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Recent Publications Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied

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  • Malawi English. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes
  • Combining Systemic Functional and Corpus-linguistic Approaches: Student Writings Compared.

2024

  • with Nebojša Radić, Maria Freddi, and Anastasia Atabekova (eds.). Global Challenges in Language Teaching and Learning: Developments and Innovations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2023

  • with Marina Ivanova. From cues to features: Bridging psycho- and sociolinguistics in the development of non-native English stimuli. TESOL Communications 2(2), 1-17. doi: 10.58304/tc.20230201
  • Ivanova, M., Neubert, C. R., Schmied, J., & Bendixen, A. (2023). ERP evidence for Slavic and German word stress cue sensitivity in English. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1193822 (Preprint on PsyArXiv doi: 10.31234/osf.io/hqr34)
  • Kenya, Tanzania. In Hickey, R. & K. Burridge eds. New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume VI: English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.
  • Tanzanian English. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.
  • English in East Africa. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.
  • with Paul Onanuga. Intersecting Youth Digital Practices and Homosexuality: Identity Construction, Ideological Framing and Decolonisation in Homosexuality Narratives on Nigerian Twitter. In Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (ed.). Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses. Stuttgart: ibidem, 281-306.
  • with Marina Bondi, Olga Dontcheva Navratilova, and Carmen Pérez-Llantada (eds.). Patterns of Language Variation and Change in Academic Writing. Special Issue. TOKEN: A Journal of English Linguistics.
  • with Marina Bondi, Olga Dontcheva Navratilova, and Carmen Pérez-Llantada. Language variation and change in academic writing: Recent trends through globalisation and digitalisation. TOKEN: A Journal of English Linguistics, 1-13.
  • with Marina Ivanova. English MA Theses at a German University before and after the Bologna reform: Comparing global rhetorical structures and stance in Linguistics and Cultural Studies. TOKEN: A Journal of English Linguistics.
  • with Marina Ivanova (eds. 2023). Comparing Confidence and Trust On- and Offline. REAL19. Göttingen: Cuvillier.
  • Confidence and trust in online academic discourse: Integrating new technologies into teaching and learning. In J. Schmied & M. Ivanova (eds. 2023). Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-14.

2022

  • with Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju and Bert van Pinxteren (eds., 2022). Language of Education and Development in Africa. Prospects for Decolonisation and Empowerment. REAL 20. Göttingen: Cuvillier. Open Access.
  • with Stefanie Meyer, Sven Albrecht, Maximilian Eibl, Günter Daniel Rey, Rewa Tamboli, Stefan Taubert, Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl. Untying the Gordian Knot: Legally Compliant Sound Data Collection and Processing for TTS Systems in China. PrivIno 2022 (Privacy Symposium on Data Protection, Regulatory Compliance, and Innovative Technologies).
  • with Albrecht, S., Tamboli, R., Taubert, S., Eibl, M. & Rey, G. D. (2022). Towards a Vowel Formant Based Quality Metric for Text-to-Speech Systems: Measuring Monophthong Naturalness. CIVEMSA 2022, Chemnitz.
  • Uncertainty, confidence, and trust in academic and journalistic writing: Concepts and examples. In J. Schmied, J. Dheskali & M. Ivanova (eds. 2022). Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-12.
  • Uncertainty in science vs. certainty in politics: Contrasting axioms in Corona texts. In J. Schmied, J. Dheskali & M. Ivanova (eds. 2022). Göttingen: Cuvillier, 27-32.
  • with J. Dheskali & M. Ivanova (eds. 2022). From Uncertainty to Confidence and Trust. REAL18. Göttingen: Cuvillier.

2021

2020

2019

  • IAWE 2019 “Word Englishes Peripheries and Centres”, University of Limerick, Ireland, China 20-22 June 2019. Comparing Non-Native Metalanguage Developments in the Periphery: the Case of Chinese English MA and PhD Theses.
  • Foreword. In L.M.M. Kamtchueng, C. A. Tabe, D. Nkemleke (eds.). Language, Media and Technologies. Usages, Forms and Functions. München: Lincom GmbH, iv-v.

2018

2017

  • Linguistic Approaches to Credibility in Academic and Media Texts. In J. Schmied/I. van der Bom (eds.), Working with Media Texts: Deconstructing and Constructing Crises in Europe. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-16.
  • DIgesting Crises in Europe (DICE): Deconstructing and Constructing Media Texts in Dialogue with Students. In J. Schmied, /I. van der Bom (eds. 2017), Working with Media Texts: Deconstructing and Constructing Crises in Europe. REAL12. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-18.
  • with I. van der Bom (eds.), Working with Media Texts: Deconstructing and Constructing Crises in Europe. REAL12. Göttingen: Cuvillier.
  • East Africa. In M. Filppula, J. Klemola & D. Sharma (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford: Oxford University Press (print version), DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.001.0001

2016

2015

2014

  • Comment 3 on Mahboob and Liang [Researching and Critiquing World Englishes]. Asian Englishes. An International Journal of the Sociolinguistics of English in Asia/Pacific 16, 261-263.
  • Variation in Academic Writing: Complexity, Pronouns, Modals and Linking in South African MA Theses. In M. Gotti & D. S. Gianonni (eds.). Corpus Analysis for Descriptive and Pedagogical Purposes. ESP Perspectives. Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication 200. Bern: Peter Lang, 325-346.
  • Genre Variation across Academic Disciplines: a Case Study of "Cultures" in MA Theses. In F. Poppi & W. Cheng (eds.). The Three Waves of Globalization: Winds of Change in Professional, Institutional and Academic Genres. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 307-338.

2013

2012

2011

  • Academic Writing in Europe: a Survey of Approaches and Problems. In J. Schmied (ed.), Academic Writing in Europe: Empirical Perspectives. REAL5. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-22.
  • Academic Writing and New Englishes: Unifying the Contrasts. Discourse and Interaction 4.2, 31-47.
  • with A.V. Smirnova. Manifestation of Cultural Values in Academic Discourse: the Case of Russian Collectivism. In Актуальные проблемы коммуникации и културы-13. Сборник научных трудов российских и зарубежных учёных. (Aktuelle Probleme der Kommunikation und Kultur-13. Sammelband wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten russischer und ausländischer Wissenschaftler)(Current problems of communication and culture. Anthology of scientific works by Russian researchers and researchers from other countries) . Москва-Пятигорск: ФГБОУ ВПО Пятигорский государстбенный лингвистический униберситет, 312-316.
  • Using Corpora as an innovative tool to compare varieties of English around the world: the International Corpus of English. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata - 1-2/2011, 21-37.
  • Teaching and Learning Contrastive Linguistics Using an EU Translation Corpus with English, German, French and Spanish. In N. Kübler (ed. 2011). Corpora, Language, Teaching, and Resources: From Theory to Practice. Etudes Contrastives, Vol. 12. Bern: Peter Lang, 165-181.
  • with C. Haase. Conceptualising Spatial Relationships in Academic Discourse: a Corpus-cognitive Account of Locative-spatial and Abstract-spatial Prepositions. In Gozdz-Roszkowski, S. (ed.), Explorations across Languages and Corpora. Bern: Peter Lang, 351-367.
  • Academic Writing in Europe: a Survey of Approaches and Problems. In J. Schmied (ed.), Academic Writing in Europe: Empirical Perspectives. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-26.

2010

  • with D. Nkemleke. Prepositions in Cameroon and Kenyan English: comparability on the basis of text corpora. Syllabus Review 1: 31-53.
  • English as a lingua franca of the European Union? Debates, concepts, projects. In M. Albl-Mikasa, S. Braun, S. Kalina (eds.). Dimensionen der Zweitsprachenforschung - Dimensions of Second Language Research. Festschrift für Kurt Kohn. Tübingen: Narr Francke Verlag, 141-158.
  • with L. Terblanche, B. van Rooy & C. Haase. Register Differentiation in East African English: a Multidimensional Study. English World-Wide 31: 311-349.

2009

  • with C. Haase. Pragmatics (through) Corpora (in) Cultures: An Empirical Comparison of Academic Writing. Topics in Linguistics, 4: Interface Between Pragmatics and Other Linguistic Disciplines. Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Arts, 23-31.
  • Discourse Approaches to Specialised and Popular Academic English: Analysing Adverbial Clause Connections. In O. Dontcheva-Navratilova and R. Povolná (eds.), Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 167-181.
  • Discourse Approaches to Specialised and Popular Academic English: Comparing Stance, Hedges and Modality. In M. Dynel (ed.), Advances in Discourse Approaches. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 76-91.

2008

  • Comparing Complexity and Interclausal Sentence Relations in African Academic Writing. In H.-G. Wolf, L. Peter & F. Polzenhagen (eds.), Focus on English. Linguistic Structure, Language Variation and Discursive Use. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 173-188.
  • Hedges in specialised vs. popular academic interaction: A case study of medical texts. Discourse and Interaction 1.2., Brno: Masaryk University, 85-98.
  • East African English (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania): phonology. In R. Mestrie (ed.), Varieties of English 4: Africa, South and South East Asia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 150-163. (rev. repr. of Kortmann et al. eds. 2004).
  • East African English (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania): morphology and syntax. In R. Mestrie (ed.), Varieties of English 4: Africa, South and South East Asia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 451-471. (rev. repr. of Kortmann et al. eds. 2004).
  • English 21: From Language Teacher to Language Service Provider? Challenges in English Language Teaching II. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on linguistic, sociolinguistic, literary and cultural issues, and ELT methodology in teacher training. Usti nad Labem: Katedra Anglistiky, Pedagogická Fakulta, Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyne, 5-19.
  • Investigative Learning in Different Types of Academic Writing in the SPACE Corpus. 8th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 03-06 July 2008, 263-267.
  • English als lingua franca der EU? In P. Jurczek & M. Niedobitek (eds.), Europäische Forschungsperspektiven. Elemente einer Europawissenschaft. Sonderdruck aus: Chemnitzer Europastudien, Band 8. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 307-334.
  • Academic Interaction: Adapting Complexity and Coherence to the Readership. Topics in Linguistics 2. Politeness and Interaction. Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Arts, 12-17.
  • Teaching Projects in English studies. In J. Schmied & C. Haase (eds.), English Projects in Teaching and Research in Central Europe. Proceedings of the Freiberg Conference, May 04-06, 2007. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-12.
  • with C. Haase. Clause Linking in Specialized and Popular Academic English: An Investigation into Scientific Texts from the Space Corpus. In B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.), Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications. State of the Art. Frankfurt, New York: Lang: 381–399.

2007

  • Teaching Projects in English Studies. In J. Schmied (ed.), English Projects in Teaching and Research in Central Europe. REAL4. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-12.
  • Complexity and Coherence in English Student Writing, especially in Hypertext Learning Systems. In J. Schmied (ed.), Complexity and Coherence: Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 13-30.
  • Exploiting the Corpus of East-African English. In R. Facchinetti (ed.), Corpus Linguistics 25 Years On. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 317-332.
  • with C. Haase & R. Povolná (eds.). Complexity and Coherence. Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching. REAL3. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag.
  • with C. Haase & R. Povolná. Complexity and Coherence - outlining a mosaic. In J. Schmied, C. Haase & R. Povolná (eds.), Complexity and Coherence. Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching. REAL3. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1-12.
  • The Chemnitz Corpus of Specialised and Popular Academic English. In P. Pahta, I. Taavitsainen, T. Nevalainen & J. Tyrkkö (eds.), Towards Multimedia in Corpus Studies. University of Helsinki, Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English Series: Studies in Language Variation, Contacts and Change in English, Vol. 2. http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/02/schmied/
  • Complexity and Coherence in English Student Writing, especially in Hypertext Learning Systems. In J. Schmied, C. Haase & R. Povolná (Eds.), Complexity and Coherence. Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 13-30.

2006

  • ICT for Language Learning and Teaching: Examples, problems, perspectives. In A. Tollet (ed.), English Studies & Language Teaching 2 (English Department, University of West Bohemia), 12-32.
  • Gradient, corpus-cognitive approaches to causative auxiliaries and verbs. In H. Chuquet, M. Paillard (eds.), Causalité et contrastivité. Poitiers: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 53-73.
  • Corpus linguistics and grammar learning: Tutor versus learner perspectives. In S. Braun, K. Kohn & J. Mukherjee (eds.), Corpus Technology and Language Pedagogy. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 87-106.
  • East African Englishes. In B. Kachru, Y. Kachru & C. Nelson (eds.), The Handbook of World Englishes. Basingstoke: Blackwell, 188-202.
  • New ways of analysing ESL on the www with WebCorp and WebPhrasecount. In A. Renouf, A. Kehoe (eds.), The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 309-324.

2005

  • Sprachpraxis und Internet am Beispiel der Englischen Grammatik für Fortgeschrittene. In T. Herbst. Linguistische Dimensionen des Fremdsprachenunterrichts. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 53-69.
  • English in Africa. In Cruse, D. A., F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job, P. R. Lutzeier. Handbook of Lexicology. Berlin: Mouton, 1270-1274.
  • The Internet and English: new perspectives for language learning and research. In J. Schmied, C. Haase & K. Voigt (eds.), English for Central Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Göttingen: Cuivillier, 5-17.
  • Hypertext and (Grammar) Learning. In Mössner, Lilo (eds.), Anglistentag 2004 Aachen. Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 337-357.

2004

  • East African English (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania): morphology and syntax. In B. Kortmann et al. A Handbook of Varieties of English. Volume 2: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 929-947.
  • East African English (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania): phonology. In B. Kortmann et al. A Handbook of Varieties of English. Volume 1: Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 918-930.
  • Translation Corpora in Contrastive Research, Translationand Language Teaching. TradTerm10 (Revista do centro interdepartamental de traducao e terminologia FFLCH/USP. Sao Paulo: Humanitas FFLCH/USP, 83-115.
  • Cultural Discourse in the Corpus of East African English and beyond. World Englishes 23:2, (Guest editor: Gerry Nelson), 251-260.

2003

  • with C. Haase. Grammatik lernen im Internet: Die Chemnitz Internet Grammar. In K. Wenz & K. Boehnke (eds.), Neue Medien im Alltag. Lengerich: Pabst Scince Publishers, 109-126.
  • Cultural discourse in internet business. In E. Oleksy & B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.), Research and Scholarship in Integration Processes: Poland – USA –EU. Lodz: Lodz U.P., 273-283.
  • Learning prepositions in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar. In S. Granger & S. Petch-Tyson (eds.), Extending the Scope of Corpus-Based Research: New Applications, New Challenges. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 231-247.

2002

1990-2001 (selection for reference)

  • (2001). Wie Menschen am Computer lernen. In K. Boehnke & N. Döring (eds.), Neue Medien im Alltag. Die Vielfalt individueller Nutzungsweisen. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 102-120.
  • (2000). New ELT Courses for a Modern World - an Applied Linguistic Point of View. In M. Dakowska (eds.), Foreign Language Studies. English in the Modern World. Festschrift for Hartmut Breitkreuz on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 183-197.
  • (1999). Applying contrastive corpora in modern contrastive grammars: The Chemnitz Internet Grammar of English. In H. Hasselgard & S. Oksefjell (eds.), Out of corpora. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 21-30.
  • (1998). Differences and similarities of close cognates: English with and German mit. In S. Johansson & S. Oksefjell (eds.), Corpora and cross-linguistic research. Theory, method, and case studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 255-275.
  • with B. Fink. (1999). Corpus-based contrastive lexicology: the case of English with and its German translation equivalents. In S. P. Botley, A. M. McEnery & A. Wilson (eds.), Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research. Amsterdam: Rodopi 2000, 157-176.
  • (1998). To choose or not to choose the prototypical equivalent. In R. Schulze (ed.), Making Meaningful Choices in English. On Dimensions, Perspectives, Methodology, and Evidence. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 207-222.
  • with H. Schäffler (1996). Expliciteness of a universal feature of transation. In: M. Ljung (ed.), Corpus-based Studies in English. Papers from the seventeenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17). Stockholm, May 15-19, 1996. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 21-34.
  • with Diana Hudson-Ettle (1996). "Analysing the style of East African newspapers in English". World Englishes 15:1, 103-113.
  • (1996) English in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. In Vivian de Klerk (ed.), Focus on South Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 301–21.
  • (1991). English in Africa: An Introduction. London: Longman.
  • (1991). National and subnational features in Kenyan English. In J. Cheshire (ed.), English Around the World. Sociolinguistic Perspecitives. Cambridge: CUP, 420-431.
  • (1990). Corpus linguistics and non-native varieties of English. World Englishes 9:3, 255-268.
  • (1990). Language Use, Attitudes, Performance and Sociolinguistic Background: A Study of English in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. English World-Wide 11:2, 217-238.
  • (1985). Attitudes Towards English in Tanzania. English World-Wide 6:2, 237-269.
  • (1985). Englisch in Tansania: Socio- und interlinguistische Probleme. Heidelberg: Groos.