Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Reber
| Telefon: | +49 821 598 - 2759 |
| E-Mail: | elisabeth.reber@uni-auni-a.de () |
| Raum: | D 4042 (D5) |
| Adresse: | Universit?tsstra?e 10, 86159 Augsburg |
Office Hours during the Winter Semester
Tuesdays, 16:00-17:00 (starting Oct. 21)
Research Interests
- Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, and Multimodal Analysis
- Prosody in conversation
- Historical pragmatics
- Variational pragmatics
- Sound objects
- Quotations
- Address terms
- Change in 20th and 21st century English
Curriculum vitae
Education
Habilitation, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Potsdam. 2019. Venia legendi: Englische Philologie/Sprachwissenschaft. Thesis: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. A short-term diachronic study of an evidential practice. Referees: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Andreas H. Jucker
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Dr. phil., English Linguistics, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Potsdam. 2008. With highest honors (Summa cum laude). Thesis: Affectivity in Talk-in-interaction: sound objects in English. Referees: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Marja-Leena Sorjonen
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M.A. (Magister Artium), English Linguistics, Scandinavian Languages and Cross-cultural Communication, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Munich. 2002. Thesis: Phatic Communion in English and German. Referees: Leonhard Lipka, Richard Janney
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Positions held
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Professor of English Linguistics (W2), Institute of English Language and Literature, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Hildesheim, 2025.
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Interim professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) of Applied English Linguistics, Institute of English Language and Literature, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Hildesheim, 2023 - 2025.
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Interim professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) of Applied English Linguistics, Institute of English, American, and Celtic Studies, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Bonn, 2022 - 2023.
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Interim professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) of English Linguistics, English Seminar, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Heidelberg, 2020 - 2021.
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Senior lecturer (Akademische R?tin auf Zeit) in English Linguistics, Institute of Modern Languages, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Würzburg, 2011 - 2023.
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Guest lecturer, Department of Culture and Society, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Link?ping, October 2019.
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Research fellow (postdoc), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Department of Sociology, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of California, Santa Barbara, March - July 2016.
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Research fellow (postdoc), funded by the women’s program of the Faculty of Arts, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2010-2011.
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Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2009 - 2010.
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Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in German Linguistics, Institute of German Studies, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Potsdam, 2009.
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Interim professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) of German Linguistics, Institute of German Studies, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Potsdam, 2008 - 2009.
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Lecturer and researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Potsdam, 2006 - 2009.
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Graduate Assistant (geprüfte Hilfskraft) in English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Potsdam, Germany, 2003 - 2006.
Recent presentations
Reber, Elisabeth & Peter Uhrig. DH and spoken corpora: Exploring new pathways for historical recordings. DH Day. 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg, 07 October 2025.
Reber, Elisabeth. Nominal terms of address at the Old Bailey and beyond. Tracing historical traditions and (post)colonial transformations. INAR 8. 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Portugal, Lisbon, 16-18 July 2025.
Reber, Elisabeth. Processes of (de-)democratization in legal discourse. Workshop on Language, Discourse and Power Structures (LanDPoSts) in (De-)Democratization. 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Bonn, 27 June 2025.
Publications
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2025 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (in press). Non-lexical sounds. In Melisa Stevanovic (Ed.), Research handbook on social interaction Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. BibTeX | RIS |
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2024 |
| Sch?nefeld, Doris, Kostadinova, Viktorija, Dreschler, Gea, Bouso Rivas, Tamara, Benczes, Réka, Zhong, Ai, Scott, Maggie, Anderwald, Lieselotte, Ahlers, Wiebke, Vida-Mannl, Manuela, Al-Thubaiti, Kholoud A., Cogo, Alessia, Sum Pok Ting, Shawnea, Parise, Ida, Souza Da Silva, Juliana, Reber, Elisabeth, Adam, Naomi, & Stradling, Fransina (2024). English language. The Year's Work in English Studies, 103(1), 1-152. BibTeX | RIS |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2024). Sound object. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott M. Hoey, & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of terminology for conversation analysis and interactional linguistics International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ABVR5 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI | URL |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2024). Vocalization. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott M. Hoey, & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of terminology for conversation analysis and interactional linguistics International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EZFJK PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI | URL |
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2023 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2023). "Though I infinitly wish thy companye": concessive opening formulae in Early English correspondence. In Renate Bauer, Christine Elsweiler, Ulrike Krischke, & Kerstin Majewski (Eds.), Travelling texts - texts travelling: a 'Gedenkschrift' in memory of Hans Sauer (pp. 165-181). München: utzverlag. BibTeX | RIS |
| Reber, Elisabeth & Jucker, Andreas H. (2023). Diachronic pragmatics: new perspectives on recent developments of spoken English [Editorial]. Journal of Pragmatics, 216, 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.07.012 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Kostadinova, Viktorija, Wiemann, Marco, Dreschler, Gea, Bouso, Tamara, Gyuris, Beáta, Zhong, Ai, Scott, Maggie, Anderwald, Lieselotte, Ahlers, Wiebke, Vida-Mannl, Manuela, Al-Thubaiti, Kholoud A., Ting, Shawnea Sum Pok, Parise, Ida, Cogo, Alessia, & Reber, Elisabeth (2023). English language. The Year's Work in English Studies, 102(1), 1-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maad020 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth & Jucker, Andreas H. (Eds.). (2023). Journal of Pragmatics, 216: Virtual Special Issue "Diachronic Pragmatics: Perspectives on Spoken English". Amsterdam: Elsevier. BibTeX | RIS | URL |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2023). On the ritualization of commemorative practices: paying tribute in British Prime Minister's Questions. Journal of Pragmatics, 214, 92-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.05.008 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2022 |
| Reber, Elisabeth & Sauer, Hans (2022). Allas and weilawei: interjections in Some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Fragment III: Wife of Bath, the Friar, the Summoner). Academic Journal of Modern Philology, 15, 279-304. https://doi.org/10.34616/ajmp.2022.15.22 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2022). Book review: Schottmann, Hans: Schwedische Interjektionen und Partikeln. Dortmund 2020. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 52(2), 334-336. https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2022-2021 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Kostadinova, Viktorija, Wiemann, Marco, Dreschler, Gea, Gregersen, Sune, Gyuris, Beáta, Zhong, Ai, Anderwald, Lieselotte, Hansen, Beke, Leuckert, Sven, Kra?, Tihana, Ting, Shawnea Sum Pok, Parise, Ida, Cogo, Alessia, & Reber, Elisabeth (2022). English language. The Year's Work in English Studies, 101(1), 1-138. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maac001 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2021 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2021). Book review: Dramas of Reconciliation. A performance approach to the analysis of political apologies in international relations, written by Michel-André Horelt. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019. Contrastive Pragmatics, 2(2), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10024 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2021). Calibrating syntax, prosody and gaze in British parliamentary questions. In Maxi Kupetz & Friederike Kern (Eds.), Prosodie und Multimodalit?t: empirische Beitr?ge der Interaktionalen Linguistik = Prosody and multimodality (pp. 239-266). Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter. BibTeX | RIS |
| Kostadinova, Viktorija, Wiemann, Marco, Dreschler, Gea, Gregersen, Sune, Gyuris, Beáta, Zhong, Ai, Scott, Maggie, Anderwald, Lieselotte, Hansen, Beke, Leuckert, Sven, Kra?, Tihana, Sum Pok Ting, Shawnea, Cogo, Ida Parise Alessia, Reber, Elisabeth, & Ahmed, Furzeen (2021). English language. The Year's Work in English Studies, 100(1), 1-158. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maab001 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2021). On the variation of fragmental constructions in British English and American English post-match interviews. Sociolinguistica, 35(1), 217-241. https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0011 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2021). Quoting in parliamentary question time: exploring recent change. Cambridge: Cambridge 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108869898 BibTeX | RIS | DOI Zugl.: Habilitationsschrift, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Potsdam, 2018 |
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2020 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2020). Interjektionen - an den R?ndern der Sprache?. In Michael Elmentaler & Oliver Niebuhr (Eds.), An den R?ndern der Sprache (pp. 39-65). Berlin: Peter Lang. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
| Haapanen, Lauri & Perrin, Daniel (2020). Linguistic recycling: the process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings. AILA Review, 33(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.00027.int PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI Lauri Haapanen & Daniel Perrin, together with: Chris M. Anson, Reili Argus, Sally Burgess, Jen Cope, Claas Digmayer, Susanne Hall, Eva-Maria Jakobs, Klaus Laalo, Leo Lepp?nen, Pedro Martín-Martín, Kayo Matsushita, Gilles Merminod, Cary Moskovitz, Michael Pemberton, Daniel Pfurtscheller & Elisabeth Reber |
| Reber, Elisabeth & Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (2020). On "whistle" sound objects in English everyday conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 53(1), 164-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1712966 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2020). Visuo-material performances: 'literalized' quotations in prime minister's questions. AILA Review, 33(1), 176-203. https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.00036.reb PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2020). Zur Rolle von Phonetik und Prosodie in CAN I X-, LE? ME X-, und LEMME X-Konstruktionen. In Wolfgang Imo & Jens P. Lanwer (Eds.), Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik (pp. 135-166). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637489-005 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2019 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2019). 'Punch and Judy' politics? Embodying challenging courses of action in parliament. In Elisabeth Reber & Cornelia Gerhardt (Eds.), Embodied activities in face-to-face and mediated settings: social encounters in time and space (pp. 255-297). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8_8 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Gerhardt, Cornelia & Reber, Elisabeth (2019). Embodied activities. In Elisabeth Reber & Cornelia Gerhardt (Eds.), Embodied activities in face-to-face and mediated settings: social encounters in time and space (pp. 3-27). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8_1 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth & Gerhardt, Cornelia (Eds.). (2019). Embodied activities in face-to-face and mediated settings: social encounters in time and space. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8 BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Gerhardt, Cornelia & Reber, Elisabeth (2019). Epilogue. In Elisabeth Reber & Cornelia Gerhardt (Eds.), Embodied activities in face-to-face and mediated settings: social encounters in time and space (pp. 437-452). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8_13 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2018 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2018). Interjektionen. In Frank Liedtke & Astrid Tuchen (Eds.), Handbuch Pragmatik (pp. 229-239). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04624-6_23 BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2015 |
| Fetzer, Anita & Reber, Elisabeth (2015). Quoting in political discourse: professional talk meets ordinary postings. In Jenny Arendholz, Wolfram Bublitz, & Monika Kirner-Ludwig (Eds.), The pragmatics of quoting now and then (pp. 97-124). Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110427561-006 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2014 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2014). Constructing evidence at Prime Minister's Question Time: an analysis of the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see. Intercultural Pragmatics, 11(3), 357-387. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2014-0017 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2014). Obama said it: quoting as an evidential strategy in online discussion forums. Language and Dialogue, 4(1), 76-92. https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.4.1.05reb PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2012 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2012). Affectivity in interaction: sound objects in English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.215 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI Zugl.: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2008 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2012). Book review: Gerd Antos & Eija Ventola: Handbook of Interpersonal Communication, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. LinguistList, 23, 1505. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2012). Evidential positioning in follow-ups in news interviews. Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman, Elisabeth Reber (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESF Strategic Workshop on Follow-ups Across Discourse Domains: "A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions", Würzburg (Germany), 31 May – 2 June 2012(pp. 205-220). Würzburg: Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
| Fetzer, Anita, Weizman, Elda, & Reber, Elisabeth (2012). Introduction. Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman, Elisabeth Reber (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESF Strategic Workshop on Follow-ups Across Discourse Domains: "A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions", Würzburg (Germany), 31 May – 2 June 2012(pp. 3-4). Würzburg: Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
| (2012). Proceedings of the ESF Strategic Workshop on Follow-ups Across Discourse Domains: "A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions", Würzburg (Germany), 31 May – 2 June 2012. Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman, Elisabeth Reber (Eds.), Würzburg: Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
| (2012). Prosody and embodiment in interactional grammar. Pia Bergmann, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer, Elisabeth Reber (Eds.), Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295108 BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Bergmann, Pia, Brenning, Jana, Pfeiffer, Martin, & Reber, Elisabeth (2012). Towards an interactional grammar. Pia Bergmann, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer, Elisabeth Reber (Eds.), Prosody and embodiment in interactional grammar(pp. 1-16). Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295108.1 BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2011 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2011). Interjections in the EFL classroom: teaching sounds and sequences. ELT Journal, 65(4), 365-375. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccq070 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2010 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2010). Double function of prosody: processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures - comments on Elisabeth Gülich and Katrin Lindemann "Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction. A multidimensional single case analysis". In Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber, & Margret Selting (Eds.), Prosody in interaction (pp. 295-302). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/sidag.23.24reb PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Reber, Elisabeth & Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (2010). Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalit?t: Lexem oder Lautobjekt?. In Arnulf Deppermann & Angelika Linke (Eds.), Sprache intermedial: Stimme und Schrift, Bild und Ton (pp. 69-96). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223613.69 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Reber, Elisabeth, & Selting, Margret (2010). Preface. In Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber, & Margret Selting (Eds.), Prosody in interaction (pp. xi-xvii). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/sidag.23.02pre PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Reber, Elisabeth, & Selting, Margret (Eds.). (2010). Prosody in interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/sidag.23 BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
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2009 |
| Reber, Elisabeth (2009). Zur Affektivit?t in englischen Alltagsgespr?chen. Mareike Buss, Stephan Habscheid, Sabine Jautz, Frank Liedtke, Jan Georg Schneider (Eds.), Theatralit?t des sprachlichen Handelns: eine Metaphorik zwischen Linguistik und Kulturwissenschaften(pp. 193-215). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |