Anna Islentyeva
PhD
Research interests
- Semantics (conceptual metaphors)
- (Critical) discourse studies
- Sociolinguistics
- Corpora and corpus linguistic methods
Administration
- Forschungsleistungsdokumentation (FLD)
- Stellvertretende Leiterin der Institutsversammlung
CV
2017 – 2020 Lecturer and Research Associate, Structure of Modern English
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)
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)
Selected Publications
1) Islentyeva, Anna & Torben Scheffler. 2023. “Arm Your Community”: Ideology in Vaccination Campaigns Across Countries. Discourse & Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231205010
2) Islentyeva, Anna, Zimmermann, Elisabeth, Nadia, Schützinger & Andrea Platzer. 2023. “Real Men Score”: Masculinity in Contemporary Advertising Discourse. Critical Discourse Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2173625
3) Islentyeva, Anna, Pesendorfer, Luise & Igor Tolochin. 2023. “Can I have a Cup of Tea Please?”: Politeness Markers in the Spoken BNC 2014. Journal of Politeness Research. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2022-0010
4) Islentyeva, Anna. 2022. British Media Representations of EU Migrants before and after the EU Referendum. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines. 14 (2): 1-20. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Islentyeva.pdf
5) Islentyeva, Anna. 2020. Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press. London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429263064