Stefanie Riegler

Stefanie Riegler is a university assistant at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her research interests include the pragmatics of English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication, (pragmatic) corpus annotation and the implications of ELF research for language pedagogy. In her dissertation, she works towards a methodology for annotating pragmatic functions in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). She was part of the VOICE CLARIAH project team which developed and released VOICE 3.0 Online (https://voice3.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/). Her paper ‘Annotating VOICE for pedagogic purposes: the case for a mark-up scheme of pragmatic functions in ELF interactions’ has been published in the edited volume Demystifying corpus linguistics for English language teaching (Harrington & Ronan 2023).