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"Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection"

Mathew Gillings‘ new book, Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection has just been published by Routledge and is available in both hardback and eBook here:…

The appreciation test: artificial communication in the light of evolution

A thought leadership essay by Jens Seiffert-Brockmann, published for the International Public Relations Association.

A Night of Research

The Long Night of Research provides its visitors with the possibility to learn more about research carried out at WU, and it provides us as researchers with the possibility to talk about our projects,…

ABC awards for Ursula Lutzky

Ursula Lutzky received two prestigious awards at the 88th Annual International Conference of the Association for Business Communication, which was held from October 25 to 28, 2023, in Denver (USA):

Letter of Award

We are happy to announce that our colleague Tetiana Shevchenko was awarded with an Ernst Mach Grant. Tetiana received the grant for her project on "Corporate Blacklisting: Strategic business…

New Publication

Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss “Remedies against the Pandemic” offers a fresh perspective on political…

New publication

English Academic Writing, which Dr Mautner co-authored with Dr Ross, has now been published and is available here:https://www.utb.de/doi/book/10.36198/9783838560281

New publication

Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, which Mathew Gillings and Gerlinde Mautner co-authored with Paul Baker, has now been published and is available…

Workshop, 13.06.2023

Titel: "What does ‘value’ really mean and to whom? Using tools of (corpus) linguistics to read and interpret meaning trajectories in business discourse " - D2.2.228 - 13.06.2023, 10:00 - 12:00

New publication in paperback

Dr. Ursula Lutzky’s book The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets. Planes, Trains and Automated Text Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2021) has now also been published in paperback and is available here:…

New publication on online discussions of consumer debt

Dr. Ursula Lutzky has published the article "'Sorry to hear you're going through a difficult time': Investigating online discussions of consumer debt" with colleagues from Birmingham City University,…

Dr. Ursula Lutzky opened the Regional Conference of the Association for Business Communication 2023

In January 2023, the Regional Conference of the Association for Business Communication was held in Naples, Italy. The conference explored the topic “Re-thinking and Re-mediating Business…

English Research Seminar 06.12.2022

06.12.2022 Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich 18:00 , D2.2.228 Titel: "Third-wave im/politeness theory: Swearwords and the company they keep"

English Research Seminar 07.11.2022

"20 key lessons about business communication from 20 years at Business Spotlight" - Ian McMaster, former editor-in-chief of Business Spotlight magazine - Time & place: 2022-November-07 18:00, room…

Dr. Ursula Lutzky is recipient of recognition award from the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation for her habilitation

Dr. Ursula Lutzky is recipient of recognition award from the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Stiftung for her habilitation. We warmly congratulate her on the award!

Impressions from the Kick Off of the Master "Business Communication"

On September 30., 2022, we held the very first event of the academic year 2022/2023. Thanks to everyone who participated for the great start of the master!

EUPRERA 23rd Annual Congress at WU and Vienna University

Together with the Corporate Communication Research Group, we co-hosted the EUPRERA 23rd Annual Congress from September 21. to  September 24, 2022. Thanks you to everyone who presented, joined and…

Talk at the AEJMC Conference 2022

Two members of our institute, professor Jens Seiffert-Brockmann and Laura Hackl M.A., participated in the AEJMC Conference 2022 in Detroit and presented a paper on „Unity in Diversity - An…

English Research Seminar 15.06.2022

"Examining the role and importance of small talk during performance appraisal interviews at a globalized company" - Fien De Malsche, PhD student from the University of Antwerp - Time & place:…

English Research Seminar 08.06.2022

"Causes of miscommunication in meetings – a BELF perspective" - Evan Frendo, freelance teacher, trainer and author - Time & place: 2022-June-08 18:00, room D2.2.228

Ursula Lutzky speaks at Interactional Variation Online (IVO) on approaches to communication in the Covid-19 crisis

On May 20th 11:00 GMT, Associate Professor Ursula Lutzky will speak about the Association for Business Communication for Europe, Africa and the Middle East and deliver a speech on ‘We’re not an…

English Research Seminar 18.05.2022

"Pedagogical rules and the linguistic knowledge of English teachers" - Tom Rankin, University of Linz - Time & place: 2022-May-18 17:00, room D2.2.228

Jens Seiffert-Brockmann is Researcher of the Month

Institute Head Univ.Prof. Dr. Jens Seiffert-Brockmann was selected as Researcher of the Month.

English Research Seminar 28.04.2022

Proposing a Model of Creative Workplace Discourse; Prof. Michael Handford (Cardiff University); Thursday 28th of April 2022, 16:00, room D2.2.228

English Research Seminar 30.03.2022

Communicating the climate crisis: ecocritical discourse analysis and digital storytelling; Hermine Penz (University of Graz); Wednesday 30th of March, at 18:00 in room D2.2.228

Impressions from the power of the (new) media

WU Matters. WU Talks with Andreas Enzminger und Lisa-Marie Idowu, Institute for Communication Management and Media about Fake News on Wednesday, the 18.01.2021, at 6 p.m. For more information please…

The power of the (new) media

WU Matters. WU Talks with Andreas Enzminger und Lisa-Marie Idowu, Institute for Communication Management and Media about Fake News on Wednesday, the 18.01.2021, at 6 p.m. For more information please…

Research Talk: "What Are Corporations For? Developing a Theory of the Firm for Communicative Capitalism."

The research talk "What Are Corporations For? Developing a Theory of the Firm for Communicative Capitalism." will be held by Pr. Tim Kuhn on Tuesday, January 18, at 6 p.m.

Talk at the EUPRERA Congress 2021

Two members of our institute, professor Jens Seiffert-Brockmann and Laura Hackl M.A., participated in the 22. EUPRERA Annual Congress and gave a speech on the topic „Between Scientific Progress and…

New Publication on the Discourse of Customer Service Tweets

Dr. Ursula Lutzky has published the book The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets. Planes, Trains and Automated Text Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2021). The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets studies the…

English Research Seminar 14.10.2021

Presentation on the Business Communication Master’s Programme at KU Leuven, Belgium Thursday, 14 October, 18:00, D2.2.228

English Research Seminar 13.10.2021

Lecture: “Famous leaders’ stories at the interface of narrative dimensions” Thursday, 14 October, 18:00, D2.2.228

New Master's program "Business Communication"

In the new Master’s Program in Business Communication (BizComm), students learn how to plan, design, and manage communications and how to use strategic communication to achieve business goals. The…

New Publication in Agile Content Management

Univ.Prof. Dr. Jens Seiffert-Brockmann has published the article "Agile Content Management: Strategic Communication in Corporate Newsrooms" in the International Journal of Strategic Communication…

Linguistikzirkel - Research Talk with Timothy Coombs, 5. May 2021

Prof. W. Timothy Coombs (PhD) on "Understanding “Bad Choices” in Crisis Communication: A Behavioral Crisis Communication Approach"

New Publication on ‘Sorry’ in Customer Communication

Dr. Ursula Lutzky has published the article "You keep saying you are sorry". Exploring the use of sorry in customer communication on Twitter" in Discourse, Context & Media Volume 39, 2021. It was…

New Publication in Gamification in Employee Communication

Univ.Prof. Dr. Jens Seiffert-Brockmann has published an article in Handbuch Mitarbeiterkommunikation (Springer Verlag) on the topic "Gamification in Employee Communication". You can read the full…

English Research Seminar 27.01.2021

‘EMEMUS online’: what does internationalised higher education look like on a university website? Ute Smit, University of Vienna - Date & time: Jan. 27, 2021 - Online

WU Matters. WU Talks with Univ.Prof. Jens Seiffert-Brockmann - 20.01.2021

Univ.Prof. Jens Seiffert-Brockmann on Fake News

English Research Seminar 29.10.2019

Vortrag: Dr Andrew Kehoe, Birmingham City University, UK: “All our items are pre-owned and may have musty odor”: Using automated linguistic analysis techniques to study e-commerce data Zeit:…

English Research Seminar 18.06.2019

Lecture: Prof. Andrea Whittle (Newcastle University Business School) "Consequential categories: How categories in interaction work to get work done" Time: Tuesday 18.06.19, 18:15 – 19:45; …

English Research Seminar 17.05.2019

Lecture: Robert Gibson ( freelance, responsible for Intercultural Training at Siemens AG until 2018) "Navigation cultures in a VUCA world" Time: 17.05.2019 Place: WU, Building D2, Entrance D, 2nd…

English Research Seminar 10.04.2019

Workshop: Dr. Gail Forey (Senior Lecturer, University of Bath) "An introduction to Appraisal Analysis and comlaint texts" Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Place: WU, Building D2, Entrance D, 2nd floor, D2.2.228 …

English Research Seminar 09.04.2019

Lecture: Dr. Gail Forey (Senior Lecturer, University of Bath) "The Value of Meaning-focused Metalanguage for Teaching and Learning" Time: 18:15 - 19:45 Place: WU, Building D2, Entrance D, 2nd floor,…

English Research Seminar 22.10.2018

Lecture: Colleen Cotter (Queen Mary University of London) "Discourse and displacement: Following and finding news in new contexts" Time: 18:15 Place: WU, Building D2, Entrance D, 2nd floor,…

English Research Seminar 15.10.2018

Lecture: Dr. Amanda Potts (Cardiff University): 'Making a patchwork quilt or Frankenstein's monster? Interdisciplinarity and collaboration in CADS' Time: 18:15 - 19:30 Place: WU, Building D2,…

English Research Seminar 26.04.2018

Lecture: Dr. Stephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick, Centre for Applied Linguistics): Exploring ‘another side’ of internal leadership communication through self-denigrating humour Time: 18:15-…

Workshop Dr. Koller 31.01.2018

Lecture: Dr. Veronika Koller (Reader in Discourse Studies - Lancaster University, UK) wird ihr neues Buch (mit Erika Darics) Language in Business, Language at Work (Macmillan, 2018) vorstellen. …

English Research Seminar 30.01.2018

Lecture: Dr. Veronika Koller (Reader in Discourse Studies - Lancaster University, UK): Setting up an undergraduate programme in business communication: a field report Details: 18:30- 20:30; D2.2.228

Gastvortrag Dr. Robert Lawson 12.01.2018

Lecture: Dr. Robert Lawson (Birmingham City University): „#mansplaining, #manterruption and #manspreading“ Details: 12:00 - 13:30; D2.2.228