource for critical multilingual awareness in higher education

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication
Kirk Junker, Cassandra's Error: Thirty Years in the Rhetoric of Climate Science

Gesa Mackenthun (University of Rostock)
"Romantic Agriculturalism and the Invisibility of Indigenous Land Tenure"

Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds)
"Transatlantic Abolition and the Unquiet Library: Print Culture and the Making of a Celebrated Philanthropist"

Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Guyanne Wilson, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Investigating attitudes and ideologies in diverse data sets: Choral singing and memes

Linguistic Hauntings and the Discursive Chronotopes of Waste
Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

Messy Methods and the Semiotics of (Urban) Waste
Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Ursula K. Heise, Department of English at UCLA
Environmental Crisis and the Problem of Realism

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Turning Red (2022)

The Foreigner in the European Socio-legal Culture. From the past to the present day. An Aurora Virtual Serie Lectures
Prof. Valerio Nitrato Izzo (University of Naples Federico II) - Territorial belonging between law and politics: the case of urban citizenship

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Nope (2022)

Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer (Koblenz)
Responding to Poetry: From Affect to Answer

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Department of Anglophone Studies
English Language Movie Society (ELMS)
Klaus (2019)