I joined the University of Stirling in October 2022 from the University of Birmingham, where I was based for several years and most recently coordinated the development of a new TESOL microcredential. Previously I was part of the team developing the CLiC Web App, a corpus tool for studying patterns in literary texts at Birmingham’s Centre for Corpus Research. I have also worked at the University of Bath’s Department of Education, as part of their TESOL team.
My research interests span applied linguistics, corpus linguistics and digital humanities, and discourse analysis. In my current work, I am particularly interested in empowerment and creativity in educational and wider discourses, as well as applications of corpora and data-driven learning. While my research has been interdisciplinary, I have a strong research background in corpus linguistics, and am Assistant Editor for the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
Book Chapter
Exploring narrative fiction: corpora and digital humanities projects
Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2022) Exploring narrative fiction: corpora and digital humanities projects. In: O'Keeffe A & McCarthy MJ (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. 2nd edition ed. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 532-546. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367076399-37
Book Chapter
Surveillance contexts in 19th-century British mental healthcare: A study of adverts in The Times
Wiegand V (2021) Surveillance contexts in 19th-century British mental healthcare: A study of adverts in The Times. In: The Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse. Linguistic Insights, 283. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 287-312. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18560
Article
Responding Effectively to Customer Feedback on Twitter: A Mixed Methods Study of Webcare Styles
Fuoli M, Clarke I, Wiegand V, Ziezold H & Mahlberg M (2021) Responding Effectively to Customer Feedback on Twitter: A Mixed Methods Study of Webcare Styles. Applied Linguistics, 42 (3), pp. 569-595. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaa046
Book Review
Wiegand V (2021) Book review: Markus Rheindorf, Revisiting the Toolbox of Discourse Studies: New Trajectories in Methodology, Open Data, and Visualization. Discourse Studies, 23 (1), pp. 102-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445620970388