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Susanne Kopf
About
Susanne Kopf holds a PhD (Lancaster University, UK) and a venia docendi (WU Wien, AT) in applied linguistics. In her doctoral thesis, she focused on digital discourse on the European Union. Her habilitation project dealt with the social media communicative paradigm and the digital platform economy. Generally, Kopf’s research interests are located in the field of Critical Discourse Studies at the intersection of purely qualitative linguistic analysis and qualitative and quantitative corpus linguistic methods. She has (co-)authored books, such as A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia (Palgrave) and has published in renowned journals, e.g. New Media & Society, Critical Discourse Studies and Review of Managerial Science. Moreover, she has contributed to a number of edited volumes and co-edited, for instance, Discourses of Brexit (with V. Koller and M. Miglbauer, Routledge 2019). Kopf‘s contribution to her field has been recognised with various prizes and awards, for example, the Oberösterreichische Talentförderungsprämie and the Alois Mock science prize.
Research Interests
Susanne Kopf’s research interests are located in the field of Critical Discourse Studies at the intersection of purely qualitative linguistic analysis and qualitative and quantitative corpus linguistic methods. Her current research focuses on the representation and construction of the European Union on Wikipedia.
A full list of publications and research activities can be found in PURE.
Book (monograph)
| 2023 | Koller, Veronika, Borza, Natalia, Demata, MAssimiliano, Filardo-LLamas, Laura, Gustafsson, Anna W., Kopf, Susanne, Miglbauer, Marlene, Reggi, Valeria, Saric, Ljiljana , Seiler Brylla, Charlotta, Stopfner, Maria. 2023. Voices of Supporters. Read more |
| 2022 | Kopf, Susanne. 2022. A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia. Read more |
Journal article
| 2025 | Kopf, Susanne. 2025. Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens. Read more |
| 2024 | Gillings, Mathew, Kopf, Susanne. 2024. Business communication through a corpus linguistic lens. Read more |
| 2024 | Kopf, Susanne. 2024. Corporate censorship online: Vagueness and discursive imprecision in YouTube’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines. Read more |
| 2022 | Kopf, Susanne. 2022. Participation and deliberative discourse on social media – Wikipedia talk pages as transnational public spheres?. Read more |
| 2021 | Kopf, Susanne. 2021. In varietate concordia? Wikipedia editor debates about EU culture. Read more |
| 2021 | Köllen, Thomas, Kopf, Susanne. 2021. Ostracism and nationalism in the workplace: discursive exclusionary practices between cultural and geographic neighbors. Read more |
| 2021 | Treitl, Veronika, Kopf, Susanne. 2021. Content Moderation: How Facebook deals with balancing freedom of expression and personality rights – A legal and a discourse analytical perspective. Read more |
| 2021 | Kopf, Susanne. 2021. ‘Just look at the mess. And they haven’t even left’: (EU) Citizens Debating Brexit. Read more |
| 2021 | Brusenbauch Meislová, Monika, Koller, Veronika, Kopf, Susanne, Miglbauer, Marlene. 2021. Recontextualizing Brexit: Discursive Representations from Outside the UK. Read more |
| 2020 | Kopf, Susanne. 2020. ‘This is exactly how the Nazis ran it’: (De)legitimising the EU on Wikipedia. Read more |
| 2020 | Kopf, Susanne. 2020. “Rewarding Good Creators”: Corporate Social Media Discourse on Monetization Schemes for Content Creators. Read more |
| 2019 | Kopf, Susanne. 2019. Content policies in Social Media Critical Discourse Studies: The invisible hand of social media providers?. Read more |
| 2019 | Kopf, Susanne. 2019. Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Studies? Marrying Critical Discourse Studies and Corpus Linguistics/Über den Brückenschlag zwischen Kritischen Diskursstudien und Korpuslinguistik. Read more |
| 2017 | Kopf, Susanne. 2017. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in the Kronen Zeitung. Read more |
Chapter in edited volume
| 2024 | Kopf, Susanne. 2024. Wikipedia discourse about social media: Facebook between community and corporation In: Discourse in the Digital Age. Hrsg. Esposito, Eleonora, KhosraviNik, Majid. Read more |
| 2023 | Kopf, Susanne. 2023. Participation and deliberative discourse on social media: In: Social Media Critical Discourse Studies. Hrsg. KhosraviNik, Majid. Read more |
| 2019 | Kopf, Susanne. 2019. From 'country' to 'confederation' – debating terms of reference for the EU on a Wikipedia talk page In: Reference and Identity in Public Discourses. Hrsg. Lutzky, Ursula, Nevala, Minna. Read more |
| 2019 | Koller, Veronika, Kopf, Susanne, Miglbauer, Marlene. 2019. Introduction: context, history and previous research In: Discourses of Brexit. Hrsg. Veronika Koller, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer. Read more |
| 2019 | Kopf, Susanne. 2019. Get your shyte together – Wikipedia’s treatment of ‘Brexit’ In: Discourses of Brexit. Hrsg. Veronika Koller; Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer. Read more |
| 2018 | Kopf, Susanne, Börner, Ingo. 2018. Wikipedia Studies – sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Zugänge zu Wikipedia In: Germanistik Digital - Digital Humanities in der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Hrsg. Börner, Ingo; Straub, Wolfgang; Zolles, Christian. Read more |
| 2018 | Kopf, Susanne, Nichele, Elena. 2018. Es-tu Charlie? Doing Politics on Wikipedia In: ‘Doing Politics’: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. Hrsg. Michael Kranert; Geraldine Horan. Read more |
| 2013 | Kopf, Susanne. 2013. Representation of Hillary Rodham Clinton and women in The New York Times In: Discourses That Matter Selected Essays on English and American Studies. Hrsg. Maria José Canelo, Marta Soares, Marta Mancelos, Cláudia Pinto, Fernando Gonçalves. Read more |
| 2013 | Kopf, Susanne. 2013. A Critical Discourse Analysis: The Representation of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Women in the New York Times In: Discourses that matter: Selected Essays on English and American Studies. Hrsg. Canelo, Maria José, Soares, Marta, Mancelos, Marta, Pinto, Cláudia, Gonçalves, Fernando. Read more |