Dr Doris Dippold

Biography

Doris is Lecturer in German and Programme Director for the BSc Business Management & Language programmes. She is teaching a range of German language and culture modules and UG and PG modules on professional communication.

After gaining an MA in Germanic and Literatures from the University of Kansas, Doris completed a PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. Before joining the University of Surrey in 2008, she worked as German language tutor and lecturer at the University of Kansas, the University of Science and Technology Shanghai, the University of Southampton and the University of Plymouth.

Research Interests

•  Language and intercultural skills in business (Project "Arctic")
•  Intercultural communication; Intercultural Pragmatics
•  Pragmatics, in particular the management of face and rapport
•  Professional communication
•  Teaching and learning languages in Higher Education
•  Assessment and feedback
•  Computer-mediated communication and computer-assisted language learning

Research Collaborations

Doris is currently principal investigator on an AHRC-funded project on businesses' language and cultural barriers in international trade (Project "Arctic"). 

She has also conducted research on communication in culturally diverse university classrooms and has developed a web-based resource on professional communication as part of a SCEPTrE fellowship.   

Publications

2011 Argumentative discourse in L2 German: a sociocognitive perspective on the development of facework strategies. Modern Language Journal 95 (2): 171-187.

2009 Face and self-presentation in spoken L2 discourse: Renewing the research agenda in interlanguage pragmatics. Intercultural Pragmatics 6(1): 1-28.

2009 Peer feedback through blogs. Student and teacher perceptions in an advanced German class. Recall 21(1): 21-36.

2008 Reframing one’s experience: Face, identity and roles in argumentative discourse. In M. Pütz & J. Neff-van Aertselaer (eds.), Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (pp. 133-144). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2007 Using speech frames to research interlanguage pragmatics: facework strategies in L2 German argument. Journal of Applied Linguistics 4(3): 285-308.

2006 Face in L2 argumentative discourse: Psycholinguistic constraints on the construction of identity. In R. Kiely et al. (eds.), Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics (pp. 163-180). London: Equinox.

Teaching

Doris teaches modules on German language, the cultures & societies of German speaking countries and oral skills for professional and academic purposes.  

Departmental Duties

Affiliations

British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

International Pragmatics Association (IPRA)