Professor Veronika Koller
Professor of Discourse StudiesCurrent Teaching
I currently teach on the following courses:
Discourse Analysis (LING 204)
Corporate Communication (LING 214)
Introduction to Discourse Studies (LING 442)
Discourse Analysis (LING 519d, FASS517[d]))
Profile
I received my PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Vienna in 2003 (thesis on metaphors in business magazines). Before joining Lancaster University in 2004, I worked at the Department of English Business Communication at Vienna University of Economics and Business and also as assistant marketing manager at a medium-sized company in Vienna. I do occasional language consulting work for private, public and third sector clients.
Research Interests
My main research is on political discourse, business discourse, health communication, and language and sexuality. A special research interest of mine is metaphor theory and analysis, as well as socio-cognitive approaches to critical discourse studies. My current projects are on a) the discourse of cancer charities, and b) discourses around 'Brexit'.
I am happy to accept PhD students who share any of the above interests.
Research Overview
Veronika Koller is interested in socio-cognitive approaches within critical discourse studies, specifically the role of metaphor in constructing identites and communicating ideologies. Her areas of expertise are politicial discourse, health communication, corporate discourse, and language and sexuality. Veronika’s research includes work on metaphor and gender in business media discourse, images of community in lesbian discourses, the discourse of corporate branding, metaphor in end-of-life care as well as, most recently, the discourse of cancer charities and the language used around Brexit.
Metaphor in End of Life Care
01/09/2012 → 28/06/2014
Research
Using a semantic annotation tool for research on metaphor in discourse
01/12/2005 → …
Research
Austrian Elections Round Table
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Talking about Brexit - voices from before and after the referendum
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Vienna University of Business and Economics| WU
Visiting an external academic institution
National Association of Linguistics (LOT)
Visiting an external academic institution
II International Conference: The Discourse of Identity
Participation in conference
13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness
Participation in conference
Eighth Nordic Conference on Language and Gender
Participation in conference
2nd international conference on Cognition, Communication and Media
Participation in conference
Aston Summer School in Corpus Linguistics
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Journal of Language and Sexuality (Journal)
Editorial activity
Gender and Language (Journal)
Editorial activity
Researching the Public Sphere: Methods for content and discourse analysis
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Summer Institute Language, Culture and Communication
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
Participation in conference
From Text to Political Positions
Participation in conference
Discourse and Organizations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Participation in conference
Metaphor and the Social World (Journal)
Editorial activity
Technology of Pleasure
Participation in conference
Pearson Longman (Publisher)
Editorial activity
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (Journal)
Editorial activity
Metaphor and Symbol (Journal)
Editorial activity
Critical Discourse Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
- DisTex - Discourse and Text Research Group
- LIP - Language, Ideology and Power Group