Co-director at 'Centre for Language, Variation and Multilingualism (SVM)' | Exchange coordinator of the Department for English and American Studies
Campus Am Neuen Palais
Am Neuen Palais 10
Building 19, Room 1.12
14469 Potsdam
consulting hours
Tuesday, March 14, 10-12 hrs
Tuesday, March 28, 10-12 hrs
Tuesday, April 04, 10-12 hrs
From April 20: Thursdays, 10-12 hrs
On campus. Please contact me via e-mail for a concrete time slot.
“Black South African English: Language, culture, and cognition” (Post-Doc/Habilitation)
"Exploring the interplay of language and body in South Africa, Namibia, The Netherlands, and Germany" - with Susan Coetzee-van Rooy (North-West University Vaal), Anne Schröder (Universität Bielefeld) & Rias van den Doel (Universiteit Utrecht)
(2022) Universität Landau - International Symposium (with Neele Mundt, Frank Polzenhagen and Monika Reif): Metaphor Variation in Englishes Around the World 4
(2021) Universität Bielefeld - International Workshop (with Prof. Dr. Gigi Adair, Prof. Dr. Barbara Job, Prof. Dr. Joachim Michael and Prof. Dr. Anne Schröder): Southern Futures
(2018) Universität Potsdam & Universität Bielefeld - International Conference (with Marion Schulte): New Perspectives on Irish English 5
(2015) Universität Potsdam - Workshop (with Hans-Georg Wolf and Charles Marfo): English Studiesin an International Perspective
(2012) Universität Potsdam - Workshop (with Paula Orzechowska): Phonetics, Phonology, PRAAT Guest speaker: Prof. John Harris (University College London)
Peters, A. (in preparation) Black South African English: Language, culture, and cognition.
Peters, A. (2016) Linguistic change in Galway City English: a variationist study of (th) and (dh) in urban western Irish English. [Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture, Vol. 116]. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.
Peters, A. & Mundt, N. (2021) Cultural linguistics applied: Trends, directions and implications. [Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture, Vol. 127]. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.
Wolf, H.-G., Polzenhagen, F. & Peters, A. (2017) Cultural Linguistic contributions to World Englishes.Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4(2).
Peters, A. & Siebers, L. (in preparation). "A re-analysis of left dislocation in Black South African English"
Peters, A. (accepted). "Galway City English", in R. Hickey (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Irish English. Oxford: OUP.
Peters, A. (accepted). "Cultural conceptualizations in Irish English", In K. Bolton (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
Peters, A. (accepted). "Cultural conceptualizations in Black South African English", In K. Bolton (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
Peters, A. & Polzenhagen, F. (accepted). “World Englishes in advertising in Africa," In K. Bolton (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
Peters, A. (2022). "Corpus-linguistic and cultural-cognitive perspectives on SILENCE in Black South African English.", in: M. Mayar & M. Schulte (eds.) Silence and its derivatives: Conversations across disciplines. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wolf, H.-G. & Peters, A. (2022b). "African witchcraft revisited: new cognitive-sociolinguistic findings from a comparative perspective", In A. Ngefac, H.-G. Wolf & T. Hoffmann (eds.) World Englishes and creole languages today. Vol. I. Sociolinguistic paradigms and current trends in action. München: Lincom Europe.
Wolf, H.-G. & Peters, A. (2022a). "Cognitive Sociolinguistic studies of African English(es): A methodological review and outlook", In G. Kristiansen, K. Franco, S. De Pascale & L. Rosseel (eds.) Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited, 457-466. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Peters, A. (2021). "Lexical evidence for ancestral communication in Black South African English.", in: H.-G. Wolf, D. Latic, & A. Finzel (eds.) Cultural-linguistic explorations into spirituality, society, and sexuality, 23-39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Peters, A. (2021) "Cultural conceptualisations of WITCHCRAFT and TRADITIONAL HEALING in Black South African English herbalist classifieds", in: F. Sharifian & M. Sadeghpour (eds.) Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes, 333-359. Singapore: Springer.
Coetzee-Van Rooy, S. & Peters, A. (2021). "A portrait-corpus study of language attitudes towards Afrikaans and English". Language Matters 52(2), 3-28.
Mundt, N. & Peters, A. (2021) "Cultural linguistics applied: status quo and new directions". in: A. Peters & N. Mundt (eds.) Exploring cultural linguistics: Trends, directions and applications. [Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture, Vol. 127], 13-27. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Peters, A. & Polzenhagen, F. (2021) “Genres and text-types from a cross-varietal and cognitive-cultural perspective: A case study on the contextualisation of classified adverts”, in: M. Callies & M. Degani (eds.) Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes. London: Bloomsbury.
Peters, A. & Van Hattum, M. (2021). “Pseudonyms as carriers of culture-specific threat in 19th-century Irish threatening notices”. English World-Wide 42(1), 29-53.
Peters, A. & Coetzee-Van Rooy, S. (2020). “Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth”.Cognitive Linguistics 31(4), 579-608.
Peters, A. (2018) "Review of Ugandan English - Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, edited by Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma, and Saudah Namyalo. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Anglistik - International Journal of English Studies 29(1), 185-188.
Peters, A. (2017) "FAIRIES, BANSHEES, and THE CHURCH: Cultural conceptualisations in Irish English" International Journal of Language and Culture, 4(2), 127-148.
Wolf, H.-G., Polzenhagen, F. & Peters, A. (2017) "Cultural linguistic contributions to World Englishes" International Journal of Language and Culture, 4(2), 121-126.
Peters, A. (2016) "Urban development, language contact, and sociolinguistic transformations in Galway City" 10plus1 - Living Linguistics, 106-117.
Peters, A. (2013): “We had things then that they don't have now - The Case of Dental Fricatives in Galway City English”, in: C. Schlaak / A. Hennemann (eds.), Korpuslinguistische Untersuchungen: Analysen einzelsprachlicher Phänomene, 163-174. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Peters, A. (2012): “Linguistic change in Galway City English: A study of phonological features in the district of Bóthar Mór”, in: B. Migge & M. Ní Chiosáin (eds.), New Perspectives on Irish English, 29-45. Amsterdam: Benjamins.