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.