(Dia)Lects in the 21st Century Selected Papers from Methods in Dialectology XVII

Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer is interested in studying language variation and change. She currently works on recent changes in the use of pseudo-passives in British English and on innovative uses of the intensifiers so, particularly in American English..Susanne Wagner studied English Philology, Latin Philology and General Linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, graduating in 1998 with a Magister Artium. Her PhD thesis (Freiburg, 2003) focuses on gender assignment in the traditional dialects of Southwest England (where apples are "hes“) and Newfoundland, Canada (where storms are "shes“). Her previous academic positions include the University of Oxford (2012-2015) and Chemnitz University of Technology, where she also completed her postdoctoral thesis ("Habilitation“) in 2012. Since 2015, she has been professor of English Linguistics at the University of Mainz.Her research interests include sociolinguistics and Language Variation and Change in L1 varieties of English, focusing on morphosyntactic features; urban and traditional dialectology; corpus linguistics; and issues in the statistical modelling of sociolinguistic variables. She also investigates the role of variation in the EFL context, including bias in EFL textbooks.