astronomy

Veronika Koller

Veronika Koller is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Veronika Koller rather than just read about it. In short: Veronika Koller (born 1973) is an Austrian-British linguist. She is Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

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Reference excerpt

Veronika Koller (born 1973) is an Austrian-British linguist. She is Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis.

Education After attending the Katharineum (secondary school), Koller received an MA in English language and literature (with minor in Arabic language and Islamic Studies) from the University of Vienna in 1998, and a Ph.D in English linguistics from the same university in 2003 with a thesis titled "Metaphor clusters in business media discourse:a social cognition approach."

Career Between 1999 and 2001, Koller was an external lecturer for Business English at the Polytechnic of Wiener Neustadt. Between 1999 and 2002, she was also an external lecturer at the Institute of Business Development of Vienna. In 2000, she became an assistant professor at the Department of English Business Communication of Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2004, she was appointed lecturer in English Language at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, and promoted to senior lecturer there in 2008. In 2015, she became Reader in Discourse Studies. Additionally, she also does occasional language consulting work for private, public and third sector clients.

Research One of Koller's best known work is Discourses of Brexit, published by Routledge in 2019. Edited along with Susanne Kopf and Marlene Miglbauer, the book provides an insight into how discourse influenced the outcome of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. The authors analysed political speeches on Twitter and other related platforms to analyse discourses regarding the Brexit.

Publications

Books Koller, V., Kopf, S., & Miglbauer, M. (Eds.) (2019). Discourses of Brexit. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138485549 Darics, E., & Koller, V. (2018). Language in Business, Language at Work. London : Palgrave Higher Education. ISBN 9780230298422 translated into Chinese (2014) as 商务媒体话语中的隐喻与性别 /Shang wu mei ti hua yu zhong de yin yu yu xing bie ISBN 9787544636827 Wodak, Ruth, and Veronika Koller. (Eds) (2010) Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110198980 Koller, Veronika. (2010) Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community. New York: Routledge,. ISBN 9780415883894 Koller, Veronika. (2008) Metaphor and Gender in Business Media Discourse A Critical Cognitive Study. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230217072 translated into Chinese (2014) as 商务媒体话语中的隐喻与性别 /Shang wu mei ti hua yu zhong de yin yu yu xing bie ISBN 9787544636827

Articles Heritage, F., & Koller, V. (2020). Incels, in-groups, and ideologies: The representation of gendered social actors in a sexuality-based online community. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 9(2), 152-178. doi:[1] Koller, V., & Miglbauer, M. (2019). What Drives the Right-Wing Populist Vote? Topics, motivations and representations in an online vox pop with voters for the Alternative für Deutschland. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 67(3), 283-306. doi:[2] Darics, E., & Koller, V. (2019). Social actors “to go”: An analytical toolkit to explore agency in business discourse and communication. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 82(2), 214-238. doi:[3] Koller, V., & Bullo, S. (2019). ‘Fight like a girl’: Tattoos as identity constructions for women living with illness. Multimodal Communication, 8(1). doi:[4] Koller, V. (2018). Language awareness and language workers. Language Awareness, 27(1-2), 4-20. doi:[5] Koller, V. (2017). The light within: metaphor consistency in Quaker pamphlets, 1659-2010. Metaphor and the Social World, 7(1), 5-25. doi:[6] Demjen, Z., Semino, E., & Koller, V. (2016). Metaphors for 'good' and 'bad' deaths: a health professional view. Metaphor and the Social World, 6(1), 1-19. doi:[7] Koller, V. (2015). The subversive potential of queer pornography: a systemic-functional analysis of a written online text. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 4(2), 254-271. doi:[8] Semino, E., Demjen, Z., & Koller, V. (2014). ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers. Discourse Studies, 16(5), 667-685. doi:[9] Koller, V. (2013). Constructing (non-)normative identities in written lesbian discourse: a diachronic study. Discourse and Society, 24(5), 551-568. doi:[10] Ng, C. J. W., & Koller, V. (2013). Deliberate conventional metaphor in images: the case of corporate branding discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 28(3), 131-147. doi:[11] Merkl-Davies, D., & Koller, V. (2012). ‘Metaphoring’ people out of this world: a critical discourse analysis of a chairman’s statement of a UK defence firm. Accounting Forum, 36(3), 178-193. doi:[12]

References

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Veronika Koller

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Veronika Koller claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Veronika Koller before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Veronika Koller ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Veronika Koller

In research: Veronika Koller appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Veronika Koller in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Veronika Koller is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1972 births, Applied linguists, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Veronika Koller outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Veronika Koller in simple terms?

Veronika Koller (born 1973) is an Austrian-British linguist. She is Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

Why does Veronika Koller matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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