Nina Funke
Biographic Data
| ID | 934861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Funke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Funke |
| SIGNATURE | FUNKE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4140-7136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploration of the mandative subjunctive in Pakistani English
The study at hand explores the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent construction with the modal verb should in Pakistani English. The study enhances understanding of the alternation both by focusing on Pakistani English as a relatively under‐researched postcolonial variety of English and by complementing the traditional syntactic variables that influence the choice of subjunctive with a sociolinguistic dimension in the…
Particle Placement in Hong Kong English
In the framework of postcolonial Englishes and their evolutions, Hong Kong English represents an extraordinary case in that the political independence of Hong Kong from the British in 1997 did not result—as in most other cases—in a self-governing political body, but a formal re-integration of Hong Kong into China. As the handover of Hong Kong also marks a drastic linguistic re-orientation, this short-term diachronic paper studies newspaper data f…
A multifactorial approach to war and corruption metaphors in South Asian Englishes
The present paper provides a corpus‐based study of war and corruption metaphors in South Asian Englishes (specifically Indian English, Bangladeshi English, Nepali English and Pakistani English). Considering the highly news‐relevant nature of these concepts, the South Asian Varieties of English corpus (SAVE2020) serves as the database. In an initial step, we outline the source domains at different levels of schematicity used to construe war and co…
Pragmatic nativisation of thanking in South Asian Englishes
As South Asian Englishes have been studied regarding their structural levels but only few studies have focused on their pragmatics, this study investigates thanking strategies in the spoken parts of the British, Indian, and Sri Lankan components of the International Corpus of English. The paper answers the questions: Do variety , speaker age and gender , context formality , position within the speaker turn, and the presence of a benefactor , inte…
Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes
As studies on socio-pragmatics in South Asian Englishes and – more generally – postcolonial Englishes are still rare, the present study analyses how age, formality of context, gender, topic of the conversation and type-token ratio of a given speaker influence intensifiers and downtoners in spoken Indian, Sri Lankan and British English as represented in the International Corpus of English . Central research interests cover (a) differences in the f…
Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes
As studies on socio-pragmatics in South Asian Englishes and – more generally – postcolonial Englishes are still rare, the present study analyses how age, formality of context, gender, topic of the conversation and type-token ratio of a given speaker influence intensifiers and downtoners in spoken Indian, Sri Lankan and British English as represented in the International Corpus of English . Central research interests cover (a) differences in the f…
Pragmatic nativisation of thanking in South Asian Englishes
As South Asian Englishes have been studied regarding their structural levels but only few studies have focused on their pragmatics, this study investigates thanking strategies in the spoken parts of the British, Indian, and Sri Lankan components of the International Corpus of English. The paper answers the questions: Do variety , speaker age and gender , context formality , position within the speaker turn, and the presence of a benefactor , inte…
Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes
As studies on socio-pragmatics in South Asian Englishes and – more generally – postcolonial Englishes are still rare, the present study analyses how age, formality of context, gender, topic of the conversation and type-token ratio of a given speaker influence intensifiers and downtoners in spoken Indian, Sri Lankan and British English as represented in the International Corpus of English . Central research interests cover (a) differences in the f…
Particle Placement in Hong Kong English
In the framework of postcolonial Englishes and their evolutions, Hong Kong English represents an extraordinary case in that the political independence of Hong Kong from the British in 1997 did not result—as in most other cases—in a self-governing political body, but a formal re-integration of Hong Kong into China. As the handover of Hong Kong also marks a drastic linguistic re-orientation, this short-term diachronic paper studies newspaper data f…
A multifactorial approach to war and corruption metaphors in South Asian Englishes
The present paper provides a corpus‐based study of war and corruption metaphors in South Asian Englishes (specifically Indian English, Bangladeshi English, Nepali English and Pakistani English). Considering the highly news‐relevant nature of these concepts, the South Asian Varieties of English corpus (SAVE2020) serves as the database. In an initial step, we outline the source domains at different levels of schematicity used to construe war and co…
Exploration of the mandative subjunctive in Pakistani English
The study at hand explores the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent construction with the modal verb should in Pakistani English. The study enhances understanding of the alternation both by focusing on Pakistani English as a relatively under‐researched postcolonial variety of English and by complementing the traditional syntactic variables that influence the choice of subjunctive with a sociolinguistic dimension in the…
Linguistics (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Formality (2 works)