Julia Degenhardt, M.A.

Office Hours during the Semester Break

by appointment (via Zoom)

Research Interests

(Variational) Pragmatics
World Englishes
Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistic Methodology
Forensic Linguistics

Curriculum vitae

Education

10/2017 – 02/2020: Master of Arts, “Modern Languages and Linguistics” at Justus Liebig University Giessen
10/2012 – 06/2017: First State Examination, “Lehramt an Gymnasien” at Justus Liebig University Giessen

Work experience

since 10/2025: Research Assistant at the Chair of Applied English Linguistics at Augsburg University
04/2020 – 12/2025: Research Assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen
01/2022 – 12/2024: Communications Manager at the President’s Office at Justus Liebig University Giessen
11/2019 – 03/2020: Student Assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen
05/2019 – 12/2021: Project Assistant at the President’s Office at Justus Liebig University Giessen

Publications

2026 | 2025 | 2023 | 2022

2026
Schmidt, Karola & Degenhardt, Julia (2026). Variational metapragmatics in South Asian Englishes: a corpus-based study of apology in newspaper writing. Corpus Pragmatics, 10, 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-025-00207-3 PDF \| BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
2025
Degenhardt, Julia (2025). Parentheticals in spoken Indian and Sri Lankan English. World Englishes, 44(1-2), 184-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12696 PDF \| BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
Degenhardt, Julia (2025). Pragmatic functions of question tags in Indian and Sri Lankan English. Journal of Pragmatics, 239, 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.005 PDF \| BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
Kircili, Kathrin, Degenhardt, Julia, Bernaisch, Tobias, & Götz, Sandra (2025). The existential there construction in spoken South Asian Englishes. Asian Englishes, 27(1), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2390240 PDF \| BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
2023
Degenhardt, Julia (2023). Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English. World Englishes, 42(3), 523-543. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12573 PDF \| BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
2022
Degenhardt, Julia & Bernaisch, Tobias (2022). Apologies in South Asian varieties of English: a corpus-based study on Indian and Sri Lankan English. Corpus Pragmatics, 6(3), 201-223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-022-00117-8 PDF \| BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI

Conferences & Workshops

2026

23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-23), 15-18 June 2026, University of Milan, Italy. Talk on "Addressing justices in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments: A diachronic multifactorial study of nominal addresses in the Digital SCOTUS Oral Arguments Corpus", together with Elisabeth Reber and Peter Uhrig.

47th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME47), "A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI", 26-30 May 2026, University of Koblenz, Germany. Talk on "Towards a taxonomy of AI transcription and human correction: Pragmatic and speech production phenomena in the Corpus of Spoken Maldivian English (CoSpoMalE)", together with Eliane Lorenz.

47th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME47), "A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI", 26-30 May 2026, University of Koblenz, Germany. Talk on "AI-enhanced and smartphone-based compilation of spontaneous speech: The creation of the Corpus of Spoken Maldivian English (CoSpoMalE)", together with Tobias Bernaisch, Barbara Güldenring, Eliane Lorenz and Aishath Suad.

2025

Workshop "Corpus- and Sociolinguistic Methods for the Empirical Description of Maldivian English", 5–9 October 2025, Maldives National University, Maldives. Talk on "Methods of Collecting Spoken Texts".

26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2024), "World Englishes through Space and Time", 25–27 June 2025, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Talk on "Pragmatic Emphasizers in South Asian English Newspaper Writing".

2024

13th Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference (BAELc13), 5–6 July 2024, University of Bonn, Germany. Talk on "Variational Metapgramatics in South Asian English Newspaper Writing", together with Karola Schmidt.

2023

Workshop Pragmatic Variation across the New Englishes, 16–18 August 2023, University of Münster, Germany. Talk on "Tag Questions in South Asian Englishes".

25th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2023), "World Englishes in a Multilingual World", 15–17 June 2023, Stony Brook University, New York, USA. Talk on "Comment Clauses in South Asian English".

Fourth Nachwuchstagung für Englische Linguistik (NEL-4), 27 February 2023, University of Bonn, Germany. Talk on "Parenthetical Hedges in South Asian Englishes".

2022

43nd Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 43), "Corpus Linguistics: A new normal?", 27–30 July 2022, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. Talk on "Grammatical Nativization in Spoken South Asian Englishes: The Case of the Existential-There Construction", together with Kathrin Kircili, Sandra Götz-Lehmann and Tobias Bernaisch.

2021

42nd Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 42), "Crossing Boundaries through Corpora", 18–21 August 2021, TU Dortmund University, Germany. Talk on "Apologies in Indian and Sri Lankan English", together with Tobias Bernaisch.

New Englishes New Methods Workshop, "Pragmatics in World Englishes", 30 April 2021 (online), Paderborn University & Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Invited talk on "Multifactorial Approaches towards the Pragmatics of South Asian Englishes".

Third Nachwuchstagung für Englische Linguistik (NEL-3), 22 February 2021 (online), University of Würzburg, Germany. Talk on "Pragmatic Variation in South Asian Englishes: Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English".

Teaching

Summer 2026

Forensic Linguistics (BA & Lehramt)

Pidgins and Creoles (BA & Lehramt)

Varieties of English around the World (BA & Lehramt)

Winter 2025/26

Semantics (BA & Lehramt)

Forensic Linguistics (BA & Lehramt)

Summer 2025

Forensic Linguistics (BA & Lehramt)

Winter 2024/25

Business English I: Business Communication - Group A (BA)

Business English I: Business Communication - Group B (BA)

Business English II: Business Foundations (BA)

Varieties of English around the World (BA & Lehramt)

Crisis Communication (MA)

Intercultural Business Communication - Group A (MA)

Intercultural Business Communication - Group B (MA)

Summer 2024

Business English I: Business Communication (BA)

Business English III: Business in a Globalized World - Group A (BA)

Business English III: Business in a Globalized World - Group B (BA)

Global Marketing Communications - Group A (MA)

Global Marketing Communications - Group B (MA)

Public Relations Writing - Group A (MA)

Public Relations Writing - Group B (MA)

Summer 2023

Varieties of English around the World (BA & Lehramt)

Semantics (BA & Lehramt)

Winter 2022/23

Forensic Linguistics (BA & Lehramt)

Summer 2022

Pragmatics (BA & Lehramt)

Winter 2021/22

Introduction to English Linguistics (BA & Lehramt)

Summer 2021

Semantics (online, BA & Lehramt)

Winter 2020/21

Varieties of English around the World (online, BA & Lehramt)

Summer 2020

Pragmatics (online; BA & Lehramt)

Sociolinguistics – Group A (online, BA & Lehramt)

Sociolinguistics – Group B (online, BA & Lehramt)

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Julia Degenhardt

Office Hours during the Semester Break

Research Interests

Curriculum vitae

Education

Work experience

Publications

Conferences & Workshops

Teaching

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