Irene Elmerot

Irene Elmerot is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University's Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, within the Faculty of Humanities. She specializes in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis of linguistic power structures, particularly focusing on linguistic othering. Her research spans topics like migration discourse, climate change communication, and representation of social groups in Czech media.

• Ph.D. in Slavic languages from Language and Power Doctoral School (completed June 2024)
• Recipient of funding from Åke Wibergs Stiftelse for corpus creation
• Extensive conference participation (Innsbruck 2024, Bologna 2022, etc.)

Her methodological expertise combines corpus linguistics with statistical analysis of large datasets from Czech National Corpus (32 million data points). Current projects include: 1) water metaphors in parliamentary discourse for displaced populations, and 2) creating a corpus of North American former slaves' narratives.

Publication trends reveal consistent focus on:

• Quantitative analysis of evaluative adjectives in Czech media
• Intersectional studies of gender, occupation, and nationality representation
• Temporal analysis of discourse patterns (1989–2023)
• Comparative studies between mainstream and alternative media

She has served as:

• Main supervisor for bachelor theses at Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies
• Teacher for courses in Czech language & culture, academic writing, and corpus methods
• Ph.D. representative and website coordinator for Swedish Association for Slavists