I am a Lecturer of Education (TESOL) and coordinate the MSc TESOL (Online) programme. I teach across our online and on-campus TESOL Master's programmes and carry out research in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. As the Vice Chair of the Scottish Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (SATEFL), I am also involved in nurturing a network of TESOL practitioners and researchers in Scotland.
I joined 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.
External Examiner
I am the External Examiner for the distance programmes "TESOL with Corpus Linguistics" (distance learning; PT), "TESOL with Language Testing" (distance learning; PT), and "PGCert in TESOL" (distance learning; PT) at Lancaster University.
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.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Finding the root cause in aviation maintenance logbooks: A corpus linguistic approach
Wiegand V & Zhou H (2023) Finding the root cause in aviation maintenance logbooks: A corpus linguistic approach. 13th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP) 2023, Glasgow, 04.09.2023-06.09.2023.
Poster
A corpus approach to discourses of learning in online communities
Wiegand V (2023) A corpus approach to discourses of learning in online communities. Twelfth International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2023 (CL2023), Lancaster, 03.07.2023-06.07.2023.
Other
Wiegand V (2023) Feeding insights from corpora into English and/or EAP classrooms. Contribution to the panel “Research-informed English Language Teaching in Scotland: An International Perspective” by the Scottish Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (SATEFL). St. Andrews EAP Conference 2023, St Andrews, 04.03.2023.
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
Book Chapter
Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2020) Literary stylistics. In: Adolphs S & Knight D (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities. Abingdon, Oxon, p. 306–327. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-English-Language-and-Digital-Humanities/Adolphs-Knight/p/book/9781032569734
Book Chapter
Eye language – body part collocations and textual contexts in the nineteenth-century novel
Mahlberg M, Wiegand V & Hennessey A (2020) Eye language – body part collocations and textual contexts in the nineteenth-century novel. In: Fesenmeier L & Novakova I (eds.) Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language/ Phraséologie et Stylistique de la Langue Littéraire. Lausanne, Switzerland: Peter Lang, p. 143–176.
Book Chapter
Stylistics and the Digital Humanities
Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2020) Stylistics and the Digital Humanities. In: Conrad S, Hartig A & Santelmann L (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 219-234. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108658089.015
Newspaper Article
Charles Dickens: using data analysis to shed new light on old characters
Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2020) Charles Dickens: using data analysis to shed new light on old characters. The Conversation. 06.06.2020.
Edited Book
Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture
Wiegand V & Mahlberg M (eds.) (2019) Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture. Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110489071
Book Chapter
Introduction: On context and culture in corpus linguistics
Wiegand V & Mahlberg M (2019) Introduction: On context and culture in corpus linguistics. In: Wiegand V & Mahlberg M (eds.) Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110489071-001
Article
Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel
Mahlberg M, Wiegand V, Stockwell P & Hennessey A (2019) Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 28 (4), pp. 326-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019886754
Article
Digital methods for the English classroom
Mahlberg M, Wiegand V, Hobday S & Child F (2019) Digital methods for the English classroom. Impact, 7. https://my.chartered.college/impact_article/digital-methods-for-the-english-classroom/
Book Chapter
Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in Great Expectations
Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2018) Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in Great Expectations. In: Page R, Busse B & Nørgaard N (eds.) Rethinking Language Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan. Abingdon, Oxon. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351183222-8/corpus-stylistics-norms-comparisons-michaela-mahlberg-viola-wiegand
Book Review
Wiegand V (2018) Review of Jeffries, L., & Walker, B. (2018). Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years. London: Bloomsbury; 224 pages; 9781441162229; £95 (hbk).. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 10 (2), p. 92–95. https://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/161041805/05_bookreview102.pdf
Book Review
Wiegand V (2018) Review of Weisser, M. (2016).Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-based Language Analysis. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 23 (2), pp. 244-249. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00004.wie
Article
Huntley SJ, Mahlberg M, Wiegand V, van Gennip Y, Yang H, Dean RS & Brennan ML (2018) Analysing the opinions of UK veterinarians on practice-based research using corpus linguistic and mathematical methods. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 150, pp. 60-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2017.11.020