Prof. Dr. Axel Bohmann
Research Interests
- World Englishes
- Language variation and change
- Corpus linguistics
- Sociolinguistics of globalization
- Digital linguistics
- Anthropology of linguistics
Recent teaching
Summer 2025
- Metapragmatics. (advanced seminar)
- Language and Identity. (seminar)
- Variation in Present-Day English: Corpus Explorations. (seminar)
- Empirical Research in Linguistics: An Overview. (lecture)
Winter 2024/25
- In Other's Words: The Linguistics of Quotation. (seminar)
- The Linguistic Individual. (seminar)
- English Corpus Linguistics: A Guided Tour. (lecture)
Most Recent Publications
2025
- Axel Bohmann. [accepted] . English among West-African Migrants in Germany: A Reflexive Approach (Varieties of English Around the World). John Benjamins.
- Axel Bohmann, Fatlum Sadiku, Panagiota Papavasileiou. [accepted]. A dynamic perspective on diasporic social media communication. In J. Leimgruber, S. Leukert, S. Rüdiger (eds.), World Englishes and Social Media. Bloomsbury.
- Axel Bohmann. [accepted]. ‘Jamaica is not the only Jamaica’: Language ad place on Youtube. In H. Paulasto, L. Meriläinen, S. Kaislaniemi, M. Laitinen (eds.), English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age. Brill.
- Axel Bohmann, Mirka Honkanen. [accepted]. Writing Nigerian Pidgin on the web: Dynamic developments on a diasporic forum. In H. Paulasto, L. Meriläinen, S. Kaislaniemi, M. Laitinen (eds.), English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age. Brill.
- Axel Bohmann, Lotte Sommerer. [accepted]. Quantitative methods in historical linguistics. In R. Hickey, M. Kyt., E. Smitterberg (eds.), New Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol II. Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling. Cambridge University Press.
- Axel Bohmann, Julia Müller, Mirka Honkanen, Miriam Neuhausen. [in press 2025]. Linguistic Data Science and the English Passive: Modelling Diachronic Developments and Regional Variation (Language, Data Science, and Digital Humanities). Bloomsbury.
- Axel Bohmann. 2025. Codeswitching in the Caribbean. In K. Bolton (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of World Englishes. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00281
- Thomas Messerli, Daria Dayter, Sven Leuckert, Aatu Liimatta, Hanna Mahler, Axel Bohmann, Gustavo Kozma, Rafaela Tosin. 2025. Digital debating cultures: Communicative practices on Reddit. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 40(1), 227-240. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf005
2024
- Axel Bohmann. 2024. Future-time reference in World Englishes. World Englishes 43(1), 2-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12634
- Axel Bohmann. 2024. Towards ‘large and tidy’: Establishing internal structure in mega-corpora. in S. Costas, V. Laippla (eds.), Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders: The March of Data. Bloomsbury, 175-185.
2023
- Axel Bohmann. 2023. Diatopic variation in digital space: A multidimensional analysis of Texas English Twitter data. Scandinavian Studies in Language 14(2), 73-103. https://doi.org/10.7146/sss.v14i2.142539
Upcoming Talks
- Bipartite collexeme graphs for the diachronic analysis of constructional competition. ICAME 46, University of Vilnius (Lithuania), 20.06.2025.
- Quoted and constructed speech across six varieties of English. IAWE 26, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (Germany), 27.07.2025.
- The passive alternation in spoken North American English. ISLE 8, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 03.09.2025.
Recent Talks
- Language ideologies in global English: The case of West-African asylum seekers in Germany. BICLCE 10, Universitat d'Alicant, Alicante (Spain), 28.09.2024.
- Because XYZ: How many non-canonical because-constructions are there? 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of Osnabrück (Germany), 05.09.2024.
- Large and tidy? A method of finding structure in mega-corpora. ICAME 45, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo (Spain), 19.06.2024.