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Anglistik & Amerikanistik
Department of Cultural Studies
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Lisa Westermayer

  • Historical linguistics
  • Language change
  • Language contact
  • Jewish languages in the diaspora
  • Language variation in pop music
  • Corpus linguistics

Education 

  • 10/2013-03/2015: Teacher training in English & Spanish, University of Regensburg
  • 04/2015-09/2017: B.A. in English Linguistics & Spanish Philology, University of Regensburg
  • 10/2017-09/2019: M.A. in English Linguistics, University of Regensburg
  • Since 11/2021: PhD in English Linguistics, TU Dortmund University

Employment history

  • 02/2016-03/2016: Internship in records management , Municipal archive of Amberg
  • 10/2016-07/2019: Student assistant, Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider), University of Regensburg
  • 10/2018-04/2020: Localization specialist & technical translator, STARCON Nuremberg
  • 04/2020-12/2025: Research assistant Chair of English Linguistics (Multilingualism) (Prof. Dr. Sarah Buschfeld), TU Dortmund University
  • 10/2022-10/2023: Research assistant, Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange), TU Dresden
  • Since 12/2025: Study coordinator, Faculty of Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University

Contact-induced language change in the history of English: The origin of the do-support (PhD project)

Authenticity in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: A (Socio-)Linguistic Evaluation (Playing the Field IV: Video Games and Politics, Dortmund, 2024)

Buschfeld, S., L. Westermayer, and P. Ronan. Fc. Multilingual pop music. In V. Werner, C. Cutler, and A. Moody. Eds. Handbook of Language and Pop Culture. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Westermayer, L. Fc. Interferenzfehler. In I. Wischer, and M. Habermann. Eds. Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Band 3: Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Westermayer, L. Fc. Sprachmischung. In I. Wischer, and M. Habermann. Eds. Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Band 3: Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Westermayer, L. Fc. Transfer. In I. Wischer, and M. Habermann. Eds. Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Band 3: Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Westermayer, L. 2025. Diglossie. In I. Wischer, and M. Habermann. Eds. Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Band 3: Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Westermayer, L. 2025. Sprachwechsel. In I. Wischer, and M. Habermann. Eds. Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Band 3: Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Westermayer, L. 2025. Stammbaummodell. In I. Wischer, and M. Habermann. Eds. Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Band 3: Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Buschfeld, S., P. Ronan, T. Neumaier, A. Weilinghoff, and L. Westermayer. Introduction. In S. Buschfeld, P. Ronan, T. Neumaier, A. Weilinghoff, and L. Westermayer. Eds. 2024. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Buschfeld, S., P. Ronan, T. Neumaier, A. Weilinghoff, and L. Westermayer. Eds. 2024. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.