Leyla Rommel is a research associate in the CCM project, working in WP2 with Carolin Schwegler. Leyla is specializing in the linguistic analysis of multimodal, cross-platform climate discourse on social media. Her research explores discursive debates, societal negotiations, and phenomena such as identity construction within digital climate imaginaries. Leyla’s academic expertise bridges sociolinguistics, literary studies, and cultural studies, with a particular focus on integrating these disciplines. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and German Studies and a Master’s degree in English Studies from the University of Heidelberg.
Currently, Leyla is preparing her PhD project in discourse linguistics and working on co-authored publications with the CCM team. Previously, she co-authored WP2's project report about Culture-Policy Climate Spaces of COP (Pearce et al. 2024) as well as the sociolinguistic article on Climate Imaginaries and Linguistic Identity Construction (Schwegler/Landschoff/Rommel 2024). Her research is enriched by a broad range of linguistic and interdisciplinary experience from previous projects. For example, in the DFG project Faktizitätskonstruktion at the University of Heidelberg, she contributed to analyzing professional communication in legal contexts, employing annotation tools such as CATMA and corpus analysis methods. Additionally, she worked as a research assistant on A Transdisciplinary Model for Collective Decision Making: Linguistic and Physical Perspectives at the Akademie der Wissenschaften Heidelberg. In this role, she focused on opinion dynamics in Twitter communication related to climate discourse before the 2021 Bundestag election, as well as economic discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her contributions included conducting corpus analyses using CQP in the Corpus WorkBench.
Publications:
Schwegler, Carolin; Landschoff, Jöran; Rommel, Leyla (2024): Climate Imaginaries and the Linguistic Construction of Identities on Social Media. In: LiLi – Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 54(3), 393–431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41244-024-00348-z.
Pearce, Warren; Omena, Janna Joceli; Yao, Yuting; Schwegler, Carolin; Visser, Jasmijn; Rommel, Leyla; Landschoff, Jöran (2024): Culture-policy Climate Spaces of COP28: Multimodal Cross-platform Analysis in TikTok, Instagram and Twitter (X). In: DMI24 Wiki Project Reports. Online: https://www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2024multimodalclimate.