Research interests
- Corpus linguistics
- Digital discourse analysis
- Terminology research & academic discourse
- Grammatical variation
- Language and art
Current research projects
Digital discourse analysis
- “Terminological Innovations in the Field of International Relations: Emergence and Diffusion” DFG-funded project 2023-2026. (with Jens Steffek, Political Science, TU Darmstadt – you can find a brief project description here
- 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 (in German). here
- “Three Centuries of a Darmstadt 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 (in GEPRIS). here
- – digital teaching and research platform for discourse analysis as transcultural research, funded 2015-2017 in the scope of the DFG Excellence Initiative II, from 2018 internal funding. Co-PI: Dr Jörn Stegmeier. Discourse Lab
- Darmstadt Data and Discourse Cloud (d3c): Development of a digital teaching infrastructure for the MA programme funded 2019-2020 by TU Darmstadt. Data and Discourse Studies,
- Dynamics of terminology in International Relations (with Jens Steffek, TU Darmstadt, and Hartmut Behr University of Newcastle, both political science): Interdisciplinary research on the development, transformation and migration of key concepts in International Relations. In this project we have built up the Darmstadt International Relations Corpus (DIReC), Access (after registering) . The core ideas and aims of our collaboration are outlined in: here
- Marcus Müller, Hartmut Behr & Jens Steffek (2019): The discursive formation of key terms in International Relations. . In: Øivin Andersen, Klaus Schubert & Ingrid Simonnæs (eds.): New Challenges for Research on Language for Special Purposes. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 105-120.
- Jens Steffek, Marcus Müller & Hartmut Behr (2020): Terminological Entrepreneurs and Discursive Shifts in International Relations: How a Discipline Invented the “International Regime”. In: International Studies Review. Link
Language corpora
- Darmstadt International Relations Corpus (DIReC) – with Jens Steffek (TU Darmstadt). Access (after registering) here
- Plenary minutes of the German Bundestag 1949-2021, linguistically annotated version (with Jörn Stegmeier). Access (after registering) here
- “Deutscher Novellenschatz” (Thomas Weitin, Darmstadt), linguistically annotated version (with Jörn Stegmeier). Access (after registering) here
- Development of a project corpus on the concept of risk in recent German linguistic history – with Jens O. Zinn (Melbourne), funded by the University of Melbourne.
- Various project corpora for discourse analysis (for example on climate change, the vaccination discourse, populism) – with Ekkehard Felder (Heidelberg) and Jörn Stegmeier (TU Darmstadt)
Research Network “Language and Knowledge” – Knowledge domain “Art – Art Business – Art History” (): (in cooperation with Andreas Gardt, Kassel, and Heiko Hausendorf, Zurich) Sprache und Wissen“ -- Wissensdomäne „Kunst -- Kunstbetrieb -- Kunstgeschichte
Completed research projects
- Corpus-based analysis of heuristic textual practices in the sciences – with Michael Bender (TU Darmstadt) & Maria Becker (University of Heidelberg). (Internal Funding). Documented in:
- Maria Becker, Michael Bender & Marcus Müller (2020): Classifying Heuristic Textual Practices in Academic Discourse: A Deep Learning Approach to Pragmatics. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (4)2020, pp. 426–460. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.19097.bec
- Michael Bender & Marcus Müller (2020): Heuristische Textpraktiken. Eine kollaborative Annotationsstudie zum akademischen Diskurs. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (ZGL) 48/02, S. 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2020-0001
- Changing Climates: a cross-country comparative analysis of discourses around climate change in the news media (in Cooperation with theCentre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, Lancaster). Funding: British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Documented in:
Dayrell, Carmen & John Urry (2015): Mediating climate politics: The surprising case of Brazil. In: European Journal of Social Theory 2015, Vol. 18(3), 257–273.
Dayrell, Carmen (2019): Discourses around climate change in Brazilian newspapers: 2003-2013. Discourse and Communication, 13(2), 149-171.
Dayrell, Carmen, Urry John & Tony McEnery (2016): Changing Climates. Part I: Britain. CASS-Briefings 12. The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University, UK. Online unter: http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/12-Climate-Change-Britain.pdf [letzter Zugriff: 09.01.2020]
Stegmeier, Jörn, Wolf J. Schünemann, Marcus Müller, Maria Becker, Stefan Steiger & Sebastian Stier (2018): Multi-method discourse analysis of twitter communication. A comparison of two global political issues. In: Ronny Scholz (ed.): Quantifying methods in discourse studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Müller, Marcus & Jörn Stegmeier (2019): Investigating risk, uncertainty and normativity within the framework of Digital Discourse Analysis. The example of future technologies in climate change discourse. In: Anna Olofsson & Jens O. Zinn (eds.): Researching risk and uncertainty – methodologies, methods and research strategies. Basingstroke: Palgrave, 309-335. - Linguistic role behavior: Corpus-pragmatic studies on divergent contextualisations in oral and written language use (habilitation project). Documented in:
Marcus Müller 2015: Sprachliches Rollenverhalten: Korpuspragmatische Studien zu divergenten Kontextualisierungen in Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter (Sprache und Wissen). - , sub-corpus 'Bioethics'. Documented in: Heidelberger Korpus
Ekkehard Felder, Marcus Müller & Friedemann Vogel (2010): Das Heidelberger Korpus: Gegenstand, Methoden und Zielsetzungen themenbezogener Korpora. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (ZGL) 38.2010, 314–319. - Language in art communication: Formation of collective identities in academic art literature (dissertation), strategies of perspective in art descriptions. Documented in:
Heiko Hausendorf & Marcus Müller 2016: Handbuch Sprache in der Kunstkommunikation. [Handbuchreihe Sprachwissen]. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter. Marcus Müller & Sandra Kluwe 2012: Identitätsentwürfe in der Kunstkommunikation. Studien zur Praxis der sprachlichen und multimodalen Positionierung im Interaktionsraum ‚Kunst‘. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter.
Marcus Müller 2009: La descrizione e il significato dell'immagine. In: Luca Bagetto, Roberto Salizzoni (Ed.), Immagine e scrittura. Roma: Casini,. 121-150.
Marcus Müller 2007: Geschichte – Kunst – Nation. Die sprachliche Konstituierung einer 'deutschen' Kunstgeschichte aus diskursanalytischer Sicht. Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter. (Studia Linguistica Germanica).