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Dr Veronika Koller
Senior Lecturer in English Language
Degree: MA, PhD (Vienna)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP), Research in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Current Teaching
I currently teach on the following courses:
Discourse Analysis (LING 204)
Corporate Communication (LING 214)
Introduction to Discourse Studies (LING 442)
Research Interests
In general, my research is in the area of cognitive critical discourse analysis, with a focus on analysing collective identity in different discourse domains, e.g. corporate, political or religious. I also work in the area of language, gender and sexual identity, and a special research interest of mine is metaphor theory and analysis. For the latter, I regularly include corpus linguistic methods in my work. I am keen to develop and strengthen interdisciplinary links with researchers in management theory.
Beyond academia, my research and teaching benefits from and informs seminars I have co-facilitated for the British Academy of Management, my role as course consultant for the Foundation Degree and BA Communication at Work at Blackpool and The Fylde College, and the freelancing work that I do for consultant company Linguistic Landscapes.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I am happy to take students working in the areas of corporate communication, language and sexuality, and metaphor.
Career details
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.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Veronika Koller has 10 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Koller, Veronika (2011) Analysing lesbian identity in discourse. In: Critical Discourse Studies in Discourse and Cognition. Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 97-141. ISBN 9789027206343
Koller, Veronika (2009) Butch camp : on the discursive construction of a queer identity position. Gender and Language, 3 (2). pp. 249-274. ISSN 1747-6321
Koller, Veronika (2008) Corporate brands as socio-cognitive representations. In: Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Cognitive Linguistics Research (39). De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 389-418. ISBN 978-3-11-019625-2
Wodak, Ruth and Koller, Veronika (2008) Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere. Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL] / Communication Competence. Language and Communication Problems. Practical Solutions, 4 . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-11-018832-5
Koller, Veronika (2008) Lesbian discourses : images of a community. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-96095-3
Koller, Veronika (2008) "More than just a colour" : pink as a gender and sexuality marker in visual communication. Visual Communication, 7 (4). pp. 395-423. ISSN Online 1741-3214 Print 1470-3572
Koller, Veronika and Hardie, Andrew and Rayson, Paul and Semino, Elena (2008) Using a semantic annotation tool for the analysis of metaphor in discourse. metaphorik.de, 15. pp. 141-160. ISSN 1618-2006
Koller, Veronika (2004) Businesswomen and war metaphors : possessive, jealous and pugnacious? Journal of Sociolinguistics, 8 (1). pp. 3-22. ISSN 1360-6441
Koller, Veronika and Mautner, G. (2004) Computer applications in critical discourse analysis. In: Applying English grammar. Hodder and Stoughton, London, pp. 216-228. ISBN 9780340885147
Koller, Veronika (2004) Metaphor and gender in business media discourse: a critical cognitive study. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 1403932913
Other Interests and Hobbies
Whatever time I have outside work and being the mother of a one-year-old is spent on reading, cooking and getting out into nature.
Associated Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, Language and sexual identities, Metaphor
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Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1524 594642
Room: County South College, C80
Office Hour: These change from term to term, so please check with me.
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