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News of the Department of English
/ People
Ridvan Askin promoted to Privatdozent
Students of English feature in university's 'shortED' explainer videos
Anna Püntener and Rachael Moorthy-Mäder feature in two of the first three short videos realised by the university's New Media Centre wherein students explain topics from their field of study./ Research, Events
Call for Papers: "Interdisciplinary Symposium: Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies"
9–10 November 2023, University of BaselIna Habermann receives SNSF project grant
Project title: "SwissBritNet: Swiss-British cultural exchange and knowledge networks 1600-1780"
/ Research
"The Dynamic Lexicon of English" by Dr Julia Landmann out now
Her monograph on a socio-cognitive approach towards loan processes and their linguistic effects has been published open access by Brill./ Research
Two new publications by Dr Elena Dubenko
The articles present the findings of her research in cognitive linguistics and cognitive translation studies.
/ Research
New Cambridge Element: Fiction and Pragmatics
The English linguistics team is happy to report an open access publication with Cambridge University Press, written by Miriam Locher, Andreas Jucker, Daniela Landert and Thomas Messerli.