Tim Feldmüller

Tim Feldmüller is a Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim since October 2023, where he contributes to corpus linguistics research and methodology development. His academic journey includes research assistant positions at the University of Leipzig, University of Zurich, and HHU Düsseldorf, where he worked on projects related to spoken scientific language, linguistic inventories of humanities, and language acquisition for foreign students.

Feldmüller's research interests center around corpus-driven approaches to discourse analysis, with particular focus on framing theory and extremism discourse. His dissertation examines the framing of extremism variants in media discourse from 1999-2021, developing corpus-driven methods for exploring and visualizing semantic frames. His scholarly work demonstrates strong connections between computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and political communication, with recent publications exploring distributional-semantic approaches to polarized discourses, construction grammar, and academic language acquisition.

His current research projects include Methods of corpus analysis and indexing and KoKoKom – Arguing about Sex and Gender, a BMBF cooperation project (2023–2026) with KIT and UTÜ examining conflict and consensus as challenges of science communication. His publications reveal a consistent trajectory from corpus methodology development to application in politically charged discourse domains, with increasing sophistication in combining traditional linguistic analysis with computational approaches.