Dr Veronika Koller
Senior Lecturer in English Language
Degree: MA, PhD (Vienna)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Lancaster Centre for Strategic Management, Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP)
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 regret that I cannot take on any new PhD students at the moment.
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 (2008) "The world in one city" : semiotic and cognitive aspects of city branding. Journal of Language and Politics, 7 (3). pp. 431-450. ISSN (Print) 1569-2159 (Online) 1569-9862
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
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 and Davidson, Paul (2008) Social exclusion as conceptual and grammatical metaphor : a cross-genre study of British policy-making. Discourse and Society, 19 (3). pp. 307-331. ISSN 0957-9265
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 (2007) "The world's local bank" : glocalisation as a strategy in corporate branding discourse. Social Semiotics, 17 (1). pp. 111-130. ISSN 1470-1219
Koller, Veronika (2005) Critical discourse analysis and social cognition : evidence from business media discourse. Discourse and Society, 16 (2). pp. 199-224. ISSN 0957-9265
Koller, Veronika (2004) Businesswomen and war metaphors : possessive, jealous and pugnacious? Journal of Sociolinguistics, 8 (1). pp. 3-22. ISSN 1360-6441
Koller, Veronika (2004) Metaphor and gender in business media discourse: a critical cognitive study. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 1403932913
Other Interests and Hobbies
My non-academic interests include singing, ballroom dancing,cooking and horse riding - in short, everything that helps me switch off my head.
Associated Keywords: Branding, Critical discourse analysis, Language and sexual identities, Metaphor
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