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Dr. phil. Carolin Schwegler

Linguist | Sociolinguistics, Cultural and Applied Linguistics, University of Cologne

Postal address
University of Cologne
MESH · Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities
and Department of German Language and Literature I
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne
Germany

Visitor address
MESH · Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities
University of Cologne
Weyertal 59, 3rd floor, room 3.7
50937 Cologne
Germany

Short research profile

Sociolinguistics, Cultural and Applied Linguistics

Semantics, Pragmatics

Multimodal text and discourse linguistics (i.e., (digital) public media, social media)

Conversation analysis (i.e., medical counseling, risk communication)

Prospective communication 

Argumentation and rhetoric analysis

Terminology and institutional/organisational communication (i.e., sustainability reports, advertisement)

Lingusitic approaches in qualitative methods (i.e., interviews, focus groups) and mixed methods approaches in social sciences

Linguistic approaches in the Environmental and Medical Humanities: Language and future, sustainability, ecology, urbanity, health, and wellbeing

Language, society, and bioethics (including intergenerational justice)