Prof Dr Juliana Goschler // University of Oldenburg

Professor for DaF/DaZ

Curriculum Vitae

since 2017	University of Oldenburg W2 professorship "German as a foreign language/German as a second language" Institute for German Studies
2013 - 2017	University of Oldenburg Junior Professorship "German as a Foreign Language/German as a Second Language" Institute for German Studies
2010 - 2013	University of Hamburg Research assistant (postdoc) Institute of English and American Studies
2008 - 2010	University of Bremen Research Assistant (Postdoc) Department of Linguistics and Literature
2007 - 2008	University of Bremen Research Assistant (Postdoc) SFB/TR8 "Spatial Cognition"
2006	Humboldt University of Berlin Doctorate in German Linguistics
2003 - 2006	Technical University of Darmstadt Research Training Group "Technisation and Society"
1997 - 2003	Humboldt University of Berlin Studied German Linguistics and Modern and Contemporary History Magistra Artium (2003)

Publications

Books

Butler, Martin and Juliana Goschler (eds.). (in preparation, expected to be published in 2019). Language-sensitive subject teaching. Opportunities and challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective. Berlin: Springer.
Goschler, Juliana and Susanne Niemeier (eds.) (2016). Cognitive Approaches to L2 Learning and Teaching. (=Special Issue of the Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2016). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Goschler, Juliana and Anatol Stefanowitsch (eds.) (2013). Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (eds.) (2013). Trends in Cognitive Linguistics 2013. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Goschler, Juliana (2012). Metaphern (series Studienbibliografien Sprachwissenschaft, ed. by IDS Mannheim). Tübingen: Julius Groos Verlag Brigitte Narr.
Goschler, Juliana (2008). Metaphors for the brain. A cognitive-linguistic study. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Goschler, Juliana (ed.) (2007). Metaphors in Science and Technology. Special issue metaphorik.de 12. Hanover: Wehrhahn.

Essays and book chapters

Goschler, Juliana (in prep.). Cognitive Perspectives on Academic and Classroom Language Proficiency. To be published in L. Heine, M. Mainzer-Murrenhoff and S. Zahlten (eds.), Sprachtheorien in der Zweit- und Fremdsprachenforschung: Basis für empirisches Arbeiten zwischen Fach- und Sprachlernen, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Goschler, Juliana, Christoph Schroeder and Till Woerfel (submitted). The encoding of motion by Turkish-German bilinguals - Evidence for a German-Turkish variety. In F. Bayram (ed.), Turkish as a Heritage Language (Studies in Bilingualism). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Goschler, Juliana (submitted). Subject and linguistic assessment of student performance. In A. Bogner and A. Neumann (eds.), "Umbrüche gestalten" mit einem integrativen Konzept der Sprachenförderung. Münster: Waxmann.
Goschler, Juliana (in press). Transfer to the L2 in the encoding of spatial movement. In E. Liste Lamas and B. Lübke (eds.), Spatial relations in German: Contrast, acquisition and translation. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 87-105.
Diethelm, Ira, Juliana Goschler and Timo Lampe (2018). Language and computing. In S. Sentance, E. Barendsen and C. Schulte (eds.), Computer Science Education: Perspectives on teaching and learning in school. London et al: Bloomsbury Academic, 207-219.
Goschler, Juliana (2017). A contrastive view on cognitive motivation of linguistic patterns: Concord in German and English. In Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 5, 127-136.
Goschler, Juliana (2017). Syntax acquisition in monolingual and multilingual students. In Journal of Applied Linguistics (ZfAL) 66/1, 59-77.
Goschler, Juliana and Elke Montanari (2016). German as a second language in teacher training: An integrative model. In M. Becker-Mrotzek, P. Rosenberg, Chr. Schroeder and A. Witte (eds.), DaZ in der Lehrerbildung - Modelle und Handlungsfelder, Münster: Waxmann, 25-33.
Goschler, Juliana (2016). The development of reading skills in multilingual children: A research overview. In Mitteilungen des deutschen Germanistenverbandes 63/2, 147-159.
Goschler, Juliana and Susanne Niemeier (2016). Introduction: Cognitive Approaches to L2 learning and teaching. In Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2016. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 3-8.
Diethelm, Ira and Juliana Goschler (2014). On Human Language and Terminology Used for Teaching and Learning CS/Informatics. In WiPSCE '14. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education. New York: ACM, 122-123.
Goschler, Juliana (2014). Variation between Singular and Plural Subject-Verb Agreement in German: A Usage-Based Approach. In Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2014. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 192-206.
Goschler, Juliana and Anatol Stefanowitsch (2014). Corpora in second language acquisition research: Seven problems from a corpus linguistic perspective. In B. Ahrenholz and P. Grommes (eds.), Zweitspracherwerb im Jugendalter, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 341-361.
Goschler, Juliana (2014). Variation in the core: coordinated subjects and subject-verb congruence in German. In A. Machicao y Priemer, A. Nolda and A. Sioupi (eds.), Zwischen Kern und Peripherie: Untersuchungen zu Randbereichen in Sprache und Grammatik, Berlin: de Gruyter, 89-101.
Goschler, Juliana (2013). Motion Events in Turkish-German Contact Varieties. In J. Goschler and A. Stefanowitsch (eds.), Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 115-131.
Goschler, Juliana and Anatol Stefanowitsch (2013). Beyond typology: The encoding of motion events across times and varieties. In J. Goschler and A. Stefanowitsch (eds.), Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-14.
Goschler, Juliana, Till Woerfel, Anatol Stefanowitsch, Heike Wiese and Christoph Schroeder (2013). Beyond conflation patterns: The encoding of motion events in Kiezdeutsch. In A. Stefanowitsch and J. Goschler (eds.), Trends in Cognitive Linguistics. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 237-252.
Goschler, Juliana (2011). Sound verbs with directional extension: Syntax, semantics and use. In A. Lasch and A. Ziem (eds.), Konstruktionsgrammatik III: Vom Forschungsparadigma zu Fallstudien. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 29-43.
Goschler, Juliana (2011). The conceptualisation of personality: Converging and diverging evidence. In M. Callies, W. Keller and A. Lohöfer (eds.), Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences. Examining the interdisciplinary potential of cognitive approaches in linguistics and literary studies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 279-294.
Goschler, Juliana (2010). Causal relations in the narratives of Turkish-German bilingual speakers. In U. Mehlem and S. Sahel (eds.), Acquisition of written language competences in the DaZ context: Diagnoses and support. Freiburg: Fillibach, 163-183.
Goschler, Juliana and Anatol Stefanowitsch (2010). Path and movement in spoken German: A collostructional approach. In E. Ruigendijk, Th. Stolz and J. Trabant (eds.), Linguistik im Nordwesten (Diversitas Linguarum), Bochum: Brockmeyer, 103-115.
Goschler, Juliana (2009). Typological influences in the encoding of movement events in the second language. In S. Sahel and R. Vogel (eds.), Conference proceedings of the Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium: NLK2009. Bielefeld: eCollections of the University of Bielefeld.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (2009). Sex differences in the usage of spatial metaphors. A case study of political language. In K. Ahrens (ed.), Politics, Gender, and Conceptual Metaphors, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 166-183.
Goschler, Juliana, Elena Andonova and Robert Ross (2008). Perspective Use and Perspective Shift in Spatial Dialogue. In Ch. Freksa et. al. (eds.), Spatial Cognition VI: Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space, Berlin: Springer, 250-265.
Goschler, Juliana (2007). Is this a metaphor? On the difficult task of identifying metaphors in scientific discourse. In Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación / Culture, Language & Representation 5, 27-41.
Goschler, Juliana (2007). Metaphors in Cognitive and Neurosciences. Which impact have metaphors on scientific theories and models? In metaphorik.de 12.
Goschler, Juliana (2005). Brain metaphors: Different forms of metaphorisation? In N. Fries & S. Kiyko (eds.), Linguistik im Schloss. Linguistic Workshop Wartin 2005, Czernowitz: Bukrek, 25-34.
Goschler, Juliana (2005). Embodiment and Body Metaphors. In metaphorik.de 9.

Reviews, miscellanies and popular science articles

Eva Blumberg, Juliana Goschler, Lena Heine & Sabina Schroeter-Brauss (2017). Subject didactics and language education. In M. Becker-Mrotzek and A. Witte (eds.) Strengthening language support and German as a second language in teacher training. Cologne: Mercator Institute, 36-40.
Goschler, Juliana (2016). Valuing multilingualism as part of a welcoming culture in schools. In Pedagogical Leadership 27/3, 88-90.
Goschler, Juliana (2015). Review of Claudia Maria Riehl (2014). Multilingualism: An introduction. Darmstadt: WBG. In Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 7, 173-176.
Goschler, Juliana (2014). Review of Friederike Kern (2013). Rhythmus und Kontrast im Türkischdeutschen (Linguistik - Impulse und Tendenzen 50). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. In Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 6, 67-71.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (2014). Tourism, waves and containers under pressure. In Migazin 2014/02/12 (http://www.migazin.de/2014/02/12/tourismus-wellen-behaelter-druck/)
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (2013). The journey of words. In Migazin 2013/12/02 (http://www.migazin.de/2013/12/02/die-reise-der-worter/)
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (2013). Names are sound and writing. In Migazin 2013/10/15 (http://www.migazin.de/2013/10/15/namen-sind-schall-und-schrift/)
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (2013). What do you actually call Germans without a migration background? In Migazin 2013/09/05 (http://www.migazin.de/2013/09/05/wie-nennt-man-eigentlich-deutsche-ohne-migrationshintergrund/)
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (2013). School segregation and language acquisition. In Migazin 2013/08/02 (http://www.migazin.de/2013/08/02/schulische-segregation-und-spracherwerb/).
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Juliana Goschler (2013). Integration through loanword hunting. In Migazin 2013/07/01 (http://www.migazin.de/2013/07/01/sprachstand-integration-durch-lehnwortjagd/).
Goschler, Juliana (2013). "Rechtschreibkatastrophe" - The journalism catastrophe. In Carta (http://www.carta.info/60026/).
Goschler, Juliana (2012). Review of Anke Lüdeling and Merja Kytö (2009). Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook (HSK 29.1 and 29.2). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. In Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 3, 93-97.
Goschler, Juliana (2011). Metaphors for brain and mind. In C.M. Schmitz and L. Kesner (eds.), Images of the mind. Image worlds of the mind from art and science (German Hygiene Museum Dresden and Moravian Gallery Brno), Göttingen: Wallstein, 67-74.
Goschler, Juliana (2011). Metafory pro mozek a mysl. In L. Kesner and C.M. Schmitz (eds.), Obrazy mysli - mysl v obrazech (Vystava je společnym projektem Moravske galerie v Brně a Deutsches Hygiene-Museum v Dražďánech), Brno: Barrister & Principal, 82-93.
(Translation of Goschler (2011), Metaphors for Brain and Mind)
Goschler, Juliana (2010). Review of Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel, eds (2009). New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In LinguistList.
Goschler, Juliana (2009). Review of Petra Drewer (2003). The cognitive metaphor as a tool of thinking. On the role of analogy in the acquisition and communication of scientific knowledge (Forum für Fachsprachenforschung). Tübingen: Gunter Narr. In Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 1/2, 187-191.
Tenbrink, Thora, Robert J. Ross, Elena Andonova and Juliana Goschler (2009). Spatial Granularity and Perspective in Route Descriptions for Humans and Dialogue Systems. In M. Tomko, K.-F. Richter (eds.), AGILE Workshop on Adaptation in Spatial Communication. SFB/TR8 Report No. 019-05/2009, 27-38.
Tenbrink, Thora, Shi Hui, Robert Ross, Elena Andonova, Juliana Goschler and John Bateman (2009). Building an empirically founded dialogue system. SFB/TR8 Report No. 018-02/2009.
Goschler, Juliana (2003). Review of Barcelona, Antonio, ed. (2003). Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads: A Cognitive Perspective, Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter. In metaphorik.de 5.

Lectures

2018	A collostructional approach to generalisation and transfer in L2 acquisition (together with Anatol Stefanowitsch). 8th International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Koblenz-Landau, 26-28 September 2018. Generalisation and Transfer in L2 Acquisition: A Collostructional Approach (together with Anatol Stefanowitsch). 10thInternational conference on Construction (ICCG10), Sorbonne Paris Cité University, 16-18 July 2018. Empirical and didactic perspectives on the acquisition and teaching of the grammar of German as a second language. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 29 January 2018.
2017	Is there a language of education? (And if so, how many?). Science soirée of the Oldenburg University Society17 August 2017. Corpus linguistic approaches to L2 varieties. International conference CORPORA 2017Saint Petersburg State University, 27-30 June 2017. Learning and teaching in linguistically heterogeneous classes: Empirical perspectives, University of Cologne, 25 April 2017. Language competences and multilingualism at school: problems and myths. Lecture series "Multilingualism"Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, 1 February 2017.
2016	Empirical approaches to a didactics of multilingualism. University of Mannheim, 14 December 2016. "Focus on form" and "skewed input" in direct comparison: an empirical study on teaching the construction of movement in GFL lessons (with Lars Behnke). 9. Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium (NWLK)University of Oldenburg, 9 to 10 December 2016. Migration and education: Linguistics challenges in school and textbook language. Series of lectures Travelling Things, Travelling Stories: Disciplinary Perspectives on Migrations and MigrantsUniversity of Oldenburg, 7 November 2016. Linguistic and subject learning: A cognitive-linguistic perspective. Symposium Language theories in second and foreign language research - the basis for work at the interface of linguistic and disciplinary learningBergische Universität Wuppertal, 17 October 2016. L2 performance as a window into cognitive and linguistic preferences: The encoding of motion events. 7. International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, 5 to 7 October 2016. The encoding of motion by Turkish-German bilinguals - Evidence for a German-Turkish variety (with Christoph Schroeder and Till Woerfel). Turkologentag 2016 -Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies. University of Hamburg, 14 to 17 September 2016. Narration in the L2: Linguistic and cognitive preferences of L2 learners and bilingual speakers. Humboldt University of Berlin, 30 June 2016. The encoding of movement in the second language: transfer or complexity reduction? Centre "Language, Variation and Migration", University of Potsdam, 22 June 2016. Explicit and implicit teaching of lexicalisation patterns (with Lars Behnke). Conference Cognitive Approaches to Language Pedagogy (CALP-2). University of Basel, 10 to 11 June 2016. Language support for refugees - problems, possibilities and limits. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Flight and Migration". Oldenburg, 19 April 2016. Development, transfer, and variation of encoding patterns in the L1 and L2: The case of motion. Research colloquium on English philology.Free University of Berlin, 1 February 2016.
2015	Subject-Verb Agreement in English and German: Semantic and syntactic concord reconsidered. Conference Languages in Contrast. Université de Paris VIII, 4-5 December 2015. Transfer and learner language phenomena: Movement events in the second language (with Lars Behnke). 8th Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium (NWLK), University of Bremen, 13 to 14 November 2015. Migration and education: Linguistics challenges in school and textbook language. Series of lectures Travelling Things, Travelling Stories: Disciplinary Perspectives on Migrations and MigrantsUniversity of Oldenburg, 11 November 2015. Multilingualism and school language skills: An empirical study on reading and writing competence in vocational schools (with Anne-Kristin Cordes, Sabine Eickhoff and Sarah Zweers). Conference Consistent and subject-specific? - Integrative language support between aspiration and realisationRuhr University Bochum, 5 to 6 November 2015. The encoding of motion events in L1 and L2: Development, transfer, variation, and change. Workshop Crosslinguistic Influence in Motion Event Encoding. Université Fribourg, 7 to 8 October 2015. Questions on Spoken Language and Terminology for Teaching Computer Science (with Ira Diethelm). Conference 20th SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Vilnius, 6 to 8 July 2015. Encoding motion events in the L2: Disentangling general interlanguage and transfer phenomena (with Lars Behnke). Conference Thinking - Doing - Learning (TDL-2)Groningen, 3-5 June 2015. Learning in German in the inclusive classroom. Conference School inclusion - knowledge, competences and strategies for action from a school pedagogical perspectiveUniversity of Oldenburg, 19 May 2015.
2014	School language competence and multilingualism: A case study (with Anne-Kristin Cordes and Snizhana Maksymchuk). 7. Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium (NWLK)University of Oldenburg, 12 to 13 December 2014. Analysing, assessing and promoting linguistic competences: The interplay of language didactics and empirical language acquisition research. University of Vechta, 4 December 2014. On Human Language and Terminology used for Teaching and Learning CS/Informatics (with Ira Diethelm), ^9thWorkshopin Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE)Berlin, 5 to 7 November 2014. The prepositional attribute construction: A Construction Grammar Approach. 6th International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Erlangen, 30 September to 2 October 2014. DaZ in teacher training in Lower Saxony - an integrative model (with Katja Koch and Elke Montanari). Annual conference of the GAL (Society for Applied Linguistics)University of Marburg, 16 to 19 September 2014. Syntactic complexity in the narratives of monolingual and multilingual primary school children (with Peter Abels). 14th North German Linguistic Colloquium (NLK)University of Osnabrück, 20 to 22 March 2014.
2013	Language skills in subject teaching: The subject assessment of students with German as a second language. Annual conference of the GAL (Society for Applied Linguistics)University of Aachen, 19-20 September 2013. Germany - A ?[Bb]ildungsland. OpenMind, Kassel, 23 to 24 August 2013. Linguistic, conceptual and cultural metaphors: a direct connection? Colloquium of the Leipzig Working Group on Construction Grammar/Cognitive Linguistics (LAKK)University of Leipzig, 31 January 2013.
2012	Construction Grammar and Second Language Acquisition Research: Theoretical and Empirical Implications. WorkshopDaF under Construction,Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 9-10 November 2012. Agreement in German: A Cognitive Grammar Approach. 5th International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Freiburg, 10 to 12 October 2012. Variation and Change in Subject-Verb Congruence in Modern High German. 13th North German Linguistic Colloquium (NLK)University of Potsdam, 26 to 27 March 2012.
2011	Metaphors and thought patterns: Empirical methods for determining linguistic and conceptual transfers. Conference The Fascination of Metaphor. Acquisition - Meaning - Structure - Function and Understanding of a Complex Phenomenon from an Interdisciplinary PerspectiveUniversity of Münster, 8 to 10 December 2011. Numerical conflicts in quantity statements: Rule and variation in German. Linguistic Colloquium of the Institute of English and American StudiesUniversity of Hamburg, 25 October 2011. Subject-verb congruence: The influence of text type, semantics and construction. 2nd Conference Konstruktionsgrammatik des Deutschen: Constructions as social conventions and cognitive routinesUniversity of Düsseldorf, 1 September 2011. Analysing and evaluating learner language: The role of empiricism in DaZ/DaF research. University of Oldenburg, 24 June 2011. Grammatical rules and linguistic norms: Syntactic and semantic congruence in German. Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 24 May 2011. An intransitive movement construction in German? A corpus linguistic investigation. 12th North German Linguistic Colloquium (NLK)University of Braunschweig, 5 March 2011.
2010	Construction transfer from the L1: Evidence from the verbalisation of movement events. Linguistic Colloquium of the Institute of English and American StudiesUniversity of Hamburg, 14 December 2010. Motion events in learner varieties of German, 4th International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Bremen, 7-9 October 2010. TIME is not SPACE (at least in German) (with Mari Hrkac and Anatol Stefanowitsch). 4th International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Bremen, 7-9 October 2010. Is verb meaning really embodied? A failure to replicate Bergen et.al. (2007) (with Anna Strotseva and Anatol Stefanowitsch). 4th International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Bremen, 7-9 October 2010. Beyond conflation patterns: A corpus study on the encoding of motion in multilingual urban areas (with Till Woerfel and Christoph Schroeder), 4th International Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsUniversity of Bremen, 7 to 9 October 2010. Tempus use in speakers of German as a second language: A comparison of spoken and written language (with Mirja Gruhn), Annual Conference of the GAL (Society for Applied Linguistics)University of Leipzig, 15 to 17 September 2010. The assessment of the language competence of DaZ speakers by German native speakers, Annual Conference of the GAL (Society for Applied Linguistics)University of Leipzig, 15 to 17 September 2010. Theory and Empiricism in Cognitive Linguistics (with Anatol Stefanowitsch). Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 8 April 2010. Pleonastic Directionals in German (with Anatol Stefanowitsch). 32nd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)Humboldt University of Berlin, 23 to 26 February 2010. Locative postpositional phrases in German (with Anatol Stefanowitsch). Conference Konstruktionsgrammatik: Neue Perspektiven zur Untersuchung des Deutschen und EnglischenUniversity of Kiel, 18 to 20 February 2010.
2009	Narrative and grammatical strategies of Turkish-German bilingual children: Linguistic and didactic perspectives. University of Flensburg, 6 November 2009. Connectivity and causal relations: Narrative competence of Turkish-German bilingual children. Annual conference of the GAL (Society for Applied Linguistics), University of Karlsruhe, 16 to 18 September 2009. The encoding of movement events in the first and second language: A comparison of German and Turkish-German bilingual children (with Nina Reshöft and Anatol Stefanowitsch). 10th North German Linguistic Colloquium (NLK)University of Greifswald, 13-14 March 2009. Narrative complexity in the narratives of Turkish-German bilingual children. 10th North German Linguistic Colloquium (NLK)University of Greifswald, 13 to 14 March 2009. Metaphorical patterns and cultural practice: Converging and diverging evidence about the conceptualisation of personality. Conference Bi-directional Perspectives in the Cognitive SciencesUniversity of Marburg, 26-28 February 2009. Movement events in German: syntactic patterns and semantic motivation. Linguistic Colloquium OsnabrückUniversity of Osnabrück, 11 January 2009.
2008	Frequency and centrality in lexical categories (with Anatol Stefanowitsch). 3rd Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsLeipzig University, 25-27 September 2008. Perspective Use and Perspective Shift in Spatial Dialogue (with Elena Andonova and Robert Ross). Conference Spatial CognitionUniversity of Freiburg, 15 to 19 September 2008. Frequency and centrality in lexical categories (with Anatol Stefanowitsch). ConferenceLanguage, Communication and CognitionBrighton, 4 to 7 August 2008. The encoding of path and manner of motion events in spoken German.9th North German Linguistic Colloquium (NLK)University of Bielefeld, 5 to 6 March 2008.
2007	Primary, ontological, orientational, structural, correlational: How can different types of metaphors be categorised? 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC)Krakow, 15 to 20 July 2007.
2006	Linguistic vs. Cultural Evidence: Metaphors of Heart and Brain and the Conceptualisation of Humans. 2nd Conference of the German Society for Cognitive LinguisticsLudwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 5 to 7 October 2006. Seelenorgan und 'embodied cognition': Probleme des Materialismus vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Plenary lecture, 30th Annual Conference of the Lichtenberg SocietyOber-Ramstadt, 1 July 2006. Is this a metaphor? On the difficult task of identifying metaphors in discourse. Workshop Metaphor and Discourse, Universidad de Castello de la Plana, 2 to 3 February 2006.
2005	Brain metaphors and concepts. Doctoral Conference of the Institute for German Language and LinguisticsHumboldt University of Berlin, 3 December 2005. Metaphors in Cognitive and Neurosciences. Conference Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of SocietyTechnical University of Darmstadt, 12 to 14 October 2005. Conceptualizing the brain: Different ways of metaphorisation? Conference Metaphor in Language and ThoughtRio de Janeiro, 17 to 20 August 2005. Metaphors and Conceptualisations of Heart and Brain in German. 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC)Seoul, 17 to 22 July 2005. Conceptualising the Brain. Stanford Language Users GroupStanford University, 22 February 2005.
2004	Metaphors, metonymies, and brain concepts. Conference Current trends in Cognitive Linguistics, University of Hamburg, 10-11 December 2004. Metaphors, metonymies, and brain concepts. Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)Berlin, 7 December 2004. Metaphors and brain concepts: A corpus based analysis of metaphorical conceptualisation. Conference Mind, Language, and MetaphorGranada, 24 to 29 April 2004.

Projects

"OL-DaZ-Frog: Creating a corpus of elicited narratives from DaZ speakers of different ages and languages of origin"
"Early language competences of monolingual and multilingual children and their influence on the development of reading and writing skills" together with Prof. Dr Nanna Fuhrhop, Prof. Dr Esther Ruigendijk, Prof. Dr Dietmar Grube (University of Oldenburg)
"Motion events in Turkish and German as L1 and L2" together with Prof. Dr Christoph Schroeder (University of Potsdam) and Dr Till Woerfel (University of Cologne, Mercator Institute)
"SHAPING UPHEAVALS. Language promotion and education as integral components of innovative teacher training in Lower Saxony" together with Prof. Dr Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Prof. Dr Andrea Bogner (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr Hans Bickes (University of Hanover), Prof. Dr Christina Noack (University of Osnabrück), Prof. Dr Katja Koch (University of Braunschweig), Prof. Dr Astrid Neumann (University of Lüneburg), Prof. Dr Elke Montanari (University of Hildesheim), Prof. Dr Winfried Wittstruck (University of Vechta) (Completed: March 2014 - May 2017)