Pawel Sickinger, Anne Schröder

Pawel Sickinger originally studied translation at Bonn University, then completed a PhD supervised by Klaus P. Schneider in cognitive translation studies and semantics. Together with Klaus P. Schneider, he studied pragmatic variation, pragmatic competence and learner pragmatics in English. This line of work is now continued and expanded in the context of the DFG funded project “A Pragmatic Profile of Namibian English” based at Bielefeld University, where Pawel Sickinger currently has a full researcher position.

Anne Schröder is a professor of English linguistics at Bielefeld University. She studied English and French at the universities of Caen, France, Bristol, UK and Freiburg i. Br., Germany, where she received her PhD in English linguistics. Her research interests include varieties of English around the world, with a focus on Cameroon Pidgin English, Tense and Aspect, and morphological productivity. Her latest project, funded by the DFG, is “A Pragmatic Profile of Namibian English”, where she combines the quantitative methodology of Variational Pragmatics with qualitative approaches to communicative norms and practices. She is also the co-editor of English World-Wide (Benjamins).