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Presentations

  • Oliver Bunk: Who gets to speak 'correctly'? Navigating linguistic pressure between ideology and agency. Invited talk "Forschungskolloquium - Language in Society"; Britta Schneider (12.6.2025), Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). 

  • Heike Wiese, Fatih Özcan, Marius Keller: How can pupils’ experiences inform multilingual policies in education? Report from a focus group study in Berlin. Multilingual and Multicultural Learning: Policies and Practices 4 (16.–17.10.2025), Universidad de Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

Publications

  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese (eds.). Forthcoming. The construction of multilinguals as others: Do we practice what we preach? (Contact and Multilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

    • Alexiadou, Artemis, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese. Forthcoming. Multilinguals as others. In Artemis Alexiadou, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese (eds.), The construction of multilinguals as others: Do we practice what we preach? (Contact and Multilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

    • Bunk, Oliver. Forthcoming. The anxious heritage speaker? Language anxiety and insecurity in multilingual contexts. In Alexiadou, Artemis, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese (eds.), The construction of multilinguals as others: Do we practice what we preach? (Contact and Multilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

    • Wiese, Heike. Forthcoming. Othering of multilinguals in linguistics: Implications from labelling. In Artemis Alexiadou, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese (eds.), The construction of multilinguals as others: Do we practice what we preach? (Contact and Multilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

  • Allen, Shanley E. M., Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou & Heike Wiese (eds.). Forthcoming. Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers (Current Issues in Bilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

    • Bunk, Oliver, Shanley E. M. Allen, Sabine Zerbian, Tatiana Pashkova, Yulia Zuban & Erica Conti. Forthcoming. Word order dynamics in language contact. In Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou & Heike Wiese (eds.), Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers (Current Issues in Bilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

    • Wiese, Heike, Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller & Artemis Alexiadou. Forthcoming. Investigating the dynamics of language-contact situations. In Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou & Heike Wiese (eds.), Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers (Current Issues in Bilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

    • Wiese, Heike, Annika Labrenz & Albrun Roy. Forthcoming. Tapping into speakers’ repertoires: Elicitation of register-differentiated productions across groups. In Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou & Heike Wiese (eds.), Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers (Current Issues in Bilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

    • Zerbian, Sabine, Yulia Zuban, Marlene Böttcher & Oliver Bunk. Forthcoming. Intonation in heritage languages. In Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou & Heike Wiese (eds.), Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers (Current Issues in Bilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.

  • Bunk, Oliver, Britta Schulte & Heike Wiese. Forthcoming. Bare NPs in German: Results from a comparative corpus study. In Lindenfelser, Sigwalt et al. (eds.), Deutsche Sprachminderheiten in der Welt: Empirische Studien zur Sprachvariation und Sprachideologie (Germanistische Linguistik). Berlin: de Gruyter.

  • Duman Çakır, İrem. 2025. An ethnographic Linguistic Landscape analysis of a Berlin street market: Exploring language attitudes through market signs. Linguistic Landscape 11(1). 76-102. [DOI: 10.1075/ll.22031.dum]

2024

Presentations

  • Britta Schulte, Antje Sauermann & Heike Wiese: Register perception in multilingual speakers of German in a minority context: An open guise addressee identification study. AG 11: Evaluating Register(s), DGfS 2024 (29.02.2024), Bochum, Germany.
  • Heike Wiese, Oliver Bunk, Josefine Hundelt: Jugendsprache und Mehrsprachigkeit. Zwischen Mehrsprachigkeit, Jugendsprache und Kreativität - Jugendliche und ihre Sprache(n). Fachtag für pädagogische Fachkräfte, Schulleitungen, Multiplikator:innen, interessierte Eltern (22.5.2024), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • Annika Labrenz: Discourse markers and stance expressions across situational and speaker-related factors. Sprachwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Instituts für Linguistik und Phonetik (28.05.2024). Christian-Albrecht Universität Kiel, Germany.

  • Annika Labrenz: Variability and variation in epistemic stance markers: A corpus study of German stance expressions across situation- and speaker-related factors. DiPVaC 6 (12-14.06.2024), Budapest, Hungary.

  • Heike Wiese: Mehrsprachigkeit an der Schule. Impulsvortrag, Studientag zum Gütesiegel „Mehrsprachige Schule“ (21.6.2024), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
  • Oliver Bunk, Antje Sauermann, Fynn Raphael Dobler: Projekt HyPE ViSOR: Hybride Präsenz- und E-Lehrkonzepte zur Vielseitigkeit von Sprache. Themenwoche Hybride Lehre 2024 (24.6.–28.6.2024), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
  • Heike Wiese, Aria Adli, Artemis Alexiadou, Oliver Bunk, Zahra Farokhnejad, Manfred Krifka, Nico Lehmann, Antje Sauermann, Jozina Vander Klok, Tonjes Veenstra, Elisabeth Verhoeven: Languages as registers: Language choice and language mixing as register markers. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) (8.–11.7.24), Wien.
  • Heike Wiese: Are languages real? Communicative situations, grammatical systems, and ethnolinguistic constructions. (16.10.2024), Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU), School of Humanities.
  • Johanna Pott, Oliver Bunk, Victoria Oliha, Antje Sauermann, Heike Wiese: The relation between language ideologies and language attitudes in mono- and multilingually oriented contexts. International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes. IDEOLING, (17.10.–19.10.2024), Universitat de les Illes Balears. 
  • Heike Wiese: Linguistic Diversity in Society and Education: A Comparative View. Bilingualism Special Interest Group (Bilingualism SIG) of the National Institute for Education (7.11.2024), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • Oliver Bunk: Sprachideologien, Language Anxiety und Sprachstruktur: Perspektiven des Globalen Nordens und Südens. Invited talk and discussion with students; Anne Breitbarth, Gunther Martens, Sofie Decock, (18.11.2024), Ghent University. 
  • Heike Wiese, Annika Labrenz, Albrun Roy: Eliciting naturalistic register-differentiations in the lab. Taal en Tongval symposium on Laboratory Sociolinguistics (24.11.2023), Gent, Belgium.
  • Heike Wiese, Victoria Oliha, Jaime Hunt: Register data from heritage-language communities: German in Australia. Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, Themed Session “The Wealth of Resources on Migrant Languages in Australia” (headed by Jaime Hunt, Victoria Oliha, Heike Wiese) (26.–29.11.2024), Canberra.

Publications

  • Bunk, Oliver. 2024. What does linguistic structure tell us about language ideologies? The case of majority language anxiety in Germany. In Naomi Truan & Esther Jahns (eds.), Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives (Special Issue European Journal of Applied Linguistics). Berlin: De Gruyter. [DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2023-0049] 
  • Bunk, Oliver & Heike Wiese. 2024. Contact dialects in urban youth culture and beyond. In Bente A. Svendsen & Rickard Jonsson (eds.). Routledge handbook of language & youth culture. New York: Routledge. [DOI: 4324/9781003166849-32]
  • Bunk, Oliver, Antje Sauermann & Fynn R. Dobler. 2024. Sociolinguistic variation in German. The case of the modal particles halt andeben. In James M. Stratton & Karen V. Beaman (eds.). Expanding Variationist Sociolinguistic Research in varieties of German, 181-202. New York: Routledge. [DOI:10.4324/9781003379706-10]
  • Lüdeling, Anke, Luka Szucsich, Lars Erik Zeige, Aria Adli, Artemis Alexiadou, Malte Belz, Miriam Bouzouita, Oliver Bunk, Malte Dreyer, Antje Sauermann, Heike Wiese et al. 2024. Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation, Frame text of the Second Phase Proposal for the CRC 1412. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. [DOI:10.18452/29131].
  • Wiese, Heike. 2024. Deutsch ist vielseitig: Unterrichtsmaterialien zu sprachlicher Vielfalt. Deutsch 5-10 81. 66-67. [Sonderheft “Mehrsprachigkeit”, hg. Barbara Geist & Katharina Turgay].

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2023

Presentations
  • Heike Wiese. The role of registers in the dynamics of language contact. Arbeitsgruppe „Coexistence, competition, and change: Structural borrowing and the dynamics of asymmetric language contact“ (Hiwa Asadpour, Carolina Plaza-Pust & Manfred Sailer), 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) (7.–10.3.2023), Köln. 
  • Heike Wiese. Meaning in Contact. SALT 33 (“Semantics and Linguistic Theory”) (12.–14.5.2023), Yale University.

  • Annika Labrenz, Marlene Böttcher, Franziska Groth, Kateryna Iefremenko, & Kalliopi Katsika: Discourse markers and filler particles at the boundary: A corpus study across languages, speaker groups, and communicative sitations. Discourse Markers – Theories and Methods (24.-26.05.2023), Université Cité Paris, France.

  • Heike Wiese, Annika Labrenz & Yeşim Bayram: Graphic Discourse Markers in CMC. Discourse Markers – Theories and Methods (24.-26.05.2023), Université Cité Paris, France.
  • Heike Wiese, Oliver Bunk: Familiäre Mehrsprachigkeit als unterschätzte Kompetenz. Sprachenvielfalt der Familien: eine Chance für die Schule! Fachtag für pädagogische Fachkräfte, Schulleitungen, Multiplikator:innen, interessierte Eltern (1.6.2023), Frankfurt am Main.
  • İrem Duman Çakır: Why do we need (to allow) more languages in schools? Invited plenary and debate on “Standard language in the school? Perspectives from sociolinguistics, educational science and contact linguistics [with Khalid Mourigh & Irma Westheim]. Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages (SPCL) Summer Meeting (26–29.06.2023), University of Groningen.
  • Wintai Tsehaye, Tatiana Pashkova, Hannah Lee, Erica Conti, Shanley Allen, Oliver Bunk, Rosemarie Tracy: Syntax on the edge: The role of register in syntactic variation at sentence peripheries in language contact. 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism (26.6.–30.6.2023), Macquarie University, Sydney.

  • Marlene Böttcher, Annika Labrenz, Kateryna Iefremenko & Kalliopi Katsika: (Dis)fluency markers as discourse organizational devices in heritage speakers' two languages. Do register and societal language status matter? 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism (26.-30.06.2023). Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [online]

  • Esther Jahns, Oliver Bunk: Language anxiety as a barrier to academic participation. IPC18. (9.7.–14.7.2023), Université Libre Bruxelles.
  • Oliver Bunk: What does linguistic structure tell us about language ideologies? The case of majority language anxiety in Germany. 20th AILA. (17.7. – 21.7.23), Lyon.
  • Oliver Bunk, Annika Labrenz, Heike Wiese: Mehrsprachigkeit und soziale Ungleichheit. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Soziale Ungleichheit revisited. (20.9.–22.9.2023), Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
  • Heike Wiese: German in multilingual contexts: a comparative view. Joint hybrid seminar Dijon/Lyon/Paris „Cross-Germanic Linguistics“, (27.10.2023), Paris.
  • Oliver Bunk: Framesetter or discourse linker? Exploring the Role of Prosody in Understanding Adverbials in German V3 Declaratives. Workshop Complex prefields in V2 language (2.11.–4.11.2023), Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
  • Heike Wiese: Multilingualism at school. ufuq.de (29.11.2023).
  • Heike Wiese, Annika Labrenz & Albrun Roy: Eliciting naturalistic register-differentiation in the lab. Taal en Tongval (24.11.2023). 
Publications

  • Duman Çakır, İrem. 2023. Negotiation of resources in everyday activities of a multilingual Berlin street market: a linguistic ethnography approach. Multilingua 42(3). 395-420. [DOI: 10.1515/multi-2021-0065]

  • Freywald, Ulrike & Heike Wiese et al. 2023. Deutsche Sprache der Gegenwart. Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.

    • Boas, Hans & Heike Wiese. 2023. Ein Land – eine Sprache? In Ulrike Freywald & Heike Wiese (eds.), Deutsche Sprache der Gegenwart, 71–111. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.

    • Freywald, Ulrike & Heike Wiese. 2023. Was das Deutsche ausmacht. In Ulrike Freywald & Heike Wiese (eds.), Deutsche Sprache der Gegenwart, 1–10. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.

    • Wiese, Heike. 2023. Prozesse an der Schnittstelle von Wort und Bedeutung. In Ulrike Freywald & Heike Wiese (eds.), Deutsche Sprache der Gegenwart, 275–311. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.

  • Labrenz, Annika. 2023. Functional variation of German also across registers and speaker groups. Contrastive Pragmatics 4(2), 289-320. [DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10077]

  • Sauermann, Antje, Britta Schulte & Heike Wiese. 2023. Sprachkontakt in Namibia: Registerdifferenzierung im Namdeutschen. In Barbara Hans-Bianchi & Barbara Vogt (eds.), Deutsch im Kontakt. Neue empirische Studien zu Kontaktphänomenen und -szenarien in der Gegenwart, 127–164. Baden-Baden: Georg Olms Verlag.

  • Sluckin, Benjamin Lowell & Oliver Bunk. 2023. Non-canonical V3 and resumption in Kiezdeutsch. In Karen de Clercq et al. (eds.), Adverbial resumption in verb second languages, 327–354. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Pescuma, Valentina N., Dina Serova, Julia Lukassek, Antje Sauermann et al. 2023. Situated language register across the ages, languages and modalities, and cultures: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology 13. [DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658]

  • Wiese, Heike. 2023. Grammatical systems without language borders: Lessons from free-range language. Berlin: Language Science Press.

  • Wiese, Heike. 2023. Mehrsprachigkeit als Normalfall: Warum sprachliche Vielfalt in einer Gesellschaft selbstverständlich sein sollte: ein Gastbeitrag von Professorin Heike Wiese von der Berliner Humboldt-Universität. DAAD-Letter 1(23). 28–32.

  • Yilmaz, Gülsen & Antje Sauermann. 2023. Complete acquisition in the heritage language: Evidence from indefiniteness in Turkish. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 33. 813-847. [DOI: 10.29000/rumelide.1286008]

Posters
  • Annika Labrenz, Marlene Böttcher, Franziska Groth, Kateryna Iefremenko, & Kalliopi Katsika. Using discourse markers and filler particles to mark discourse boundaries: a corpus study across speaker groups and communicative situations. RUEG Conference „Linguistic Variability in Heritage Language Research“ (26.–28.9.2023), Berlin.
  • Heike Wiese. What is special about heritage languages? RUEG Conference „Linguistic Variability in Heritage Language Research“ (26.–28.9.2023), Berlin.
  • Heike Wiese, Annika Labrenz, Yeşim Bayram. Emoji as graphic discourse marker: A cross-linguistic study. RUEG Conference „Linguistic Variability in Heritage Language Research“ (26.–28.9.2023), Berlin.
  • Britta Schulte, Antje Sauermann & Heike Wiese: Social meaning of lexical and grammatical features in Namibian German. An addressee identification study. Social Meaning Berlin (14.–15.11.2023), Berlin.