Friederike Fischer

Research Associate

at the Chair of Applied Linguistics

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Vita

Dissertation project

Linguistic solidarity practices in social media

Small, inconspicuous posts and messages can achieve an enormous reach on social networks within a very short time. Virality as an inherent characteristic of social media communication repeatedly leads to the formation of communities from the interaction that takes place there, which also attract attention outside social media and thus help to shape social and political discourse.

The dissertation project aims to investigate linguistic practices that users use to show solidarity with one another in social networks. The focus is on the linguistic analysis of discourse patterns, the structure and progression of comment threads, as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects of linguistic loyalty and solidarity practices. In a cross-network comparison, linguistic strategies of solidarization will be identified and examined both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Research interests

• media linguistics

• discourse linguistics

• sociolinguistics

• pragmatics

Teaching

Publications

5 Entries

2025

• Appropriating the Ape: Sprachliche Praktiken der Gemeinschaftsbildung im Subreddit r/wallstreetbetsFischer, F. V., 2025, Un/Reale Interaktionsräume: Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion. Kindler-Mathôt, C., Leblebici, D., Marinsalta, G., Rückwart, T. & Zaglyadnova, A. (eds.). transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, p. 241-263, 23 p.Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
• TikTok – Memefication und Performance: Interdisziplinäre PerspektivenFischer, F. V., Meier-Vieracker, S. & Niendorf, L., 2025, J.B. MetzlerElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Anthology
• TikTok – Memefication und Performance. Einleitung in den BandFischer, F., Meier-Vieracker, S. & Niendorf, L., 2025, TikTok -- Memefication und Performance: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge. Fischer, F., Meier-Vieracker, S. & Niendorf, L. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 1-19, 19 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report

2023

• Counterness. Merkmale von Gegenrede in Online-Debatten über Political CorrectnessMeier-Vieracker, S., Fischer, F. & Langenhorst, J., 1 Jul 2023, In: Linguistische Treffen in Wroclaw. 23, 1, p. 99-111, 13 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Die digitale Hashtag-Kampagne rund um #CoronaEltern und #CoronaElternRechnenAb: Twitter-Positionierungspraktiken in der PandemieTruan, N. & Fischer, F. V., 2023, In: Journal für Medienlinguistik (jfml). 5, 1, p. 1-33, 33 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

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Lectures

6/2025 "God damn all this solidarity makes me horny." (Invited speaker in the lecture series Pecha Kucha Pieschen, GEH8 Kunst Raum Ateliers gUG (mbH), June 12, 2025).

7/2023 "This just shows how strong of community we are!" - Sprachliche Solidaritätspraktiken im Subreddit r/wallstreetbets (Invited speaker in the online lecture series LinguOSTik: Sprache und Gesellschaft - Perspektiven aus dem Zentrum Europas, University of Greifswald, European University Viadrina, University of Rostock, July 18, 2023).

5/2023 Gender-sensitive language use (Invited speaker in the online seminar Queerness in inclusive education: School support for queer children and young people, Justus Liebig University Giessen, May 30, 2023).

4/2023 "God damn all this solidarity makes me horny": Linguistic practices of solidarity online (Invited speaker at the artist:innenworkshop for the annual exhibition IN_ORDNUNG, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, April 21, 2023).

11/2022 Ape. Together. Strong. Linguistic Solidarity Practices in the Interaction Space r/wallstreetbets (ZeM Graduate Conference: un:reale Interaktionsräume. Forms of social order in the spectrum of media-specific interaction, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, November 4-5, 2022).

11/2021 Linguistic Solidarity Practices in Social Media (6th Innsbruck (Online) Winter School "Potentials of Applied Linguistics" Positioning in Interaction, Discourse and Research Practice, University of Innsbruck, 11 - 13 November 2021).

10/2021 "Can you all see and hear me?" A field report on synchronous and asynchronous formats of digital teaching (online training German Studies Digital in the Erasmus+ project, Vilniaus Universitetas (Lithuania), Univerza v Mariboru (Slovenia), Ventspils Augstskola (Latvia), Univerzitet u Beogradu (Serbia) and Univerzita J. E. Purkyně v Ústí n. Labem (Czech Republic), October 15, 2021).

6/2021 Linguistic Loyalty and Solidarity Practices in Social Media (Invited speaker in the online module Linguistics and School, University of Leipzig, 16 June 2021).

6/2021 Linguistic practices of loyalty and solidarity in social media (Online-Workshop Zugänge zu Dissens - eine Methodenwerkstatt, University of Bremen, June 11-12, 2021).

2/2021 Counter-speech in debates on political correctness: corpus linguistic and sequence analytical approaches (Online conference: Pragmatics of counter-speech, University of Greifswald, February 25 - 26, 2021, with Jan Langenhorst and Simon Meier-Vieracker).

2/2021 Linguistic Loyalty and Solidarity Practices in Social Media (Online workshop of the DGPuK section Media Language - Media Discourses as part of the online conference: Über-Setzen. Mediendiskurse zwischen Transfer und Transformation, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, February 24 - 26, 2021) (Awarded the Young Talent Prize of the specialist group).

11/2020 #CoronaEltern: Geschichte eines Shitstorms im Spannungsfeld von Krise, Politik und Care-Arbeit (Online conference: Diskurs - Invektiv. 9th annual conference of the conference network 'Diskurs - interdisziplinär', TU Dresden, November 12-13, 2020, with Naomi Truan, University of Leipzig).