Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of German, Linguistics & English Language and Literature
Department of Linguistics, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures (courtesy appointment)
she/her/hers
Office Information:
phone: 734.764.8030
Faculty; Germanic Languages and Literatures
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. 1996
Highlighted Work and Publications
Turkish German bilinguals and their intonation: Triangulating evidence about contact-induced language change
Robin Queen
Name of Periodical: Language
Volume Number: 88
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 791-816
Describing, analysing and judging language codes in cinematic discourse
Robin Queen, Kay Richardson
Name of Periodical: Multilingua
Volume Number: 31
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 327-336
Days of our Lives: Language on a daytime drama
Robin Queen
Name of Periodical: Gender and Language
Volume Number: 6
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 151-78
Media Clips Collections: Creation and Application in the Linguistics Classroom
Robin Queen, Lauren Squires
Name of Periodical: American Speech
Volume Number: 86
Issue Number: 2
Year of Publication: 2011
Page Numbers: 220-68
Women and canine rescue
Robin Queen, A. Markovits
Name of Periodical: Society And Animals
Year of Publication: 2009
Sociolinguistic Horizons: Language and Sexuality
Robin Queen
Name of Periodical: Language Compass
Volume Number: 1
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2007
Page Numbers: 314-330
Phrase-final intonation in narratives told by Turkish-German bilinguals
Robin Queen
Name of Periodical: International Journal of Bilingualism
Volume Number: 10
Issue Number: 2
Year of Publication: 2006
Page Numbers: 153-178
Contact-related language change and variability in the intonation patterns of Turkish-German bilinguals
Robin Queen
Name of Periodical: Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society
Year of Publication: 2006
Page Numbers: 465-476
How many lesbians does it take…?: Jokes, teasing and the negotiation of stereotypes about lesbians
Robin Queen
Name of Periodical: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Volume Number: 15
Issue Number: 2
Year of Publication: 2005
Page Numbers: 239-257
Du hast jar keene Ahnung: Dubbing African-American English into German
Robin Queen
Name of Periodical: Journal of Sociolinguistics
Volume Number: 8
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2004
Page Numbers: 515-537
Vox Popular: The Surprising Life of Language in the Media
Robin Queen
Our favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The creative decisions behind these voices—such as what accent or dialect to use—offer rich data for sociolinguistic study. Ideal for students of language variation as well as general readers interested in media, Vox Popular is an engaging tour through the major issues of sociolinguistic study as heard in the voices from mass media.
• Provides readers with a unified and accessible picture of the interrelationships between language variation...
See More