Thesis topics (MA)
In progress
Rosa Brown. Terms of address in Australian English
Philipp Christen. Title tbd
Johanna Lendl. Exploring the transition from primary to secondary school: Challenges faced and strategies used by students after the Early English programme
Evangelia Metaxa. Interactive Aspects of Advertising on Social Media Platforms: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
Maja Ristic. Friend or Foe? A study of the representation of Arabs in the TIME Magazine Corpus
Franziska Roth. Discourse markers in Tristan da Cunha English
2016
Martina Mach: Parental Discourse Strategies in Bilingual Families: A Case Study of Two Swiss-English Families in Switzerland
Anita Furter: EFL: Attitudes and motivation of primary and secondary school students in German-speaking Switzerland
Hannah Jewitt. #ImPredictable: A Taxonomy of Community-Specific Hashtags on Instagram and Their Pragmatic Application
Isa Gall: Hesitation Markers in Digital Texts
Cristina Vögelin. Vocabulary learning strategies and mobile learning
Reinhard Waffenschmidt: Something uh catchy: The intercultural specificity of the planners uh and um in several varieties of the International Corpus of English
2015
Sarah Roherer: Turn-taking and the pedagogical focus
2014
Flora Friedrich: “i sometime doubt your human! Your so gorgeous! ♥ ♥ ♥“: A Comparative Analysis of British English and Swiss German Image-based Compliment Exchanges on Facebook
Olivia Gamper: Foreign Language Training for Dyslexic Students: A Longitudinal Case Study Assessing the Effectiveness of a Computer-Based Software
2013
Michelle Buado: “Yeah, you need to, uh, make a decision.” Uh and um in spontaneous American English speech
2012
Larssyn Rüegg: Offers and Thanks Responses: A Variational Pragmatic Perspective
Manuela Gloor: Dialogic monologues, monologic dialogues: Forms of interaction on YouTube video blogs
2011
Alice Müller-Mathys: “I wolde demen that ye tellen sholde a tale”: Directives in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Carole Schmucki: The Narratives of Witchcraft Trials: A Pragmaphilological Analysis of the Trials of the Pendle Witches (1612)