Univ.-Prof. Dr. Britta Schneider, PhD
T: +43-1-4277-42430
Consultation hours: Consultation hours take place online (via Zoom) or in 3E-O2-13 - indicate your choice when signing up)
Please use the registration tool to register for a binding slot: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/52bb5c374e3b4bf306c4caf138d40f97-1621936Link for online meetings:https://univienna.zoom.us/j/62689860356?pwd=r4y9L4tRbKIFacd666jTTdXiMi4Nr1.1
(Meeting ID: 626 8986 0356; Passcode: 247083)
Summer term 2026
120226 SE MA Seminar - Focus: Applied Linguistics / Linguistics Seminar - Applied Linguistics in the Age of AI
122250 AR MA+MEd Advanced Course in Linguistics - Focus: Applied - National and Transnational Perspectives on English
124092 VK BEd 09.2: VK Linguistics and Language Education - Sociolinguistics and Education
128162 SE SE Thesis Seminar (MA M06)
Schneider, B., Fester-Seeger, M.-T., Migge, B., & Purschke, C. (Eds.) (2026). AI Technology as Human Interaction: Linguistic and Cultural Framings of AI as Communicative Infrastructure. AI and Society. https://link.springer.com/journal/146
Schneider, B., & Oliveira, M. (2025). Developing Critical AI Language Literacy—prompting experiments on raciolinguistic bias to understand large language models as cultural artefacts. AI and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02727-7
Horst, D., Schneider, B., & Farrell, E. (2025). Open Access as Social Practice: The Political of, and Experiences with Applied Linguistics Publishing. Journal für Medienlinguistik, 7(1), 10-37. https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2025.68
Schneider, B., & Migge, B. (2025). The colonial roots and continuities of AI language culture. In M. Oliveira, & L. Conti (Eds.), Explorations in Digital Interculturality: Language, Culture, and Postdigital Practices (pp. 77-108). Transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7629-7/explorations-in-digital-interculturality/?c=310025017
Erdocia, I., Schneider, B., & Migge, B. (2025). Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages. Language in Society, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004740452500017X
Migge, B., & Schneider, B. (2025). The material making of language as practice of global domination and control: continuations from European colonialism to AI. AI and Society, 40(8), 6059-6071. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02389-5
Leblebici, D., & Schneider, B. (2025). Digital assemblages and their English entanglements: Digital design, voice assistant use and smartphone setting choices of translingual speakers in Berlin. In J. Won Lee, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), Entangled Englishes (pp. 158-180). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003441304-13
Schneider, B., & Heyd, T. (2025). Introduction: Unthinking Language from a Posthumanist Perspective. Signs and Society, 12(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1086/728243
Schneider, B. (2025). ‘Es ist vor allen Dingen dieser Ton‘: Sprechen mit Alexa, die vergessene Macht der Laute und warum Sprache kein abstraktes System ist. In R. T. Vallentin, & D. Horst (Eds.), Sprache entgrenzen: Beiträge zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Linguistik (pp. 19-46). Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839470619
Schneider, B. (2025). The construction of language categories via language ideologies: ethnographic insights into practices of differentiation in multilingual Belize. In J. Darquennes, J. Salmons, & W. Vandenbussche (Eds.), Language Contact (Vol. 2, pp. 353-369) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443011
Erdocia, I., Migge, B., & Schneider, B. (2024). Language is not a data set: Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 28(5), 20-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12680
von Mengden, F., & Schneider, B. (2024). Methodological nationalism and (anti-)historicism in the history of linguistics: Linguistic essentialism. In C. Hamans, & H. H. Hock (Eds.), Language, History, Ideology: The Use and Misuse of Historical-Comparative Linguistics (pp. 284-310). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827894.003.0013
Schneider, B. (2024). A sociolinguist’s look at the “language” in large language models. Critical AI, 2(1).
Schneider, B. (2024). Questioning the Emergence of National Englishes: Non-Teleological Paths of Language Development in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity. In P. K. Malreddy, & F. Schluze-Engler (Eds.), Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers (pp. 67-84). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003464037-6
Höhn, S., Migge, B., Dippold, D., Schneider, B., & Mauw, S. (2024). Language Ideology Bias in Conversational Technology. In A. Følstad, T. Araujo, S. Papadopoulos, E. L.-C. Law, E. Luger, M. Goodwin, S. Hobert, & P. B. Brandtzaeg (Eds.), Chatbot Research and Design - 7th International Workshop, CONVERSATIONS 2023, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 133-148). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54975-5_8
Schneider, B., & Heyd, T. (Eds.) (2024). Posthumanist Sociolinguistics. (1 ed.) Cambridge University Press. Signs and Society https://doi.org/10.1086/730859
Schneider, B. (2023). Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize. World Englishes, 42(1), 150-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12612
Schneider, B. (2022). Multilingualism and AI: The Regimentation of Language in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Signs and Society, 10(3), 362-387. https://doi.org/10.1086/721757
Schneider, B. (2021). The contested role of colonial language ideologies in multilingual Belize. In D. M. Perez, & E. Sippola (Eds.), Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas (pp. 291-315). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723977-010
Schneider, B. (2021). The multiplex symbolic functions of Spanish in multilingual Belize. In G.-A. Leung, & M. Loschky (Eds.), When Creole and Spanish Collide: Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean (pp. 253-276). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004460157_012
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T: +43-1-4277-42430