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Name:	Astrid  Ensslin
Institution:	Bangor University
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Homepage:	http://www.bangor.ac.uk/creative_industries/astrid.php.en
State and/or Country:	United Kingdom
Linguistic Field(s):	Discourse Analysis Sociolinguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics Ling & Literature
Specialty:	Language in the (New) Media; discourse analysis; corpora
Subject Language(s):	English German
Selected Publications:	BOOKS Johnson, Sally & Astrid Ensslin (eds) (2007) Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies. London: Continuum. Ensslin, Astrid (2007) Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions. London: Continuum JOURNAL EDITORSHIP: Ensslin, Astrid & Jennifer Shepherd (eds) (2006+) MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities. London: Modern Humanities Research Association. Ensslin, Astrid & Alice Bell (eds) (2007) New Perspectives on Digital Literature: Criticism and Analysis, Special Issue of dichtung-digital, 37. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University. Ensslin, Astrid et al. (2008+) Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worldds. Bristol: Intellect. SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: Durrell, Martin, Astrid Ensslin & Paul Bennett (2007) ‘GerManC: A historical corpus of German 1650-1800’. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung, 31(1), 71-80. Ensslin, Astrid & Alice Bell (2007) ‘New perspectives on digital literature: Criticism and analysis. dichtung digital, 37. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University, available at www.dichtung-digital.com/editorial/2007.htm. Johnson, Sally & Astrid Ensslin (2007) ‘“But her language skills shifted the family dynamics dramatically.” Language, gender and the construction of publics in two British newspapers’, Gender and Language, 1(2), 229-54. Ensslin, Astrid (2007) ‘Of chords, machines and bumble-bees: The metalinguistics of hyperpoetry’, in Sally Johnson & Astrid Ensslin (eds) Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies. London: Continuum, 250-68. Ensslin, Astrid & Sally Johnson (2006) ‘Language in the news: Investigations into representations of ‘Englishness’ using Wordsmith Tools’, Corpora: Corpus-based Language Learning, Language Processing and Linguistics, 1(2), 153-85. Johnson, Sally & Astrid Ensslin (2006) ‘Language in the news: Some reflections on Keyword Analysis Using Wordsmith Tools and the BNC’, Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 11. Ensslin, Astrid (2006) ‘Literary hypertext in the foreign language classroom: A case study report’, Language Learning Journal, 33, 13-21. Ensslin, Astrid (2004) ‘Reconstructing the deconstructed: Hypertext and literary education’, Language and Literature, 13(4), 307-333. Language Corpora: Durrell, Martin, Paul Bennett & Astrid Ensslin (2007) GerManC. University of Manchester (ESRC), available from the Oxford Text Archive (search string '2537') or at www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/germanc/ o 100,000 tokens o 45 Early Modern German newspaper texts from five German-speaking regions (NG, WCG, ECG, WUG, EUG), 1650-1800 Johnson, Sally & Astrid Ensslin (2005) LANGCORP. University of Leeds (British Academy). o 6 mio tokens o 7,000 newspaper articles from The Guardian and The Times, July 2004 – June 2005
Announced on LINGUIST :	Language in the Media  The Language of Gaming
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Language in the Media
Courses Taught:	Introduction to New Media IT and Communication Games and Virtual Environments Advanced Games Publishing: Past and Present Marketing Creativity: MS to MP3 Saint - Genius - Star
Dissertation Abstract:	Canonising Hypertext: Explorations and constructions
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