Mathew Gillings

Mathew Gillings is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Language and Discourse in Business at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University and previously served as an Associate Lecturer there.

• Current teaching: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods & Data Analysis; Applied Research Projects; Critical Perspectives on Management Communication
• Professional memberships: International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Research Committee for Association for Business Communication (ABC)

Research Interests include:

• Corpus linguistics with focus on deception detection and digital discourse analysis
• Critical discourse analysis of climate change, business, political, and media narratives
• Sociopragmatics of (im)politeness across cultural and regional boundaries
• Methodological innovation through integration of corpus techniques with qualitative and quantitative approaches
• Interdisciplinary applications in humanities, social sciences, and business contexts

Scientific Contributions demonstrate expertise in combining corpus methods with discourse analysis, LLMs, and forensic linguistics. His 2024 monograph Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection established foundational work in this field.

Advising & Collaboration includes mentoring through WU's in-house faculty training, academic proofreading services, and cross-sector consultancy in UK and DACH region. He actively collaborates with international scholars like Gerlinde Mautner and Jonathan Culpeper.