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