Department of German Language and Literature Janine Dengler
CONTACT
Department of German Language and Literature
University Heidelberg
Hauptstr. 207–209
D – 69117 Heidelberg
Room: Karlstr. 2, Room 005
E-Mail: janine.dengler@gs.uni-heidelberg.de
Telephone: 06221 543254
Consultation hours: By appointment by E-Mail (in person or online).
Consultation hours for first-generation students
Are you the first person in your family to start a degree programme? Do you need help, have a question or just want to talk about it?
Then come to my consultation hour! By appointment (in person or online).
Research assistant
in the BMFTR project “Moralization in science communication - causes, forms and effects” in cooperation with the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe.
Research Interests
- Discourse and corpus linguistics
- Pragmatics
- Moralising speech acts
- Annotation studies
- Scientific communication and specialized language research (especially in AI discourse)
Education
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Since 11/2023 | Doctorate in linguistics at the Department of German Language and Literature at Heidelberg University |
08/2021 - 10/2023 | Master of Education in German Studies and History at the University of Heidelberg |
10/2020 - 09/2022 | Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and History (with teaching qualification) at the University of Heidelberg |
Academic Career
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Since 11/2023 | Research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Felder (Linguistics) at the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Heidelberg in the project “Moralizations in Science Communication – Causes, Forms and Effects”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) |
02.06-01.08/2025 | Research stay at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University (UK) |
08/2021 - 10/2023 | Student/research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Felder in the research project “Culture Wars: Battles over Cultural Heritage” at the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Heidelberg |
10/2020 - 09/2022 | Student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Nikolas Jaspert at the Department of medieval History at the University of Heidelberg |
Science Management
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2024-2025 | Co-organisation of the Marsilius Academy on the topic "AI and Human Values: Exploring technological, social, and normative perspectives" (together with Tobias Just, Dr. Maria Becker and Marcel Kückelhaus) |
2024-2025 | Co-organisation of the annual Language and Knowledge Conference (SuW) 2025 on the topic of “Language and AI” at the University of Heidelberg (together with Prof. Dr Ekkehard Felder, Dr. Maria Becker, Marcel Kückelhaus and Sven Bloching) |
Since 02/2024 | Head of the Chair Initiative Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics (KILi) |
Science Communication/ Public Relations
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Mentoring for first-generation students (together with Ekkehard Felder) as part of the New Potentials Programme | |
Since 07/2024 | Counselling and support services for first-generation students at the University of Heidelberg |
Since 11/2022 | Blogger on the platform hypothesis.org |
Further training, awards and certificates
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16/06-20/06/2025 | Summer School in Corpus Linguistics for analysis of language, discourse and society at Lancaster University (building and analyzing corpora, corpus analysis in forensic linguistics, analysing online communication, statistics, data visualizations etc.) |
28/07-30/07/2025 | Language, Speech, and AI Forensics Summer School organised by the FACTOR-Team (Forensic linguistics, Cybersecurity and Technology Research) at Lancaster University |
02/06-01/08/2025 | Mobility grant from the Graduate Academy for a research stay at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University (UK) |
completed 30/09/2024 | Additional qualification in “Information and Media Literacy” from the Heidelberg School of Education, with a focus on Computer Science and Media Literacy |
Publications (titles translated)
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Posters
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15.09.2025 | Poster presentation at the 28th German Studies Conference at the Technical University of Braunschweig in the panel “Dynamics of digital expert-layman dialogues in comments on science blogs” on the topic: Moralizations in science communication: Challenges for the dialogue between science and the public |
02.-04.04.2025 | Postersession about „Moralizations in Science Communication from a linguistic perspective.“ Conference Epistemic Struggles in Polarized Discourses at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
Presentations
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19.11.2025 | Keynote about the topic „Why language matters in Science Communication“ at the „1st KreativEU Annual Student Conference“ organized from the University of Greifswald |
05.09.2025 | Paper presentation „Evaluation Different Methods for Building Specialized Corpora: A Case Study on the German Discourse on AI“ bei der 12th International Conference on Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC) in Bayreuth (together with Bruno Brocai) |
11.06.2025 | Guest contribution to the research group “How Not to Be Replaced by AI: Corpus Linguistics Reflections” at the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University on the topic: “Can we use LLMs for Corpus Creation? Can they do it better than humans?” |
26.04.2025 | Presentation at the graduation ceremony of the German Studies Department in the old auditorium in Heidelberg on the topic “Talking about artificial intelligence - between redemption and downfall” |
02.-04.04.2025 | Panel on the project "Moralizations in science communication’ with presentation, poster session and plenary discussion at the KoKoKom conference in Karlsruhe together with Lisa Gaffney (sub-project Communication Science, KIT) and Dr. Elisabeth Does (sub-project Philosophy, KIT) |
03.12.2024 | Presentation at the WMK Colloquium (Science - Media - Communication) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on the topic “Moralizations in the discourse on artificial intelligence - a discourse-strategic procedure for enforcing validity claims in science communication” |
14.11.2024 | Presentation at the colloquium of the European Centre for Linguistics (EZS) on the topic "Moralizing speech acts in the public-media discourse on artificial intelligence’ |
26.-29.07.2024 | Presentation at Charles University in Prague as part of the Joint PhD Colloquium of the Cooperative Network Philotrans and the European Discourse Community (EuDG) within the 4EU+ Alliance on the topic “Moralization practices in science communication in the discourse on artificial intelligence” |
Lectures/Teaching
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WS 2025/26 | Fundamentals of scientific work - Linguistic |