Ulrike Hanna Meinhof

Is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton. She is a specialist in discourse analysis. Her main areas of research currently involve ethnographic research in European border communities and a comparative media project about the 20th century on television. In these areas she is:

• Coordinator of a Fifth Framework consortium with a project into discursive construction of identities in European border communities (SERC-1999-00023) 1 Feb 2000- 31 Jan 2003.
• Principal partner of an ESRC project into discursive construction of identities on the former German-German and German-Polish border (ESRCR000 22 2899) with D. Galasinski. May 1999- October 2000.
• Coordinator of a research project 'The televisual construction of the 20th century at the eve of the millennium' (AHRB) 1999-2000.  

Professional activities include Membership in several learned associations including BAAL, EASA, IVG, UTG. Membership in the European Science Foundation Programme: Changing Media- Changing Europe Membership in the Ross Priory Broadcast Talk Group. Membership of the Executive Board of AILA. (International Association for Applied Linguistic) as Publications Coordinator. Co-chairing of the AILA Scientific Commission Language and the Media (with Kay Richardson).

Web address http://www.lang.soton.ac.uk/profiles/meinhof.htm

School of Modern Languages

University of Southampton

email: u.h.meinhof@soton.ac.uk

Recent publications include the following books and editions: (autumn 2000)

Intertextuality and the Media. From Genre to Everyday Life. (with Jonathan Smith, eds), Manchester University Press (includes 3 co-authored chapters)

(1999), Worlds in Common? Satellite discourses in a changing Europe (with Kay Richardson), Routledge: London & New York. 187pp.

(1998) Language Learning in the Age of Satellite Television. Oxford University Press. 165pp.

(1997) Masculinity and Language, (with Sally Johnson, eds.) Blackwell, Oxford, January 1997 (includes single-authored chapter and co-authored introduction)

(1994), Text, Discourse and Context.. Representation of Poverty in Britain. (with Kay Richardson), (eds.), Longman: London & New York. (256pp). Joint winner of the 1995 BAAL book prize. (includes single-authored chapter and co-authored introduction)

Recent articles in journals and chapters in books include:

(autumn 2000) Photography, memory, and the construction of identities on the former East-West German border (with Dariusz Galasinski) Discourse Studies. Vol. 2:3 Sage.

(autumn 2000) "The new Germany on the screen: conflicting discourses on German TV." In Patrick Stevenson and John Theobald (eds.) Relocating Germanness. Discursive disunity in unified Germany. Macmillan.

(1998) 'Home and Away: television discourse in transition' (with Kay Richardson) Current Issues in Language and Society, Vol. 5:4 Multilingual Matters (published in 1999, also in book format)

(1997) The most important event of my life! A comparison of male and female autobiographical narratives, in Sally Johnson and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.) Masculinity and Language, pp. 208-28, Blackwell, Oxford

(1996), "Dialect as metaphor: the use of language in Edgar Reitz' Heimat-films". In Hywel Coleman & Lynne Cameron (eds.) Change and Language. British Studies in Applied Linguistics. Vol. 10. Multilingual Matters, pp. 168-78.