Anna Islentyeva
PhD
Room: 40324
Office hours: Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00
: +43 512 507 4158
Research interests
- Semantics (conceptual metaphors)
- (Critical) discourse studies
- Sociolinguistics
- Corpora and corpus linguistic methods
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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)
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 & Deborah Dunkel. 2022. National myth in UK-EU representations by British Conservative PMs from Churchill to Johnston. Societies. 12(1):14(Open access) https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12010014
2) Islentyeva, Anna & Mihera Abdel Kafi. 2021. Constructing National Identity in the British Press: The Britain vs. Europe Dichotomy. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies. 4: 68–95. (Open access) http://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.643
3) Islentyeva, Anna. 2020. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press. London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429263064
4) 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. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2019-0021
5) Islentyeva, Anna. 2018. The Undesirable Migrant in the British Press: Creating Bias through Language. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 119(2): 419-442.