Supervision
I function as an external supervisor/mentor for both BA/MA as well as PhD theses.
I am open for topics in German, English and General Linguistics as well as Media Studies from a linguistic and semiotic perspective. My own research is focused on film, tv series, comics, social media, video games, and other multimodal documents, but I am also interested in the analysis of verbal texts or their interaction with other semiotic resources. A good starting point for a thesis is an example analytical questions raised with a view on a concrete textual artefact. Please contact me, if you are interested in doing a thesis or paper or have some questions on these topics.
So far, I have supervised the following BA and MA theses: The contribution of images to memorizing and comprehending municipal letters.
Decoding the dream: A multimodal approach to narrative strategies in Yume Nikki (2004).
Collaboration, rilvary and attraction: Gender differences in the introduction of female and male main characters in contemporary TV series.
Inter- und Intrakulturelle Genderbeziehungen im deutsch-türkischen Kino am Beispiel von Fatih Akins Filmen. [Master Thesis, Transnational Literary Studies, Winter 2016/2017].
Texteinblendungen in der deutschen Fassung von Sherlock. Eine Analyse aus multimodaler und textsemiotischer Perspektive.
Information Loss in the Audio Description of Film? A Multimodal Analysis.
Konstruktionen des Eigenen und des Fremden in multimodalen Interaktionen im fiktionalen Text – Eine Untersuchung anhand der deutschen Fassung der Fernsehserien Lost.
Glaubwürdigkeit und Persuasion in der Unternehmenskommunikation. Eine texthandlungsorientierte Untersuchung von Unternehmenskommunikation am Beispiel von Geschäftsberichten. What do the pictures add? A quantitative study of the effects that enriched multimodal letters have on retention and understanding in comparision to less enriched multimodal letters. Navigation in pictures. An analysis on different functions of pictures in multimodal instructions and how they influence the performance of search tasks in the online database of the University Library of Groningen. A steppingstone to the effective tourism marketing website: An exploration of modern website headers in home pages An investigation of multimodal automobile instructions. A corpus analysis of the similarities and differences of automobile instructions.
How time in film elapses. An analysis of the medium-specific complexity.
“Touching the Mortal Clay with the Immortal Soul”: Gender and Transcendence in Alan Moore’s Promethea
An Analysis of Text-Image-Relationships and their Consequences for Focalisation in the BBC Series Sherlock.
How Time in Film Elapses - An Analysis of the Medium-Specific Complexity.
Film Analysis – An Application of the Grande Paradigmatique
„Verkleidet, vermummt und verhüllt“ – Die semantische Gestaltung von Eigennamen in den Comic-Übersetzungen von Erika Fuchs
Textual Meaning and Filmic Techniques in Leslie Nielsen’s slapstick trilogy ‘The Naked Gun’
Zur Sprechakttheorie nach Austin und Searle – Grenzen, Schwächen und ein interdisziplinärer Ausblick.
The Representation of Women in Fragrance Television Advertisements – A Multimodal Analysis.
Villains in Animated Disney Movies – Intersemiosis between Accent and Color.
Analysis of Generic Identity in Hollywood Film
“We all go little mad sometimes“: A social semiotic account of mental illness in the movies.
Thematic Links between Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: A Comparative Study.
International Lifestyle Advertising Campaigns: Between transnationality and nation-specific codes.
Master
[Master Thesis, Communication and Information Studies, Summer 2020].
[Master Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures/Digital Media, Summer 2019].
[Master Thesis, Language Sciences, Winter 2018/2019].
[Master Thesis, German Linguistics, Summer 2016].
[Master Thesis, Language Sciences, Summer 2016.]
[Master Thesis, German Linguistics, Summer 2016]
[Master Thesis, German Linguistics, Winter 2013/2014]
Bachelor
[Bachelor Thesis, Communication and Information Studies, Summer 2020].
[Bachelor Thesis, Communication and Information Studies, Summer 2020].
[Bachelor Thesis, Communication and Information Studies, Summer 2020].
[Bachelor Thesis, Communication and Information Studies, Summer 2020].
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2016].
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2016].
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2016].
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2016].
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2015]
[Bachelor Thesis, German Linguistics, Winter 2014/2015]
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2014]
[Bachelor Thesis, German Linguistics, Summer 2014]
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2014]
[Bachelor Thesis, English Speaking Cultures, Summer 2014]
[Bachelor Thesis, English Speaking Cultures. Summer 2014]
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2013]
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2013]
[Bachelor Thesis, English-Speaking Cultures, Summer 2013]