• Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
• Varieties of English and Contact Language Research
• English Word Formation historical and contemporary
• Pragmatics and Interculturelle Communication
• Speech und Writing (in traditional and new Media)
• Theory of Translation
• Speech and Post Coloniale Theory

I. Between social convention and cognition: 2nd person plural pronouns across the Atlantic:
(Supported by ‘Feodor Lynen-Stipend from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation’))

II. Diaspora Discourse Communities Online:

III. Speech acts in postcolonial African contexts:

Grant of a Humboldt-Stipend (Feodor Lynen Stipends for experienced researchers) for a research project (2x6 Months) at the North Carolina State University.

Participation on the part of the Initiative for Excellence by the DFG funded Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) – follow-up 10/2012 – 9/2017.

DAAD- Funding a conference trip to the Annual Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, University of Accra, Ghana

DFG-Funding of initiation of bilateral contacts with the University of the West Indies (UWI) Trinidad and the University of Guyana.

DAAD-Funding of a conference trip to the Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.

Fund raising for Annual Conference of the GNEL/ASNEL.

DFG-Funding of a 3 weeks trip to Camerun for intensifying Research contacts.

DFG-Funding for a trip for organising Panels (Creole Pragmatics) for the Annual Conference from the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics und der Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Cayenne, French Guyana.

Participation on the part of the Initiative for Excellence by the DFG, funded by the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) – 10/2007 – 9/2012.

DFG-Funding for a Conference trip to the Third International Symposium on Politeness, University of Leeds, UK.

A Canadian Embassy travel scholarship (FEP "Faculty Enrichment Program") for a 4 weeks Canada-trip.

DFG-Funding of a conference trip to the Inter-Islands Caribbean Society, University of the West Indies, Tobago.

British Council Stipend for the 29. Cambridge Seminar der Cambridge University, Trinity College (1 week).

DFG-Funding of a conference trip for organinsing Panels (Creole Languages in Creole Literatures) to the Annual Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A.

Post-Doc-Stipend from the DAAD for research at the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC), University of California Los Angeles, USA (Prof. Alessandro Duranti). Forschungsprojekt: "Address forms in English and German: The translation of social roles and interpersonal relations in intercultural communication."

SOCRATES Kurzzeit-Dozentur at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, University of Cardiff, Wales.

Fulbright-Stipend for the participation at the American Studies Summer School, NYU, New York.

DAAD-A year stipend for the stay at a University (was not carried out due to a position at the University of Hannover).