Veronika Koller | |
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Born | Tokyo, Japan | 2 February 1973
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Thesis | Metaphor clusters in business media discourse: a social cognition approach (2003) |
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Discipline | Linguist |
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Website | Koller on the website of Lancaster University |
Veronika Koller (born 1973) is an Austrian-British linguist. She is Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. [1] Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis.
After attending the Katharineum (secondary school),Koller received an MA in English language and literature (with minor in Arabic language and Islamic Studies) from the University of Vienna in 1998,and a Ph.D in English linguistics from the same university in 2003 with a thesis titled "Metaphor clusters in business media discourse:a social cognition approach." [2]
Between 1999 and 2001,Koller was an external lecturer for Business English at the Polytechnic of Wiener Neustadt. Between 1999 and 2002,she was also an external lecturer at the Institute of Business Development of Vienna.
In 2000,she became an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Business Communication of Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2004,she was appointed Lecturer in English Language at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,and promoted to Senior Lecturer there in 2008. In 2015,she became Reader in Discourse Studies. [3]
Additionally,she also does occasional language consulting work for private,public and third sector clients. [4]
One of Koller's best known work is Discourses of Brexit,published by Routledge in 2019. Edited along with Susanne Kopf and Marlene Miglbauer,the book provides an insight into how discourse influenced the outcome of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. The authors analysed political speeches on Twitter and other related platforms to analyse discourses regarding the Brexit. [5] [6]
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