Dr. Alexander Tokar
Education
Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Düsseldorf (2008) |
Degrees in English and German Philology from the Universities of Düsseldorf (2005) and Kursk, Russia (2002) |
Teaching
English Morphosyntax (Winter 2009/2010) http://englishmorphosyntax.blogspot.com/ |
Varieties of English: Phonology (Summer 2009) |
Grammatical Categories (Winter 2008/2009) |
Phraseology (Summer 2008) |
Phonology (Winter 2007/2008) |
Introduction to English Linguistics, Part 2 (Summer 2007) |
Introduction to English Linguistics, Part 1 (Winter 2006/2007) |
Morphology (Winter 2006/2007) |
Lexicology (Summer 2006) |
Selected Publications
forth. | Word-formation or semantic change? In: Hornsby, David (ed.) Selected proceedings of the second international conference on Interfaces in Language, University of Canterbury, May 5-7 2009. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. |
2009 | Metaphors of the web 2.0: With special emphasis on social networks and folksonomies. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=58664&vLang=D |
2007 | Internet metaphors: A cross-linguistic perspective. Culture, Language & Representation 5, 209-220. http://bddoc.csic.es:8080/detalles.html?tabla=docu&bd=ISOC&id=591507 |
2006 | Metaphor and Language Contact. In: Scott, Alan (ed.) Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester. Proceedings of the 15th Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, 3rd March 2006. 99-107. |
Selected Presentations
English Morphosyntax goes web 2.0. Poster presentation at HeinEcomp-Symposium, University of Düsseldorf, November 12 2009.
http://www.slideshare.net/alexandertokar/english-morphosyntax-goes-web-20-alexander-tokar
Metonymically-motivated idioms. To the cognitive structure of motivation. Presented at the international conference on Figurative Language Learning and Figurative Language Use: Theory and Applications (CRAL 2009), University of La Rioja, October 29-31 2009.
Sleep, boyfriend, African-American, bear… A frame-based analysis of the typology of metonymic euphemisms. Presented at the second international conference on Concept Types and Frames (CTF 09), University of Düsseldorf, August 24-26 2009.
Word-formation or semantic change? Presented at the second international conference on Interfaces in Language, University of Canterbury, May 5-7 2009.
http://www.slideshare.net/alexandertokar/wordformation-or-semantic-change
Do metaphors fall asleep? Presented at the research colloquium at the department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, July 5 2007.
http://www.slideshare.net/alexandertokar/do-metaphors-fall-asleep
Warum ist eine Website kein Webort? Presented at the second international conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL), University of Munich, October 5-7 2006.
http://www.slideshare.net/alexandertokar/warum-ist-eine-website-kein-webort-2121761