Nele Põldvere, Elizaveta Kibisova, Radoslava Trnavac, Silje Susanne Alvestad

Nele Põldvere is a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Fakespeak project at the University of Oslo. Her main research objective is the language of fake news in English, focusing specifically on the evaluative, metaphorical and grammatical aspects of this type of news. She uses large corpora of fake and genuine news for her studies.

Radoslava Trnavac is an Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics, The National Research University “Higher School of Economics”. Her research interests lay at the intersection of discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, corpus pragmatics, and lexical semantics. Current specific areas of interest include patterns of evaluation in discourse, the language of genuine and fake news, political discourse, and discourse coherence.

Elizaveta Kibisova is a PhD Fellow at the University of Oslo. In the Fakespeak project, her primary focus is on the Russian language. She investigates the linguistic cues of deception in news media by applying corpus linguistics methods to texts from various sources, including Russia-based news outlets and social media.

Silje Susanne Alvestad is a Researcher in Slavic languages at the University of Oslo and PI of the Fakespeak project. Her research interests include the language and style of fake news and other types of misinformation across languages and cultures. In the Fakespeak project she focuses on Norwegian and Russian. She is very interested in exploring how linguistics can contribute to tackling societal challenges within larger interdisciplinary initiatives.