Christine Elsweiler
PD Dr.
Room: 40324
Office hours: Wednesday, 10:00 - 11:00
Research and teaching interests
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Cross-cultural, historical and variational pragmatics
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Gender and language
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Historical correspondence
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Historical sociolinguistics
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Modal auxiliaries and modality
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Scots and Scottish English
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Standardisation in the history of English
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Politeness and GenAI
CV
2020 Habilitation: “From Shared Meaning to Divergent Pragmatics: A Comparative Study of the Modal Auxiliaries May, Can, Shall and Will in Scottish and English Letters (1500–1700)”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2011 Zweite Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien in der Fächerverbindung Englisch und Französisch
2009 Promotion (Dr. Phil.): “Laʒamon's Brut between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance – a Study of the Lexical Fields ‘Hero’, ‘Warrior’ and ‘Army’”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2004 Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien in der Fächerverbindung Englisch und Französisch, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Selected Publications
1) Elsweiler, Christine, Anna Ziegner and David Elsweiler. 2026. “From Hyperpolite to Hyperefficient: A User Politeness Continuum in Human-AI Interaction”. Corpus Pragmatics 10, 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-025-00225-1
2) Elsweiler, Christine. 2025. “The Conventional Organisation of Request Sequences in Scottish Letters (1570–1750)”. Language and Literature 34(2). Special issue on Diachronicity in Literary Studies and Linguistics. Ed. by Monika Fludernik and Olga Timofeeva. 145–167. https://doi.org/10.1177/ 09639470251327491
3) Elsweiler, Christine. 2024. “Epistolary Skill and Discourse Management: The Use of Metapragmatic Utterances in 18th-century Scottish Letters”. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 125(2): 115–154.
4) Elsweiler, Christine. 2024. “Modal May in Requests: A Comparison of Regional Pragmatic Variation in Early Modern Scottish and English Correspondence”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25(3): 355–391. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.20013.els
5) Thaler, Marion and Christine Elsweiler. 2023. “The Role of Gender in the Realisation of Apologies in Local Council Meetings: A Variational Pragmatic Approach in British and New Zealand English”. Special Issue on Gender and Language. Ed. by Anna Islentyeva and Anatol Stefanowitsch. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 71(3): 217–239.