Andreas Musolff

Biography

Andreas Musolff studied English, German and Linguistics at Düsseldorf University and SOAS and graduated with a PhD thesis on the status of Karl Bühler's theory of linguistics in the history of linguistics. Since 1990 he has been working in the UK as a lecturer and professor in German Language Studies at Aston University and Durham University, and since 2010, as Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia (Norwich). His research interests focus on Cognitive Metaphor Studies, Intercultural and Multicultural Communication, and Public Discourse Analysis. He has published especially on figurative language in the media and in the public sphere in general; (2001), Metaphor and Political Discourse (2004), and the co-edited volumes of Metaphor and Intercultural Communication (2014), Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim: Cultural Identities in Public Discourse (2010) and Metaphor and Discourse (2009). He is currently Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Association for Research and Applied Metaphor (RaAM).

Research Interest

His research interests focus on Cognitive Metaphor Studies, Intercultural and Multicultural Communication, and Public Discourse Analysis.