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Prof. Dr. Birte Bös

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 R04 A11
Phone
+49 201 183 2303
E-Mail
birte.boes@uni-due.de
Website
http://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/linguistics/linguistics3/boes_birte
Office hours
See Moodle or send me an e-mail

Functions

The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Journal articles

  • Bös, Birte; Schneider, Carolin
    “You have nothing to fear because we love you” : Expressing emotions in a digital community of practice of persons living with dementia
    In: Discourse, Context & Media, Vol. 66, 2025, 100911
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Schneider, Carolin; Bös, Birte
    Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type : A Case Study
    In: Pragmatics and Society, Vol. 15, 2024, Nr. 1, pp. 49 – 66
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Bös, Birte
    Women’s voices in the public sphere : Processes of (discursive) democratisation in London suffrage newspapers
    In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Vol. 25, 2024, Nr. 2, pp. 302 – 328
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte; Schneider, Carolin
    Dementia Sufferer and Person Living with a Diagnosis of Dementia : Naming Practices in Academia
    In: Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 6, 2022
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Bös, Birte; Schneider, Carolin
    ‘Typing with dementia’ : Online self-positioning of people living with dementia
    In: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, Vol. 12, 2022, Nr. 2, pp. 212 – 233
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte; Schneider, Carolin
    "We are all in this together" : Balancing Virtual Proximity and Distance in Online Care Partner Discussions
    In: Anglistik: international journal of English studies, Vol. 32, 2021, Nr. 2, pp. 85 – 109
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kleinke, Sonja; Bös, Birte
    Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora
    In: Pragmatics, Vol. 25, 2015, Nr. 1, pp. 47 – 71
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Bös, Birte
    Martin Conboy. The Language of Newspapers. Socio-Historical Perspectives
    In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Vol. 14, 2013, Nr. 2, pp. 310 – 315
    DOI

    • Prefaces/Postfaces

  • Davis, Boyd H.; Maclagan, Margaret; Pope, Charlene; Bös, Birte; Schneider, Carolin; Kleinke, Sonja
    Introduction to section on dementia
    In: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, Vol. 12, 2021, Nr. 2, pp. 183 – 184
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kleinke, Sonja; Hernandez, Nuria; Bös, Birte
    Introduction : Identity construction in complex discourse contexts
    In: The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective / Bös, Birte; Kleinke, Sonja; Mollin, Sandra; Hernandez, Nuria (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018, pp. 1 – 12
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)

    • Reviews

  • Bös, Birte
    Monika Bednarek. 2018. Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue. The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xv + 303 pp., 40 figures and 36 tables, £ 28.99.
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Berlin: de Gruyter, Vol. 137, 2019, Nr. 4, pp. 660 – 665
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Bös, Birte
    Andreas H. Jucker & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). Historical Pragmatics
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Berlin: de Gruyter, Vol. 131, 2013, Nr. 1, pp. 145 – 152
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte
    Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.). Instructional Writing in English: Studies in Honour of Risto Hiltunen
    In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Vol. 12, 2011, Nr. 1-2, pp. 300 – 305
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte
    Speech Acts in the History of English, ed. Andreas H. Jucker & Irma Taavitsainen
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Berlin: de Gruyter, Vol. 128, 2010, Nr. 1, pp. 135 – 139
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte
    The Non-verbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation
    In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Vol. 11, 2010, Nr. 1, pp. 164 – 168
    DOI

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Bös, Birte
    Self- and other-positioning in eighteenth‑century newspapers : A case study of a failed joint venture
    In: Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses / Nevala, Minna; Palander-Collin, Minna (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024, pp. 89 – 113
    DOI
  • Brownlees, Nicholas; Bös, Birte; Sturiale, Massimo
    The Evolving Language of the Press
    In: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800 / Brownlees, Nicholas (Eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp. 195 – 215
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte; Peikola, Matti
    Framing framing : The multifaceted phenomena of paratext, metadiscourse and framing
    In: The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English / Peikola, Matti; Bös, Birte (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing, 2020, pp. 3 – 31
    DOI
  • Kleinke, Sonja; Bös, Birte
    Indeterminate us and them : The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion
    In: The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective / Bös, Birte; Kleinke, Sonja; Mollin, Sandra; Hernandez, Nuria (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018, pp. 153 – 176
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Bös, Birte
    "... which they read not so much for the Newes as the Stile" : Impartiality as an Important Asset in Early 18th-Century News Writing
    In: Proceedings / Anglistentag 2014 Hannover / Anglistentag 2014 ; Hannover, 21.09. bis 24.09.2014 / Emig, Rainer; Gohrisch, Jana (Eds.). Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2015, pp. 49 – 65
  • Bös, Birte
    'A full account of the rise, progress and declension of our journal' : Negotiations of failure in early English newspapers
    In: Fiasko - Scheitern in der frühen Neuzeit: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Misserfolgs / Brakensiek, Stefan; Claridge, Claudia (Eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015, pp. 11 – 37
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte
    Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news : key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practices
    In: Changing genre conventions in historical English news discourse / Bös, Birte; Kornexl, Lucia (Eds.). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins, 2015, pp. 23 – 51
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte
    From 1760 to 1960 : diversification and popularization
    In: News as changing texts: corpora, methodologies and analysis / Facchinetti, Roberta; Brownlees, Nicholas; Bös, Birte; Fries, Udo (Eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 91 – 144
  • Bös, Birte; Kleinke, Sonja
    The Complexities of Thread-internal Quoting in English and German Online Discussion Fora
    In: Pragmatics of quoting now and then / Arendholz, Jenny; Bublitz, Wolfram; Kirner-Ludwig, Monika (Eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015, pp. 71 – 96
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte
    From 1760 to 1960 : diversification and popularization
    In: News as changing texts: corpora, methodologies and analysis / Facchinetti, Roberta; Brownlees, Nicholas; Bös, Birte; Fries, Udo (Eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2012, pp. 91 – 144
  • Bös, Birte
    Dialogic quotation patterns in historical news reports
    In: The language of public and private communication in a historical perspective / Brownlees, Nicholas (Eds.). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010, pp. 228 – 244
  • Bös, Birte
    People's voices – Eine diachrone Betrachtung persönlicher Zitate in der britischen Presse
    In: MedienTextKultur: linguistische Beiträge zur kontrastiven Medienanalyse / Luginbühl, Martin; Hauser, Stefan (Eds.). Landau: Empirische Pädag., 2010, pp. 67 – 93
  • Bös, Birte
    Place yer bets and Let us hope : Imperatives and their pragmatic functions in news reports
    In: Early modern English news discourse: newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse / Jucker, Andreas H. (Eds.). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins, 2009, pp. 115 – 133
  • Bös, Birte
    Voices being heard : English in India
    In: Teaching India / Lindner, Oliver (Eds.). Heidelberg: Winter, 2008, pp. 147 – 164
  • Bös, Birte
    Dispensation in contemporary British newspapers: Informal reference to persons
    In: Critical discourse analysis of media texts. València: Universitat de València, 2007, pp. 127 – 141
  • Bös, Birte
    What do you lacke? what is it you buy? Early Modern English service encounters
    In: Methods in historical pragmatics / Fitzmaurice, Susan (Eds.). Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2007, pp. 219 – 240
    DOI
  • Bös, Birte
    Towards an integrated model of service encounters
    In: Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference / Corpus Linguistics 2003 Lancaster University (UK), 28 - 31 March 2003 / Archer, Dawn; Rayson, Paul; Wilson, Andrew; McEnery, Tony (Eds.). Lancaster: URCEL, 2003, pp. 132 – 139
    Online Full Text
  • Bös, Birte
    Die Integration pragmatischer und kognitiver Modelle zur Repräsentation von Servicedialoge
    In: Kognitive Lexikologie und Syntax / Ungerer, Friedrich (Eds.). Rostock: Rostock, 1998, pp. 169 – 193

    • Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Claridge, Claudia; Bös, Birte
    Developments in English historical morpho-syntax
    Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2019
    (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; 346)
  • Bös, Birte; Kornexl, Lucia (Eds.)
    Changing genre conventions in historical English news discourse
    Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins, 2015
    (Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; 5)
    DOI
  • Facchinetti, Roberta; Brownlees, Nicholas; Bös, Birte; Fries, Udo (Eds.)
    News as changing texts : corpora, methodologies and analysis
    Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
  • Facchinetti, Roberta; Brownlees, Nicholas; Bös, Birte; Fries, Udo (Eds.)
    News as changing texts : corpora, methodologies and analysis
    Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2012
  • Bös, Birte
    Integrative Darstellung englischer Serviceinteraktionen : verbale, nonverbale, physische und kognitive Aspekte
    Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 2004(Europäische Hochschulschriften ; Bd. 14)

    • Lectures

  • Bös, Birte
    Propaganda im Spiegel der Zeit : Eine Analyse des TIME Magazine Corpus
    Duisburg, Essen, 2025
    (Die Kleine Form ; SS 2025)
    Online Full Text (Open Access)

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