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Markus Egg is a Professor at the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin. He is a principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Center 1412 (CRC 1412) focused on "Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation". His work bridges theoretical linguistics with computational approaches, particularly in metaphor annotation, register analysis, and discourse structure. He has organized international workshops such as MeStaR (Metaphors and Stance Markers in Register Variation).
- Current affiliation: Humboldt University of Berlin
- Key projects: CRC 1412, GeRMaN (German Register Marking by Non-Literal Expressions), MeStaR workshop
Research Focus: His research examines how metaphors and metonymies function as markers of register variation across different contexts, including social media (e.g., LGBTQ+ slang on Twitter), religious language, and computational linguistics. He integrates methodologies from corpus linguistics, cognitive science, and natural language processing to model register knowledge.
Teaching: Regularly teaches courses on linguistics, computational semantics, and machine learning applications in language research. In 2023, he conducted a webinar on "Register marking by metaphor and metonymy" at Nakhchivan State University.
Collaborations: Collaborates with institutions like Charles University (Prague), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and Università della Calabria. Frequent collaborator: Valia Kordoni (metaphor corpus development).
