Friederike Fischer
Research Associate
at the Chair of Applied Linguistics
Wiener Str. 48, Room 201
Phone: 463 38219
Office hours
By arrangement in presence or at https://tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/7778604815
Vita
| since 10/2023 | International Affairs Advisor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 2022 - 2024 | Employee (as a parental leave replacement) in the Digital Teaching team at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| since 01/2022 | Member of the Examination Committee of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies |
| 2021 - 2024 | Mid-level representative on the Faculty Board of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies |
| 2021 | Deputy mid-level representative on the Council of the Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures |
| since 05/2020 | Dissertation at the Chair of Applied Linguistics |
| since 04/2020 | Research Associate at the Chair of Applied Linguistics |
| 2016 - 2020 | Master's degree in Linguistics (focus on Germanic languages) at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Melbourne (Master's thesis on "Dialogic Shitstorms on Twitter: A Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis") |
| 2013 - 2016 | Bachelor's degree in English and French Philology at the Free University of Berlin |
Dissertation project
Linguistic solidarity practices in social media
Small, inconspicuous posts and messages can achieve an enormous reach on social networks within a very short time. Virality as an inherent characteristic of social media communication repeatedly leads to the formation of communities from the interaction that takes place there, which also attract attention outside social media and thus help to shape social and political discourse.
The dissertation project aims to investigate linguistic practices that users use to show solidarity with one another in social networks. The focus is on the linguistic analysis of discourse patterns, the structure and progression of comment threads, as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects of linguistic loyalty and solidarity practices. In a cross-network comparison, linguistic strategies of solidarization will be identified and examined both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Research interests
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media linguistics
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discourse linguistics
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sociolinguistics
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pragmatics
Teaching
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Summer semester 2020, summer semester 2022, winter semester 2023/24 |
Tweet, Like, Share, Repeat - Social networks in media linguistic comparison |
| winter semester 2020/21, summer semester 2023 | halo i bims 1 seminar on linguistic 1slumgn |
| summer semester 2021 | Gender linguistics |
| winter semester 2021/22, winter semester 2022/23, summer semester 2024 | Polarize - mobilize - solidarize. Social movements from a media linguistic perspective |
| winter semester 2024/25 | Sociolinguistics |
Publications
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Lectures
7/2023 "This just shows how strong of community we are!" - Linguistic solidarity practices in the subreddit r/wallstreetbets (Invited speaker in the online lecture series LinguOSTik: Language and Society - Perspectives from the Center of Europe, University of Greifswald, European University Viadrina, University of Rostok, July 18, 2023).
5/2023 Gender-sensitive language use (Invited speaker in the online seminar Queerness in inclusive education: School support for queer children and young people, Justus Liebig University Giessen, May 30, 2023).
4/2023 "God damn all this solidarity makes me horny": Linguistic practices of solidarity online (Invited speaker at the artist:innenworkshop for the annual exhibition IN_ORDNUNG, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, April 21, 2023).
11/2022 Ape. Together. Strong. Linguistic Solidarity Practices in the Interaction Space r/wallstreetbets (ZeM Graduate Conference: un:reale Interaktionsräume. Forms of social order in the spectrum of media-specific interaction, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, November 4-5, 2022).
11/2021 Linguistic Solidarity Practices in Social Media (6th Innsbruck (Online) Winter School "Potentials of Applied Linguistics" Positioning in Interaction, Discourse and Research Practice, University of Innsbruck, 11 - 13 November 2021).
10/2021 "Can you all see and hear me?" A field report on synchronous and asynchronous formats of digital teaching (online training German Studies Digital in the Erasmus+ project, Vilniaus Universitetas (Lithuania), Univerza v Mariboru (Slovenia), Ventspils Augstskola (Latvia), Univerzitet u Beogradu (Serbia) and Univerzita J. E. Purkyně v Ústí n. Labem (Czech Republic), October 15, 2021).
6/2021 Linguistic Loyalty and Solidarity Practices in Social Media (Invited speaker in the online module Linguistics and School, University of Leipzig, 16 June 2021).
6/2021 Linguistic practices of loyalty and solidarity in social media (Online-Workshop Zugänge zu Dissens - eine Methodenwerkstatt, University of Bremen, June 11-12, 2021).
2/2021 Counter-speech in debates on political correctness: corpus linguistic and sequence analytical approaches (Online conference: Pragmatics of counter-speech, University of Greifswald, February 25 - 26, 2021, with Jan Langenhorst and Simon Meier-Vieracker).
2/2021 Linguistic Loyalty and Solidarity Practices in Social Media (Online workshop of the DGPuK section Media Language - Media Discourses as part of the online conference: Über-Setzen. Mediendiskurse zwischen Transfer und Transformation, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, February 24 - 26, 2021) (Awarded the Young Talent Prize of the specialist group).
11/2020 #CoronaEltern: Geschichte eines Shitstorms im Spannungsfeld von Krise, Politik und Care-Arbeit (Online conference: Diskurs - Invektiv. 9th annual conference of the conference network 'Diskurs - interdisziplinär', TU Dresden, November 12-13, 2020, with Naomi Truan, University of Leipzig).