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Carolin Schwegler is a Senior Researcher at the University of Cologne’s Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) and the Department of German Linguistics and Literature 1. Her work focuses on pragmatics, multimodal discourse, and conversation analysis, with an applied emphasis on environmental and medical humanities. She earned a Master’s in German Studies and Philosophy, and a doctorate in German Linguistics (summa cum laude) from Heidelberg University, where her thesis analyzed argumentation strategies in climate and sustainability discourse across media and corporate reports.
- Affiliations: MESH, Department of German Linguistics and Literature 1
- Interdisciplinary Projects: Leads subprojects in PreTAD (predictive turn in Alzheimer’s), CCM (Cultural Climate Models), and HESCOR (Human and Earth System Coupled Research), funded by EU, DFG, and state grants.
Her research interests include sustainability communication, risk and disaster communication, future imaginaries, green tourism, language and pain, and sociolinguistics of plant studies. She analyzes linguistic practices in predictive medicine, climate discourse, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Recent work explores dementia risk prediction ethics, social media climate imaginaries, and multimodal identity construction.
Her publications span edited volumes on health literacy, mental illness, and language-nature links, alongside articles in LiLi, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, and OBST. She actively presents at conferences globally and collaborates internationally with teams in neuroscience, ethics, and environmental policy.
