Ludmila Pöppel

Ludmila Pöppel is a Professor at Stockholm University, affiliated with the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German. Her research focuses on discourse analysis, lexical semantics, phraseology, and corpus linguistics, often intersecting with political discourse and construction grammar.

• Research Themes: Analyzing near-synonyms in Russian (e.g., беспорядки vs. волнения), combinatorial properties of words, and semantic shifts in political terminology like революция (revolution) vs. переворот (coup).
• Key Projects: Leadership in the TELICORE collaboration between Stockholm University, Higher School of Economics (Russia), and Ilia State University (Georgia), and contributions to the Russian-Swedish dictionary database for discursive units.

Publications: Her work spans corpus-driven studies of Russian constructions (e.g., дело в том, что, то-то и N), their cross-linguistic parallels, and the pragmatic functions of focus particles. She emphasizes empirical data from Sketch Engine and the Russian National Corpus to identify language-specific features.

Advising: Supervises doctoral students and numerous undergraduate and master's theses, integrating her research on political discourse into teaching at all levels, including courses on corpus linguistics and lexical semantics.

Labs/Networks: Member of the Language and Power Network, analyzing how language shapes political narratives in polarized climates.