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.
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.
My research interests span applied linguistics, corpus linguistics and digital humanities, and discourse analysis. My work has focused on analysing patterns in surveillance discourses through corpus linguistic methods. I am also 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.
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.
Conference Paper (unpublished)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
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
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
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 / Magazine
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 & N?rgaard N (eds.) Rethinking Language Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 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