Almut Köster
Univ.Prof. Almut Köster M.A.,Ph.D.- Telephone:
- +43 1 31336 4718
- Email:
- almut.koester@wu.ac.at
Affiliation
CV
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2014
- Appointment to Chair of English Business Communication 2001-2014
- Senior Lecturer in English Language, University of Birmingham 2001
- PhD in Applied Linguistics 1989
- Master of Arts in Applied English Linguistics
Researcher Identifier
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No researcher identifier found.
Awards and Honors
- 2021
- Association for Business Communication Distinguished Member Award
Classifications
Expertise
- Discourse Analysis, Conversations Analysis, Workplace Discourse, Corpus Linguistics, Genre Analysis
Activities
| Position in jury, advisory board, curatorship | ||
|---|---|---|
| since 2016 | Jubliäumsfonds der Stadt Wien - Kuratoriumsmitglied | |
| Position in internal committee for appointments | ||
| 2018 | Department of Strategy and Innovation - Vertretrin der Professor/inn/en | |
| 2016 | Department of Strategy and Innovation - Vertreterin der Professor/inn/en | |
| 2014-2015 | Institut für slavische Sprachen, Department für fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation - Vertreterin der Professor/inn/en | |
| Position in internal habilitation committee | ||
| 2015 | Department für Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation | |
| 2015 | Department für Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation - Vertreterin der Professor/inn/en | |
| Membership in scientific association | ||
| since 2017 | Association for Business Communication - Mitgliedschaft | |
| since 2016 | International Pragmatics Association - Mitgliedschaft | |
| since 1998 | British Association for Applied Linguistics - Mitgliedschaft | |
| Reviewer for a scientific journal | ||
| 2017 | Mouton de Gruyter Journal "Text and Talk" - peer review of a journal article | |
| 2016 | Oxford University Press Journal "Applied Linguistics" - peer review of a journal article | |
| 2014 | Elsevier Journal "English for Specific Purposes" - peer review of a journal article | |
| Organisation of Research Seminar | ||
| since 2015 | Institut für Englische Wirtschaftskommunikation - Organisation der Forschungsseminarreihe "English Research Seminar" | |
| Organization scientific meeting (Conference etc.) | ||
| 2017 | The 9th international conference on Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise - Convening a Panel on "Business Discourse and Professional Communication: From Theory to Practice" | |
| 2015 | Department für Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation - Corpus LinguisticsTraining Week with Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston University) | |
| Position in administration | ||
| since 2016 | Senatskommission für Forschung - Ersatzmitglied | |
| since 2016 | Doktoratsbeauftragte der WU - Doktoratsbeauftragte für das Department für Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation | |
| 2015-2016 | Evaluierungskommission der WU - Vertreterin der Universitäts-Professor/inn/en | |
| Research and Teaching Stay | ||
| 2018 | University of South Bohemia České - Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching | |
| 2016 | Cardiff University, School of English, Communication and Philosophy - Visiting Fellow | |
| Attendance scientific meeting (Conference etc.) | ||
| 2018 | 9th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference - Presentation of a joint paper on "‘I hear whispers and I don’t like it’: Conflict in a Corpus of Spoken Interactions from the Construction Industry" | |
| 2018 | 8th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice - Presentation of a joint paper on "‘I hear whispers and I don’t like it’: Conflict in a Corpus of Spoken Interactions from the Construction Industry" | |
| 2017 | The 9th international conference on Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise - Presentation of a joint paper on "The Creativity of Formulations – Getting the Job Done" | |
| 2017 | 15th International Pragmatics Conference - Presentation of a paper for a panel on "Creating worlds from the inside: Turn-initial positions as Creators of Discourses and Worlds" | |
| 2016 | International Conference of the English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group (ESP SIG) of the International Association of Speakers of English as Foreign Language - Plenary Talk | |
| 2016 | International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA) - Plenary Talk | |
| 2016 | Annual Conference of the International Association of Speakers of English as a Foreign Language - Presentation of a paper as part of the Forum on English for employability: "ESP and the Marketisation of Higher Education" | |
| 2015 | Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Globalisation, University of Hong Kong - Presentation of a paper for a panel on "Virtual workplace talk" | |
| 2015 | Annual Conference of the International Association of Speakers of English as a Foreign Language - Panel talk "The ELT Conversation: Teaching English for the Workplace" | |
| 2015 | Annual Conference of the Business English Special Interest Group (BESIG) of the International Association of Speakers of English as a Foreign Language - Presentation of a paper on "'It would be a win-win situation' Students' performance in simulated negotiations" | |
| 2015 | 8th WU Symposium on International Business Communication - Presentation of a paper on "The Interface between research and practice in teaching business communication: the example of negotiation skills" | |
| Other scientific activities | ||
| 2015 | Aston University - External Examiner of a PhD thesis in the School of Languages & Social Sciences | |
Publications
Book (monograph)
| 2010 | Köster, Almut. 2010. Workplace Discourse. London: Continuum. | (Details) | |
| 2006 | Köster, Almut. 2006. Investigating Workplace Discourse. London: Routledge. | (Details) | |
| 2004 | Köster, Almut. 2004. The Language of Work. London: Routledge. | (Details) |
Journal article
| 2021 | Köster, Almut. 2021. Small stories in short interactions: The functions of narratives in care home worker interactions. Narrative Inquiry. | (Details) | |
| 2019 | Handford, Michael, Köster, Almut. 2019. The construction of conflict talk across workplace contexts: Towards a theory of conflictual compact. Language Awareness. 28 (3), 186-206. | (Details) | |
| 2018 | Köster, Almut, Handford, Michael. 2018. ‘It's not good saying “Well it it might do that or it might not”’: Hypothetical Reported Speech in Business Meetings. Journal of Pragmatics. 130 67-80. | (Details) | |
| 2014 | Köster, Almut. 2014. "We'd be prepared to do something,like if you say..." hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations. English for Specific Purposes 36 35-46. | (Details) | |
| 2011 | Chen, Phyllis, Littlemore, Jeannette, Barnden, John, Köster, Almut. 2011. Difficulties in metaphor comprehension faced by international students whose first language is not English. Applied Linguistics 32 (4): 408-429. | (Details) | |
| 2010 | Handford, Michael, Köster, Almut 2010. 'It's not Rocket Science': Metaphors and Idioms in Conflictual Business Meetings. Text and Talk 30 (1): 27-51. | (Details) | |
| 2008 | Low, Graham, Littlemore, Jeannette, Köster, Almut. 2008. Metaphor use in three UK university lectures. Applied Linguistics 29 (3): 428-455. | (Details) | |
| 2004 | Köster, Almut. 2004. Relational sequences in workplace genres. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (8): 1405-1428. | (Details) | |
| 2002 | Köster, Almut. 2002. The Performance of speech acts in workplace conversations and the teaching of communicative functions. System 30 (2), 167-184. | (Details) |
Chapter in edited volume
| 2022 | Köster, Almut. 2022. Language Awareness and Business Communication. In: Language Awareness in the Professions, Hrsg. Cambridge University Press, 140-161. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | (Details) | |
| 2017 | Köster, Almut. 2017. Conflict Talk. In: The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace , Hrsg. Bernadette Vine , 272-283. New York: Routledge. | (Details) | |
| Köster, Almut. 2017. Spoken Workplace Discourse. In: Business Communication: Linguistic Approaches, Hrsg. Gerlinde Mautner & Franz Rainer, 629-656. Berlin: De Gruyter. | (Details) | ||
| 2012 | Köster, Almut. 2012. Corpora and workplace discourse. In: Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics: current approaches and future, Hrsg. K. Hyland, M. H. Chau, & M. Handford, 47-66. London: Continuum. | (Details) | |
| Köster, Almut, Handford, Michael. 2012. Spoken professional genres. In: The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Hrsg. J. P. Gee and M. Handford, 252-267. London: Routledge. | (Details) | ||
| Köster, Almut. 2012. Working in English. In: Worlds of English: Talk, Text and Technology, Hrsg. D. Allington and B. Mayor, 135-163. London: Routledge. | (Details) | ||
| 2010 | Köster, Almut. 2010. Building small specialised corpora. In: The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, Hrsg. M. McCarthy and A. OKeeffe, 66-78. London: Routledge. | (Details) | |
| 2009 | Köster, Almut. 2009. Conversation Analysis in the language classroom. In: Introducing Applied Linguistics: Key Concepts and Skills, Hrsg. Susan Hunston & David Oakey, S. 37-47. London: Routledge. | (Details) | |
| 2007 | Köster, Almut. 2007. “About Twelve Thousand or so”: Vagueness in North American and UK Offices. In: Vague Language Explored, Hrsg. Joan Cutting, S. 40-61. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. | (Details) |
Textbook
| 2012 | Köster, Almut, Pitt, Angela, Handford, Michael, Lisboa, Martin. 2012. Business Advantage Intermediate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | (Details) | |
| Handford, Michael, Lisboa, Martin, Köster, Almut, Pitt, Angela. 2012. Business Advantage Upper Intermediate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | (Details) |
eBook/chapter in eBook
| 2013 | Köster, Almut. 2013. English for Occupational Purposes. Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. C.A. Chapelle. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. http://www.EncyclopediaofAppliedLinguistics.com | (Details) |
Projects
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