Publications

Books & special issues

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2018. Creativity in English as a lingua franca: Idiom and metaphor. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9781501516887

Pitzl, Marie-Luise & Ruth Osimk-Teasdale (eds.). 2016. English as a lingua franca: Perspectives and prospects. Contributions in honour of Barbara Seidlhofer. Boston/Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9781501511226

Ehrenreich, Susanne & Marie-Luise Pitzl (eds.). 2015. Special Issue on ‘Teaching ELF, BELF and/or Intercultural Communication?’. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 4(1). 1-189. Part of ISSN: 2191-9216

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2010. English as a lingua franca in international business: Resolving miscommunication and reaching shared understanding. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag. ISBN 978-3639225075

Habilitation

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2020. Spoken interaction and emergent linguistics practices: English as a lingua franca and Transient International Groups. Unpublished post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation), submitted for Venia docendi in English linguistics, University of Vienna, February 2020.

Journal articles & book chapters

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. forthc. Creativity and idiomaticity in intercultural interactions: Towards a transcultural and multilingual view. In Istvan Kecskes (ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2022a. From cross to inter to trans- *cultural pragmatics on the move: The need for expanding methodologies in lingua franca research. In Ian Walkinshaw (ed). Pragmatics in English as a lingua franca: Findings and developments, 55-80. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Open access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501512520/html

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2022b. Multilingual creativity and emerging norms in interaction: Towards a methodology for micro-diachronic analysis. In Janus Mortensen & Kamilla Kraft (eds). Norms and the study of language in social life, 125-155. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Open access:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501511882-006/pdf

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2021. Tracing the emergence of situational multilingual practices in a BELF meeting: Micro-diachronic analysis and implications of corpus design. In Kumiko Murata (ed). ELF research and approaches to data and analyses. Theoretical and methodological underpinnings. London: Routledge, 97-125. Part of ISBN: 9780367898793

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2019. Investigating Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Transient International Groups (TIGs) in BELF contexts. Iperstoria 13. 5-14. ISSN 2281-4582 Open-access.

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2018a. Transient International Groups (TIGs): Exploring the group and development dimension of ELF. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 7(1). 25-58. https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2018-0002

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2018b. Creativity, idioms and metaphorical language in ELF. In Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker & Martin Dewey (eds.). Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca, 233-243. London: Routledge. Part of ISBN 9780367529284

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2017. Communicative ‘success’, creativity and the need for de-mystifying L1 use: Some thoughts on ELF and ELT. Lingue e Linguaggi 24. 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v24p37 Open-access.

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2016a. Investigating multilingual practices in BELF meetings with VOICE: A corpus linguistic case study with methodological considerations. Waseda Working Papers in ELF 5. 15–40.

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2016b. World Englishes and creative idioms in English as a lingua franca. World Englishes 35(2). 293-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12196

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2016c. Expanding frontiers: Prospects on the creativity of ELF. In Marie-Luise Pitzl & Ruth Osimk-Teasdale (eds.), English as a lingua franca: Perspectives and prospects. Contributions in honour of Barbara Seidlhofer, 275-279. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter. Part of ISBN 9781501511226

Cogo, Alessia & Marie-Luise Pitzl. 2016. Pre-empting and signalling non-understanding in ELF. ELT Journal 70(3). 339-345. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccw015

Pitzl, Marie-Luise & Ruth Osimk-Teasdale. 2016. English as a lingua franca: Perspectives and prospects - Introduction. In Marie-Luise Pitzl & Ruth Osimk-Teasdale (eds.), English as a lingua franca: Perspectives and prospects. Contributions in honour of Barbara Seidlhofer, 1-9. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter. Part of ISBN 9781501511226

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2015. Understanding and misunderstanding in the Common European Framework of Reference: What we can learn from research on BELF and Intercultural Communication. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 4(1). 91-124. https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2015-0009

Pitzl, Marie-Luise & Susanne Ehrenreich. 2015. Teaching ELF, BELF and/or Intercultural Communication? – Introduction. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 4(1). 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2015-0004

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2013. Creativity in language use. In Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.). Handbook of Pragmatics (2013 installment), 1-28. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.17.cre3

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2012. Creativity meets convention: Idiom variation and re-metaphorization in ELF. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 1(1). 27-55. https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2012-0003

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2009. ‘We should not wake up any dogs’: Idiom and metaphor in ELF. In Anna Mauranen & Elina Ranta (eds.). English as a lingua franca: Studies and findings, 298-322. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. Part of ISBN 978-1443817264

Breiteneder, Angelika, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski & Marie-Luise Pitzl. 2009. The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) – A linguistic resource for exploring English as a lingua franca. ÖGAI-Journal 28(1). 21-26.

Pitzl, Marie-Luise, Angelika Breiteneder & Theresa Klimpfinger. 2008. A world of words: processes of lexical innovation in VOICE. Vienna English Working PaperS 17(2). 21-46. Part of ISSN 2074-9864. Open-access

Breiteneder, Angelika, Marie-Luise Pitzl, Stefan Majewski & Theresa Klimpfinger. 2006. VOICE recording – Methodological challenges in the compilation of a corpus of spoken ELF. Nordic Journal of English Studies 5(2). 161-188. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.16. Open-access.

Seidlhofer, Barbara, Angelika Breiteneder & Marie-Luise Pitzl. 2006. English as a lingua franca in Europe. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 26. 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026719050600002X

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2005. Non-understanding in English as a lingua franca: Examples from a business context. Vienna English Working PaperS 14(2). 50-71. Open-access.

Book reviews

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2017. Review of Culture and identity through English as a lingua franca by Will Baker. ELT Journal 71(3). 390-392. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccx022

Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2007. Review of Language and creativity. The art of common talk by Ronald Carter. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 17(3). 420-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1473-4192.2007.00161.x

Corpora

VOICE. 2013. The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (version POS XML 2.0). Director: Barbara Seidlhofer; Researchers: Stefan Majewski, Ruth Osimk-Teasdale, Marie-Luise Pitzl, Michael Radeka, Nora Dorn.

VOICE. 2011. Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (version 1.1 online; version 1.0 & 1.1 xml). Director: Barbara Seidlhofer; Researchers: Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Ruth Osimk, Marie-Luise Pitzl. http://voice.univie.ac.at.

VOICE. 2009. Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (version 1.0 online). Director: Barbara Seidlhofer; Researchers: Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Marie-Luise Pitzl. http://voice.univie.ac.at.