Sarah Schön
Sarah Schön
Sarah Schön started her research journey at the European University Viadrina with an B.A. in Cultural Sciences focusing on Linguistics and Cultural History. After completing the M.A. Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin she came back to Viadrina for approaching her PhD within the field of multimodal metaphor and discourse analysis.
Within her PhD project she wants to continue her work on metaphoricity in discourses regarding sensitive topics in society. While focusing on death and dying in her M.A. thesis, the considered context of her dissertation will be mental health (disorders). By looking at multimodal metaphors in different text types discoursive structures and connected world views can be detected. Additionally, a historical perspective on the groundwork and development of existing metaphors, as well as related processes will be integrated. The aim of the work is to shed light on given discursive structures, their foundation and influence on perspectives within society, so that an outlook on possible positive directions regarding health communication can be given.
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Multimodal metaphor
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Qualitative Discourse analysis
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Historical Linguistics / Linguistic Anthropology
EDUCATION
07/2024-present
PhD candidate
07/2023
M.A. Linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin
08/2019-07/2020
Erasmus year: Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
12/2018
B.A. Cultural Sciences, Europen University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
02/2017-06/2017
Erasmus term: Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
POSITIONS
04/2021 – 01/2023
Student Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
03/2022 – 05/2022
Voluntary internship, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie Leipzig, Department for Comparative Cultural Psychology
10/2017 – 06/2019
Student Assistant, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Department Language Development and Multilinguialism
02/2015 – 02/2017
Student Assistant, RBB Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Project Retro-Digitalization
PROFESIONAL ACTIVITIES
2022
Poster presentation on Linguistic Relativity at the student conference Linguistik Meet Up Berlin Brandenburg
2021
Discussion on the neo-pronoun "jemensch" at the student conference Linguistik Meet Up Berlin Brandenburg
Contact
Auditorium Maximum (AM)Logenstraße 4
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)