Andrea Liebschner (PhD Russian)

Tutor for German

Biography

Background

In 2005  Andrea Liebschner obtained a Magister Diploma in Slavonic Studies (Russian)  at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. In 2006 she taught German as a foreign language at the Oesterreich Institute in Warsaw and gained teaching experience abroad.  In 2007 she obtained her postgraduate teaching certificate for German as a foreign language at the Saarland University.   From 2008-2013 she taught as a DAAD-lecturer at the German department of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University in Arkhangelsk,  Russia and organised outreach events for German.  In 2016 she obtained her PhD degree in Russian at the University of Glasgow. 

 

 

Undergraduate teaching

  • Foundation German 1
  • Foundation German 3
  • Russian Media course

Research summary

  • Russian language on the Internet 
  • Discourse analysis
  • Syntactic structures in media discourse  
  • Coherence and cohesion in media discourse. 
  • Social network analysis

Current research interests

- Russian language on the Internet  - Russian language in advertising and social media - Discourse analysis - Syntactic structures in media discourse   -Coherence and cohesion in media discourse.  - Social network analysis

Affiliated research centres

Past project grants

2015 SMLC PG Travel Scholarship, University of Glasgow
2014 College of Arts Graduate School Research Support Award, University of Glasgow

PhD-thesis:

  • Liebschner, Andrea. (2016); Russian social networks on the web: Cohesion and coherence in Vkontakte (Doctoral dissertation). University of Glasgow.p.364.

Articles:

  • ‘Graficheskaia kogezia v publichnykh soobshcheniakh sotsialnoi seti Vkontakte’. In: Chelovek v informatsionnom prostranstve. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. pod. obsh. red. Т.P. Kuranovoi. – Iaroslavl’: RIO IAGPU, 2016. pp. 251-256.
  •  ‘Sredstva multimodal’noi kogesii russkogo diskursa na primere mezhkul’turnoi kommunikatsii v sotsial’noi seti сети Vkontakte’. In: Russkoe kul’turnoe prostranstvo. Sbornik materialov. XVImezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii. Vypusk 4. Tom 1. — Мoscow.: Izdatel’stvo «Pero», 2015. pp. 98-101.
  • ‘Stena v sotsial’noi seti Vkontakte kak raznovidnost’ gostevoi knigi’. In Russkii iazyk i istoricheskie sud’by i sovremennost’ IV. Mezdunarodnyi congress issledovatelei russkogo iazyka.. (Mosvka, MGU, 18-21 marta 2014). Moskva. pp. 384-385.
  •  ‘The use of social network online Vkontakte as a tool for learning German’. In: Proceedings of the X International Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics. – Moscow: RUDN – Institute of Linguistics RAN, 2013.p.92
  •  ‘Analiz razvertyvaniia temy pri gruppovoi kommunikatsii v sotsial’noi seti Vkontakte’. In: Chelovek v informatsionnom prostranstve. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. pod. obsh. red. Т.P. Kuranovoi - Iaroslavl’: Izdatel’stvo IAGPU, 2013. pp. 231-239. 
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