Explorations into Language, Literature and Culture

Monika Reif (PhD 2010), Neele Mundt (PhD 2021) and Frank Polzenhagen (PhD 2005, habilitation 2014) are lecturers and researchers in English linguistics at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) in Landau, Germany. Their main research fields include Second Language Development, (Critical) Discourse Studies, Cognitive (Socio-)Linguistics and Cultural Linguistics.

Part I Studies in cognitive grammar : Günter Radden : The story of hitting – Marjolijn Verspoor : English articles: A cognitive linguistic lesson – Susanne Niemeier : The (non- ) use of the existential there construction by German EFL learners – Part II Applied- linguistic studies: Discourse and language teaching : Iris Kleinbub : Mehrsprachigkeitsorientierter Grammatikunterricht: Schlaglichter aus Lehrer*innensicht – Philipp Maas, Selina Schleppi and Bernd Engelhart : Phonetic imaging in the English classroom: Mapping and modelling acoustic landscapes of non- native vocal tracts – Luna Filipović : Interpreting challenges in the context of police interviews and interrogations – Andreas Musolff : Culture- specific variation in conceptualisations of nations as bodies and/ or persons – Part III Linguistic- landscape studies : Ulrich Schmitz : English in the linguistic landscape of the Ruhr Metropolis – Monika Reif and Frank Polzenhagen : LLL – The linguistic landscape of Landau – Neele- Frederike Mundt : Language policy and the linguistic landscape in Yaoundé (Cameroon) – Part IV Studies on language variation and language policy : Hans- Georg Wolf : Delineating the lexicon of West African English and some thoughts on the concept of “variety” – Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi : Language and nationalism in Africa: The case of Setswana in Botswana – Andy Chebanne and Kemmonye Monaka : The need for preservation of a national language: A brief report on Setswana language in Botswana – Sabine Diao- Klaeger : French in Africa – Karsten Legère : Von LiCCA 1991 zu IYIL 2019 – Karen Chavira and Dennis R. Preston : Code choice in El Paso: Stable triglossia? – Part V Studies on literature and film : Lothar Bluhm and Hiroko Nishiguchi : „weil sich hier kein so naher Zusammenhang äußert“: Grimms Märchen in Japan zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit – Kathleen Starck and Stella Butter : The complexion of sympathy in William Wyler’s The Letter – Achim Hescher : History under ground: Factuality and counterfactuality in Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad and Ben Winters’ Underground Airlines – Hans- Peter Wagner : LOST: The ultimate TV show?