Projects Digital Linguistics: Discourse Analysis and Methods of Language Data Analysis

Monitoring Sustainability

Embracing Sustainability is an overarching goal in ZHAW’s strategic leadership, research and education. We contribute to this goal by: / building a richly annotated text corpus on Swiss sustainability discourse (defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals),/ giving access to the corpus for all…

completed, 02/2022 - 12/2022
Digital Transfer Platform for COVID-19 Research

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic force researchers to identify and classify the many different events and developments during the crisis period within a short period of time in order to develop and work on targeted research questions on COVID-19. The data and digital tools of corpus and…

completed, 05/2020 - 12/2020
Making Open Research Data Suitable for Comparative Discourse Analysis (MORCDA)

Comparative discourse analyses help societies in Europe to observe, evaluate and understand their own opinion-forming processes and those in their neighbouring countries on the basis of data. Public discourse consists of data. These are collected and processed by the scientific community and made…

ongoing, 01/2025 - 12/2026
Monitoring Vaccination Discourse

The WHO identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the ten major threats to global health. It can be assumed that the public discourse has a significant influence on the individual vaccine decision. Thus, to understand and counter vaccine hesitancy, it is crucial to understand how media reports on…

ongoing, 01/2024 - 01/2027
Scientific cultures at the interface

completed, 09/2023 - 06/2025
Akteure – Diskurse – Medien

The Swiss Educational Expansion 1830-1860, Its Significance for the German-Speaking Countries, and Its Current Relevance

completed, 12/2021 - 09/2022
Swiss-AL: Linguistic Open-Research-Data Practices for Applied Sciences

The ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics develops Swiss-AL (Applied Linguistics), an ex- tensive collection of text data in all Swiss national languages, a linguistic processing pipe- line, and a browser-based analysis workbench, enabling researchers to explore copyright- protected data on public…

completed, 01/2023 - 06/2025
Public COVID-19 pandemic discourses

A focus on vector populations (COVIDisc)

completed, 06/2020 - 09/2021
Field study: Digital discourse analyses in Switzerland

The field study identifies the current state of digitized discourse analysis among public and private actors. As a result, a Swiss map of digital discourse analysis is created. Results of discourse research have shown: Those who want to be successful in society and make a difference must be able to…

ongoing, 01/2022 - 07/2025
Strengthening ORD competences in the Applied Sciences: Open Educational Resources for Swiss-AL

Recent developments of platforms for Open Research Data (ORD) have led to a high demand for training materials that enable researchers to successfully use FAIR data. That is particularly true for platforms offering access to large collections of language data and the application of data-driven and…

completed, 01/2024 - 12/2024
Moving towards a national FAIR-compliant ecosystem of Federated Infrastructure for Language Data (FAIR-FI-LD)

In the last 5-10 years, Swiss HEIs have been working on building national services for language data. They include, up to now, the Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI-UZH), the Swiss-AL Platform for Applied Sciences (ZHAW), a national repository for the publication and long-term preservation of…

completed, 07/2024 - 06/2025
History of “eco-architecture” in Switzerland, 196X-199X. An architectural-historical, corpuslinguistic and gender-theoretical analysis (ÖKO)

Architecture has a major influence on the climate and is currently looking for solutions. However, this is not new: topics such as re-use or regenerative materials were already being investigated and incorporated into experimental buildings after the Second World War. This project aims to…

start, 08/2025 - 12/2028