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Egg, Markus

Prof. Dr.

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Professor, Department of English and American Studies , Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Project lead, A01 Metaphor and metonymy as register phenomena , Sonderforschungsbereich 1412 REGISTER 2020 - 2023

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academic article
- Metaphors as register markers. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 2026
- Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. Frame text of the Second Phase Proposal for the CRC 1412 . Register Aspects of Language in Situation. 3:1-53. 2024
- Morphologische Prozesse in Polari und modernem LGBTQ+-Slang auf Twitter – Eine vergleichende Registeranalyse. Jahrbuch der Berliner Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft. 2023. 2023
- Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology. 2023
- Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. Frame text of the First Phase Proposal for the CRC 1412 . REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation. 1:1-58. 2022
- Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation. 2022
chapter
- Drawing attention to metaphor: An introduction to the debate. Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 1-14. 2020
- To those walking in the footsteps of the faith. Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 229-262. 2020
conference paper
- A corpus of metaphors as register markers. EACL 2023. 2023
- A corpus annotated for metaphor in German. LREC 2022, Marseille. 2022

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book
- Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2020
edited book
- Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2026

presentations

invited talk
- Metaphors in religious language: a register perspective, Sprecher, Kolloquium SFB 1475 "Metaphern der Religion" 2024
presentation
- What proper names can reveal about paragons, Speaker, 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language, Valencia 2026
- Antonomasia: metonymical and metaphorical non-bare proper names, Speaker, Workshop ‘Non-bare proper nouns 2’, Mexico City 2025
- Counterfactual metaphor, Speaker, Conference 'Metaphors of Religion' of the CRC 1475 'Metaphor and Religion', Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2025
- Extended metaphors in dialogue, Speaker, 8th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language, Klagenfurt 2025
- Extended metaphors, Speaker, DGfS 2024 (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) 2024
- Metaphor and metonymy as markers of register variation, Speaker, New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51 2023
- Metaphors as register markers, Speaker, 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 2023
- What metaphors don’t say: register marking via metaphors, Presenter, What words don’t say: Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of (in)direct communication, Università della Calabria 2023
- A corpus annotated for metaphor in German, Author and presenter, DGfS 2022, University of Tübingen 2022
- Metaphor annotation for German, Presenter, LREC 2022, Marseille 2022
- Metaphor variation across registers in German, Presenter, Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Conference 2022
- Metaphors as register markers, Speaker, Metaphors and stance markers in register variation (MeStaR) 2022
- Register, genre, style, and all that, Speaker, CRC 1412 – Spring Retreat 2022 2022