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Felix Tripps is a Researcher at the University of Siegen's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, German Department, serving as Research Assistant at the Chair of Socio- and Discourse Linguistics since 2018 and Research Associate for the 'digGer|net' project (2023-2024). His doctoral research examines the concept of 'threat' in legal and media discourse at the intersection of political and legal linguistics.
His educational background includes:
- MA in Media Culture Research, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (2015-2018)
- BA in English and American Studies & Business Administration, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (2011-2015)
- Study Abroad Year at York University, Toronto (2013-2014)
Tripps' research integrates strategic communication, discourse linguistics, and socio-linguistics with legal and political contexts. He specializes in corpus-based analysis of risk discourses in security policy, war rhetoric, and right-wing populist communication, employing computational methods to decode semantic struggles in juridical language and media narratives. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with real-world applications in democratic discourse cultivation.
Publication trends reveal increasing focus on practical discourse intervention tools, including the Discourse Monitor platform and strategic communication glossaries. His recent work systematically analyzes contemporary crises like the Ukraine war through linguistic lenses, documenting semantic shifts in terms like 'Zeitenwende' (turning point) and 'Gefährder' (threat agent), while exposing manipulative discourse strategies in refugee debates and copyright reform discussions.
Tripps actively contributes to the Forschungsgruppe Diskursmonitor und Diskursintervention and discursive – Academy for Participatory Communication, developing workshops for democratic engagement. His teaching portfolio spans 15+ seminars since 2018 on strategic communication, crisis linguistics, and media discourse analysis at the University of Siegen. Current projects include his doctoral research on risk discourses in internal security and the Discourse Monitor platform for real-time strategic communication analysis.
