Isabelle Buchstaller

Professor Isabelle Buchstaller

Small Group Project 2019

Commemorative cityscape: understanding practices of street renaming in European and non-European locations (COCIENEL)

The aim of this project is to develop a new approach of researching ideological power struggles between various stakeholders over the symbolic appropriation of the semiotic fabric of the city. This will be achieved through the application of a mixed-methods approach to four European and four non-European locations. The proposed multi-disciplinary research residential will bring together a number of key scholars to investigate different ways in which urban conurbations instigate, negotiate and make sense of commemorative practices, focusing on street renaming as eight illustrative case studies.

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Research outcomes

Buchstaller, I., & Fabiszak, M. (2021).

Editorial: ideology and commemoration in the urban space. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(s5).

Areas of interest

Linguistics Language Variation Dialects

Cohort

FG5

Biography

Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics and a variationist sociolinguist whose main areas of expertise include language variation and change, corpus linguistics, and models and methods for collecting and analysing linguistic data. She has a particular interest in dialectal morpho-syntactic and discourse phenomena, and has worked on a range of varieties of English, most notably Hawaiian Creole, Tyneside English, Californian English, and the variety of English spoken in the Marshall Islands. Her research engages with global trends and contact-induced changes in the English language, raising typological questions about the underlying causes of linguistic variability and change. She is the director of the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Biographical details correct as of 30.04.26