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Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

York University

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario

Canada M3J 1P3

Office: Ross South 549

Email: pangerme@yorku.ca

Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 66288

Fax: (416) 736-5483

 

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Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics at NYU (2006) [Dissertation abstract];
M.A. in Linguistics, Eastern-European History, and Comparative Literature (1998) from Universität zu Köln (Cologne, Germany)

Courses:

Winter 2009/10

Ling 2430 Language, Power and Persuasion

 

Ling 3440 Bilingualism: A sociolinguistic approach

 

Ling 6450 Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics

Fall 2009

Ling 2450 Language and the Law (Course webpage for students: log in at https://moodle09.yorku.ca/moodle/)

 

Ling 6310 Languages in Contact

Past courses

Undergraduate students log in at https://moodle08.yorku.ca/moodle/

 

Graduate: LING 6310 (2007, 2008), LING 6450 (2008, 2009)

Courses 2005-2007

(Barnard College at Columbia University, New York University, and Queens College, CUNY)

Research interests: Bilingualism/Language Contact, Code-Switching, Urban Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Law, Forensic Linguistics, Translation Studies, Interpreting, Variation, Discourse Analysis, Phonology, Reduplication, Pidgin and Creole languages, Slavic languages.
Student
survey on languages at York University.

Publications

Interpreter-mediated interaction as bilingual speech: Bridging macro-and microsociolinguistics in codeswitching research. to appear in International Journal of Bilingualism.

Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting. Journal of Sociolinguistics 13 (1), 3-28. [2009]

Creating monolingualism in the multilingual courtroom. Sociolinguistic Studies 2(3), 385-404. [2008; special issue on monolingualism]

Spelling Bilingualism: Script Choice in Russian American Classified Ads and Signage. Language in Society 34 (4), 493-531. [2005]

Who is 'you'? Polite forms of address and ambiguous participant roles in court interpreting. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies 17 (2), 203-226. [2005]

Mehrsprachigkeit vor Gericht: Sprachwahl und Sprachwechsel in gedolmetschten Schlichtungsverfahren. To appear in: Mehrsprachigkeit am Arbeitsplatz, edited by Bernd Meyer and Shinichi Kameyama. (Volume in the series: forum ANGEWANDTE LINGUISTIK, Publikationsreihe der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag. [2007]

Who is 'I'? Pronoun choice and bilingual identity in court interpreting. In Selected Proceedings from NWAV 33. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 11.2, 31-44 (2005).

The Case for Politeness: Pronoun Variation in Co-ordinate NPs in Object Position in English. With John Victor Singler. Language Variation and Change 15 (2003), 171-209.

Lexical Cohesion as a Motivation for Code-switching: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilingual Speech in Court Testimonies. In Selected Proceedings from the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Lotfi Sayahi, (2003) 112-122. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Copying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9.1 (2003).

Lexical Cohesion in Multilingual Conversation. International Journal of Bilingualism (2002) 6 (4), 361-393.

Calculating Linguistic Affinities between Atlantic English Creoles. 2001.

Multilingual Discourse in the Family: An analysis of conversations in a German-French-English-speaking family in Canada. Arbeitspapier Nr.33 (Neue Folge) Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Universität zu Köln, 1999.

Review of Hale, Sandra (2004) The Discourse of Court Interpreting LINGUIST List 16.1381

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Ongoing Projects/Research Topics:

Translation and language contact: translationese vs. contact-induced change [guest lecture at University of Hamburg (handout in German) and paper presentations at International Symposium on Bilingualism 7 and NWAV38 (see handout)]

Codeswitching methodology: “Interpreter-mediated interaction as bilingual speech: Bridging macro-and microsociolinguistics in codeswitching research.” [to appear in International Journal of Bilingualism]

Language ideology in the legal system [paper presentation at IAFL 9th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law]

Membership in the Centre for Research on Language Contact

 

Awards, Grants, Honors:

Guest researcher at the SFB 538 Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Hamburg (June 2008)

Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University (2004/5)

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (BCS-0317838; "Codeswitching and the Interpreter: Multilingualism in New York Small Claims Court.") (2003/4)

MacCracken Fellowship, New York University (1999-2003)

Membership of the Graduate Forum at NYU (2003-4)

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Sus & Zoë


Other pages:
My old NYU page
Linguistlist profile

Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
Last modified: 11/2/2009.