Aleksandra Salamurović

Aleksandra Salamurović is a researcher at the Institute of History, University of Regensburg, specializing in political and media discourse in Southeast Europe. She holds a PhD in Southeast European Studies from Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2010) and has held academic roles at Jena's Institute for Slavic and Caucasian Studies (2011-2018) and project leadership positions for BMBF and Volkswagen Foundation grants.

• Doctorate on Germany's media representation in Serbian press (1990-2006)
• Project coordinator for seeFField: Strengthening Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (2022-)
• Principal investigator for DiskursWestBalkan (2018-2021)

Her research foci include:

• Political discourse analysis in the Western Balkans
• Sociolinguistics of script and multilingualism
• Semiotic landscapes in cross-border regions
• Nation-building processes through media

Key publication trends examine:

• Discursive construction of national identity
• Language in pandemic crisis communication
• Orthographic debates in post-Yugoslav states
• Cultural memory in tourism and media

She has taught courses on:

• Discourse analysis of political speeches
• Media linguistics in Eastern Europe
• Linguistic landscapes and multilingualism