Anna Islentyeva
PhD
Room: 40324
Office hours: Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00
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Research interests
- Semantics (conceptual metaphors)
- (Critical) discourse studies
- Sociolinguistics
- Corpora and corpus linguistic methods
Administration
CV
2017 – 2020 Lecturer and Research Associate, Structure of Modern English
Institute for English Language and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Institute for English Language and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2013 – 2018 PhD in English Linguistics, Institute for English Language and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Doctoral Thesis: Migration Discourse in the British Press: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Ideological Bias (Magna cum laude/Defence: Summa cum laude)
Doctoral Thesis: Migration Discourse in the British Press: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Ideological Bias (Magna cum laude/Defence: Summa cum laude)
2009 – 2011 Master of Arts (MA) in Linguistics: Lexicology and Stylistics
Department of English Language and Culture, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Thesis: Transitivity & Intransitivity as a Variable Semantic Feature (with honours)
Department of English Language and Culture, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Thesis: Transitivity & Intransitivity as a Variable Semantic Feature (with honours)
Selected Publications
1) Islentyeva, Anna. 2020. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press. London & New York: Routledge.
2) Islentyeva, Anna. 2019. The Europe of Scary Metaphors: The Voices of the British Right-Wing Press. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 67(3): 209–229.
3) Islentyeva, Anna. 2018. The Undesirable Migrant in the British Press: Creating Bias through Language. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 119(2): 419-442.