Ilka Flöck

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English linguistics
(Pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics)

Institute of English and American Studies  (» Postal address)

A06 2-222 (» Adress and map )

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Ilka Flöck

Dr. Ilka Flöck

Curriculum vitae

  • 2015: PhD in English Linguistics, University of Oldenburg
    Dissertation: "Requests in American and British English: A contrastive, multi-method analysis"
  • 2009: Magistra Artium in English Linguistics and Medieval Literature, University of Bonn
    MA thesis: "Suggestions in British and American English: A study in variational pragmatics"
     
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Research interests

  • Pragmatics
  • Interlanguage pragmatics
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Linguistic politeness
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Dialectology
  • Conversation Analysis
  • World Englishes

Publications

Monograph:

Flöck, Ilka (2016): Requests in American and British English conversational and DCT Data: A Contrastive Multi-Method Analysis. Pragmatics and Beyond Series. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

  • Review by Y. Zhang in Discourse Studies 19 (5)
  • Review by C. Maíz-Arévalo in Kalbotyra 70
  • Review by R. Wegener in Languages in Contrast 17 (2)

Articles in journals:

Articles in edited volumes:

  • Flöck, Ilka & Geluykens, Ronald (2015): “Speech Acts in Corpus Pragmatics: A quantitative contrastive study of directives in spontaneous and elicited discourse.” In: Romero-Trillo, Jesús (ed.): Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015. Heidelberg: Springer.

  • Flöck, Ilka & Pfingsthorn, Joanna (2014): "Pragmatik und Englischunterricht". In: Gehring, Wolfgang & Merkl, Matthias (eds.): Englisch Lehren, Lernen, Erforschen. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 175-200.

  • Pfingsthorn, Joanna & Flöck, Ilka (2014): "Investigating and teaching pragmatics: A corpus-based approach". In: Gehring, Wolfgang & Merkl, Matthias (eds.): Englisch Lehren, Lernen, Erforschen. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 155-174.

Talks and posters

   
2017
  • „Die Bemessung pragmatischer Sprachbewusstheit: Precision und recall im metalinguistischen Beurteilungstest“, Vortrag mit Dr. Joanna Pfingsthorn, DGFF Kongress 2017, Jena.
2016
  • “Preference Organization and Dispreferred Second Parts in American vs. British Request/Response Pairs”, Vortrag mit Prof. Dr. Ronald Geluykens, Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, 15.-18.06.2016, Murcia, Spanien.
  • “Requests in American and British English multi-party conversations: A corpus-based study in Variational Pragmatics”, Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, 15.-18.06.2016, Murcia, Spanien.
  • “Requests in American and British English: A contrastive, multi-method analysis”, Vortrag auf Einladung im Rahmen des “Projects in Interactional Linguistics” Kolloquium von Prof. Dr. Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, 04.02.2016, Universität Potsdam.
  • “Requests in American and British English: A corpus-based study in Variational Pragmatics”, Vortrag auf Einladung im Rahmen des Masterseminars "Which English? Whose English? Critical Issues for 21st Century ELT" von Prof. Dr. Anne Barron, 12.01.2016, Universität Lüneburg.
2015
  • “‘Glue, glue, glue. We need more glue’: A task-based approach to request in spoken EFL interactions” mit Joanna Pfingsthorn. Language, Learning, Technology, 20./ 21.11.2015, Universität Lüneburg.
  • “Compliments in Academia (CIA): Language use in a nerdy community of practice”, Vortrag (auf Einladung) zusammen mit Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf im Rahmen der Feierlichkeiten zu Ehren Klaus P. Schneiders 60. Geburtstag, 21.09.2016, Universität Bonn.
2014
  • “Directive Speech Acts in British and American English.” 3. Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference, 23./24.05.2014, Universität Bonn.
  • “Directive Speech Acts in English: The Influence of Discourse Type and Elicitation Method on the Production of Directive Speech Acts” mit Ronald Geluykens. 7. Nordwestdeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, 12./13.12.2014, Universität Oldenburg.
2013
  • “COALLA: New directions in the development of learner corpora” (poster). 2. Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference, 07./08.06.2013, Universität Bonn.
  • Einladung zur Teilnahme an einer Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der 2. Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference zum Thema “Doing things with linguistics: Applications of pragmatic research outside the ivory tower”, 07./08.06.2013, Universität Bonn.
2012
  • “A methodological comparison of directive speech acts in American and British English: DCT versus conversational data”, 1. Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference, 28.01.2012, Universität Bonn.
  • “‘Let’s make that tower even higher’: A task-based approach to directive speech acts in spoken EFL interactions” mit Joanna Pfingsthorn. 2. International Conference on Foreign Language Learning and Applied Linguistics, 04.-06.05.2012, International Burch University Sarajevo, Bosnien-Herzegovina.
  • “The COALLA collaboration: New directions in the development of learner corpora” mit Joanna Pfingsthorn. 10. Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC), 11.-14.07.2012, Universität Warschau, Polen.
2011
  • “Suggestions in British and American English: A corpus-linguistic study.” 33. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGFS). Annual Meeting, 23.-25.02.2015, Göttingen.
  • “‘Don't tell a great man what to do’: Directive speech acts in American and British English conversations”. Poster, 12. International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Conference, 03.-08.07.2011, Manchester, UK.
  • “A methodological comparison of directive speech acts in American and British English: DCT versus conversational data.” 4. Nordwestdeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, 02./03.12.2011, Universität Bremen.
2010
  • “Suggestions in British and American English.” Poster, 11. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, 05./06.03.2010, Universität Hamburg.

 

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