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Mr Klaus Thiele

GeWiss Project Coordinator

Room: MB 749
Phone: 0121 204 3809
E-mail: k.p.thiele@aston.ac.uk

Qualifications

  • Magister (M.A.) in German and English studies at the University of Mannheim, Germany, April 2009

  • 1. Staatsexamen German and English studies at the University of Mannheim, Germany, June 2009

Research Interests

Metaphors in academic discourse, metaphors in IT discourse, spoken academic discourse, metaphor theory, conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, corpora and discourse studies, corpora in learning and teaching.

Current Projects

Project Coordinator for GeWiss – The Volkswagen Project

Research in Progress

PhD, Aston University: "Metaphors in Spoken Academic Discourse in German and English".

Talks

  • 16th March 2011: University-Wide Poster Competition for PhD students. Poster Title: "IT Metaphors in Spoken Academic Discourse in German and English".
  • 16th March 2011: Poster Presentation on a university-wide research event. Poster Title: "GeWiss - Spoken Academic Discourse: English, German, Polish".
  • 11th May 2011: LTS PhD Colloquium, Topic: "IT Metaphors in Spoken Academic Discourse in German and English".
  • 24th May 2011: Research Seminar (R. Krishnamurthy, G. Reershemius and K. Thiele), title: "Analysing academic discourse: the GeWiss project".
  • 15th July 2011: Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (LAELPG), Topic: "IT Metaphors in Spoken Academic Discourse in German and English".
  • 5th August 2011: Aston Corpus Summer School, Aston University, title: "Metaphor and Spoken Corpora. Approaches to Metaphor, introduction to the GeWiss Project: spoken academic discourse in contrast".
  • 28th October 2011: Introductory presentation as part of leading a workshop on metaphor in (spoken) academic discourse in Leipzig, Germany at the conference "Gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache kontrastiv - Internationales Symposium des GeWiss-Projekts", title "Metaphern im Wissenschaftsdiskurs"
  • 10th November 2011: Introductory presentation at the GeWiss reading group "Working with Spoken Language" (WSL). Topic: "Metaphors in Academic Discourse. The Example of Specialist Presentations".
  • 7th December 2011: Introductory presentation at the GeWiss reading group "Working with Spoken Language" (WSL). Topic: "Metaphors in Academic Discourse. The Example of Specialist Presentations. An Update".
  • 14th May 2012: Paper at a conference in Karpacz, Poland: "23. Internationale Linguistenkonferenz -- Sprache in Wissenschaft und Unterricht" Topic "Metaphern im Wissenschaftsdiskurs. Fallstudien auf Basis des GeWiss-Korpus".
  • 28th June 2012: Paper at the "1st Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference (IPC)". Topic: "Metaphors in Academic Discourse. Case Studies in a Corpus of English and German Specialist Presentations".
  • 6th September 2012: Paper at the "45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics: Multilingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics". Topic: "Anthropomorphism in the discourse of IT support forums and blogs. A contrastive and mixed methods study".
  • 1st December 2012: Paper at a "Gathering about Spoken Academic Discourse", Coventry University. Topic: “Metaphors in Academic Discourse. Case Studies in a Corpus of German and English Specialist Presentations”.