I am a research associate in WP2 of the CCM project, specializing in the linguistic analysis of multimodal, cross-platform climate discourse on social media. My research explores discursive debates, societal negotiations, and phenomena such as identity construction within digital climate imaginaries. My academic expertise bridges sociolinguistics, literary studies, and cultural studies, with a particular focus on integrating these disciplines. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in English and German Studies and is on track to complete my Master’s degree in English Studies at the University of Heidelberg in January 2025.
Currently, I am preparing my PhD project in discourse linguistics and working on co-authored publications with the CCM team. Previously, I co-authored WP2’s project report about Culture-Policy Climate Spaces of COP (Pearce et al. 2024) as well as the sociolinguistic article on Climate Imaginaries and Linguistic Identity Construction (Schwegler/Landschoff/Rommel 2024). My research is enriched by a broad range of linguistic and interdisciplinary experience from previous projects. For example, in the DFG project Faktizitätskonstruktion at the University of Heidelberg, I contributed to analyzing professional communication in legal contexts, employing annotation tools such as CATMA and corpus analysis methods. Additionally, I worked as a research assistant on A Transdisciplinary Model for Collective Decision Making: Linguistic and Physical Perspectives at the Akademie der Wissenschaften Heidelberg. In this role, I focused on opinion dynamics in Twitter communication related to climate discourse before the 2021 Bundestag election, as well as economic discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic. My contributions included conducting corpus analyses using CQP in the Corpus WorkBench.
Contact: leyla.rommel[at]uni-koeln.de