Svenja Kranich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svenja Kranich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svenja |
| FAMILY NAME | Kranich |
| SIGNATURE | KRANICH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9355-0463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English
This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir , which declines sharply from the 1960s onward, and the familiarizer guys , which shows a strong and continuous increase over the entir…
Epistemic and Evidential Expressions in English Over Time: Some Insights on the Role of Interactional Processes and Social Change
In this introductory paper we outline the aims of the special issue on epistemic and evidential expressions in English across time, the main areas of research within this field and give a summary of the papers included in the special issue, while also highlighting how they contribute to the overarching research aim and how they intersect
The Language of Democratization: Roles, Social Positions, and Discourse
Terms of Address: A Contrastive Investigation of Ongoing Changes in British, American and Indian English and in German
Address terms are closely related to the conceptualisation of hierarchical relations in a speech community, so, since – at least in Western societies – tendencies towards a flattening of hierarchies have been noted (cf. Mair, 2006), we expect changes in this domain. Some evidence has been produced for German, American and British English, but empirical insights on address choice in Indian English are lacking to date. As it tends to be a conservat…
Changes in the modal domain in different varieties of English as potential effects of democratization
The impact of input and output domains: Towards a Function-Based Categorization of Types of Grammaticalization
Introduction to What happens after grammaticalization? Secondary grammaticalization and other late stage processes
Functional layering and the English progressive
In this article, it will be argued that the concept of functional layering – an extension of Hopper's (1991) concept of layering – can be fruitfully applied to understand the mechanisms behind the sometimes large and messy looking synchronic picture of diverse meanings which one and the same construction can fulfill at a particular point in time. The concept will be used to account for the meaning spectrum of the present-day English progressive, …
To hedge or not to hedge: The use of epistemic modal expressions in popular science in English texts, English–German translations, and German original texts
Hedging plays a significant role in both scientific writing proper and its popularized form. However, most research has concentrated on the former text type, while comparatively little attention has been paid to the phenomenon in popular science. The present study uses a corpus of English popular scientific articles, their German translations, and original German popular scientific articles to investigate the use of epistemic modal markers (such …
L'emploi des expressions épistémiquesdans des lettres aux actionnaires en France,aux États Unis et en Allemagne
Cet article offre une analyse contrastive de l'emploi des ex-pressions épistémiques dans des « lettres aux actionnaires » (document constituant la première partie du rapport annuel) provenant des sociétés françaises, états-uniennes et alle-mandes. L'étude se base sur un corpus constitué de lettres aux actionnaires saisies sur internet (environ 120 000 mots). Nous avons choisi d'étudier les expressions épistémiques pour deux raisons : premièrement…
Grammaticalization, subjectification and objectification
It has often been stated that grammaticalization is accompanied by subjectification (e.g. Traugott 1995), which has been rectified to the idea that this process typically tends to accompany only primary grammaticalization, i.e. the very early stages of grammaticalization (Traugott 2010). Taking this hypothesis further, I will suggest in this paper that, in fact, secondary grammaticalization (i.e. when already grammatical elements/constructions mo…
Changes in the modal domain in different varieties of English as potential effects of democratization
The impact of input and output domains: Towards a Function-Based Categorization of Types of Grammaticalization
Introduction to What happens after grammaticalization? Secondary grammaticalization and other late stage processes
Functional layering and the English progressive
In this article, it will be argued that the concept of functional layering – an extension of Hopper's (1991) concept of layering – can be fruitfully applied to understand the mechanisms behind the sometimes large and messy looking synchronic picture of diverse meanings which one and the same construction can fulfill at a particular point in time. The concept will be used to account for the meaning spectrum of the present-day English progressive, …
Grammaticalization, subjectification and objectification
It has often been stated that grammaticalization is accompanied by subjectification (e.g. Traugott 1995), which has been rectified to the idea that this process typically tends to accompany only primary grammaticalization, i.e. the very early stages of grammaticalization (Traugott 2010). Taking this hypothesis further, I will suggest in this paper that, in fact, secondary grammaticalization (i.e. when already grammatical elements/constructions mo…
To hedge or not to hedge: The use of epistemic modal expressions in popular science in English texts, English–German translations, and German original texts
Hedging plays a significant role in both scientific writing proper and its popularized form. However, most research has concentrated on the former text type, while comparatively little attention has been paid to the phenomenon in popular science. The present study uses a corpus of English popular scientific articles, their German translations, and original German popular scientific articles to investigate the use of epistemic modal markers (such …
L'emploi des expressions épistémiquesdans des lettres aux actionnaires en France,aux États Unis et en Allemagne
Cet article offre une analyse contrastive de l'emploi des ex-pressions épistémiques dans des « lettres aux actionnaires » (document constituant la première partie du rapport annuel) provenant des sociétés françaises, états-uniennes et alle-mandes. L'étude se base sur un corpus constitué de lettres aux actionnaires saisies sur internet (environ 120 000 mots). Nous avons choisi d'étudier les expressions épistémiques pour deux raisons : premièrement…
Functional layering and the English progressive
In this article, it will be argued that the concept of functional layering – an extension of Hopper's (1991) concept of layering – can be fruitfully applied to understand the mechanisms behind the sometimes large and messy looking synchronic picture of diverse meanings which one and the same construction can fulfill at a particular point in time. The concept will be used to account for the meaning spectrum of the present-day English progressive, …
The impact of input and output domains: Towards a Function-Based Categorization of Types of Grammaticalization
Introduction to What happens after grammaticalization? Secondary grammaticalization and other late stage processes
Changes in the modal domain in different varieties of English as potential effects of democratization
Terms of Address: A Contrastive Investigation of Ongoing Changes in British, American and Indian English and in German
Address terms are closely related to the conceptualisation of hierarchical relations in a speech community, so, since – at least in Western societies – tendencies towards a flattening of hierarchies have been noted (cf. Mair, 2006), we expect changes in this domain. Some evidence has been produced for German, American and British English, but empirical insights on address choice in Indian English are lacking to date. As it tends to be a conservat…
The Language of Democratization: Roles, Social Positions, and Discourse
Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English
This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir , which declines sharply from the 1960s onward, and the familiarizer guys , which shows a strong and continuous increase over the entir…
Epistemic and Evidential Expressions in English Over Time: Some Insights on the Role of Interactional Processes and Social Change
In this introductory paper we outline the aims of the special issue on epistemic and evidential expressions in English across time, the main areas of research within this field and give a summary of the papers included in the special issue, while also highlighting how they contribute to the overarching research aim and how they intersect
Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)