Björn Laser

Björn Laser is an academic at Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd, holding the rank of Researcher in the German Department. His academic career spans institutions in Germany, Thailand, and Ukraine.

• Education: Magister Artium in German Linguistics, General Literary Studies, and Psychology (University of Siegen and University of Houston); Doctorate (Dr. phil.) on political communication in the Weimar Republic.

Research Interests include:

• Variation Linguistics
• Pragmatics
• Multilingualism in Comics
• Discourse Semantics
• German Didactics
• Intermediality

Publication Trends highlight interdisciplinary work connecting linguistics, comics studies, and migration discourse. His articles analyze multimodal texts, phraseological units, and orthographic challenges in educational contexts.

Collaborations with scholars like Susanne Riegler, Nazli Hodaie, and Daniel Rellstab underpin projects on multilingual teaching materials and semiotic analysis of societal transformations.

• Key Speaking Engagements: Berliner Comic-Kolloquium (2022), Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd (2022), Internationaler Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik (2021)