Mir Sabbir Hasan

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PhD Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Mir Sabbir Hasan is a Ph.D. student specializing in World Englishes and Corpus Linguistics. His research examines how English is used, adapted, and reimagined across diverse global contexts, with particular attention to linguistic variation, identity construction, and communication practices in spoken, written, and digital environments.

He completed his bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and his master’s degree in English-Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen, Germany. At Bremen, he also worked as a Research Assistant and Tutor. Beyond academia, Hasan has contributed to multilingual data, language technology, and localization projects as a language consultant for Google Translate and What3words.

His academic interests lie at the intersection of global English varieties, digital communication, and the social meanings embedded in everyday language use. His long-term goal is to produce scholarship that bridges linguistic theory with real-world communicative practices in multicultural and multilingual settings.

Education:

BA in Linguistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

MA in Linguistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

MA in English Speaking Culture, University of Bremen, Germany. 

Selected Publications:

Hasan, Mir Sabbir. “Do South Asian Politicians Use More Metaphors Than Western Politicians? A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Metaphor in Bangladesh, British, and American Political Discourse.” Advances in Social Sciences and Management, vol. 2, no. 7, July 2024, pp. 96–108. Advances in Social Sciences and Management, https://doi.org/10.63002/assm.27.518.

Hasan, Mir Sabbir. “Word Formation in Bangladeshi English.” European Journal of Linguistics, vol. 3, no. 4, 9 Nov. 2024, pp. 53–63. European Journal of Linguistics, https://doi.org/10.47941/ejl.2344

Hasan, Mir Sabbir. “Review of Variation in Political Metaphor.” Linguist List: https://linguistlist.org/issues/32/973/ 

 

Awards and Special Recognitions:
  • Faculty Scholarship, University of Dhaka
  • Erasmus Mundus Scholarship