Marie-Louise Brunner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marie-Louise Brunner plays a role.

The paper presents the construction of two types of expert identity in conversations about food: cultural expertise and culinary expertise. The study is based on data from a corpus of informal dyadic conversations between international speakers of English as a Lingua Franca via Skype. Both cultural… read more
Brunner, Marie-Louise and Stefan Diemer 2018 “Okay … so … nice to meet you? {smiles}”: Openings in ELF Skype conversationsThe Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 171–197 | Chapter
The chapter examines discourse strategies used in conversation openings in CASE, the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (2018), containing English as a Lingua Franca conversations via Skype. Although there are similarities to telephone conversation openings, openings in CASE show differences in… read more
Brunner, Marie-Louise, Stefan Diemer and Selina Schmidt 2018 "It's always different when you look something from the inside": Linguistic innovation in a corpus of ELF Skype conversationsRethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 193–220 | Article
The article discusses linguistic creativity in informal Skype conversations between university students from eight different European countries. The basis for the study is the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE), a corpus of Skype conversations in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context.… read more
Brunner, Marie-Louise, Stefan Diemer and Selina Schmidt 2016 “It’s always different when you look something from the inside”: Linguistic innovation in a corpus of ELF Skype conversationsLinguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 323–350 | Article
The article discusses linguistic creativity in informal Skype conversations between university students from eight different European countries. The basis for the study is the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE), a corpus of Skype conversations in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context.… read more
Diemer, Stefan, Marie-Louise Brunner and Selina Schmidt 2016 Compiling computer-mediated spoken language corpora: Key issues and recommendationsCompilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora, Kirk, John M. and Gisle Andersen (eds.), pp. 348–371 | Article
This paper discusses key issues in the compilation of spoken language corpora in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) environment, using data from the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE), a corpus of Skype conversations currently being compiled at Saarland University, Germany, in… read more