Research

Research interests

• Language and affect
• Evaluation, stance, appraisal
• Newspaper language
• Conceptual metaphors
• Discourse analysis
• Corpus linguistics
• Cognitive linguistics
• Pragmatics
• Systemic functional linguistics

Projects

• Emotionality in popular culture (ongoing project)
• Compilation of Gigi (Gilmore Girls corpus)
  
• Emotions across corpora (completed Habilitation)
• Compilation of BRC (British Registers Corpus)
• Evidentiality in English - a text-driven approach
• Evaluating the world: the evaluative style of British broadsheet and tabloid publications (completed Ph.D. thesis)
• Compilation of newspaper corpus
  
• Frames revisited: the application of frame theory in linguistics (completed M.A. thesis)
• for published research see publications
  

Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGFS)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (DGKL)
• British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
• Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée/International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA)
• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
• Metaphor UK
• Linguistics Network (LiNe) (founding member and web master in 2005)
• DAAD Alumna