Ilka Flöck

Dr. Ilka Flöck is an academic researcher affiliated with the University of Oldenburg at the School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies within the Institute for English and American Studies. Her work focuses on cross-cultural pragmatic variation, particularly in English dialects.

• Education: PhD in English Linguistics (2015, University of Oldenburg), MA in English Linguistics and Medieval Literature (2009, University of Bonn).

Her research spans pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics, emphasizing speech acts like requests and suggestions in British and American English. She employs both conversational data and Discourse Completion Tasks (DCT) to analyze politeness strategies and cross-cultural differences.

Recent publications highlight her contributions to variational pragmatics and methodological comparisons in EFL research. She has presented at international conferences such as Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 and IPrA, and collaborates with scholars like Ronald Geluykens and Joanna Pfingsthorn.

Dr. Flöck teaches courses including Introduction to Linguistics and Research Methods in Linguistics, and her work influences English language teaching practices through corpus-based insights.