
Dr. phil. Carolin Schwegler
Postdoc in 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
Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Cultural-linguistic approaches
Text and discourse linguistics (i.e., public media, social media)
Argumentation and rhetoric analysis
Digital and multimodal communication
Terminology and institutional/organisational communication (i.e., sustainability reports, advertisement)
Conversational analysis (i.e., medical communication, climate change communication)
Risk communication, prospective communication
Lingusitic approaches in qualitative methods (i.e., interviews, focus groups) and mixed methods approaches in social sciences
Linguistic approaches in the environmental humanities: Language and sustainability, ecology, urbanity, health, and wellbeing, language and bioethics (e.g. intergenerational justice/future generations)