Linguistics: socio- and discourse linguistics
Computational Socio- and Discourse Linguistics
at the University of Siegen
We are interested in the forms and functions of linguistic communication in various social domains, especially in politics, law and the media. Our work focuses on the interplay of linguistic variation, knowledge complexes (everyday and specialized knowledge) and social asymmetries as essential constituents of discourses. We investigate the sociogrammatics of public debates with the help of qualitative and quantifying, computer-aided methods and the use of established and new machine language processing algorithms.
Research profile
Computer-assisted socio- and discourse linguistics is an empirical discipline that formulates its hypotheses on the social and communicative constitution of our society on the basis of controlled data collections (before text corpora). The subject of our work is therefore both the development of paradigms and algorithms for corpus acquisition (corpus design) and the preparation and (depending on the origin of the data) free availability of corpora.
Our team now has numerous research and teaching corpora. However, the focus of our work and thus also of our text collections is primarily on text collections on political communication, specialist communication (especially law, but also other specialist disciplines) and computer-aided communication (social media).
Below we document the most important text collections of our work, some of which can be used free of charge (non-commercially). If you are interested in accessing our data as part of a cooperation, please contact a member of our team.
Selected publications
Language and digital communication handbook
Androutsopoulos, Jannis & Friedemann Vogel (eds.). 2024. handbook language and digital communication. De Gruyter.
Comprehensibility of the law
Vogel, Friedemann, Fabian Deus, Janine Luth, Joline Schmallenbach & Ekkehard Felder. 2022 Legislative comprehensibility from a legal linguistic
Perspektive: Evaluation of the legal editorial work to optimize legislation in the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (Sprache und Medialität des Rechts). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
Network and work: On the sociality of linguistic action
Attig, Matthias, Katharina Jacob, Marcus Müller & Friedemann Vogel (eds.). 2024. network and work: on the sociality of linguistic action. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Knowledge in law and language
Leyhausen-Seibert, Katja, Anna Menzel & Friedemann Vogel (eds.). 2024.
Knowledge in Law and Language - Many Voices, Vague Boundaries (Language and Mediality of Law Volume 7). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot GmbH.
Corpus linguistics in law
Vogel, Friedemann, Tonio Walter & Felix Tripps (eds.). 2022.
Korpuslinguistik im Recht: Theoretische Überlegungen und Fallstudien (Sprache und Medialität des Rechts / Language and Media of Law 5).
Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
Politicization of everyday life
Research Group Discourse Monitor and Discourse Intervention (ed.). 2024.
Politicization of everyday life: Strategic communication in public discourses. Siegen: universi - Universitätsverlag Siegen.
Glossary for strategic communication
Research Group Discourse Monitor and Discourse Intervention & Friedemann Vogel (ed.). 2024. glossary on strategic communication (Glossary on strategic communication 1). Siegen: universi - Universitätsverlag Siegen.
