Dr. Sandra Jansen

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Linguistik > Linguistik - Bereich Dr. Langstrof
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06/2017 - heute | wiss. Mitarbeiterin, English Linguistics |
05/2018 - 03/2019 | Vertretung der Professur für Sprachwissenschaft: Varietäten des Englischen an der Universität Leipzig |
03/2013 - 05/2017 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English Language, University of Brighton |
10/2006 - 01/2013 | wiss. Hilfskraft/wiss. Mitarbeiterin, English Linguistics, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
07/2012 | Promotion zur Dr. phil., Universität Duisburg-Essen |
05/2006 | 1. Staatsexamen Lehramt Sek. II/I |
- Monographs
Jansen, Sandra. 2018. Levelling and diffusion processes in the Cumbrian city dialect of Carlisle. Language in Performance. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.
- Edited volumes
Braber, Natalie and Sandra Jansen (eds). 2018. Sociolinguistics in England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds). 2019. Processes of Change. Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins.
Jenny Amos and Sandra Jansen. 2020. English in the South of England. Special issue in English Today. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today/latest-issue?fbclid=IwAR2iQOKFtBGt-6J8FcE_UXFAfUQVti--WFVbRSPCg9EPhLerg2ofmV8WIeM
- Articles and book chapters
Journal articles
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, Anita Szakay and Sandra Jansen. (under review). Lexical preference in second dialect acquisition in a second language.
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, Anita Szakay and Sandra Jansen. (under review). Phonetic convergence across dialect boundaries in first and second language speakers.
Reckermann, Julia and Sandra Jansen. (forthcoming | 2021). English as a Global Language. Fakten über die Weltsprache Englisch kindgerecht aufgearbeitet. Grundschule English 75.
Jansen, Sandra. (forthcoming | 2021). A ubiquitous sound change in the periphery: The case of T-glottaling in West Cumbrian English. In Ilse Wischer and Daniela Kolbe-Hanna. Special issue: Varieties meet histories. Anglistik.
Jansen, Sandra. (2021). Social meaning and the obsolescence of traditional local structures. Loss of h-dropping in Maryport, West Cumbria. English World-Wide 42(1): 1-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00058.jan
Jansen, Sandra and Natalie Braber. (2020). FOOT-fronting and FOOT-STRUT splitting. Vowel variation in the East Midlands. English Language and Linguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674320000325
Jansen, Sandra and Jenny Amos. (2020). Introduction to the special issue on English in the South of England. English Today 36(3): 3-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078420000267
Jansen, Sandra, Justyna Robinson, Lynne Cahill, Tam Blaxter, Adrian Leemann and David Britain. (2020). Sussex by the sea: A descriptive analysis of dialect variation in the south of England based on English Dialect App data. In: Jansen, Sandra and Jenny Amos. Special issue: English in the South of England. English Today 36(3): 31-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078420000218
Mohr, Susanne, Sandra Jansen and Julia Forsberg. 2019. European English in the EFL classroom? Teacher attitudes towards target varieties of English in Sweden and Germany. English Today. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078419000403
Julia Forsberg, Susanne Mohr and Sandra Jansen. 2019. “The goal is to enable students to communicate”: Communicative competence and target varieties in TEFL practices of Sweden and Germany. European Journal of Applied Linguistics 7(1): 1-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2018-0006
Jansen, Sandra. 2019. Change and stability in GOOSE, GOAT and FOOT. Back vowel dynamics in Carlisle English. English Language and Linguistics 23(1): 1-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674317000065
Jansen, Sandra. 2018. Predicting the future of English. Considerations when engaging with the public. English Today 34(1): 52-55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026607841700027X
Jansen, Sandra. 2014. Salience effects in the north-west of England. Special Issue on Salience. Linguistik Online 66: 91-110. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.66.1574
Book chapters
Jansen, Sandra, Susanne Mohr and Julia Forsberg. (under review). Language ideologies in the English language classroom: suggestions for EIL-informed teacher education. To appear in M. Callies et al. (eds.) Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany. Routledge.
Durham, Mercedes and Sandra Jansen. (under review). Variation in Lingua Francas.
Jansen, Sandra and Christian Langstrof. 2019. Compiling a speech corpus of German English: A study of variation in the use of rhoticity and the BATH vowel. In: Hickey, Raymond. English in the German speaking world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jansen, Sandra. 2019. Levelling processes in a peripheral community. Prevocalic /r/ in the West of Cumbria. In: Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds). Processes of Change. Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins.
Jansen, Sandra. 2019. Introduction. In: Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds). Processes of Change. Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins.
Jansen, Sandra. 2018. Peripheral communities and innovation. Changes in the GOOSE vowel in a West Cumbrian town. In: Braber, Natalie and Sandra Jansen (eds). Socioliguistics in England. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jansen, Sandra and Natalie Braber. 2018. An overview of sociolinguistics in England. In Braber, Natalie and Sandra Jansen (eds). Sociolinguistics in England. Palgrave Macmillan.
Jansen, Sandra. 2017. External and Internal Factors in a Levelling Process – Prevocalic (r) in Carlisle English. In: Hancil, Sylvie and Joan Beal (eds.). Perspectives on Northern Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 111-134.
Jansen, Sandra. 2015. A Century of Change in (r) in Carlisle English. Internal Constraints in a Levelling Process. In: Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum & Unn Røyneland. Language Variation – European Perspectives V. Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 129-143.
Jansen, Sandra. 2015. Cumbria and Carlisle. In: Hickey, Raymond (ed). Researching Northern English. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 205-226.
Jansen, Sandra. 2013. ‘I don’t sound like a Geordie!’ Phonological and morphosyntactic features of Carlisle English. In: Johannesson, Nils-Lennart, Gunnel Melchers and Beyza Björkman (eds). Of butterflies and birds, of dialects and genres: Essays in honour of Philip Shaw. Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:629596/FULLTEXT01
Proceedings
Szakay, Anita, Ksenia Gnevsheva and Sandra Jansen. 2019. Lexical access by L1 and L2 mono- and bidialectal listeners. ICPhS, Melbourne, 3245-3249.
Jansen, Sandra. 2012. High back vowel fronting in the north-west of England. S. Calamai, C. Celata & L. Ciucci (eds.). Proceedings of 'Sociophonetics, at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication. Pisa, December 14th-15th, 2010. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 29-32.
- Grants
2017 Second dialect acquisition in a second language, Australian Linguistic Society research grant scheme (AUD 3,575; in collaboration with Ksenia Gnevsheva and Anita Szakay)
2014 Rising Star Research Grant Mergers, Splits and Traditional Forms: Variation and Change in Vowels in Rural Cumbria, University of Brighton (£9,860)
2013 Research Conference Support Fund, University of Brighton (£400)
2011 UKLVC8 Postgraduate Bursary (conference fee and accommodation)
2011 DokForum, Universität Duisburg-Essen, travel grant (€250)
2008 DFG travel grant for Methods XIII (€800)
- Book reviews
Jansen, Sandra. 2017. Invited book review: Bell, Allan. 2014. The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics. Malden/Oxford: Wiley Blackwell and Holmes, Janet and Kirk Hazen (eds). 2014. Research Methods in Sociolinguistics. A Practical Guide. Malden/Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Language in Society 46/1: 4-7.
Jansen, Sandra. 2014. Book review: Graeme Trousdale. 2010. An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Journal of English Linguistics.
Jansen, Sandra. 2014. Book review: Matthew Gordon. 2012. Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies.
Jansen, Sandra. 2013. Book review: Joan Beal, Lourdes Burbano-Elizondo & Carmen Llamas. 2012. Urban North-Eastern English. Tyneside to Teesside. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. English Studies 94/4: 497-498.
- Invited Talks and Conferences
Invited Talks
2020
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, Anita Szakay and Sandra Jansen. Second dialect acquisition in a second language. Saratov State University linguistics seminar, Saratov, Russia (26 February).
2019
Real-time changes in stylized language. Nottingham Trent University (13 March).
2018
Variation in L2. Universität Leipzig, ESDL-Kolloquium (30 May).
Cumbrian English. University of Lancaster, Summer School Introducing Britain (23 July).
2016
The fronting of /uː/ in varieties of English around the world: a case of an "innovating angloversal"? Universität Hannover (12 January).
A global change not quite like the others. The case of /uː/ fronting. University of Kent, Canterbury (3 February).
2015
Introducing a New Category of Vernacular Universals: GOOSE-fronting as Innovating Angloversal. University of Sussex (14 October).
Innovating Angloversals – The case of GOOSE-fronting. University of Gothenburg (29 September).
Vowel Changes below the level of awareness – GOOSE-fronting and NURSE-lowering in Carlisle English. Liverpool Hope University (25 February).
Language Variation and Change Studies in the UK. Universität Bonn (21 January).
Vowel Changes in Carlisle English – GOOSE-fronting and NURSE-lowering. Universität Münster (19 January).
2014
Internal and external constraints in a levelling process - Changes in /r/ in Carlisle English. Northern British Conference, University of Rouen (12-13 May).
Do People from Carlisle Sound Like Geordies? University of Reading (18 March).
Do People from Carlisle Sound Like Geordies? University of Brighton (12 March).
2013
Getting Into Academia. Linguistic Association of Great Britain. Student session. SOAS, London (30 August).
Presentations and Posters
2019
(with Ksenia Gnevsheva and Anita Szakay). Accommodation in a cross-dialectal shadowing task. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia (11-13 Dec).
(with Anita Szakay and Ksenia Gnevsheva). The link between linguistic and indexical information in the L2. New Zealand Linguistic Society Conference. Christchurch, New Zealand (28-29 Nov).
(with Ksenia Gnevsheva and Anita Szakay). Convergence across dialects in monolingual and bilingual speakers. NWAV 48, Eugene, USA (10-12 Oct).
(with Anita Szakay and Ksenia Gnevsheva). Effect of topic on front vowel realization in L1 and L2 mono- and bidialectal speakers. Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP), Münster, Germany (26-28 Sep).
(with Susanne Mohr). Standard ideologies in English language academic publishing. Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity: Practices, Ideologies and Policies now and then, Essen, Germany (19-21 September).
(with Natalie Braber). The distribution of the FOOT-STRUT and the BATH-TRAP splits in the East Midlands and their social meaning. UKLVC, London (3-5 September).
(with Anita Szakay and Ksenia Gnevsheva). The influence of topic on vowel realization in L1 and L2 mono- and bidialectal speakers. New Sounds, Tokyo, Japan (30 August-1 September).
(with Susanne Mohr). Prescriptivism in English language academic publishing. International Association for World Englishes IAWE 24, Limerick, Ireland (20-22 June).
The obsolescence of traditional local structures in the periphery. International Association for World Englishes IAWE 24, Limerick, Ireland (20-22 June).
(with Natalie Braber). Panel organisation: Perspectives on phonemic splits in English. ICLaVE 10, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
(with Natalie Braber). The FOOT-STRUT split in the East Midlands. ICLaVE 10, Leeuwarden, The Netherland.
(with Anita Szakay and Ksenia Gnevsheva). Does incongruence between word-dialect and speaker-dialect affect L2 lexical access? Variation and Language Processing (VALP 4), Sydney, Australia (23-25 January).
2018
From an endocentric close to an exocentric open community. Sound changes in a West Cumbrian peripheral community. Language, place and periphery, Copenhagen (18/19 January).
Linguistic repercussions of political and socioeconomic changes - Sound changes in a West Cumbrian peripheral community. Northern Englishes Workshop 8 (NEW 8), Newcastle (27-28 March).
(with Susanne Mohr and Julia Forsberg). Between communicative competence and target varieties: Comparing TEFL practices in Sweden and Germany. ASLA, Karlstad (12/13 April).
Varieties meet History - How 1980s UK economic policies influenced linguistic choices in a peripheral community. Anglistentag, Bonn (23-26 September).
(with Julia Forsberg and Susanne Mohr). Pronouncing accents of English in the Swedish classroom: Teacher reflections and views. Accents 2018. Łódź, Poland (29 November-1 December).
(with Ksenia Gnevsheva and Anita Szakay). Second dialect in a second language. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference. Adelaide, Australia (10-12 December).
2017
A panel study of tracing loss of rhoticity in an L2 variety of English. Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA 3), Salzburg (8-10 February).
Sex effects in the variation and change of the high back vowel. International Conference of Language Variation and Change in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga (6-9 June).
Variation and change in an L2: The case of loss of rhoticity. International Conference of Language Variation and Change in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga (6-9 June).
Panel organization (with Lynne Murphy): Tomorrow’s English Today. Shared Futures, Newcastle (5-7 July).
Predicting the future of English. Considerations when engaging with the public. Shared Futures, Newcastle (5-7 July).
2016
T-glottaling in two Cumbrian communities. 7th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW7), Edinburgh (14-15 April).
A crossdialectal study of T-glottaling in two places in Cumbria. Sociolinguistic Symposium 21, Murcia (15-18 June).
2015
Disentangling Levelling Processes in the thought vowel in a Peripheral Town. UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC 10), York (1-3 September). [Poster]
Disentangling Variation in the thought Vowel in a Peripheral Town. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig (27-29 May).
2014
Explaining Convergence Tendencies in the Far North of England. Third Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 3), Zürich (24-27 August).
‘I don’t sound like a Geordie’ Convergence Tendencies in the far North of England? Sociolinguistic Symposium 20, Jyväskylä (15-18 June).
Variation and Change Processes in Three Neighbouring Communities on the West Cumbrian Coast. Mobility, Variability and Changing Literacies in Modern Times, Utrecht (11-13 June).
2013
Vowel Variation in Three Isolated Communities in Rural Cumbria. Fifth International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 5), Austin (25-29 September).
A century of change in /r/ in Carlisle English. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim (26-28 June).
News from Rural Cumbria – Variation and Change Processes in Three Isolated Communities. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim (26-28 June). [Poster]
2012
Language variation in the urban north west of England – The recurrence of /h/. Sociolinguistic Symposium 19, Berlin (21-24 August).
I’m quite (h)appy (h)ere. The curious case of /h/ in Carlisle English. 2nd Workshop on Sound Change, Kloster Seeon (02-04 May) [Poster]
I’m quite (h)appy (h)ere. The curious case of /h/ in Carlisle English. 5th Northern Englishes Workshop
(NEW5), Nottingham (02-04 April).
2011
“[J]ust rest content with the wealth and vigour of Carlisle’s living dialect.” Carlisle English – then and
now. UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC 8). Edge Hill University (12-14 September).
High back vowel fronting in the north-west of England. 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg (29 June-01 July).
The emergence of an ethnic variety in rural north-west Germany? 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Universität Freiburg (29 June-01 July). [Poster]
Variation and Change in the north-west of England. Second Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 2). Boston University (17-21 June).
2010
High-back vowel fronting in the north-west of England.’ Sociophonetics, Pisa (14.-15 December). [Poster]
Variation in the spoken Corpus of Carlisle English. ICAME 31, Giessen (26-30 May). [Poster]
GOOSE-fronting in Carlisle English.’ 4th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW 4), Sheffield University (07-09 April).
2009
Close-mid Vowels in Carlisle English. The III International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2009), Łodz.
GO FACE it! Close-mid vowels in Carlisle English. UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC 7), Newcastle University (01-03 September). [Poster]
Plosive Lenition in Carlisle. The Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE3), University College London (15-17 July).
2008
Accent attitudes in Carlisle/Cumbria.’ First Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 1), Universität Freiburg (08-11 October). [Poster]
Evidence of dialect contact in the accent of Carlisle. AILA 2008 – 15. Weltkongress für Angewandte Linguistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen (24-29 August).
'You used to gerri' in yer fishnets, now you only gerri' in yer nightdress' – Regional and supraregional accents in English rock songs. The Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XIII), Leeds University (04-08 August) (with Thorsten Brato, now University of Chemnitz).
Supraregional features in Carlisle English. The Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XIII), Leeds (04-08 August). [Poster]