• Sociolinguistics 

• Language attitudes and ideologies 

• Language and identity 

• South African English(es) & Afrikaans 

• World Englishes & Postcolonial linguistics 

I am a teaching and research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Daniel Schreier, Professor of English Linguistics.  

Currently, I am working on my dissertation project on language attitudes and linguistic identity of English and/or Afrikaans first language speakers in post-apartheid South Africa. My interest lies in the formation, maintenance and defence of (linguistic) identity in discourse with reference to how language plays a central part in such identity formations.  

As part of the Chair of English Sociolinguistics, I contribute to the Language Attitudes in the Swiss Anglophone project (LASAD), which is currently investigating the language attitudes of South Africans living in Switzerland.  

Recent paper presentations: 

“Attitudinal Perspectives on Two Germanic Languages in South Africa’s Language Policy” at the 16th Forum for Germanic Language Studies Conference, Cambridge, 12-13 April 2024. 

“Attitudes towards South African English – Unifier or Threat?” at the Biannual International Conference on the Linguistics of English (BICLCE), University of Alicante, 26-28 September 2024. 

I have already supervised several BA theses in the field of sociolinguistics and language attitudes studies, which included, for example, topics such as language attitudes of Swiss high school students, code-switching in youtube videos, and identity and indexicality in rap song lyrics.