Dr. Sandra Mollin

1998-2003

Studium an den Universitäten Freiburg und Heidelberg und London, Stipendiatin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes und des DAAD
Studied at universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg and London

12/2001

M.A. (mit Auszeichnung) in ‘Language, Society and Change in Europe', Queen Mary College, University of London
M.A. (with distinction) in ‘Language, Society and Change in Europe’, Queen Mary College, University of London

1/2003

M.A. (mit Auszeichnung) in Englischer Philologie, Psychologie und Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg
M.A. (with distinction) in English Philology, Psychology and Sociology, University of Heidelberg

2003-2005

Promotionsstipendium der Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg
PhD scholarship from the Land Baden-Württemberg

1/2006

Promotion (summa cum laude) in Englischer Philologie, Universität Freiburg
Dr. phil., (summa cum laude) in English Philology, University of Freiburg

10/2005 - 09/2007

Wissenschaftliche Angestellte am Anglistischen Seminar, Universität Heidelberg
Lecturer in English Linguistics at the English Department, University of Heidelberg

10/2007-08/2010

Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik), Universität Augsburg
Assistant Professor in Applied English Linguistics, University of Augsburg

seit/since 09/2010

Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Anglistischen Seminar, Universität Heidelberg
Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the English Department, University of Heidelberg

seit/since 03/2012

Habilitationsstipendium im Olympia-Morata-Programm der Universität Heidelberg
Post-doc thesis scholarship from the University of Heidelberg

Mollin, Sandra. 2006. Euro-English. Assessing Variety Status. Tübingen: Narr. (Reviewed in Applied Linguistics, English World-Wide and World Englishes.)

Mollin, Sandra. 2006. "English as a lingua franca: A new variety in the new Expanding Circle?" Nordic Journal of English Studies 5:2, 41-57.

Mollin, Sandra. 2006. "Review of: Trudgill, Peter. 2004. New-Dialect Formation. The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31:1, 81-83.

Mollin, Sandra. 2007. "New variety or learner English? Criteria for variety status and the case of Euro-English." English World-Wide 28:2, 167-185.

Mair, Christian, and Sandra Mollin. 2007. "Getting at the standards behind the standard ideology: What corpora can tell us about linguistic norms." Anglistentag 2006 Halle. Proceedings. Eds. Sabine Volk-Birke and Julia Lippert. Trier: wvt, 341-353.

Mollin, Sandra. 2007. "The Hansard hazard. Gauging the accuracy of British parliamentary transcripts." Corpora 2:2, 187-210.

Mollin, Sandra. 2009. “Collocations as patterns of word association: A psycholinguistic approach to phraseology.” Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen. Proceedings. Eds Christoph Reinfandt and Lars Eckstein. Trier: wvt, 81-90.

Mollin, Sandra. 2009. “Combining corpus linguistic and psychological data on word co-occurrences: Corpus collocates versus word associations.” Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 5:2, 177-203.

Mollin, Sandra. 2009. “'I entirely understand' is a Blairism: The methodology of identifying idiolectal collocations.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 14:3, 330-355.

Mollin, Sandra. 2010. “Review of: Berns, Margie, Kees de Bot and Uwe Hasebrink (eds) 2007. In the Presence of English. Media and European Youth. New York: Springer.” English World-Wide 31:2, 191-194.

Mollin, Sandra. 2010. “Review of: Gnutzmann, Claus (ed.). 2008. English in Academia. Catalyst or Barrier? Tübingen: Narr, and Gnutzmann, Claus and Frauke Intemann (eds). 2008. The Globalisation of English and the English Language Classroom. Second Edition. Tübingen: Narr.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik 58:3, 307-312.

Mollin, Sandra. 2012. “Revisiting binomial order in English. Ordering constraints and reversibility.” English Language and Linguistics, 16:1, 81-103.

Current research projects:

I am currently working on my post-doctoral thesis (Habilitationsschrift) with the working title "The (ir)reversibility of binomial expressions in the English language and in the mental lexicon of English speakers”. The research is partly funded by the DFG (German research society) in project MO 1756/4-1: . Research assistants in the project are Katrin Petermann and Rebecca Reiß.

Further research projects:

• Corpus linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives on the phenomenon of collocation
• Idiolect linguistics
• (Im)politeness in British parliamentary speech
• Linguistic realities of European speakers of lingua franca English

General research interests:

accents of English, corpus linguistics, English as a lingua franca, English in Europe, historical phonology, phraseology, politeness, psycholinguistics, varieties of English.

Peer reviewing:

Reviewer for: Corpora, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, World Englishes, and the National Science Foundation.

Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen / Current classes

HS First, Second and Third Language Acquisition Compared
PSII Introduction to Early Modern English

Frühere Lehrveranstaltungen / Previous teaching

V Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology
HS English-German Contrastive Linguistics
PS British and American English
PS Contrastive Linguistics
PS Early Modern English
PS English Words
PS The History of the English Language
PS Language and Gender
PS Language and Politics: English in Europe
PS Psycholinguistics
PS Second Language Acquisition
PS Sociolinguistics
PS Varieties of English
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