PD Dr. Sandra Mollin
Contact
Anglistisches Seminar/Department of English
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Kettengasse 12, Room 331
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
+49 (6221) 542830
sandra.mollin@as.uni-heidelberg.de
Teaching
Current classes:
- V Introduction to Phonetics and English Phonology
- HS Phraseology
- PSII Introduction to the History of English
- PSII Shakespeare's Early Modern English
- Pronunciation Practice British English
- Colloquium for Exam Candidates
- Research Colloquium Theses
Previously taught classes:
- V British and American English
- V Introduction to Phonetics and English Phonology
- V Introduction to Linguistics
- V Lexicology
- HS Colour Terms
- HS English-German Contrastive Linguistics
- HS English in Germany
- HS First, Second and Third Language Acquisition Compared
- HS Gender and Language Use
- HS Phraseology
- HS Politeness and Impoliteness Research
- HS Pop Song Pronunciation
- HS Psycholinguistics
- HS Sociolinguistics: Development of a Discipline
- HS The Hidden Life of Words: Corpus Approaches to the Lexicon
- HS The Mental Lexicon
- HS British and American English(es)
- 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 Linguistic Research Methods
- PS Psycholinguistics
- PS Second Language Acquisition
- PS Shakespeare's Early Modern English
- PS Sociolinguistics
- PS Varieties of English
Publications
- Hundt, Marianne; Pfenninger, Simone E.; Mollin, Sandra: Psycholinguistic perspectives on language change / Marianne Hundt, Simone E. Pfenninger and Sandra Mollin, 2025. - 26 S.
In: The new Cambridge history of the English language. (2025), Seite 820-845
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1017/9781009205443.036 - Mollin, Sandra: Germany, English in / Sandra Mollin, 2025. - 12 S.
In: Bolton, Kingsley (Hrsg.): The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. (2025), Seite 1-12
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00348 - Mollin, Sandra: English in Germany and the European context / Sandra Mollin, 11 November 2019. - 22 S.
In: Hickey, Raymond (Hrsg.): English in the German-speaking world. (2019), 31-52
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1017/9781108768924.003 - The discursive construction of identities on- and offline : Personal - group - collective / edited by Birte Bös (University of Duisburg-Essen), Sonja Kleinke (University of Heidelberg), Sandra… . -
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]. - VI, 271 Seiten : Diagramme, ISBN 9789027200761
(Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture ; volume 78) - The discursive construction of identities on- and offline : personal - group - collective / edited by Birte Bös (University of Duisburg-Essen), Sonja Kleinke (University of Heidelberg), Sandra… . -
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]. - 1 Online-Ressource (271 Seiten), ISBN 9789027264022
(Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture (DAPSAC) ; Volume 78)
Online-Ressource - Mollin, Sandra: The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates / Sandra Mollin, 23 July 2018. - 22 S.
In: Bös, Birte; Kleinke, Sonja; Mollin, Sandra; Hernández, Nuria (Hrsg.): The discursive construction of identities on- and offline.
(Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture (DAPSAC) ; Volume 78) (2018), Seite 205-226
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1075/dapsac.78.09mol - International Society for the Linguistics of English (3., 2014, Zürich): The changing english language : psycholinguistic perspectives / edited by Marianne Hundt (University of Zürich), Sandra Mollin (University of Heidelberg), Simone E.… . -
Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; Daryaganj, Delhi ; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 410 Seiten) : digital, PDF file(s)., ISBN 9781316091746
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1017/9781316091746 - International Society for the Linguistics of English (3., 2014, Zürich): The changing english language : psycholinguistic perspectives / edited by Marianne Hundt (University of Zürich), Sandra Mollin (University of Heidelberg), Simone E.… . -
Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; Daryaganj, Delhi ; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2017. - xix, 410 Seiten : Diagramme, ISBN 9781107086869 - Hegarty, Peter; Mollin, Sandra; Foels, Rob: Binomial word order and social status / Peter Hegarty, Sandra Mollin and Rob Foels, 2016. - 17 S.
In: Giles, Howard; Maass, Anne (Hrsg.): Advances in intergroup communication.
(Language as social action ; 21) (2016), Seite 119-135
Online-Ressource - Mollin, Sandra: Frequenz, Etymologie, Stil : ein aktueller Zeitungstext als Spiegel des englischen Wortschatzes / Sandra Mollin, Anglistisches Seminar, [2016]. - 5 S.
In: Felder, Ekkehard; Lieb, Ludger (Hrsg.): Texte. Seit 1386. (2016), Seite 271-275 - Mollin, Sandra: The (ir)reversibility of English binomials : corpus, constraints, developments / Sandra Mollin. -
Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins, 2014. - VI, 254 S. : graph. Darst., ISBN 9789027203724
(Studies in corpus linguistics ; 64) - Mollin, Sandra: The (ir)reversibility of English binomials : corpus, constraints, developments / Sandra Mollin. -
Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins, 2014. - Online-Ressource (VI, 254 S.), ISBN 9789027269539
(Studies in corpus linguistics ; 64)
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1075/scl.64 - Mollin, Sandra: [Rezension von: Schönefeld, D. (Ed.), Converging evidence] / reviewed by Sandra Mollin, University of Heidelberg, Germany, January 2014. - 6 S.
In: International journal of corpus linguistics, ISSN 1569-9811. 19(2014), 1, Seite 156-161
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.19.1.07mol - Mollin, Sandra: [Rezension von: Siemund, Peter, The amazing world of Englishes ; Seargeant, Philip, Exploring world Englishes] / reviewed by Sandra Mollin, 2014. - 5 S.
In: English world-wide, ISSN 1569-9730. 35(2014), 3, Seite 353-357
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1075/eww.35.3.05mol - Mollin, Sandra: Pathways of change in the diachronic development of binomial reversibility in late modern American English / Sandra Mollin, March 14, 2013. - 36 S.
In: Journal of English linguistics, ISSN 1552-5457. 41(2013), 2, Seite 168-203
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1177/0075424213478980 - Mollin, Sandra: Pathways of change in the diachronic development of binomial reversibility in Late Modern American English / Sandra Mollin, 2013. - 36 S.
In: Journal of English linguistics, ISSN 0075-4242. 41(2013), 2, Seite 168-203 - Mollin, Sandra: Revisiting binomial order in English : ordering constraints and reversibility / Sandra Mollin, University of Heidelberg, 17 February 2012. - 23 S.
In: English language and linguistics, ISSN 1469-4379. 16(2012), 1, Seite [81]-103
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1017/S1360674311000293 - Mollin, Sandra: Revisiting binomial order in English : ordering constraints and reversibility / Sandra Mollin, University of Heidelberg, 2012. - 23 S.
In: English language and linguistics, ISSN 1360-6743. 16(2012), 1, Seite [81]-103 - Mollin, Sandra: Collocations as patterns of word association : a psycholinguistic approach to phraseology / Sandra Mollin, 2009. - 10 S.
In: Eckstein, Lars (Hrsg.): Proceedings / Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen.
(Proceedings of the conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English ; 30) (2009), Seite 437-446 - Mollin, Sandra: Combining corpus linguistic and psychological data on word co-occurrences : corpus collocates versus word associations / Sandra Mollin, 16.10.2009. - 26 S.
In: Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, ISSN 1613-7035. 5(2009), 2, Seite [175]-200
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1515/CLLT.2009.008 - Mollin, Sandra: Combining corpus linguistic and psychological data on word co-occurrences : corpus collocates versus word associations / Sandra Mollin, 2009. - 26 S.
In: Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, ISSN 1613-7027. 5(2009), 2, Seite [175]-200 - Mollin, Sandra: "I entirely understand" is a Blairism : the methodology of identifying idiolectal collocations / Sandra Mollin, 2009. - 26 S.
In: International journal of corpus linguistics, ISSN 1384-6655. 14(2009), 3, Seite 330-355 - Mollin, Sandra: "I entirely understand" is a Blairism : the methodology of identifying idiolectal collocations / Sandra Mollin, University of Augsburg, 20 August 2009. - 26 S.
In: International journal of corpus linguistics, ISSN 1569-9811. 14(2009), 3, Seite 367-392
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.3.04mol - Mollin, Sandra: Getting at the standards behind the standard ideology : what corpora can tell us about linguistic norms / Sandra Mollin, 2007. - 13 S.
In: Volk-Birke, Sabine (Hrsg.): Proceedings / Anglistentag 2006 Halle.
(Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English ; 28) (2007), Seite 341-353 - Mollin, Sandra: The Hansard hazard : gauging the accuracy of British parliamentary transcripts / Sandra Mollin, 2007. - 24 S.
In: Corpora, ISSN 1749-5032. 2(2007), 2, Seite 187-210 - Mollin, Sandra: The Hansard hazard : gauging the accuracy of British parliamentary transcripts / Sandra Mollin, Oct 2008. - 24 S.
In: Corpora, ISSN 1755-1676. 2(2007), 2, Seite 187-210
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.3366/cor.2007.2.2.187 - Mollin, Sandra: New variety or learner English? : Criteria for variety status and the case of Euro-English / Sandra Mollin, University of Heidelberg, 2007. - 19 S.
In: English world-wide, ISSN 0172-8865. 28(2007), 2, Seite 167-185 - Mollin, Sandra: New variety or learner English? : Criteria for variety status and the case of Euro-English / Sandra Mollin, University of Heidelberg, 2007. - 19 S.
In: English world-wide, ISSN 1569-9730. 28(2007), 2, Seite 167-185
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1075/eww.28.2.04mol - Mollin, Sandra: English as a lingua franca : a new variety in the new expanding circle? / Sandra Mollin, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2006. - 17 S.
In: Nordic journal of English studies, ISSN 1654-6970. 5(2006), 2, Seite [41]-57
Online-Ressource - Mollin, Sandra: Euro-English : assessing variety status / Sandra Mollin. -
Tübingen: Narr, 2006. - X, 230 S. : graph. Darst., ISBN 9783823362500
(Language in performance ; 33)
Supervisions
I have supervised over 300 final student theses on wide-ranging topics in English linguistics.
I am happy to accept a limited number of new students who plan to write their final BA / MA / MEd theses on topics that fall into the following areas:
- Sociolinguistics
- Varieties of English
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Lexicology and Phraseology
- Corpus Linguistics
- Historical Linguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- First and Second Language Acquisition
- Pragmatics
The next semesters in which I have places for theses to be supervised are:
- BA: SS 2027
- MA: any semester
- M.Ed.: SS 2027
I also examine final oral exams and have done so over 400 times in the past. The next date for which I have places for M.Ed. final oral exams is spring 2027. MA candidates writing their thesis with me: any time.
CV
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 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)
09/2010-02/2014: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Anglistischen Seminar, Universität Heidelberg(Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the English Department, University of Heidelberg)
03/2012-02/2013: Habilitationsstipendium im Olympia-Morata-Programm der Universität Heidelberg (Post-doc thesis scholarship, University of Heidelberg)
11/2013: Habilitation, Neuphilologische Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg; Venia legendi: Englische Philologie (Sprachwissenschaft)
03/2014- : Akademische Mitarbeiterin am Anglistischen Seminar, Universität Heidelberg (Lecturer (permanent) in English Linguistics, English Department, University of Heidelberg)
12/2014: Ruf auf eine W2-Professur für Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (abgelehnt) (Offered Professorship in English Linguistics, University of Mainz - declined)
03/2015: Ruf auf eine W3-Professur für Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (abgelehnt) (Offered Professorship in English Linguistics, University of Würzburg - declined)