Research

Research interests

• Language and affect/emotion
• Evaluation, stance, appraisal
• Characterisation
  
• Media discourse (print news, fictional television series)
• Sociolinguistics (esp. identity, face/image, gender, register variation)
  
• Corpus linguistics
• Discourse analysis and pragmatics
• Ecolinguistics
• Stylistics
• Research methodologies
  
• Cognitive linguistics (esp. frames/schemas/scripts, conceptual metaphor)
  
• Systemic functional linguistics (esp. interpersonal meaning, discourse semantics)

For publications in these areas see Publications.

Research supervision

• Co-supervision of PhD students in the above listed areas (from November 2009)
  

Research projects

• The language of fictional television series (ongoing project)
• Compilation of Gilmore Girls corpus
  
• Emotions across corpora (Habilitationsschrift)
• Compilation of BRC (British Registers Corpus)
• Evaluating the world: the evaluative style of British broadsheet and tabloid publications (PhD thesis)
• Compilation of newspaper corpus
  
• Frames revisited: the application of frame theory in linguistics (MA thesis)

Theses

• (2008) Affect in English: A Corpus-based Investigation of Emotion Talk. Habilitationsschrift, University of Augsburg, Germany. Summarised in English and American Studies 2008. Summaries of Theses and Monographs. A Supplement to Anglia. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer.
  
• (2005) Evaluating the World. The Evaluative Style of British Broadsheet and Tabloid Publications. PhD thesis, University of Augsburg, Germany. Summarised in English and American Studies 2005. Summaries of Theses and Monographs. A Supplement to Anglia. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer, 26-28.
  
• (2001) Frames Revisited: The Application of Frame Theory in Linguistics. MA thesis, University of Augsburg, Germany.