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Christine S. Sing

Dr. Christine S. Sing M.A.

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Short CV

Christine S. Sing has worked mainly on the interface between discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, with a focus on Second Language Writing. In addition to her study of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) she has a keen research interest in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Teaching Applications of Language Corpora, and Political Communication.

Christine Sing studied English, French and German at the University of Heidelberg and General Linguistics at the University of Poitiers, France. She was a member of the interdisciplinary Research Training Group “Cultures of Lying”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and established at the University of Regensburg. She received her PhD from the University of Regensburg with a dissertation that examines American presidential rhetoric as situated within an ideological discourse of change.

Prior to joining the English Linguistics Team at the University of Siegen, Christine Sing held academic positions at the English Departments of the Universities of Heidelberg, Greifswald, Giessen and Vienna, Austria. She was an Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she specialized in English Business communication, Business English as a lingua franca (BELF) and the internationalisation of English.

Research

Main Research Areas

  • Applied English Linguistics (with particular reference to English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Second Language Writing)
  • Corpus Linguistics (with particular reference to specialised corpora, L2 writing corpus research and Teaching Applications of Corpora)
  • Discourse Analysis (with particular reference to meaning-making in written discourses; Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA))
  • Cognitive Linguistics (with particular reference to Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Frame Theory)
  • English as an International Language (with particular reference to World Englishes, (Business) English as a Lingua Franca (B)ELF)

Current projects

Current project (post-doctoral thesis):

“Un/packing knowledge in ESP writing: An integrated corpus and qualitative data analysis of technicality in L2 student writing.”

Publications

  • [in preparation]: “Un/packing knowledge in ESP writing: An integrated corpus and qualitative data analysis of technicality in L2 student writing”
  • 2008: "And so, today, a new season of American renewal has begun". A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Newness in American Presidential Discourse. University of Regensburg. DOI: 10.5283/epub.52880

  • 2014 (with M. Stegu und E. Peters): "Fachsprachenunterricht heute: Bedarf – (Fach-)Wissen – Kontext". Fachsprache / International Journal of Specialized Communication XXXVI/1-2.
  • 2004 (with S. Greschonig): Ideologien zwischen Lüge und Wahrheitsanspruch. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag.

  • 2024: “Learner Identities in the ESP Setting of a Business School: Integrating Focus Group Methodology and Interactional Discourse Analysis.” PhiN Philologie im Netz 35, 63-91. https://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft35/b35t6.pdf
  • 2022: “From ‘occluded’ genres to authentic ESP writing tasks: Modelling intertextual cohesion for task-based L2 writing instruction.” Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies 33 (2), 29-59. <https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2022/2/7>
  • 2019: "Intertextuality in pedagogic genres: Identifying genre- and task-related factors in source-based business writing". Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Verena Lyding & Lionel Nicolas (eds.): Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected Papers from the Fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain. [Corpora and Language in Use], 357-397.
  • 2017a: Zum Erwerb wissenschaftlicher Textkompetenz in der Wirtschaftssprache Englisch. In Christiane Dalton-Puffer/Klaus-Börge Boeckmann/Barbara Hinger (Hg.) ÖGSD Tagungsberichte Vol. 2.1.: Symposium Sprachlehr/lernforschung in Österreich. 10 Jahre ÖGSD. Graz: ÖGSD, 25-31.
  • 2017b: "Same same, but different?" Gender-based variation in business student writing". In Peter Handler/Klaus Kaindl/Holger Wochele (Hg.) Ceci n'est pas une festschrift. Texte zur Angewandten und Romanistischen Sprachwissenschaft für Martin Stegu. Berlin: Logos, 95-111.
  • 2017c: "English as a lingua franca in international business contexts business contexts: Pedagogical implications for the teaching of English for Specific Business Purposes". In Franz Rainer/Gerlinde Mautner (eds) Business Communication: Linguistic Approaches. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 319-356.
  • 2016: "Writing for specific purposes: Developing business students’ ability to ‘technicalize’". In Susanne Göpferich/Imke Neumann (eds.) Developing and Assessing Academic Writing Skills (Forum Angewandte Linguistik). Frankfurt: Lang, 15-45.
  • 2015: "'My own summary is definitely less scientific but more easy to grasp': ESP writing and disciplinary identity". Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (FLuL) 44 (1), 82-96. [invited]
  • 2014 (with E. Peters und M. Stegu): "Fachsprachenunterricht heute: Bedarf – (Fach-) Wissen – Kontext", Fachsprache/International Journal of Specialized Communication 36/1-2, 2-11.
  • 2013: "Shell noun patterns in student writing in English for specific academic purposes (ESAP)". In Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier (eds) Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking back, Moving ahead. Corpora and Language in Use. Louvain: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 411-422.
  • 2011: "The Ideological Construction of European Identities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Linguistic Representation of the Old vs. New Europe Debate" In Christopher Hart (ed.) Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 143–170.
  • 2010: "Yes, We Can– Framing political events in terms of change: A corpus-based analysis of the 'change' frame in American Presidential discourse", Belgian Journal of Linguistics 24, 147-175.
  • 2007a: "The Linguistics of Lying" In Jochen Mecke (ed.) Cultures of Lying. Theories and Practice of Lying in Society, Literature, and Film. Berlin: Galda & Wilch, 115-126.
  • 2007b: "The Discourse of Didacticization of English in Germany", World Englishes 26 (2), 241-259.
  • 2006: "Multilingualism as Empowerment? Is English Disempowering German Learners?" In Albert Weideman / Birgit Smieja (eds.) Empowerment through Language and Education. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 93-113.
  • 2005: "Peter Webbers Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring – Eine Schule des Sehens im Zeichen von Intermedialität" In Jürgen Klein / Gunnar Müller-Waldeck (Hg.) Flandziu (Halbjahresblätter der Internationalen Wolfgang Koeppen Gesellschaft) 2, 2, 19-39.
  • 2004a: "What price ecology? A Case Study of Metonymic Profiling in Advertising Discourse" In Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk / Alina Kwiatkowska (eds.) Imagery in Language. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ronald W. Langacker, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 651-663.
  • 2004b: "Retracing the European map - An Ideological Outline of the Old vs. New Europe Debate" In Steffen Greschonig / Christine S. Sing (eds.) Ideologien zwischen Lüge und Wahrheitsanspruch. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 217-233.
  • 2004c (with K. Kratochwill):"Als Geisterfahrer unterwegs auf dem LOST HIGHWAY. David Lynchs Tunnelblick als Reflektor von Selbstlüge und Identitätssuche" In Kerstin Kratochwill / Almut Steinlein (Hg.) Kino der Lüge. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 153-192.

  • 2012a: “Nouns and their Patterns in L2 Student Writing – Implications for the Teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP).” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference ‘Teaching and Language Corpora’, Warsaw, Poland (edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska).
  • 2012b: "Corpus-based evidence for the construal of adjectives with multiple meanings: The case of new." Online Proceedings of UK-CLC3 1, http://www.uk-cla.org.uk/proceedings/volume_1.
  • 2004d: "Have we learnt our lesson well?" Curriculum ideals and classroom reality in the process of empowerment through Euro-English. Duisburg/Essen: LAUD (625).

2017: Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader: An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches. By Marta Degani. Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 315 pp. In: Presidential Studies Quarterly 47 (3), 606-607.

Courses taught

  • English as a Global Language
  • The Pragmatics of Discourse
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Word formation
  • Specialized Discourse
  • The Pragmatics of Academic Discourse
  • Controversies in Applied Linguistics
  • Introducing Semantics
  • Second Language Writing
  • English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
  • English Vocabulary in Context

  • Academic Writing in English
  • Business English
  • Discourse analysis and language teaching
  • Discourse Studies
  • English language teaching and writing instruction
  • ESP & Specialized Communication
  • Introducing the English Lexicon
  • Introduction to Discourse Analysis
  • Linguistics for Language Teachers
  • Proseminar Linguistics I
  • Scientific Writing for Economists
  • Scientific Writing for PhD Candidates
  • Topics in Applied Linguistics
  • Wissenschaftliches Schreiben in englischer Sprache

  • Introduction to Discourse Analysis

  • Academic Writing and Research Proposal Workshop
  • Academic Writing Toolkit
  • Einführung in die Grundlagen wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und Schreibens
  • English Business Communication I
  • English Business Communication II
  • Internationalizing and Globalizing Issues for Society

  • English as a World Language
  • Gender Linguistics
  • Introduction to English Linguistics
  • Introduction to Modern English Morphology
  • Introduction to Modern English Syntax
  • Linguistic Schools — Theories & Methodologies of Modern Linguistics
  • Pragmatics: Language & Culture
  • Semantics: The Meanings of Language

Gender Studies

  • Introduction to English Linguistics
  • Political Linguistics

  • English Phonetics & Phonology
  • Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics
  • Introduction to Linguistics

Einführung in die Grundlagen und Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft

Conference talks (since 2010)

  • Global Englishes Language Teaching - A Symposium. Münster, Germany, 31 May 2023 ("“But I think English is not any more connected to the US or the UK”: A Focus Group Analysis of the Language Attitudes and Ideologies of International Business Students.")

  • LANGSCAPE Conference: Dynamics of multilingualism in the digital public space. Siegen, Germany, 27.-29.5. (“Deconstructing learner identities in multilingual, digitalized contexts: A discourse analysis of the hybrid academic practices of international business students.”)

  • Anglistentag, Jena, Germany [postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic], Sektion “English Linguistics, Learners, and the Classroom.” (“Using corpora for task-based ESP writing instruction: An integrated corpus and computer-aided textual analysis of source-based L2 student writing”).
  • AILA - The 19th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Groningen, Netherlands [postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic], Symposium S122: Putting Multimodality to Use – Corpus-based Applications of Multimodality and their Implications for Theory and Methods. (“Multimodality in written academic genres: An integrated corpus and computer-aided textual analysis of image-text relations in ESP student writing”).

  • MAG 2019: Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: What has changed? Bergamo, Italy, 27.-29.6. (“A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Textual and Visual Metadiscourse in L2 Disciplinary Student Writing. The Missing Link in Analysing Written Academic Genres?”)
  • Specialised Discourse and Multimedia: Linguistic features and translation issues, Lecce, Italy, 14.-16.2. (“Image-Text Relations in the ESP Writing of Business Students: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Meaning-Making in Written Academic Genres.”)

  • 13th Teaching and Learning Corpora Conference (TaLC), Cambridge, UK, 18.-21.7. (“Using corpora for task-based ESP writing instruction: The case of source-based business writing.”)
  • 11th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF 11), London, UK, 4.-7.7. (“Analysing written academic ELF in the multiliterate setting of a business school: Towards an ELF-informed approach to writing instruction.”)
  • 9th Austrian UAS Language Instructors’ Conference, Technikum Wien, Austria, 25.-26.5. (“Writing for a purpose: Developing business students' ability to 'technicalise'.”)

 

  • Language Education across Borders, Graz, Austria, 8.-10.12. (“Crossing boundaries in ESP writing: Corpus-based evidence from academic business English.”)
  • Learner Corpus Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 5.10.-7.10. (“Intertextuality in pedagogic genres: Examining the influence of genre- and task-based factors on source-based business writing.”)
  • Faces of English 2: Teaching and Researching Academic and Professional English, Hong Kong, 1.-3.6. (“ESP writing: Developing business students’ ability to technicalize.”)
  • Symposium 10 Jahre ÖGSD Sprachlehr/lernforschung, Wien, Austria, 19.5. (“Zum Erwerb wissenschaftlicher Textkompetenz in der englischen Wirtschaftssprache: Eine korpusgestützte Analyse intertextueller Verfahren zur Herstellung von Technizität in studentischen Texten aus der Betriebswirtschaftslehre.”)

  • 6. Internationaler Kongress des Forums wissenschaftliches Schreiben; Konstanz, Germany 10.-11.6. (“Intertextuelle Verfahren zur Herstellung von Technizität in studentischen Texten aus dem Bereich der Betriebswirtschaftslehre.”)
  • 12th Teaching and Learning Corpora Conference (TaLC), Gießen, Germany, 20.-23.7. (“The influence of task-based factors on L2 writing assignments – Corpus-based evidence from ESP learner language.”)
  • The fifth international conference of CADAAD, Catania, Italy, 5.-7.9. (“Framing the President as an Effective Crisis Manager: A Corpus-based Analysis of Crisis Rhetoric in American Foreign Policy Discourse.”)

  • Learner Corpus Research, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 11.-13.9. (“Pronominal self-reference in business student writing: Is writer visibility a matter of language or discipline?”)

  • Kongress der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), ‘Angewandte Linguistik in der Lehre - Angewandte Linguistik lehren’, Marburg, Deutschland, 16.9 - 19.9. (“Writing for a purpose: Developing business students' ability to 'technicalise' in specialised discourse.”)
  • The fifth international conference of CADAAD, Budapest, Ungarn, 1.9 – 3.9. (“Academic Discourse Analysis (ADA): The Missing Link in the Study of Academic (Writing) Practices.”)

  • 10th Teaching and Learning Corpora Conference (TaLC), Warschau, Poland, 11.-14.7. (“Nouns and their patterns in L2 student writing. Implications for the teaching of English for specific academic purposes (ESAP).”)
  • The fourth international conference of CADAAD, Braga, Portugal, 4.-6.7. (“Deconstructing the party-political discourses of change. A corpus-based analysis of American presidential rhetoric.”)

  • Learner Corpus Research, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15.-17.9. (“From ‘formulaic sequences’ to conceptual shells: a corpus-based account of the use of constructions in EAP student writing.”)
  • The Third Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III), Copenhagen, Denmark, 14.-16.6. (“Adjectives in Cognitive Grammar – A usage-based Account.”)

  • The third international conference of CADAAD, Łódź, Poland, 13.-15.9. (“Deconstructing learner identities in the ESP context – A critical discourse analysis of the language ideologies of international business students.”)
  • 43rd Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Aberdeen, UK, 9.-11.9. (“Global English in the European classroom? The problems and prospects of English language pedagogy in localized educational settings.”)
  • The Third International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Vienna, Austria, 22.-25.5. (“ELF in the language classroom – The implications of a pluricentric approach to English for designing sustainable pedagogical models in language education.”)
  • Who needs languages? Micro and macro perspectives into language education policies, Jyväskylä, Finland, 7.-10.6. (“Contexts, conflicts, and consequences: Critical perspectives on language education policies in an ESP learning environment.”)
  • The 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Hertfordshire, UK, 6.-8.7. (“The construal of polysemous adjectives: Corpus-based evidence from sentence schemas and constructions.”)