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Dr. Christian Hoffmann

Senior Lecturer
English Linguistics
Phone: +49 821 598 - 5755
Email:
Room: 4044 (D)
Address: Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg

Office Hours

During the Term:
 

  • Regular Office Hours: Thursdays, 12:00 - 13:00, Room 4038

  • Prior arrangements are not necessary. Just send me an email one day before your visit and drop by.  

 

The office hours during term break will be announced in the News-Section.

Service

  • Erasmus Coordinator (English and American Studies)
  • Program Coordinator (Master English and American Studies)
  • Credit Transfer Coordinator (English Linguistics)

If you require help concerning the MA EAS master programme, you can also contact master tutors Liliana Hahn and Hannah Ottmann.

Curriculum Vitae

 

since 2010

Senior Lecturer at the University of Augsburg (Akademischer Rat)

2010

Ph.D., University of Augsburg

2006 - 2010

Junior Lecturer at the University of Augsburg

2000 - 2006

University of Augsburg: Magister Artium (M.A.) in English Linguistics, French Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language (DaF)

Research interests

  • Semantics/Pragmatics
  • (Critical) Discourse Analysis
  • Corpus Stylistics
  • Telecinematic Discourse Analysis
  • Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis

Reviews

Text & Talk

 

Journal of Pragmatics

 

Pragmatics & Beyond

 

Discourse & Society

 

Internet Pragmatics (Editorial Board Member)

Current research projects

Telecinematic Stylistics (with Dr. Monika Kirner-Ludwig)

 

Revision of the text book "Englische Pragmatik" (ESV) (with Prof. Dr. Wolfram Bublitz)

 

How Hollywood speaks. A Film Corpus Project (with  Prof. Dr. Monika Bednarek)

Latest and forthcoming publications

  • 2025

Hoffmann, Christian R. Forthcoming. "Bloody fucking amazing" – Re-Evaluating Emotionality in US Hollywood Screenplays. In: Kimberly Pager-McClymont & Paula Ghintuiala (eds.) Building narratives on screen: New approaches in Telecinematic Stylistics. London: Routledge. 
 
Hoffmann, Christian. 2025. "Persuasive Politics: The Strategic Use of Negative Evaluations in US Election Campaign Tweets". In: Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter (eds.) Manipulation, Influence & Deception. The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language (pp. 63-91), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 63-91. 
 
Hoffmann, Christian & Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer. "Introduction" Special Issue on Language and Film, Anglistik 1/2025, n.p.
 

  • 2024

Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina & Christian Hoffmann (eds.). 2024. Language and/in film: Approaches to verbal and multimodal characterisation. Focus issue of Anglistik 35.3. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/3/

Hoffmann, Christian & Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer. 2024. Characterising the use of language in film and television. Anglistik 35.3. 5-16. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/3/
 

  • 2022

Christian Hoffmann R. "The art of turn-taking in movie phone call openings". In: Christoph Schubert & Valentin Werner (eds.) Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture. London: Routledge, 130-155. 
 
 
 

Publications

2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2008

2021
Hoffmann, Christian R. (2021). Cut to the chase – how multimodal cohesion secures narrative orientation in film trailers. Discourse, Context & Media, 44, 100539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100539
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2019
Bublitz, Wolfram & Hoffmann, Christian R. (2019). Englische Pragmatik: eine Einführung. (3., neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage). Berlin: Erich Schmidt.
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2018
Hoffmann, Christian R. (2018). Book Review: Discourse and Identity on Facebook, Mariza Georgalou, Bloomsbury Publishing, London/Oxford (2017). Journal of Pragmatics, 137, 37-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.09.003
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2017
Hoffmann, Christian R. & Bublitz, Wolfram (Eds.). (2017). Pragmatics of social media. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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2013
Hoffmann, Christian R. (2013). E(-lectronic) schmoozing? A cross-generic study of compliments in blog comments. In Katrin Röder & Ilse Wischer (Eds.), Anglistentag Potsdam 2012: Proceedings (pp. 341-356). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
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2012
Hoffmann, Christian R. (2012). Book review: Andrew McKinlay and Chris McVittie, Social Psychology and Discourse, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, 2008; viii+ 315 pp.. Discourse & Communication, 6(2), 239-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481311435732
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Hoffmann, Christian R. (2012). Cohesive profiling: meaning and interaction in personal weblogs. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Bublitz, Wolfram & Hoffmann, Christian R. (2012). Text and context. In Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald, & Hubert Zapf (Eds.), English and American studies: theory and practice (pp. 435-455). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler.
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2011
Bublitz, Wolfram & Hoffmann, Christian R. (2011). "Three men using our toilet all day without flushing – This may be one of the worst sentences I’ve ever read": quoting in CMC. In Joachim Frenk & Lena Steveker (Eds.), Proceedings: Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken (pp. 433-447). Trier: WVT Wiss. Verl. Trier.
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2010
Hoffmann, Christian R. (2010). From Monologue to Dialogue? Cohesive Interaction in Personal Weblogs. Dissertation, Universität Augsburg. .
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Hoffmann, Christian R. (2010). Introduction. In Christian R. Hoffmann (Ed.), Narrative revisited: telling a story in the age of new media (pp. 1-18). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Hoffmann, Christian R. (Ed.). (2010). Narrative revisited: telling a story in the age of new media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.199
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Eisenlauer, Volker & Hoffmann, Christian R. (2010). Once upon a blog ... storytelling in weblogs. In Christian R. Hoffmann (Ed.), Narrative revisited: telling a story in the age of new media (pp. 79-108). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Hoffmann, Christian R. (2010). Rezension: Christoph Schubert, Raumkonstitution durch Sprache: Blickführung, Bildschemata und Kohäsion in Deskriptionssequenzen englischer Texte. Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, 128(2), 341-346. https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.2010.039
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2008
Eisenlauer, Volker & Hoffmann, Christian R. (2008). The metapragmatics of remediated text design. Information Design Journal, 16(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.16.1.02eis
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