Vorträge und Publikationen

Vorträge

2022   16th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE-16), Mainz, Roundtable Discussion: „New Approaches to the Study of Scottish Historical Correspondence“ (Diskussionsleitung mit Marina Dossena, Universität Bergamo) (angenommen)  

2022   Anglistentag 2022, Mainz, Sektion „Diachronicity“, „The Conventional Organisation of Request Sequences in Scottish Letters (1570–1750)“ (angenommen)

2022   ICAME 43, Cambridge, „Determining Letter-Specific Speech Acts in 18th Century Varieties of English“ (angenommen)

2022   Invited talk at the masterclass „Varieties of Scots in Late Modern Times“, Oslo, „18th-century Scots viewed through the lens of female letter-writers’ discursive practices“

2022   HiSoN 2022 Conference, Murcia, „Micro-level Discourse Management: Metapragmatic Utterances in 18th-Century Scottish Correspondence“

2021   13th international conference of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster (FRLSU 2021), LMU München, „Towards a Speech Act Annotation Scheme for 18th-Century Scottish Letters“

2021   21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 21), Leiden, „A Comparative Study of Request Strategies in English and Scottish Private Letters (1570–1700)“

2021   ISLE 6, University of Eastern Finland, „The Role of Dialect Contact in the Loss of Thou V-st“ (mit Judith Huber und Julian Mader)

2021   Virtual HiSoN 2021 Conference „Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics“, Erlangen, „Intra-speaker Variation regarding Request Strategies in Scottish Letters (1500– 1700)“

2019   Workshop: „Irish English (Corpus) Pragmatics“, Dortmund, „Annotation for Directive Speech Acts in a Corpus of Scottish and English Correspondence (1500–1700)“

2018   Sektion „Varieties Meet Histories“, Anglistentag 2018, Bonn, „Divergence in Two Historical Varieties: The Use of Modal Auxiliaries in Commissive and Directive Speech Acts in Older Scots and Early Modern English Letters“

2018   20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 20), Edinburgh, „Let me Intreat your Excellence that I May Know...: The Use of May and Can in Directive Speech Acts in Older Scots and Early Modern English Correspondence“

2018   12th international conference of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster (FRLSU), Glasgow University, Glasgow, „The Ausbau of Older Scots and Early Modern English Viewed from a Sociopragmatic Perspective: Evidence from Directive and Commissive Speech Acts in Official Correspondence“

2018   Workshop „Lost in Change: Causes and Processes in the Loss of Grammatical Constructions and Categories“, 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Stuttgart, „Loss of Number in the Standard English Second Person“ (mit Judith Huber)

2017   LMU-UCB Workshop „Language Change for the Worse“, LMU München, „A Change for the Worse: Loss of Number Distinction in the (Standard) English Second Person“ (mit Judith Huber)

2016   19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 19), Essen-Duisburg, „A Comparative Study of the Pragmatic Uses of Will and Shall in Older Scots and Early Modern English Correspondence“

2016   Oberseminar Diachrone Linguistik und anglistische Mediävistik, LMU München, „Predictions with Will and Shall in Older Scots and Early Modern English Letters in the Light of Pragmatic and Formulaic Uses“

2015   11th international conference of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster (FRLSU), University of Western Scotland, Ayr, „Gif Youre Grace Will Command Me with ony Service Ye Sall Fynd Me Obedient: On the Use of Will and Shall in Older Scots If -Clauses“

2015    Oberseminar Diachrone Linguistik und anglistische Mediävistik, LMU München, „The Use of the Modal Auxiliaries Will and Shall in Older Scots“

2015   17. Studientag zum englischen Mittelalter (SEM XVI), Rostock, „Measuring the Fixation of the Canonical Subject Position in Early English“ (Beitrag von Richard Zimmermann, Universität Genf, Konferenz nach dem Freiburger Modell)

2014   18. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Leuven, „Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved - on the historical development of will and shall in Scots“

2014   16. Studientag zum englischen Mittelalter (SEM XVI), München, „Should and ought in the Paston Letters and the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence: How to tell semantic twins apart“ (Beitrag von Theresa Wannisch, Universität Rostock, Konferenz nach dem Freiburger Modell)

2013   Auftaktveranstaltung zum Projekt „Fachwissenschaften und Fachdidaktiken als 'Brückensteine'“, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, „Farmer Glutton rears sheep but eats mutton - Überlegungen zur Rolle der historischen Sprachwissenschaft im Englischunterricht“

2013   Forschungskolloquium Anglistik - Germanistik - Romanistik, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, „Will & Shall in the the LAOS Corpus of Older Scots Texts and the SC0 and SC1 Sections of HCOS“

2012  2. Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern (FJUEL), Augsburg, „Will & Shall in the LAOS Corpus of Older Scots Texts“

2012  International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 17), Zürich, „Nominal Compounds in Laȝamon's Brut in the Lexical Field 'Warrior'”

2008   International Layamon Conference, Powys, Wales, „The Lexical Field 'Warrior' in Laȝamon's Brut ‐ a Comparative Analysis of MS Cotton Caligula A ix and MS Cotton Otho C xiii“

2007   International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, USA, Sektion „Tradition and Transformation: Vernacular Literature and Oral Composition in Twelfth-Century England“, „Alliterative Clusters in Laȝamon's Brut as a Tool for Thematic Emphasis“

2007  17. Studientag zum Englischen Mittelalter (SEM IX), Zürich, „Alliterative Clusters in Laȝamon's Brut as a Tool for Thematic Emphasis“ (Referent: Prof. Thomas Honegger) 

Schriftenverzeichnis

Buchpublikation

Elsweiler, Christine. 2011. Laȝamon's Brut between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance. A Study of the Lexical Fields 'Hero', 'Warrior' and 'Knight'. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang.

Unveröffentlichte Habilitationsschrift

Elsweiler, Christine. 2019. „From Shared Meaning to Divergent Pragmatics: A Comparative Study of the Modal Auxiliaries May, Can, Shall and Will in Scottish and English Letters (1500–1700)“. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Aufsätze

Elsweiler, Christine. Under review. “The Influence of French Pragmalinguistic Patterns on the Requestive Style in 16th-Century Scottish Letters”. Linguistica.

Elsweiler, Christine. Under review. "Intra-writer Variation in the Requestive Behaviour of two Early Modern Scottish Letter-writers". In: Markus Schiegg and Judith Huber (eds.). Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics. Bern: Peter Lang.

Elsweiler, Christine. Forthcoming. ”Modal May in Requests: A Comparison of Regional Pragmatic Variation in Early Modern Scottish and English Correspondence”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26.2.

Elsweiler, Christine. 2022. ”Gender Variation in the Requestive Behaviour of Early Modern Scottish and English Letter-writers? A Study of Private Correspondence”. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 8.1: 55–88. 

Elsweiler, Christine and Judith Huber. 2022. “Loss of Number in the English Second Person Pronoun: A Change for the Worse, but Due to a Change for the Better?” In: Dankmar Enke, Larry Hyman, Johanna Nichols, Guido Seiler and Thilo Weber (eds.). Language Change for the Worse. Berlin: Language Science Press. i–xxiv (preliminary page numbering).

Elsweiler, Christine. 2021. ”Convergence and Divergence in Two Historical Varieties of English: Pragmalinguistic Strategies in Commissive and Directive Speech Acts in Scottish and English Letters (1500-1700)”. Anglistik 32.1. Fokusband: Focus on English Linguistics: Varieties Meet Histories (ed. by Daniela Kolbe-Hannah and Ilse Wischer): 109–132.

Elsweiler, Christine. 2019. “Pragmatic and Formulaic Uses of Shall and Will in Older Scots and Early Modern English Official Letter Writing.” In: Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge (eds.). Norms and Conventions in the History of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 167–190.

Elsweiler, Christine. 2018. “Why Scotsmen Will Drown and Shall Not be Saved: the Historical Development of Will and Shall in Older Scots.” In: Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe (Hrsg). Explorations in English Historical Syntax. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 237–259.

Elsweiler, Christine. 2016. “Gif Youre Grace Will Command Me with ony Service Ye Sall Fynd Me Obedient: On the Use of Will and Shall in Older Scots If-Clauses”. Scottish Language 35: 51–83.

Elsweiler, Christine. 2015. „Farmer Glutton Rears Sheep but Eats Mutton. Zur Rolle der Historischen Sprachwissenschaft im Englischunterricht.“ In: Sabine Anselm and Markus Janka (eds). Vernetzung statt Praxisschock. Konzepte, Ergebnisse, Perspektiven einer innovativen Lehrerbildung durch das Projekt Brückensteine. Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht. 62–80.

Elsweiler, Christine. 2013. “The Lexical Field Warrior in Laȝamon's Brut. A Comparative Analysis of the Two Versions.” In: Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg (eds.). Reading Laȝamon's Brut. Approaches and Explorations. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 343–366.

Rezensionen

Robert McColl Millar. A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, xiii + 252 pp., in Anglia 139.2 (2021).

Eva von Contzen. The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration. The Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016, x + 268 pp., in Anglia 136.2 (2018).

Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita and Johan van der Auwera (eds.). English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality. Topics in English Linguistics 81. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013, ix + 449 pp., in Anglia 134.1 (2016).

Wendy Anderson (ed.). Language in Scotland. Corpus-based Studies. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013, 299 pp., und John M. Kirk and Iseabail Macleod (eds.). Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013, 309 pp., in Anglia 132.4 (2014).

Dan Embree, Edward Donald Kennedy and Kathleen Daly (eds.). Short Scottish Prose Chronicles: La Vraie Cronicque d’Escoce, The Scottis Originale, The Chronicle of the Scots, The Ynglis Chronicle, Nomina Omnium Regum Scotorum, The Brevis Chronica, The St Andrews Chronicle. Latin translations by Susan Edgington. Medieval Chronicles 5. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012, ix + 395 pp., in Anglia 132.2 (2014).