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Hanna Bruns
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Hanna Bruns
M.A.

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Affiliations
  • IAAK
Research topics
  • Language and gender
  • Language and sexuality
  • Language and identity
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Positive discourse analysis
  • Conceptual metaphors
  • Computer mediated communication
  • Language Change
  • Indian English
I am a lecturer at the Chair Linguistics of English and Translation Studies, researcher in the project Socio-cultural Impact on Language Change (SILC) and a PhD student of Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich.
Selected publications

Bruns, H. (2023). “That’s all it takes to be trans”–Counter-strategies to hetero- and transnormative discourse on YouTube. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 283, 53-76.

Bruns, H., & Kranich, S. (2022). Terms of address: A contrastive investigation of ongoing changes in British, American and Indian English and in German. Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics, 3(1), 112-143.

Kranich, S., Bruns, H., & Hampel, E. (2021). Requests across varieties and cultures: Norms are changing (but not everywhere in the same way). Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 32(1), 91-114.

Bruns, H. (2020). National Socialist metaphors in the discourse of the Alternative für Deutschland: Exploring a leaked WhatsApp chat. metaphorik.de 30/2020. Available at https://www.metaphorik.de/de/journal/30/metaphorikde-302020.html

Kranich, S., Hampel, E., & Bruns, H. (2020). Changes in the modal domain in different varieties of English as potential effects of democratization. Language Sciences, 79, 1-15.

Hanna Bruns
© IAAK
Hanna Bruns
M.A.

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