All Publications

The following is a chronological list of all types of publications (monographs, articles, etc.) by members of the English Department.
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2025
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Journal Article
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Disinherited protagonists in the early history of T/V variation in Middle English. Language and Literature, 34(2):168-186.
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Diachronicity: An issue shared between linguistics and literary studies. Language and Literature, 34(2):83-90.
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Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English. Diachronica, 42(1):47-81.
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Obsolescence and Innovation in the Middle English Religious Lexicon. Transactions of the Philological Society, 123(1):137-162.
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Review of Gabriella Mazzon (ed.). 2023. Language contact and the history of English. English Language and Linguistics, 29(1):173-181.
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Yet ar ye not lyche, for thu art a fals strumpet: Pronominal terms of address in The Book of Margery Kempe. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 26(1):39-68.
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Book Section
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Mæw or Meg (‘Seagull’)? Mercian Dialect Features in an Early Old English Glossary from the Continent. In: Porck, Thijs; Dekker, Kees; Chardonnens, László Sándor. Cultural Connections Between the Continent and Early Medieval England: Philological Studies in Honour of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 227-250.
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A visual and linguistic interpretation of the Pater Noster table of the Vernon Manuscript. In: Peikola, Matti; Tyrkkö, Jukka; Varila, Mari-Liisa. Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English. Turnhout: Brepols, 181-200.
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Dissertation
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"A Vision that Is Diseased": Madness and Masculinity in British Fiction, 1790–1900. 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Home Trouble: Cross-Cultural Depictions of Home and Disruptions of Belonging in American Westerns, Hong Kong Gangster Films, and Chinese Melodramas. 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Transatlantic Fossil Fuel Fiction: An Archaeology of Extraction and Exploitation During the Short 20th Century. 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Similar Wording, Similar Perception? How Synonymic Food Labels Influence Consumers. 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Edited Scientific Work
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Newspaper Article
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Don’t think small: first Swiss Netflix series, ‘Winter Palace’ sets tone of what’s to come. In: SWI swissinfo.ch, 16 Januar 2025, online.
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2024
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Journal Article
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The Histrionics of Warrior Masculinity in 1 & 2 Tamburlaine (1587). conexus, (7/1):112-132.
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Book review: The flesh of animation: Bodily sensations in film and digital media By Sandra Annett. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 288. Journal of Popular Culture, 57(5-6):373-374.
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Data as the New Oil. Matatu, 55(2):249-277.
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“It Was That Smile That Maddened Irene”: Ambiguous Antics and the Power of Uncertainty in Nella Larsen’s Passing. SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 44:143-159.
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Signature Dynamics of Development in Second Language Sociolinguistic Competence: Evidence From an Intensive Microlongitudinal Study. Language Learning, 74(3):707-743.
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A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions. Cognitive Linguistics, 35(3):313-344.
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Sociolinguistic competence and varietal repertoires in a second language: A study on addressee‐dependent varietal behavior using virtual reality. Modern Language Journal, 108(2):385-411.
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A quantitative exploration of the functions of auxiliary do in Middle English. English Language and Linguistics:1-21.
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The be‐ versus get‐passive alternation in world Englishes. World Englishes, 43(1):86-108.
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They worked their hardest on the construction’s history: Superlative Objoid Constructions in Late Modern American English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 20(1):91-121.
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Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(S1):19-28.
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“Is that a request or a command?”: Speech act meta discourse and illocutionary indeterminacy. SPELL: Swiss papers in English language and literature, 2024(44):103-119.
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Review of Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Communities, and Bad Hope in the American Century by J. Jesse Ramírez. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 69(4):450-451.
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An extended lunch break: a response to Wolfgang Klein [Journal of Pragmatics]. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2024(289-290):75-78.
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Low German in The Book of Margery Kempe. POETICA: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, 99&100:23-39.
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Unsettling bodies. Video essay as embodied research. Akademisk Kvarter, (27):57-70.
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Book Section
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Whose crisis? Framing 9/11 and the "war on terror". In: Pellicer‑Ortín, Silvia; Kuznetski, Julia; Battisti, Chiara. The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis. London and New York: Routledge, 35-44.
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“‘Oh, how unlike the place from whence they fell!" John Milton’s Primordial Hell in Paradise Lost. In: Göttler, Christine; De Boer, Wietse. The Eschatological Imagination: Space, Time, and Experience (1300–1800). Leiden: Brill, 157-184.
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“I rede þou lerne wel þis of me”: Advice giving in Middle English medical discourse. In: Räikkönen, Jenni; Suhr, Carla; Palander-Collin, Minna; Nurmi, Arja; Nevala, Minna; Hiltunen, Turo. Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers : A Festschrift in Honour of Päivi Pahta. Helsinki: Modern Language Society of Helsinki, 97-122.
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Digital Dickens: An automated content analysis of Charles Dickens’ novels. In: Buschfeld, Sarah; Ronan, Patricia; Neumaier, Theresa; Wellinghoff, Andreas; Westermayer, Lisa. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 62-98.
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"It is my story!” Medienreflexive Momente weiblicher Autorschaft im Film. In: Stauffer, Isabelle. Literatur und Film im Spiegel des Digitalen: Intermediale Reflexivität in der Gegenwart. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 125-145.
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Women and the Country House: Enlightenment Critiques of Property Law and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing. In: Karremann, Isabel; Michoux, Anne-Claire; Stiening, Gideon. Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa der Aufklärung I Women and the Law in Enlightenment Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler Verlag, 65-91.
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Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts. In: Karremann, Isabel; Michoux, Anne-Claire; Stiening, Gideon. Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa der Aufklärung = Women and the Law in Enlightenment Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler Verlag, 2-12.
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Automatically detecting directives with SPICE Ireland. In: Schweinberger, Martin; Ronan, Patricia. Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland: Using Pragmatic Variation to Construct Social Identities. Berlin: De Gruyter, 205-234.
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A. A. Milne's "The Red House Mystery". In: Berensmeyer, Ingo; Birke, Dorothee. The Unknown 1922: Literary Explorations Beyond Modernism. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 121-135.
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"They Weren't All Fakes": Feminist Crime Fiction as an 'Authentic Copy' in Marcia Muller's Edwin of the Iron Shoes. In: Münderlein, Kerstin-Anja. Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities: Proceedings of the Eighth Captivating Criminality Conference. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 102-113.
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The Visualisation and Evaluation of Semantic and Conceptual Maps. In: Laitinen, Mikko; Tyrkkö, Jukka. Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders: The March of Data. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 67-94.
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Birds, birds, birds: The dissemination and transformation of Old English Leviticus glosses on the Continent. In: Bulitta, Brigitte; Pelle, Stephen. Wörter – Texte – Schreiberhände: Sprachliche und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Fränkischem Reich, Irland und Britannien im Frühmittelalter. Leipzig: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 281-317.
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Experiments in Self-Narration: Women's Scientific Autobiographies for the ELT Classroom. In: Prusse, Michael C; Mayer, Nikola. This is My Story: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives in English Language Teaching. Bern: hep Verlag, 69-86.
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Introduction. In: Karremann, Isabel. Shakespeare / Space. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 1-21.
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Conclusion and envoi: Language acquisition at the intersection of sociolinguistics and World Englishes research. In: Buschfeld, Sarah; Vida-Mannl, Manuela; Schmalz, Mirjam. Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes: Bridging Paradigms and Rethinking Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter, 361-378.
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Investigating child language acquisition from a joint perspective: A comparison of traditional and new L1 speakers of English. In: Schmalz, Mirjam; Vida-Mannl, Manuela; Buschfeld, Sarah. Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes: Bridging Paradigms and Rethinking Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter, 133-157.
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