Werner

Academic Qualifications

November 2020 awarded postdoctoral degree ("Habilitation")
April 2014 awarded PhD in English Linguistics
2012 Certificate in Humanities Computing for Languages (with distinction), University of Cambridge, England
2009 M.A. and first state exam for secondary school teaching (English/History/Educational Sciences)

Previous Positions

Since 2025 associate professor ("außerplanmäßiger Professor") at the University of Bamberg
2021-2022 interim professor for didactics and linguistics of the English language at Philipps-University Marburg
2020-2021 interim professor for varieties of English at the University of Leipzig
2014-2025 assistant professor ("Akademischer (Ober-)Rat a.Z.") at the University of Bamberg
2010-2014 research and teaching assistant at the University of Bamberg

Awards

Award for outstanding postdoctoral work in English Studies (Habilitationspreis) by the German Association for the Study of English (2022)

Teaching

American English: Synchronic and diachronic aspects
Applied linguistics
Early Modern English
English and German in contrast
English in Germany and German learner English
English Linguistics Research Seminar
Englishes around the World
Exploring English Language and Linguistics: From Core Concepts to Contemporary Issues
History of the English language
Introduction to English linguistics
Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Language variation and change
Linguistics and real life: Applied linguistics
Linguistics for the classroom
Media linguistics: Exploring the language of journalism
Morphology and syntax
Pop cultural linguistics
Postcolonial Englishes
Revision course for exam candidates
Sociolinguistics
Textlinguistics
The language of pop culture
The sociolinguistics of North American English
Translation and translation studies
Translation English-German - intermediate level
Translation English-German - advanced level
Varieties of English
Watching TV and movies with a linguist
What’s in a (pop) song? Linguistics meets language education
World Englishes

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Books, edited volumes and journal special issues

In preparation. The Handbook of Language and Pop Culture. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (with Andrew Moody & Cecelia Cutler)

In preparation. The Sociolinguistics of Pop Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Andrew Moody & Cecelia Cutler)

2024. Indexicality and Enregisterment in Pop Culture. Special issue of English Language and Linguistics (with Andrew Moody & Cecelia Cutler)

2023. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Language of Pop Culture. Special issue of English Text Construction. (with Rocío Montoro)

2023. Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture. London: Routledge. (with Christoph Schubert)
[Reviews in Language and Literature; Applied Linguistics; English Language and Linguistics; Style; Anglistik]

2022. Pop Culture in Applied Linguistics: International Perspectives. Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics

2022. Perspectives on Contemporary English: Structure, Variation, Cognition. Berlin: Lang. (with Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler & Fabian Vetter)

2021. The Replication Crisis: Implications for Linguistics. Special issue of Linguistics. (with Lukas Sönning)

2021. Corpus Approaches to Telecinematic Language. Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. (with Monika Bednarek & Marcia Veirano Pinto)

2021. Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice. London: Routledge. (with Friederike Tegge)
[awarded the Taylor & Francis Outstanding Research Monograph Prize]
[Reviews in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics; New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics; ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics; ELT Journal]

2020. Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (with Robert Fuchs)
[Review in Research in Corpus Linguistics]

2018. The Language of Pop Culture. New York: Routledge.
[Review in English Today]

2018. Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. Special issue of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. (with Robert Fuchs)

2016. A Blend of MaLT: Selected Contributions from the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium 2015. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. (with Hanna Christ, Daniel Klenovšak & Lukas Sönning)

2016. Re-Assessing the Present Perfect. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (with Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez)
[Reviews in English Language and Linguistics; Voprosy Jazykoznanija; English and American Studies in German]

2014. The Present Perfect in World Englishes: Charting Unity and Diversity. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press.

Journal articles

2025. Hybrid news (in the) making: A content and corpus-based discourse analysis of political live blogs on the 2020 US presidential debates. Journalism Practice 19 (4). 896-922. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2215254 (with Hendrik Michael)

2024. Digital press archives for media and communication history research: From “reading rooms” to virtual research environments. Studies in Communication Sciences 24 (3). 285-301. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2024.03.4050 (with Hendrik Michael)

2024. Styling authenticity in Country music. Languages 9 (5), 168. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050168 (with Anna Ledermann)

2024. Linguistic corpora and tools in media and journalism studies. Studies in Communication and Media 13 (3). 347-383. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2024-3-347 (with Hendrik Michael)

2023. Mental health songs: Corpus-based analysis and implications for EFL education. English Text Construction 16 (2). 169-196. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00059.wer (with Theresa Summer)

2023. English and German pop song lyrics: Towards a contrastive textology. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 36 (1). 1-20. https://doi.org/10.21248/jlcl.36.2023.235

2021. The replication crisis, scientific revolutions, and linguistics. Linguistics 59 (5). 1179-1206. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0045 (with Lukas Sönning)

2021. Catchy and conversational? A register analysis of pop lyrics. Corpora 16 (2). 237-270. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2021.0219

2021. Text-linguistic analysis of performed language: Revisiting and remodeling Koch & Oesterreicher. Linguistics 59 (3). 541-575. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0036

2021. A diachronic perspective on telecinematic language. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26 (1). 38-70. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00036.wer

2020. “Song-advantage” or “cost of singing”? A research synthesis of classroom-based intervention studies applying lyrics-based language teaching (1972–2019). Journal of Second Language Teaching & Research 8 (1). 138-170. https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-49313

2020. TV discourse, grammaticality, and language awareness. TESL-EJ 24 (3). https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-49030

2019. Lyrics and language awareness. Nordic Journal of Modern Language Methodology 7 (1). 4-28. https://doi.org/10.46364/njmlm.v7i1.521

2019. Assessing hip-hop discourse: Linguistic realness and styling. Text & Talk 39 (5). 671-698.https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2019-2044

2018. The use of the stative progressive by school age learners of English and the importance of the variable context - myth vs. (corpus) reality. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4 (2). 194-223. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.17010.fuc (with Robert Fuchs)

2017. Pop lyrics and mobile language learning: Prospects and challenges. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning 9 (4). 33-48. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMBL.2017100103 (with Maria Lehl & Jonathan Walton)

2017. Adversative pragmatic markers in learner language: A cross-sectional perspective. Corpus Pragmatics 1 (2). 135-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-017-0008-9

2017. The present perfect in Nigerian English. English Language and Linguistics 21 (1). 129-153. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674316000137 (with Robert Fuchs)

2013. Temporal adverbials and the present perfect/past tense alternation. English World-Wide 34 (2). 202-240. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.34.2.04wer

2013. The present perfect and definite temporal adverbials: Reference grammars and corpus evidence. English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 10 (1). 9-21. https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.10.1.9-21

2012. Love is all around: A corpus-based study of pop music lyrics. Corpora 7 (1). 19-50. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2012.0016

Contributions to edited volumes and handbooks

In press. Rhymes, riffs, and realness: Multiple negation and authenticity in rap and hard rock. In Laura Wilson, Adria Goldman & LaRonda Sanders-Senu, eds. The Living Legacy of African American Studies. Athens: University of Georgia Press. (mit Val Graßow)

2025. Cultural linguistics in ELT. In Nima A. Nazari, ed. Empowering the English Language Teacher in a Multipolar Environment. Singapore: Springer. 51-69. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4839-9_4(with Katharina Beuter)

2025. A survey on songs in ELT among pre-service teachers in Germany: Experiences, attitudes, and future potential. In Theresa Summer & Ralf Gießler, eds. Digital Textualities and Spaces in ELT. Tübingen: Narr. 139-162. (with Theresa Summer, Regina Grund & Manfred Krug)

2024. Potentials of poetry and song lyrics for EFL education: An applied linguistic perspective. In Pascal Fischer & Theresa Summer, eds. Impulses for Teaching Poetry and Song Lyrics: From Shakespeare to Pop Music. Heidelberg: Winter. 107-131.

2024. Exploring the potential of live text for ELT. In Saskia Kersten & Christian Ludwig, eds. Born-digital Texts in the English Language Classroom. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 106-121. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800414815-008

2024. Music and mental health in ELT: A focus on emotional self-regulation with insights from psychotherapy. Christian Ludwig, Theresa Summer, Maria Eisenmann, Daniel Becker & Nadine Krüger, eds. Mental Health in English Language Education. Tübingen: Narr. 91-112. (with Theresa Summer).

2024. Pop cultural media as a resource for fostering responsible world citizens. In Chris Shei & James Schnell, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering. London: Routledge. 224-241. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289746-19 (with Theresa Summer)

2023. Swear/taboo words in English rap lyrics: Linguistic analysis and implications for foreign language education. In Christian Ludwig & Theresa Summer, eds. Taboos and Controversial Issues in Foreign Language Education: Critical Language Pedagogy in Theory, Research and Practice. London: Routledge. 103-112. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003220701-14

2023. "Guess who's back, back again". Stylistic development in Eminem's lyrics. In Christoph Schubert & Valentin Werner, eds. Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture. London: Routledge. 176-204. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003147718-9

2022. Pop cultural linguistics. In Mark Aronoff, ed. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.999

2021. A register approach toward pop lyrics in EFL education. In Elena Seoane & Douglas Biber, eds. Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 209-234. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.103.08wer

2021. Teaching grammar through pop culture. In Valentin Werner & Friederike Tegge, eds. Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice. London: Routledge. 85-104. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808334-6

2021. Learning languages through pop culture/learning about pop culture through language education. In Valentin Werner & Friederike Tegge, eds. Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice. London: Routledge. 3-30. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808334-1 (with Friederike Tegge)

2021. L1 influence vs. universal learning mechanisms: An SLA-driven corpus study on temporal expression. In Bert Le Bruyn & Magali Paquot, eds. Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 39-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108674577.004 (with Robert Fuchs & Sandra Götz)

2020. The use of the stative progressive by school age learners of English and the importance of the variable context - myth vs. (corpus) reality. In Robert Fuchs & Valentin Werner, eds. Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 54-82. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.108.ijlcr.17010.fuc (with Robert Fuchs). [Reprint of Fuchs & Werner 2018]

2020. How British is Gibraltar English? In Paloma Nuñez Pertejo, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya & Javier Pérez-Guerra, eds. Crossing Linguistic Boundaries: Systemic, Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in English. London: Bloomsbury. 153-186. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350053885.ch-008 (with Manfred Krug & Ole Schützler)

2019. Temporal adverbials in the acquisition of past-time reference: A cross-sectional study of L1 German and Cantonese learners of English. In Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Verena Lyding & Lionel Nicholas, eds. Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain. 43-70. (with Sandra Götz & Robert Fuchs)

2019. A multimodal analysis of football live text commentaries. In Marcus Callies & Magnus Levin, eds. Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports: Texts, Media, Modalities. London: Bloomsbury. 201-240. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350088238.ch-009

2019. Pop lyrics and mobile language learning: Prospects and challenges. In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, ed. Computer-assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Hershey: IGI. 342-359. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7663-1.ch016 (with Maria Lehl & Jonathan Walton) [reprint of Werner, Lehl & Walton 2017]

2018. Linguistics and pop culture: Setting the scene(s). In Valentin Werner, ed. The Language of Pop Culture. New York: Routledge. 3-26. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315168210-1

2017. The present perfect as a core feature of World Englishes. In Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Anna Mauranen & Svetlana Vetchinnikova, eds. Changing English: Global and Local Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 63-88. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110429657-005

2016. Patterns of linguistic globalization: Integrating typological profiles and questionnaire data. In Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja & Sarah Chevalier, eds. New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building Bridges. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 35-66. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.177.03kru (with Manfred Krug & Ole Schützler)

2016. The present perfect - a re-assessment. In Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. Re-Assessing the Present Perfect. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443530-003 (with Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez)

2016. Rise of the undead? BE-perfects in World Englishes. In Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. Re-Assessing the Present Perfect. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 259-294. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443530-012

2016. The present perfect in learner Englishes: A corpus-based case study on L1 German intermediate and advanced speech and writing. In Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. Re-Assessing the Present Perfect. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 297-338. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443530-013 (with Robert Fuchs & Sandra Götz)

2016. Real-time online text commentaries: A cross-cultural perspective. In Christoph Schubert & Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, eds. Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 271-305. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443554-013

2016. Overlap and divergence – aspects of the present perfect in World Englishes. In Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds.  World Englishes: New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 113-142. https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g57.06wer

Conference publications/proceedings

2023. A cross-linguistic register study of English and German pop lyrics. In Beata Trawiński, Marc Kupietz, Kristel Proost & Jörg Zinken, eds. 10. International Contrastive Corpus Linguistics Conference: Book of Abstracts. Mannheim: IDS-Verlag. 54-55. https://doi.org/10.14618/f8rt-m155

2021. Live text coverage of political events: Combining content and corpus-based discourse analysis. In Iris Hendrickx, Lieke Verheijen & Lidwien van de Wijngaert, eds. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021). Nijmegen: Radbound University. 66-70. https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-51860(with Hendrik Michael)

2015. Pop lyrics and language pedagogy: A corpus-linguistic approach. In Federica Formato & Andrew Hardie, eds. Corpus Linguistics 2015. Lancaster: University of Lancaster. 341-343. (with Maria Lehl)

Other publications

Practical EFL education materials

2024. Which song makes you feel good? Mithilfe von Songs über Gefühle sprechen [Which song makes you feel good? Talking about feelings with the help of songs]. Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht 192. 12-16. (with Theresa Summer & Claudia Schnellbögl)

2022. Song lyrics: Sprachliche Besonderheiten und Einsatz im Englischunterricht [Song lyrics: Linguistic features and their use in English language teaching]. Englisch 5-10 58. 24-29. (with Theresa Summer)

Reviews

2022. Review of Lisa Jansen. English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes. Journal of English Linguistics 50 (4). 418-422. http://doi.org/10.1177/00754242221136097

2020. Review of Anne Golden, Scott Jarvis & Kari Tenfjord (eds.). Crosslinguistic influence and distinctive patterns of language learning: Findings and insights from a learner corpus. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6 (1). 104-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.00011.wer

2016. Review of Peter Collins (ed.). Grammatical change in English world-wide. English Language and Linguistics 20 (1). 174-182. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674315000386

2013. Review of Joybrato Mukherjee & Magnus Huber (eds.). Corpus linguistics and variation in English: Theory and description.ICAME Journal 37. 246-252.

Contributions to journals and edited volumes

2025. Language and pop culture: Setting the agenda. Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1 (1). 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlpop.24034.wer (with Mie Hiramoto & Paul Flanagan)

2024. Special issue on indexicality and enregisterment in pop culture: Introduction. English Language and Linguistics 28 (4). 665-682. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000601 (with Andrew Moody & Cecelia Cutler)

2023. Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture: Introduction. English Text Construction 16 (2). 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00057.mon (with Rocío Montoro)

2023. Zooming in: Stylistic approaches to pop culture. In Christoph Schubert & Valentin Werner, eds. Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture. London: Routledge. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003147718-1 (with Christoph Schubert)

2022. Pop culture in applied linguistics: International perspectives. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 173 (2). 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.22012.wer

2022. Introduction: Perspectives on structure, variation, and cognition in contemporary English. In Manfred Krug, Valentin Werner, Ole Schützler & Fabian Vetter, eds. Perspectives on Contemporary English: Structure, Variation, Cognition. Berlin: Lang. 7-11. https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-54225(with Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler & Fabian Vetter)

2021. Corpus approaches to telecinematic language. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26 (1). 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00034.int (with Monika Bednarek & Marcia Veirano Pinto)

2020. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and learner corpus research. In Robert Fuchs & Valentin Werner, eds. Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquistion and Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.108.ijlcr.00004.int (with Robert Fuchs) [Reprint of Fuchs & Werner 2018]

2018. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and learner corpus research: Introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4 (2). 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.00004.int (with Robert Fuchs)

2016. Introduction. In Hanna Christ, Daniel Klenovšak, Lukas Sönning & Valentin Werner, eds. A Blend of MaLT: Selected Contributions from the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium 2015 (Bamberger Beiträge zur Linguistik 15). Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. vii-xiii. (with Hanna Christ, Daniel Klenovšak & Lukas Sönning)

Media features and public outreach

2025. From beats to ballots: What political rap lyrics tell us. Expert contribution to an article on Al Jazeera News.

2025. Studying telecinematic language. Organization and hosting of an ISLE Forum (with Monika Bednarek, Robin Queen & Christian Hoffmann).

2024. What does it mean to be 'coded'? Linguists break down the very online use of the word. Expert contribution to an article on Yahoo News.

2018. Pop culture and the English language. Interview partner in the GotPop Podcast. University of Gothenburg.

Textbook

2019. Englisch für Eltern[English for parents]. Munich: Dorling Kindersley (with Karl Werner).

Teaching material

Bamberger Materialien für das Examen in Englischer Sprachwissenschaft (BambEx 1) - Transkription (mit Lukas Sönning) https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/pkzmf

Bamberger Materialien für das Examen in Englischer Sprachwissenschaft (BambEx 2) - Morphologie (mit Lukas Sönning) https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/pkzmf

Bamberger Materialien für das Examen in Englischer Sprachwissenschaft (BambEx 3) - Satzanalyse (mit Lukas Sönning) https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/pkzmf