Prof. Dr. Susanne Mohr

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEnglish Language (Linguistics)
KeywordsWorld Englishes, Language contact, Tourism, Linguistic repertoires, Zanzibar (Africa)

Current contact address

CountryNorway
CityTrondheim
InstitutionNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
InstituteDepartment of Language and Literature

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ana DeumertSchool of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
Prof. Dr. Klaus P. SchneiderInstitut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2018

Programme(s)

2018Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2020Susanne Mohr: Language choices among South African migrants in the tourist space of Zanzibar. In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2020, 60-72
2020Susanne Mohr: The 'I' in sociolinguistics. The role of subjectivity in ethnographic fieldwork. In: The Mouth. Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society, 2020, 101-118
2019Julia Forsberg, Susanne Mohr, Sandra Jansen: 'The goal is to enable students to communicate'. Communicative competence and target varieties in TEFL practices in Sweden and Germany. In: European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019, 31-60
2019Susanne Mohr, Anne-Maria Fehn, Alex de Voogt: Hunting for signs: exploring unspoken networks within the Kalahari Basin. In: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2019, 115-147
2019Dunlop Ochieng, Susanne Mohr: Is Tanzania's new education and training policy a significant boost to making Swahili the medium of instruction in post-primary education?. In: Christoph Haase, Natalia Orlova, English Language Teaching through the Lens of Experience. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. 61-74
2018Susanne Mohr: Rezension von Held, Gudrun (2018) Strategies of Adaptation in Tourist Communication. Linguistic Insights. Leiden/Boston: Brill. . In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, 2018, 331-333
2018Susanne Mohr: The Changing Dynamics of Language Use and Language Attitudes in Tanzania. In: Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 2018, 105-127
2017Susanne Mohr: Compounding or paraphrase? Sign sequences in the hunting language of the ||Ani-Khwe. In: Shigeki Kaji, Proceedings of the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, Kyoto 2015. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2017. 425-437
2017Susanne Mohr, Dunlop Ochieng: Language usage in everyday life and in education: current attitudes towards English in Tanzania. In: English Today, 2017, 12-18
2017Susanne Mohr: Plural nouns in Tswana English. In: World Englishes, 2017, 705-725
2015Susanne Mohr: From Accra to Nairobi – The use of pluralized mass nouns in East and West African postcolonial Englishes. In: Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Marina Wienberg, Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. 157-188
2015Susanne Mohr: Mundbilder und Mundgestik in Irischer Gebärdensprache: Eine (sozio)linguistische Analyse des Signs of Ireland Corpus. In: Das Zeichen, 2015, 140-146
2015Susanne Mohr: Tshaukak’ui – hunting signs of the Ts’ixa in Northern Botswana. In: Julie Bakken Jepsen, Goedele De Clerck, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, William McGregor Sign Languages of the World. A Comparative Handbook. De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. 933-953
2014Susanne Mohr: Mouth Actions in Sign Languages. An Empirical Study of Irish Sign Language. De Gruyter Mouton, 2014
2013Susanne Mohr: Review of Adams, Michael. 2011. From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring invented languages. In: Linguistic Typology, 2013, 338-356
2012Susanne Mohr: Rezension von Mu’azu, M. A. and Balami, F. 2010. A descriptive analysis of Bura verbs and vocabulary. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 2012, 423-424
2012Susanne Mohr: The visual-gestural modality and beyond: mouthings as a language contact phenomenon in Irish Sign Language. In: Sign Language & Linguistics, 2012, 185-211