Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
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Philipp S.
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Philipp S. Angermeyer
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
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Associate Professor
Office: Ross Building, 566
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 33793
Email: pangerme@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/pangerme/philipp.htm
Degrees
Ph.D., Linguistics, New York UniversityM.A., Linguistics/Comparative Literature/Eastern European History, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
Linguistics
, Multiculturalism, Multilingualism, Language and Law, Translation
- Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University 2004-2005 - 2004-2005
- Graduate Forum Membership, New York University 2003-2004 - 2003-2004
- MacCracken Fellowship, New York University 1999-2003 - 1999-2003
- Guest researcher at SFB 538 Mehrsprachigkeit (Center for Research on Multilingualism), University of Hamburg, Germany. 2008 - 2008
Current Research Projects
pangerme
The Integration of Text, Sound and Image into the Corpus-Based Analysis of Interpreter-Mediated Interaction
-
Summary:
Online database of interpreter-mediated interaction http://www.yorku.ca/comindat/comindat.htm
Description:Joint project with Bernd Meyer (U Mainz/Germersheim) and Thomas Schmidt (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim), funded by the SSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program.
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MIAM 2015
-
Summary:
International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Interpreting in Settings of Globalisation: Asylum and Migration, February 19-20, 2015 at Ghent University, with Katrijn Maryns and Mieke van Herreweghe
Description:Research colloquium
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Role:
Co-organizer
Collaborator: Katrijn Maryns
Collaborator Institution: Universiteit Gent
Collaborator: Katrijn Maryns
Collaborator Institution: Universiteit Gent
Books
Publication
Year
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas. In honor of John V. Singler. Edited with Cece Cutler and Zvjezdana Vrzic. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Creole Language Library Vol. 53.
2017
2015 Speak English or what? Codeswitching and interpreter use in New York City courts. New York: Oxford University Press.
2015
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
2012 "Bilingualism meets digraphia: Script alternation and hybridity in Russian-American writing and beyond." In Language mixing and code-switching in writing: approaches to mixed-language written discourse, edited by M. Sebba, S. Mahootian, and C. Jonsson. New York: Routledge.
2012
2011 "Language and the law.” In Handbook of Pragmatics edited by Jef Verschuren and Jan-Ola Östman. John Benjamins.
2011
2007 “Mehrsprachigkeit vor Gericht: Sprachwahl und Sprachwechsel in gedolmetschten Schlichtungsverfahren.” [Multilingualism in court: Language choice and codeswitching in interpreted arbitration proceedings]. Mehrsprachigkeit am Arbeitsplatz, edited by Bernd Meyer and Shinichi Kameyama. Forum Angewandte Linguistik, Band 48. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 129-147.
2007
Book Reviews
Publication
Year
2010 Review of Berk-Seligson, Susan “Coerced Confessions: The Discourse of Bilingual Police Interrogations.” International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 17 (1): 171-176
2010
2004 Review of Hale, Sandra "The Discourse of Court Interpreting." Linguistlist, Issue 16.1381.
2004
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts. Language in Society 2023;52(5):837-859.
2023
Angermeyer, Philipp (2021) Beyond translation equivalence: Advocating pragmatic equality before the law,
Journal of Pragmatics 174, 157-167,
Journal of Pragmatics 174, 157-167,
2021
Controlling Roma refugees with 'Google-Hungarian': Indexing deviance, contempt, and belonging in Toronto's linguistic landscape. Language in Society 46 (2): 159-183.
2017
2014 "Monolingual ideologies and multilingual practices in small claims court: The case of Spanish-speaking arbitrators." International Journal of Multilingualism, 11 (4): 430-448.
2014
2013 “Multilingual speakers and language choice in the legal system.” Applied Linguistics Review 4 (1): 105-126.
2013
2010 “Interpreter-mediated interaction as bilingual speech: Bridging macro-and microsociolinguistics in codeswitching research.” International Journal of Bilingualism 14 (4): 466-489.
2010
2009 “Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 13 (1): 3-28.
2009
2008 “Creating monolingualism in the multilingual courtroom.” Sociolinguistic Studies 2 (3): 385-403.
2008
2005 “Spelling Bilingualism: Script Choice in Russian American Classified Ads and Signage.” Language in Society 34 (4): 493-531.
2005
2005 “Who is ‘you’? Polite forms of address and ambiguous participant roles in court interpreting.” Target: International Journal of Translation Studies 17 (2): 203-226.
2005
2003 “The Case for Politeness: Pronoun Variation in Co-ordinate NP's in object position in American English.” Co-authored with John Victor Singler. Language Variation and Change 15: 171-209.
2003
2002 “Lexical Cohesion in Multilingual Conversation.” International Journal of Bilingualism 6: 361-393.
2002
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
2011 “Regulated multilingualism and divergent multilingual practices in New York small claims court.” Accepted for presentation at 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo, Norway, June 2011. Part of the colloquium panel “Practices, processes and institutions in multilingual spaces” convened by Eva Codó, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Miguel Pérez-Milans, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
2011 “Relating translation effects to language contact phenomena.” 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2011
2011 “Reviewing the invisible interpreter: Ideologies and practices of court interpreting.” Accepted for presentation at American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, March 2011. Part of an invited colloquium “Language in Legal Settings: Sociolinguistic Perspectives Applied” convened by Frances Rock, Cardiff University.
2011
2009 "Testifying with a court interpreter or without: Comparing recurrent narratives across proceedings." International Association of Forensic Linguists 9th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2009
2009 “Translation data as evidence in language contact research.” 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2009
2009 “Translation effects as evidence in language contact studies: The case of variable subject pronouns in NYC Spanish.” NWAV 38, University of Ottawa.
2009
2007 "Varying in codes and styles: The multilingual speaker in sociolinguistics." 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, California.
2007
2006 "Codeswitching in interpreter-mediated interaction: Comparing four communities in contact." 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque.
2006
2006 "Variation in small claims court: Style-shifting versus codeswitching in litigant testimony." NWAV 35, Columbus, Ohio.
2006
2005 "Dial 1-800-KPACOTA: Script alternation and hybridity in Russian-American advertisement." (Part of a panel entitled "Language alternation in writing.") 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona.
2005
2005 "El ticket or la boleta? Lexical variation and contested linguistic boundaries in interpreter-mediated interaction." NWAV 34, New York University.
2005
2005 "‘Ask her if she speaks English’: The implications of language choice in interpreter-mediated court proceedings." 50th ILA Conference, Language and the Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
2005
2005 "‘Speak English or what?’ - Language choice and codeswitching in multilingual court proceedings." 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona.
2005
2004 "Mehrsprachigkeit vor Gericht: Sprachwahl und Sprachwechsel in gedolmetschten Schlichtungsverfahren." [Multilingualism in court: Language choice and codeswitching in interpreter-mediated arbitration hearings] 35. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.
2004
2004 "Who is 'I'? Pronoun choice and bilingual identity in court interpreting." NWAV 33, University of Michigan.
2004
2003 "On the B-Train to Brighton Beach: Russian-American Bilingualism and Bi-Alphabetism." Alphabetics: Interpreting Letters, Harvard University.
2003
2003 "Script choice as an indicator of loanword status in bilingual writing." NWAVE 32, University of Pennsylvania.
2003
2003 "Switching Codes and Switching Roles: Interpreters and Litigants in Small Claims Court." 8th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Toronto.
2003
2002 "A Quantitative Analysis of Untriggered Reflexives in Co-Ordinate NP's in American English," with John Victor Singler. NWAV 31, Stanford University.
2002
2002 "Copying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication." 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
2002
2002 "Lexical Cohesion as a Motivation for Code-switching: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilingual Speech in Court Testimonies." First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, The University at Albany, SUNY.
2002
2001 "Lexical Cohesion in Multilingual Conversation." Poster presentation, NWAV 30, North Carolina State University.
2001
1998 "The Use of the Internet as a Source of Data: Case-Marking in Co-ordinate NP’s," with Cecilia Cutler, Keith Fernandes, and John Victor Singler. NWAV 27, University of Georgia.
1998
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
2005 “Who is 'I'? Pronoun choice and bilingual identity in court interpreting.” Selected Proceedings from NWAV 33. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 11.2: 31-44.
2005
2003 “Copying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication.” In Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9.1: 17-30.
2003
2003 “Lexical Cohesion as a Motivation for Code-switching: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilingual Speech in Court Testimonies.” In Selected Proceedings from the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Lotfi Sayahi. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 112-122.
2003
Forthcoming
Publication
Year
To appear “Bilingualism meets digraphia: Script alternation and hybridity in Russian-American writing and beyond.” To appear in Language mixing and code-switching in writing: approaches to mixed-language written discourse, edited by M. Sebba, S. Mahootian, and C. Jonsson. New York: Routledge.
To appear "Language and the law.” In Handbook of Pragmatics edited by Jef Verschuren and Jan-Ola Östman. John Benjamins.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | GS/LAL6410 3.0 | M | Language, Culture and Ideology | SEMR |
Degrees
Ph.D., Linguistics, New York UniversityM.A., Linguistics/Comparative Literature/Eastern European History, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
Linguistics
, Multiculturalism, Multilingualism, Language and Law, Translation
Awards
- Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University 2004-2005 - 2004-2005
- Graduate Forum Membership, New York University 2003-2004 - 2003-2004
- MacCracken Fellowship, New York University 1999-2003 - 1999-2003
- Guest researcher at SFB 538 Mehrsprachigkeit (Center for Research on Multilingualism), University of Hamburg, Germany. 2008 - 2008
Current Research Projects
pangerme
The Integration of Text, Sound and Image into the Corpus-Based Analysis of Interpreter-Mediated Interaction
-
Summary:
Online database of interpreter-mediated interaction http://www.yorku.ca/comindat/comindat.htm
Description:Joint project with Bernd Meyer (U Mainz/Germersheim) and Thomas Schmidt (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim), funded by the SSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program.
Project Type: FundedMIAM 2015
-
Summary:
International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Interpreting in Settings of Globalisation: Asylum and Migration, February 19-20, 2015 at Ghent University, with Katrijn Maryns and Mieke van Herreweghe
Description:Research colloquium
Role: Co-organizerCollaborator: Katrijn Maryns
Collaborator Institution: Universiteit Gent
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
2012 "Bilingualism meets digraphia: Script alternation and hybridity in Russian-American writing and beyond." In Language mixing and code-switching in writing: approaches to mixed-language written discourse, edited by M. Sebba, S. Mahootian, and C. Jonsson. New York: Routledge.
2012
2011 "Language and the law.” In Handbook of Pragmatics edited by Jef Verschuren and Jan-Ola Östman. John Benjamins.
2011
2007 “Mehrsprachigkeit vor Gericht: Sprachwahl und Sprachwechsel in gedolmetschten Schlichtungsverfahren.” [Multilingualism in court: Language choice and codeswitching in interpreted arbitration proceedings]. Mehrsprachigkeit am Arbeitsplatz, edited by Bernd Meyer and Shinichi Kameyama. Forum Angewandte Linguistik, Band 48. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 129-147.
2007
Book Reviews
Publication
Year
2010 Review of Berk-Seligson, Susan “Coerced Confessions: The Discourse of Bilingual Police Interrogations.” International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 17 (1): 171-176
2010
2004 Review of Hale, Sandra "The Discourse of Court Interpreting." Linguistlist, Issue 16.1381.
2004
Books
Publication
Year
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas. In honor of John V. Singler. Edited with Cece Cutler and Zvjezdana Vrzic. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Creole Language Library Vol. 53.
2017
2015 Speak English or what? Codeswitching and interpreter use in New York City courts. New York: Oxford University Press.
2015
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts. Language in Society 2023;52(5):837-859.
2023
Angermeyer, Philipp (2021) Beyond translation equivalence: Advocating pragmatic equality before the law,
Journal of Pragmatics 174, 157-167,
Journal of Pragmatics 174, 157-167,
2021
Controlling Roma refugees with 'Google-Hungarian': Indexing deviance, contempt, and belonging in Toronto's linguistic landscape. Language in Society 46 (2): 159-183.
2017
2014 "Monolingual ideologies and multilingual practices in small claims court: The case of Spanish-speaking arbitrators." International Journal of Multilingualism, 11 (4): 430-448.
2014
2013 “Multilingual speakers and language choice in the legal system.” Applied Linguistics Review 4 (1): 105-126.
2013
2010 “Interpreter-mediated interaction as bilingual speech: Bridging macro-and microsociolinguistics in codeswitching research.” International Journal of Bilingualism 14 (4): 466-489.
2010
2009 “Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 13 (1): 3-28.
2009
2008 “Creating monolingualism in the multilingual courtroom.” Sociolinguistic Studies 2 (3): 385-403.
2008
2005 “Spelling Bilingualism: Script Choice in Russian American Classified Ads and Signage.” Language in Society 34 (4): 493-531.
2005
2005 “Who is ‘you’? Polite forms of address and ambiguous participant roles in court interpreting.” Target: International Journal of Translation Studies 17 (2): 203-226.
2005
2003 “The Case for Politeness: Pronoun Variation in Co-ordinate NP's in object position in American English.” Co-authored with John Victor Singler. Language Variation and Change 15: 171-209.
2003
2002 “Lexical Cohesion in Multilingual Conversation.” International Journal of Bilingualism 6: 361-393.
2002
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
2011 “Regulated multilingualism and divergent multilingual practices in New York small claims court.” Accepted for presentation at 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo, Norway, June 2011. Part of the colloquium panel “Practices, processes and institutions in multilingual spaces” convened by Eva Codó, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Miguel Pérez-Milans, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
2011 “Relating translation effects to language contact phenomena.” 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2011
2011 “Reviewing the invisible interpreter: Ideologies and practices of court interpreting.” Accepted for presentation at American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, March 2011. Part of an invited colloquium “Language in Legal Settings: Sociolinguistic Perspectives Applied” convened by Frances Rock, Cardiff University.
2011
2009 "Testifying with a court interpreter or without: Comparing recurrent narratives across proceedings." International Association of Forensic Linguists 9th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2009
2009 “Translation data as evidence in language contact research.” 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2009
2009 “Translation effects as evidence in language contact studies: The case of variable subject pronouns in NYC Spanish.” NWAV 38, University of Ottawa.
2009
2007 "Varying in codes and styles: The multilingual speaker in sociolinguistics." 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, California.
2007
2006 "Codeswitching in interpreter-mediated interaction: Comparing four communities in contact." 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque.
2006
2006 "Variation in small claims court: Style-shifting versus codeswitching in litigant testimony." NWAV 35, Columbus, Ohio.
2006
2005 "Dial 1-800-KPACOTA: Script alternation and hybridity in Russian-American advertisement." (Part of a panel entitled "Language alternation in writing.") 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona.
2005
2005 "El ticket or la boleta? Lexical variation and contested linguistic boundaries in interpreter-mediated interaction." NWAV 34, New York University.
2005
2005 "‘Ask her if she speaks English’: The implications of language choice in interpreter-mediated court proceedings." 50th ILA Conference, Language and the Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
2005
2005 "‘Speak English or what?’ - Language choice and codeswitching in multilingual court proceedings." 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona.
2005
2004 "Mehrsprachigkeit vor Gericht: Sprachwahl und Sprachwechsel in gedolmetschten Schlichtungsverfahren." [Multilingualism in court: Language choice and codeswitching in interpreter-mediated arbitration hearings] 35. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.
2004
2004 "Who is 'I'? Pronoun choice and bilingual identity in court interpreting." NWAV 33, University of Michigan.
2004
2003 "On the B-Train to Brighton Beach: Russian-American Bilingualism and Bi-Alphabetism." Alphabetics: Interpreting Letters, Harvard University.
2003
2003 "Script choice as an indicator of loanword status in bilingual writing." NWAVE 32, University of Pennsylvania.
2003
2003 "Switching Codes and Switching Roles: Interpreters and Litigants in Small Claims Court." 8th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Toronto.
2003
2002 "A Quantitative Analysis of Untriggered Reflexives in Co-Ordinate NP's in American English," with John Victor Singler. NWAV 31, Stanford University.
2002
2002 "Copying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication." 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
2002
2002 "Lexical Cohesion as a Motivation for Code-switching: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilingual Speech in Court Testimonies." First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, The University at Albany, SUNY.
2002
2001 "Lexical Cohesion in Multilingual Conversation." Poster presentation, NWAV 30, North Carolina State University.
2001
1998 "The Use of the Internet as a Source of Data: Case-Marking in Co-ordinate NP’s," with Cecilia Cutler, Keith Fernandes, and John Victor Singler. NWAV 27, University of Georgia.
1998
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
2005 “Who is 'I'? Pronoun choice and bilingual identity in court interpreting.” Selected Proceedings from NWAV 33. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 11.2: 31-44.
2005
2003 “Copying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication.” In Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9.1: 17-30.
2003
2003 “Lexical Cohesion as a Motivation for Code-switching: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilingual Speech in Court Testimonies.” In Selected Proceedings from the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Lotfi Sayahi. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 112-122.
2003
Forthcoming
Publication
Year
To appear “Bilingualism meets digraphia: Script alternation and hybridity in Russian-American writing and beyond.” To appear in Language mixing and code-switching in writing: approaches to mixed-language written discourse, edited by M. Sebba, S. Mahootian, and C. Jonsson. New York: Routledge.
To appear "Language and the law.” In Handbook of Pragmatics edited by Jef Verschuren and Jan-Ola Östman. John Benjamins.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | GS/LAL6410 3.0 | M | Language, Culture and Ideology | SEMR |
