Susanne Mohr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3824024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Mohr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohr |
| SIGNATURE | MOHR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1483-0948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
World Englishes and Tourism
The field of World Englishes investigates the various forms, that is, varieties, of English spoken around the world, their sociological and cultural contexts, as well as their structural features. In the beginning, the propagation of the heterogeneity of the English language and the legitimacy of “new” varieties were at its core. Accounting for contemporary social developments, such as globalization and transnationalism, as well as new sociolingu…
Hunting gestures in Tjwao
Hunting gestures, i.e., gestures used to avoid scaring away prey or raising the attention of predators, are a central part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of many foragers. These gestures have been documented for several groups in Southern Africa. This article is dedicated to such gestures, specifically those used by the speakers of a moribund East Kalahari Khoe language – Tjwao. It documents the hunting gestures collected in the villages of San…
Bergen
Semiotic landscapes have been documented widely. However, many analyses focus on visible cues and production, and do not investigate soundscapes and the perception of both visual and auditory signs. The present study aims at filling this research gap. It presents an ethnographic investigation of the semiotic landscape of arrival in Bergen, Norway. The focus is on the welcome sign outside the airport and the soundscape of the city-bound tram. Data…
Communicative action and interaction in Africa
The cultural adaptation of quantity judgment tasks in Ghanaian English and Akan
The phenomenon of mass and countability is multifaceted and has been controversially discussed in many disciplines. For linguistics, differences in the morphosyntactic marking of the distinction cross-linguistically, and its cross-cultural ontological-semantic conceptualization are particularly interesting. However, most studies into mass and countability have focused on (American) English, and, to some extent European and Asian languages. Africa…
Investigating English in Multilingual Contexts Online
Tourism discourse, referring to communication in tourism as global industry, contributes to the creation of tourist spaces, where space is a social and affective construct as opposed to place as a geographical one. Tourists and hosts are part of these spaces and form them with their language practices, both offline and online. This article presents a case study of tourism discourse related to Zanzibar on Instagram, focusing particularly on lingui…
CHAPTER 4 English Language Learning Trajectories among Zanzibaris Working in Tourism
European English in the EFL classroom
The UK is facing important changes in the near future, with Brexit, i.e. the UK leaving the European Union (EU), looming ever more closely on the horizon. These important political and economic changes will certainly have an influence on Europe as a whole, and have had linguistic consequences for the English language, such as Brexit-related neologisms (Lalić-Krstin & Silaški, 2018). As Modiano (2017a) suggests, Brexit might also have an influence…
You know and I think in English(es) in Zanzibar
This paper provides an analysis of discourse markers in English(es) spoken by Zanzibaris, using data from sociolinguistic interviews. The focus is on you know and I think. In English as a lingua franca (ELF), both have been shown to be used differently than by ‘native’ speakers, especially marking subjectivity or speaker-centeredness. The data show similarities with ELF communication, that is the markers express subjectivity in highlighting or ev…
Language choices among South African migrants in the tourist space of Zanzibar
In an increasingly mobile world, in which people and languages from different cultures meet all across the globe, the development and dynamics of linguistically and culturally superdiverse spaces are of particular sociolinguistic interest. In this regard, two important phenomena are migration and tourism. This article analyses language choices and their motivations in the superdiverse tourist space of Zanzibar. Applying Q-methodology developed fo…
English, national and local linguae francae in the language ecologies of Uganda and Tanzania
With regard to eastern Africa, English is usually discussed as a language of urban metropolises, connected to global capital and high education. However, globalisation has created pockets away from these urban centres, where English is an important part of local linguistic practices, coexisting with rather local linguae francae. This study presents two examples of such places from Uganda and Tanzania, discusses the role English and local language…
African sociolinguistics between urbanity and rurality
In African sociolinguistic studies a dichotomy between approaches focusing on urban centres with newly developing linguistic codes and languages used by the elite, as opposed to approaches concentrating on language documentation in rural areas has long been prevalent. That dichotomy has often been the point where English and African studies diverge in that the first have traditionally concentrated on urban locations, while the latter have focused…
The Changing Dynamics of Language Use and Language Attitudes in Tanzania
The use of and attitudes towards the languages of Tanzania have always been closely related to language policies, the most recent policy having been issued in 2014. However, most studies on language attitudes are relatively dated (e.g. Schmied 1990). In light of policy changes and the results of earlier studies, this article aims to shed light on current language use and attitudes among Tanzanians, especially towards English. The results of a que…
Language usage in everyday life and in education
Tanzania is, like most countries in East Africa, extremely culturally and linguistically diverse. Language counts range from 125 (Lewis, Simons & Fennig, 2016) to 164 living languages mentioned by the ‘Languages of Tanzania project’ (2009). Given this extreme multilingualism, institutional languages had to be chosen on a national level after independence. Kiswahili is the proclaimed national language and lingua franca of the East African region, …
Plural nouns in Tswana English
This study analyzes non-standard plurals, which have been reported for several Outer and Expanding Circle varieties, in Tswana English as exemplified in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). The focus of the study is on substrate influence and transfer, which is often difficult to determine for African varieties of English given their extremely multilingual sociolinguistic setting. The results of the corpus analysis, compared to two…
African sociolinguistics between urbanity and rurality
In African sociolinguistic studies a dichotomy between approaches focusing on urban centres with newly developing linguistic codes and languages used by the elite, as opposed to approaches concentrating on language documentation in rural areas has long been prevalent. That dichotomy has often been the point where English and African studies diverge in that the first have traditionally concentrated on urban locations, while the latter have focused…
Plural nouns in Tswana English
This study analyzes non-standard plurals, which have been reported for several Outer and Expanding Circle varieties, in Tswana English as exemplified in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). The focus of the study is on substrate influence and transfer, which is often difficult to determine for African varieties of English given their extremely multilingual sociolinguistic setting. The results of the corpus analysis, compared to two…
Language usage in everyday life and in education
Tanzania is, like most countries in East Africa, extremely culturally and linguistically diverse. Language counts range from 125 (Lewis, Simons & Fennig, 2016) to 164 living languages mentioned by the ‘Languages of Tanzania project’ (2009). Given this extreme multilingualism, institutional languages had to be chosen on a national level after independence. Kiswahili is the proclaimed national language and lingua franca of the East African region, …
Plural nouns in Tswana English
This study analyzes non-standard plurals, which have been reported for several Outer and Expanding Circle varieties, in Tswana English as exemplified in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). The focus of the study is on substrate influence and transfer, which is often difficult to determine for African varieties of English given their extremely multilingual sociolinguistic setting. The results of the corpus analysis, compared to two…
The Changing Dynamics of Language Use and Language Attitudes in Tanzania
The use of and attitudes towards the languages of Tanzania have always been closely related to language policies, the most recent policy having been issued in 2014. However, most studies on language attitudes are relatively dated (e.g. Schmied 1990). In light of policy changes and the results of earlier studies, this article aims to shed light on current language use and attitudes among Tanzanians, especially towards English. The results of a que…
Language choices among South African migrants in the tourist space of Zanzibar
In an increasingly mobile world, in which people and languages from different cultures meet all across the globe, the development and dynamics of linguistically and culturally superdiverse spaces are of particular sociolinguistic interest. In this regard, two important phenomena are migration and tourism. This article analyses language choices and their motivations in the superdiverse tourist space of Zanzibar. Applying Q-methodology developed fo…
English, national and local linguae francae in the language ecologies of Uganda and Tanzania
With regard to eastern Africa, English is usually discussed as a language of urban metropolises, connected to global capital and high education. However, globalisation has created pockets away from these urban centres, where English is an important part of local linguistic practices, coexisting with rather local linguae francae. This study presents two examples of such places from Uganda and Tanzania, discusses the role English and local language…
African sociolinguistics between urbanity and rurality
In African sociolinguistic studies a dichotomy between approaches focusing on urban centres with newly developing linguistic codes and languages used by the elite, as opposed to approaches concentrating on language documentation in rural areas has long been prevalent. That dichotomy has often been the point where English and African studies diverge in that the first have traditionally concentrated on urban locations, while the latter have focused…
CHAPTER 4 English Language Learning Trajectories among Zanzibaris Working in Tourism
European English in the EFL classroom
The UK is facing important changes in the near future, with Brexit, i.e. the UK leaving the European Union (EU), looming ever more closely on the horizon. These important political and economic changes will certainly have an influence on Europe as a whole, and have had linguistic consequences for the English language, such as Brexit-related neologisms (Lalić-Krstin & Silaški, 2018). As Modiano (2017a) suggests, Brexit might also have an influence…
You know and I think in English(es) in Zanzibar
This paper provides an analysis of discourse markers in English(es) spoken by Zanzibaris, using data from sociolinguistic interviews. The focus is on you know and I think. In English as a lingua franca (ELF), both have been shown to be used differently than by ‘native’ speakers, especially marking subjectivity or speaker-centeredness. The data show similarities with ELF communication, that is the markers express subjectivity in highlighting or ev…
The cultural adaptation of quantity judgment tasks in Ghanaian English and Akan
The phenomenon of mass and countability is multifaceted and has been controversially discussed in many disciplines. For linguistics, differences in the morphosyntactic marking of the distinction cross-linguistically, and its cross-cultural ontological-semantic conceptualization are particularly interesting. However, most studies into mass and countability have focused on (American) English, and, to some extent European and Asian languages. Africa…
Investigating English in Multilingual Contexts Online
Tourism discourse, referring to communication in tourism as global industry, contributes to the creation of tourist spaces, where space is a social and affective construct as opposed to place as a geographical one. Tourists and hosts are part of these spaces and form them with their language practices, both offline and online. This article presents a case study of tourism discourse related to Zanzibar on Instagram, focusing particularly on lingui…
Communicative action and interaction in Africa
Hunting gestures in Tjwao
Hunting gestures, i.e., gestures used to avoid scaring away prey or raising the attention of predators, are a central part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of many foragers. These gestures have been documented for several groups in Southern Africa. This article is dedicated to such gestures, specifically those used by the speakers of a moribund East Kalahari Khoe language – Tjwao. It documents the hunting gestures collected in the villages of San…
Bergen
Semiotic landscapes have been documented widely. However, many analyses focus on visible cues and production, and do not investigate soundscapes and the perception of both visual and auditory signs. The present study aims at filling this research gap. It presents an ethnographic investigation of the semiotic landscape of arrival in Bergen, Norway. The focus is on the welcome sign outside the airport and the soundscape of the city-bound tram. Data…
World Englishes and Tourism
The field of World Englishes investigates the various forms, that is, varieties, of English spoken around the world, their sociological and cultural contexts, as well as their structural features. In the beginning, the propagation of the heterogeneity of the English language and the legitimacy of “new” varieties were at its core. Accounting for contemporary social developments, such as globalization and transnationalism, as well as new sociolingu…
Linguistics (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)