I work on qualitative research within WP 2, analysing Social Media content with a focus on linguistic practices, lexical choice, figurative language and multimodal ensembles. I also bridge the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches by structuring datasets, parsing and preprocessing linguistic corpora. At the moment, I am a researcher at CCM and about to defend my PhD (a discourse linguistic analysis of climate discussions on X) at Heidelberg University, where I also graduated in German and English Philology as well as History (state examination, equivalent to a Master’s Degree).
Within CCM, along with Carolin Schwegler and Leyla Rommel, I have published the study Climate Imaginaries and the Linguistic Construction of Identities on Social Media (Schwegler/Landschoff/Rommel 2024). Other research includes Sprachkritik als Moralkritik (Landschoff 2021), an article on moralising speech and climate issues; Who constructs? Meta-Invective Arguments in Public Language Criticism and the Role of Academia (Landschoff 2023); and a study on German Battle Rap conducted together with Sven Bloching (2018): Diffamierungen, Humor und Männlichkeitskonstruktion. Eine linguistische Perspektive auf Farid Bangs und Kollegahs Album JBG3.
This selection demonstrates the breadth of my research interests, spanning the analysis of social media discourse, the sociology of language, the interplay between language and cultural or social norms, the representation of masculinity and feminism in language, as well as political discourse and language attitudes.
Contact: Joeran.Landschoff[at]uni-graz.at