Daniela Landert is PD at the English Department and Professor of English Linguistics at Heidelberg University. She studied at the University of Zurich and completed her PhD and Habilitation here. Her research interests include the study of spontaneous language, performed language, pragmatics of fiction, historical linguistics and historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics, corpus pragmatics, stance and modality, news discourse and mass media communication. More information on her research can be found on the website of Heidelberg University.