Digital discourse analysis
- DFG-research group “Kontroverse Diskurse” (2022-2026). Sub-projects 2 “Mensch und Technologie” (with C. Spieß, Marburg) and 7 “Methodologie und Reflexion” and management of the corpus infrastructure of the research group. You can find more information here (in German).
- “Three Centuries of a Damstadt Newspaper” – Digitisation of the “Darmstädter Tagblatt” (1740-1986)" DFG funded project 2019-2025 (with Thomas Stäcker, library director, ULB Darmstadt) – you can find a project description here (in GEPRIS).
- Conception and operation of the Discourse Lab – digtal teaching and research platform for discourse analysis as transcultural research, funded in the scope of the DFG Excellence Initiative II (2015-2017) by the Innovation Fund FRONTIER at the University of Heidelberg
- Changing Climates: a cross-country comparative analysis of discourses around climate change in the news media (with Carmen Dayrell, John Urry, and Tony McEnery, Center for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, Lancaster; Maria Cristina Caimotto, Università degli Studi di Torino)
- Dynamics of Terminology in International Relations (with Audrey Alejandro, London School of Economics; Jens Steffek, TU Darmstadt; Hartmut Behr, University of Newcastle
- Corpus-based analysis of heuristic textual practices in the sciences – with Michael Bender (TU Darmstadt)
- Corpus-based discourse grammar: possessivity as a grammatical and cognitive category, modal particles as a contextualization marker, chapter 'Diskursgrammatik' in the Handbuch 'Diskurs
Language corpora
- Linguistically annotated version of the corpus “Deutscher Novellenschatz” (Thomas Weitin, Darmstadt)
- Development of a project corpus on the concept of risk in recent German linguistic history – with Jens O. Zinn (Melbourne)
- Various project corpora for discourse analysis (for example on climate change, the vaccination discourse, populism) – with Ekkehard Felder (Heidelberg) and Jörn Stegmeier (Darmstadt & Trier)
- Research network “Sprache und Wissen”– Knowledge Domain “Kunst – Kunstbetrieb – Kunstgeschichte”: Handbuch Sprache in der Kunstkommunikation (in cooperation with H. Hausendorf, University of Zurich)
Completed research projects
- Sprachliches Rollenverhalten: Korpuspragmatische Studien zu divergenten Kontextualisierungen in Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit (habilitation project)
- Building up the “Heidelberger Korpus”, subcorpus “Bioethics”
- Text- und Medienlinguistik: Formulierungsmuster und Situationshypothesen im Schreibunterricht, Text-Bild-Relationen in Infographiken
- Sprache in der Kunstkommunikation: Prägung kollektiver Identitäten in der akademischen Kunstliteratur (dissertation), Perspektivierungsstrategien in der Kunstbeschreibung
