Dr. Beke Hansen

Affiliated Postdoc

since 10/2021	Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer University of Kiel
2018 – 2021	Assistant Professor Chair of English Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann University of Freiburg
2015 – 2018	Research Associate Chair of English Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Matthias Meyer (Substitute for postdoctoral position) University of Kiel
2013 – 2017	Research Associate Chair of English Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald University of Kiel
2012	Research Associate Chair of English Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald (Substitute for doctoral position) University of Kiel

2013 – 2017	Doctoral Studies Dissertation Title: "Variation and change in the modal systems of World Englishes" Awarded the Faculty Prize of the Arts Faculty, University of Kiel
2012	Master of Education Teaching Certificate for Gymnasia, English & Latin
2011 – 2012	Studied at the University of Bristol
2010	Bachelor of Arts Studies in Teaching, English and American Studies & Latin Philology

Hansen, Beke. 2017. "The ICE metadata and the study of Hong Kong English." World Englishes 36(3): 471-486.
Hansen, Beke. 2018a. Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: A study of variation and change in the modal systems of World Englishes. Leiden: Brill.
Hansen, Beke. 2018b. "Performing linguistic variation in the Caribbean." English Today 35(3): 64-66. (Review: Wilson 2014 und Westphal 2017)
Hansen, Beke. 2019. Pragmatics and discourse (2017). (Part of chapter one "English Language".) Year's Work in English Studies 98: 132-147.
Hansen, Beke. 2020a. Pragmatics and discourse (2018). (Part of chapter one "English Language".) Year's Work in English Studies 99: 152-168.
Hansen, Beke. 2021a. "Localisation, globalisation, and gender in discourse-pragmatic variation in Ghanaian English". In Tobias Bernaisch (ed.). Gender in World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 23-46.
Hansen, Beke. 2021b. “Review of Sandra C. Deshors (ed.). 2018. Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.” English Language and Linguistics 25(1): 217-223.
Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert. 2021. New Englishes and Creolistics (2019). (Part of chapter one “English Language.”) Year’s Work in English Studies 100: 80-102.
Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert (submitted). New Englishes and Creolistics (2020). (Part of chapter one "English Language.“) Year’s Work in English Studies 101.

A Sociolinguistic Description of Historical First Nations Englishes in British Columbia

2021| ISLE 6, online
"Documenting historical First Nations Englishes in British Columbia from a sociolinguistic perspective"

2020 | New Englishes, New Methods Workshop, online
"From long shot to close-up: Studying sociolinguistic variation with ICE"

2020 | Guest Lecture at Saarland University, online
"Investigating variation and change in New Englishes at the interface of Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics"
2020 | Emerging Scholars' Forum, Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries, online
"Maria Campbell's Village English: A historically accurate representation of spoken Indigenous English?"
2019 | Yearly Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries, Grainau
"A (socio-)linguistic description of First Nations Englishes" (Poster)

2018 | ICEM'18, Madrid
with Mila Lütjohann, Mila & Robert Fuchs
"People mustn't need it really: Negated must in spoken British English between 1994 and 2014"
2018 | ISLE 5, London
with Robert Fuchs
"You mustn't say that: Recent change in the meaning of modal must in spoken British English 1994-2014"
2018 | ISLE 5, London
"Globalisation, indigenisation, and language change in the quotative systems of World Englishes"
2018 | Guest Lecture at the University of Hamburg
"Variation and change in the modal systems of World Englishes"
2017 | Guest Lecture at the University of Münster
"Analysing variation and change in World Englishes with the ICE metadata"

2017 | ICAME 38, Prague
"Gender paradox²: Late female lead in the restructuring of deontic modality in Indian English"
2017 | BICLCE 7, Vigo
with Benedikt Heller
"Expansion of the s-genitive in World Englishes"

2016 | ISLE 4, Poznań
"The semantics of must in ESL varieties: Historical state of the superstrate, substrate(s) or SLA?"
2015 | From Data to Evidence Conference, Helsinki
"The ICE metadata: A window to the past? An exploratory study of Hong Kong English"
2015 | ICAME 36, Trier
"Using the ICE metadata for studying changes in New Englishes: Is must decreasing in Hong Kong English?"