Dr Ganna Kryvenko

Summer Semester 2022

Dr Ganna Kryvenko is a visiting research fellow in the field of excellence, spending summer semester 2022 in Graz. Her general research interests lie in corpus linguistic approaches to discourse analysis with a focus on the discursive construction of meanings that are pivotal to political and social change. (Corpus linguistics deals with text corpora, i.e. large bodies of naturally occurring language, which are suitable for automated or computer-aided analysis.) In this project, she will examine representations of the EU and Ukraine as verbalized in interactions between EU and Ukrainian policy makers in the context of Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and Ukraine’s aspiration to obtain the status of EU candidate.

"My aim is to uncover the dynamics of conceptualization and verbalization of EU and Ukraine perceptions with respect to actors, discourse topics and argumentation schemas in parliamentary transcripts, starting from 24 February 2022, when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine became a hotspot for Ukraine’s accelerated Europeanization."

Dr Kryvenko is a chief consultant at the Institute for Strategic Studies (Ukraine). She got her Master’s in the English Language, Ukrainian Language and Literature as well as her PhD in Comparative Historical and Typological Linguistics from Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine). She did her postdoc research in metaphor at the Department of English, Stockholm University (Sweden) under Visby scholarship from the Swedish Institute in 2010–2011. Her international collaborations include participation in the Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: EU Perceptions in Ukraine and Israel / Palestine Project under a Jean Monnet Action as an external research assistant for the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) in 2016–2017.