Forthcoming

Soci­olin­guis­tics and con­tact lin­guis­tics [with M. Mar­ra]. In Rout­ledge Hand­book of Lan­guage and Cul­ture (2nd ed.). Rout­ledge.

Cog­ni­tive Con­tact Lin­guis­tics [with H.-G. Wolf]. In Ency­clo­pe­dia of Applied Lin­guis­tics (2nd ed.). Wiley-Black­well.

Mul­ti­modal cul­tur­al con­cep­tu­al­iza­tions and World Eng­lish­es [with N. Mundt]. In K. Bolton (ed.), The Wiley Black­well Ency­clo­pe­dia of World Eng­lish­es. Hobo­ken: Wiley-Black­well.

2025

Cul­tur­al mod­els of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indi­an and Niger­ian Eng­lish (mono­graph). John Ben­jamins.

Cul­tur­al con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tions and cul­tur­al mod­els of FERTILITY and INFERTILITY in Niger­ian Eng­lish. World Eng­lish­es (spe­cial jour­nal issue on Niger­ian Eng­lish). Avail­able here.

2021

Cul­tur­al con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tions of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indi­an and Niger­ian Eng­lish. PhD the­sis. Avail­able here.

Seg­re­ga­tion and coop­er­a­tion: Cul­tur­al mod­els of GENDER in Indi­an and Niger­ian Eng­lish. In M. Cal­lies, & M. Degani (eds.), Metaphor in lan­guage and cul­ture across world Eng­lish­es (pp. 183–217). Blooms­bury.

Innate or acquired? HOMOSEXUALITY and cul­tur­al mod­els of GENDER in Indi­an and Niger­ian Eng­lish. In H.-G. Wolf, D. Lat­ic, & A. Finzel (eds.), Cul­tur­al-lin­guis­tic explo­rations into spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, emo­tion­al­i­ty, and soci­ety (pp. 185–212). John Ben­jamins.

A space for every­body? Con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tions of the hijras in Indi­an Eng­lish as a show­case for the gen­dered space in Indi­an soci­ety. In M. Sadegh­pour, & F. Shar­i­fi­an (eds.), Cul­tur­al Lin­guis­tics and World Eng­lish­es (193–216). Springer.

Cul­tur­al-lin­guis­tic explo­rations into spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, emo­tion­al­i­ty, and soci­ety [with H.-G. Wolf & D. Lat­ic]. John Ben­jamins.

Intro­duc­tion [with H.-G. Wolf & D. Lat­ic]. In H.-G. Wolf, D. Lat­ic, & A. Finzel (eds.), Cul­tur­al-ligu­is­tic explo­rations into spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, emo­tion­al­i­ty, and soci­ety (pp. 1–6). John Ben­jamins.

Colo­nial cul­tur­al con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tions and World Eng­lish­es [with F. Polzen­hagen & H.-G. Wolf]. In A. Onysko (ed.), Research devel­op­ments in World Eng­lish­es (pp. 199–230). Blooms­bury. Avail­able here.

2019

Con­cep­tu­al metaphors as con­tact phe­nom­e­na? The influ­ence of local con­cepts on source and tar­get domain [with H.-G. Wolf]. In E. Zen­ner, A. Backus, & E. Win­ter-Froemel (eds.), Cog­ni­tive Con­tact Lin­guis­tics: Plac­ing Usage, Mean­ing and Mind at the Core of Con­tact-Induced Vari­a­tion and Change (pp. 187–211). Mou­ton de Gruyter.

2017

Cul­tur­al con­cep­tu­al­iza­tions of gen­der and homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in British, Indi­an, and Niger­ian Eng­lish [with H.-G. Wolf]. Cog­ni­tive Lin­guis­tic Stud­ies, 4(1), 110–130.

2016

Mul­ti­modal metaphors in films: PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS as a gen­dered con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion across Eng­lish­es. In L. Pun­ga (ed.), Lan­guage in Use: Metaphors in Non-Lit­er­ary Con­texts (pp. 223–238). Cam­bridge Schol­ars Pub­lish­ing.

2013

Eng­lish in the lin­guis­tic land­scape of Hong Kong – A case study of shop signs and lin­guis­tic com­pe­tence. MA the­sis. Avail­able here.