Christina Ringel

Curriculum Vitae

Christina Ringel completed her PhD at the English Department of the University of Cologne with a thesis on possession in the endangered Aboriginal language Miriwoong. She held a PostDoc position at the University of Cologne and is currently pursuing a PostDoc project at TU Dortmund. From 2017 until 2022 she was also a Subject Librarian at TU Dortmund for a variety of subjects in the social sciences and humanities.

Christina‘s most recent conference papers and publications are concerned with the identification of rhetorical and linguistic features of certain genres using corpus linguistics, the research literacy of pre-service teachers, app creation for endangered languages, definiteness and possession in Miriwoong, evidentiality in Australian languages, and the role of linguistic human rights, self-determination and country for language vitality.

Christina is a research affiliate at CoEDL, an Affiliated Team Member of the Centre for Australian Studies, a member of professional societies such as Foundation for Endangered Languages and the Society for Australian studies (GASt), and on the Advisory Board of FID AAC. Since October 2021, she is Managing and Reviews Editor of the Australian Studies Journal.

Publikationen / Publications

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7895-3456

Ringel, Christina & Theresa Pohle. (accepted). “A cognitive-linguistic approach to app creation for language revitalization”. Salem Mezhoud, Christopher Moseley & Hakim Elnazarov (eds.). Yearbook of the Foundation for Endangered Languages: Community ownership of language education for endangered language revitalization.Vol. 4. Brill.

Ringel, Christina & Theresa Pohle. 2024. "App-assisted language revitalization: Insights from applied cognitive linguistics". B. Bédi, Y. Choubsaz, K. Friðriksdóttir, A. Gimeno-Sanz, S. Björg Vilhjálmsdóttir & S. Zahova (eds.). CALL for all Languages - EUROCALL 2023 Short Papers. 15-18 August 2023, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. https://doi.org/10.4995/EuroCALL2023.2023.16955

Ringel, Christina. 2023. Rangga ngenandayin, lingbe berranben-nging-ngerri – Possession in Miriwoong, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of north-west Australia. PhD dissertation, University of Cologne. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-713276

Ringel, Christina, Leonie John & Friederike Zahn (eds.). 2023. Australian Studies Journal 37. https://doi.org/10.35515/zfa/asj.37

Ringel, Christina. 2022. “The Role of Country and Self-Determination in Revitalisation”.
Australian Studies Journal 36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35515/zfa/asj.36/2022.02.

Ringel, Christina. 2021. “The Contributions of Linguistics to Native Title Claims”. Geoff Rodoreda & Eva Bischoff (eds.). Mabo’s Cultural Legacy – History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia. London & New York: Anthem Press. [peer-reviewed]

Ringel, Christina. 2018. “Claiming Vitality – How Identification With Territory and Language Influences Language Vitality”. Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism. Proceedings of the Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference XXII. Reykjavik, 23-25th of August 2018. [peer-reviewed] Available online: https://elpublishing.org/endangered-languages-and-the-land/

Ringel, Christina & David Newry 2018. “The Miriwoong Perspective on Land Rights”. Beate Neumeier, Boris Braun & Victoria Herche (eds.). Nature and Environment in Australia. KOALAS 14. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 119-137. http://www.wvttrier.de/top/Beschreibungen/ID1632.html

Murmann, Christina, Peter Indefrey, Thomas Weskott & Markus Steinbach. 2013. “Why FORGET needs help but HELP does not – An experimental study on the influence of animacy/ agreement on the distribution of the DGS agreement auxiliary PAM”. Poster at the 11^th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) Conference. University College London. July 2013.

Konferenzvorträge / Conference Presentations

05/2025

L2 Writing Research Seminar 2025: Aysel Sarıcaoğlu, Christina Ringel & Raúl García 'Communicative functions and linguistic features characterizing written summaries of research articles' University of Murcia

10/2024

International Symposium on New Trends in Language Studies 2: Aysel Sarıcaoğlu, Christina Ringel & Raúl García 'Communicative functions and linguistic features characterizing written summaries of research articles' Social Sciences University of Ankara

09/2024

Second Language Teacher Education 24 (SLTED): Raúl García, Carolyne Blume & Christina Ringel 'The realitea regarding foreign language teacher’s research literacies: Issues and initiatives' Masaryk University, Czech Republic

09/2024

European Australianist Workshop 11 (EAW) 'Long and short possessive pronouns in Miriwoong' University Paris-Cité

09/2023

FEMIDAL Workshop 2: Christina Ringel & Theresa Pohle. ‘Event-, story-, and place-based learning in an app-assisted language revitalization scenario’, University Paris-Cité

08/2023

EUROCALL Conference CALL for all languages: Christina Ringel & Theresa Pohle. ‘Basing app-assisted language revitalization on applied cognitive linguistics’, University of Iceland

11/2022

Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL 26): Christina Ringel & Theresa Pohle. 'A cognitive-linguistic approach to app creation for language revitalization', Navajo Technical University

12/2021

Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL 25) 'Researching Evidentiality in Endangered Languages – Focus on the Australian Language Miriwoong', University of Tirana

05/2021

First Global Australian Languages Workshop 'Evidentiality in Australian languages with a focus on Miriwoong' (online)

02/2021

PARADISEC at 100 'Informed Consent for Archiving' The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Languages, Sydney

12/2020

Building Bridges (ALS 2020) 'Linguistic Human Rights v Language Shift' (online)

10/2018

Australian Perspectives on Migration (GASt 16) 'Migration & Language – Linguistic Rights in Australia', Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

08/2018

Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism (FEL 22) 'Claiming Vitality – How Identification With Territory and Language Influences Language Vitality', University of Iceland

11/2017

Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: The Mabo Decision, 25 Years On: 'The Contributions of Linguistics to Native Title Claims', University of Stuttgart

09/2017

Societas Linguistica Europaea 50: Christina Ringel & Agnes Armstrong. 'Relating definiteness and exhaustivity to possession in an endangered Indigenous language of Australia', University of Zurich

05/2017

Introduction to Australian Studies Lecture Series: 'Focus on Kimberley Languages'. Centre for Australian Studies, University of Cologne.

09/2016

Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific 5: 'Linguistic Research Methods in remote Australia', University of Potsdam

Nature and Environment in Australia (GASt 15): Christina Ringel & David Newry. 'The Miriwoong Perspective on Land Rights'; Dany Adone & Christina Ringel. 'Possessive constructions in two varieties of Australian Kriol', University of Cologne

07/2016

Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop on Endangered Languages and Cultures: 'Researching possession in an indigenous language of Australia', University of Cambridge (accepted)

05/2015

Stuts 57: 'My house, my car, my hollow log – Possessive Pronouns in Miriwoong', Philipps University Marburg

11/2013

Stuts 54: 'Predicative Possession in Miriwoong', Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

09/2013

Mirima Linguistic Forum 7: 'Possession in Miriwoong – Meanings of HAVE', MDWg Language and Culture Centre in Kununurra/Western Australia

04/2013

Sign Language Research Laboratory Haifa Workshop: 'Why FORGET needs help but HELP does not – an experimental study on the DGS agreement auxiliary PAM'

05/2012

Stuts 51: 'What is so special on the agreement auxiliary in German Sign Language?', University of Stuttgart

11/2011

Stuts 50: 'Kheuól – What does a french-based Creole do in Brazil?', Georg August University of Göttingen

Präsentationen / Presentations

Winter term 2023/2024
- ‘PHinisheD – An NRW Post-Doc in Linguistics’ LINPIN conference, University of Duisburg-Essen [invited: plenary]
Winter term 2021/2022:
- 'Structural Changes in Endangered Languages − Possession' Hauptseminar Prof. Dr. Dany Adone (UoC): Endangered Languages
Summer term 2019:
- 'Triggering HAVE and BELONG constructions with Language Games' Oberseminar Prof. Dr. Dany Adone (UoC): Topics in Synchronic Linguistics
Winter term 2018/2019:
- 'Triggering HAVE and BELONG constructions with Language Games' Linguistik Kolloquium PD Dr. Michael Rießler (Bielefeld University) [invited]
Summer term 2017:
- 'The culture of possession in Miriwoong' Hauptseminar Prof. Dr. Dany Adone (UoC): Topics in Synchronic Linguistics
- 'Introduction to Kimberley Languages' Ringvorlesung Prof. Dr. Dany Adone and Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier (UoC): Introduction to Australian Studies
Summer term 2016:
- 'The role of the speaker and the linguist' Hauptseminar Prof. Dany Adone (UoC): Australian Studies: Language Endangerment and Documentation
- 'Researching Kimberley Kriol' Oberseminar Prof. Dr. Dany Adone (UoC): Readings in Linguistics, Changing Signs – Australian Languages
Summer term 2015:
- 'Fieldwork with the Miriwoong People' Vorlesung Prof. Dr. Dany Adone (UoC): Languages in Australia
Winter term 2014/2015:
- 'I have one sister, two legs and three axes – Using language games to document possession in Miriwoong' Masterkolloquium Dr. Melanie Wratil (HHU Düsseldorf): Morphologie und Syntax [invited]
- 'Possessive pronouns in Miriwoong' Seminar PD Dr. F. K. Erhard Voeltz (HHU Düsseldorf): Possession, Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik [invited]
Summer term 2014:
- 'Possession in Miriwoong', Hauptseminar Prof. Dr. Dany Adone (UoC): Morphosyntax of Australian Languages
Winter term 2013:
- 'The agreement auxiliary PAM in German Sign Language' Research colloquium for Master students Prof. Dr. Peter Indefrey (HHU Düsseldorf) [invited]

Wissenschaftskommunikation / Science communication

2022:
- Ringel, Christina & Prof. D. Adone. 'Landeskundlicher Workshop: Australien − Einblicke in Geografie, Geschichte, Gesellschaft und die (Hoch)Schullandschaft' Personnel development workshop for intercultural competence organised by the Center for International Mobility at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. 18 May 2022.
2021:
- Ringel, Christina. 'Wer entscheidet eigentlich welche Bücher in der Uni-Bib stehen? − Aus dem Alltag einer Fachreferentin' Presentation at the Job-Café organised by Förderlink e.V. for students, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. 9 March 2021.
2019:
- Ringel, Christina & Stefanie Spiegelberg. 'Was Sprachen über uns erzählen'. Information desk and poster session at TU Dortmund's summer fair in celebration of UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages. 4 July 2019.
- Ringel, Christina & Melles, Warsa. 'Language maintenance & revitalisation'. Poster at the poster session at TU Dortmund's summer fair. 4 July 2019.
2018:
- Ringel, Christina. Chair of the panel discussion 'Migration: The Global Challenge' at the GASt conference 2018, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. 5 October 2018.
2017:
- Ringel, Christina. 'Feldforschungsmethoden für bedrohte Sprachen Australiens' Presentation at the Alumni colloquium organised by Studienfonds OWL, Paderborn University. 24 May 2017.