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Universit?t Regensburg

SS 2025

  • Acoustic Phonetics (Hauptseminar)
  • Introduction to English Linguistics: English in Use (Lecture)
  • Introduction to English Linguistics: Phonetics & Phonology?(Lecture)
  • Postcolonial Englishes (Lecture)
  • Text Analysis (Course for Lehramt exam candidates)

WS 2024/25

  • Introduction to English Linguistics: English in Use (Lecture)

  • Tidy Linguistics: An Introduction to Data Wrangling In R (Hauptseminar)

Universit?t Bayreuth

SS 2024

  • Compiling, Annotating and Exploring a Linguistic Corpus (Hauptseminar)
  • Phonemic Transcription (Course for Lehramt exam candidates)
  • The Language of Children and Teenagers (Hauptseminar)
  • Tidy Linguistics: An Introduction to Data Wrangling In R (Hauptseminar)
  • Vorbereitungskurs für die erste Staatsprüfung (Course for Lehramt exam candidates)

Universit?t Regensburg

WS 2023/24

  • Compiling, Annotating and Exploring a Linguistic Corpus (Hauptseminar)
  • Introduction to English Linguistics II: English in Use (Lecture)
  • Text Analysis (Course for Lehramt exam candidates)

SS 2023

  • Introduction to English Linguistics: English in Use (Lecture)
  • Understanding English in use?(Seminar)

Universit?t Bayreuth

WS 2022/23

  • Methods in Linguistics (Proseminar)
  • Phonemic Transcription (Seminar)
  • Staatsexamenskurs (Seminar)
  • Theoretical Approaches to Language, Variation and Culture (Master seminar)
  • World Englishes from a Historical Perspective (Hauptseminar)

Universit?t Regensburg

SS 2022

  • Introduction to English Linguistics II: English in Use (Lecture)
  • Text Analysis (Seminar)
  • Understanding English linguistics II: English in use?(Seminar)

WS 2021/22

  • Collecting and Analysing Speech Data (Hauptseminar)
  • Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes (Lecture)
  • Introduction to English Linguistics II: English in Use (Lecture)
  • Phonemic Transcription (Seminar)
  • Text Analysis (Seminar)

SS 2021

  • The phonetics and phonology of English?(Lecture)
  • Introduction to English linguistics II:?English in use (Lecture)
  • Language change (Hauptseminar)
  • Recent Research in English Linguistics (Colloquium)
  • Understanding English linguistics II: English in use?(Seminar)

WS 2020/21

  • Varieties of English (Lecture)
  • From acquisition to teen talk: the language of children and adolescents (Hauptseminar)
  • Corpus Linguistics (Seminar)
  • Text analysis (Seminar)
  • Understanding English Linguistics I: Theory and Structure (Seminar)

SS 2020

  • Sociolinguistics (Lecture)
  • English in Africa (Hauptseminar)
  • Recent Research in English Linguistics (Colloquium)
  • Readings in Linguistics (MA seminar)
  • Understanding English Linguistics I: Theory and Structure (Seminar)

WS 2019/20

  • Research Methods of Investigating Variation in English (MA seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2019

  • Introduction to English linguistics

WS 2018/19

  • World Englishes in a diachronic perspective (Seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2018

  • Academic Research Sabbatical

WS 2017/18

  • (Historical)?Sociolinguistics (Seminar, cancelled)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar, 2 courses)

SS 2017

  • Statistics in linguistics (Seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

WS 2016/17

  • Morphology &?word-formation (Seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2016

  • English in the British Isles (Seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

WS 2015/16

  • The structure of English (Lecture)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2015

  • Syntaktische Analysen (Seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

Westf?lische-Wilhems-Universit?t Münster

WS 2014/15

  • The Pronunciation of English (Lecture)
  • Accents of English (Lecture)
  • Research Workshop: Accents of English (Seminar)
  • Postgraduate Class (Linguistics) (Seminar)

Technische Universit?t Chemnitz

SS 2014

  • Basic research methods in linguistics (Seminar)
  • Advanced quantitative research in linguistics (Seminar)

WS 2013/14

  • English variation world-wide (Seminar)
  • Research colloquium (Seminar)

SS 2013

  • Research seminar (Seminar)
  • Advanced research methods (Seminar)

WS 2012/13

  • Using and learning English world-wide (Seminar)
  • Research colloquium (Seminar)

Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Gie?en

WS 2011/12

  • An introduction to statistics in linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2011

  • Languages of Scotland: Historical and current perspectives (Seminar)

WS 2010/11

  • Phonetics and phonology (Lecture)
  • Grundkurs Promotion Fachmodul FB 05 (Linguistik) (Seminar for doctoral students of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC))

SS 2010

  • Doing linguistics: A practical approach to linguistic research methodology (Seminar)

WS 2009/10

  • Doing linguistics: A practical approach to linguistic research methodology (Seminar)
  • Grundkurs Promotion Fachmodul FB 05 (Linguistik) (Seminar for doctoral students of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC))

SS 2010

  • Doing linguistics: A practical approach to linguistic research methodology (Seminar)

WS 2009/10

  • Doing linguistics: A practical approach to linguistic research methodology (Seminar)
  • Grundkurs Promotion Fachmodul FB 05 (Linguistik) (Seminar for doctoral students of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC))

SS 2009

  • African Englishes (Seminar)

WS 20008/09

  • Doing linguistics: A practical approach to linguistic research methodology (Seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2008

  • Visible speech: a practical introduction to acoustic phonetics (Seminar)

WS 2007/08

  • Language change (Seminar)
  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2007

  • Urban accents in the British Isles (Seminar)

WS 2006/07

  • Forensic linguistics (Seminar)

SS 2006

  • Introduction to English linguistics (Seminar)

  1. Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Cultures
  2. Department of English and American Studies

Dr. Thorsten Brato


Room PT 3.2.80
Phone+49(0)941-943-3504
Fax+49(0)941-943-1990
thorsten.brato@ur.de