Mirka Honkanen

Dr. Mirka Honkanen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer she/her
Chair of English Linguistics | Mair

Coordinator
Master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics

mirka.honkanen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
☎ +49 761 203-3312

R 4016 | KG IV

RESEARCH INTERESTS

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

PUBLICATIONS

• Heyd, Theresa & Mirka Honkanen. 2015. "From Naija to Chitown: The new African diaspora and digital representations of place." Discourse, Context & Media 9: 14–23.
• Honkanen, Mirka. 2020. World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA (Varieties of English Around the World G63). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Honkanen, Mirka. 2021. "Diasporic Englishes in the United States: The Case of Nigerian Digital Communication." In Bloomsbury World Englishes: Paradigms, ed. by Heyd, Theresa & Britta Schneider. London: Bloomsbury. 241–257.
• Honkanen, Mirka. 2021. "Nigerian Pidgin in authenticating Nigerian immigrant identities." In Current Trends in Nigerian Pidgin English: A Sociolinguistic Perspective, ed. by Akande, Akinmade T. & Oladipo L. Salami. Berlin: De Gruyter. 147–176.
• Honkanen, Mirka & Julia Müller. 2021. "Interjections and emojis in Nigerian online communication." World Englishes Special Issue "Discourse Markers and World Englishes", ed. by Leukert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger.
• Honkanen, Mirka. Forthcoming. "'This word no get concrete meaning oo': Pragmatic markers in Nigerian multilingual online communication." Journal of Pragmatics Special Issue "Communicative Action and Interaction in Africa", ed. by Mohr, Susanne, Jemima A. Anderson & Klaus Schneider.
• Bohmann, Axel, Julia Müller, Mirka Honkanen & Miriam Neuhausen. Forthcoming. "A large-scale diachronic analysis of the English passive alternation." In ICAME41 Language and Linguistics in a Complex World: Data, Interdisciplinarity, Transfer, and the Next Generation, ed. by Busse, Beatrix, Nina Dumrukcic & Kellie Gonçalves.

TEACHING

• Forschungsdesign
• Grammar of the English Verb Phrase
• Language and the New Media 
• Morphology
• Non-Standard Englishes in the Social Media
• Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes
• Tense and Aspect in English
• Tense, Aspect and Modality
• Theoretische Grundlagen linguistischer Forschung

MISCELLANEOUS

Get in touch if you are interested in

• joining our Writing Group for Phd or advanced MA students in linguistics;
• getting access to our corpora of Nigerian, Jamaican, and Cameroonian web forum data;
• trying out rugby in Freiburg.