Research paper

Stumpf, Sören & David Römer (2024): Exploring conspiracy theories linguistically. In: Imhoff, R. (ed.): "Strangely lied to by dark forces ..." - Psychology, form and function of conspiracy narratives. Göttingen: hogrefe, pp. 198-216.

Römer, David (2022): Language in conspiracy theories. Contours of a research project In: Mother Tongue 132, 299-313.

Römer, David & Sören Stumpf (2020): Linguistic devices in conspiracy theories. The example of "Gates hijacks Germany". In: The Language Service 64, pp. 148-158.

Römer, David & Sören Stumpf (2020): "Yes we Ken" - Corona conspiracy theories under a mainstream linguistic magnifying glass. In: Aptum. Journal for Language Criticism and Language Culture 16, pp. 212-219.

Stumpf, Sören (2020): Umvolkung as a conspiracy-theoretical and far-right fighting concept of the AfD. In: Aptum. Journal for Language Criticism and Language Culture 16, pp. 97-105.

Römer, David & Sören Stumpf (2019): "The Great Exchange is not a myth, it is bitter reality." Populism and conspiracy theories from a linguistic perspective. In: Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie 95, pp. 129-158[Open Access].

Breil, Laura & David Römer & Sören Stumpf (2018): "The global weather project chemtrails is, and there is little doubt about it, a multi-billion dollar enterprise". Patterns of argumentation within the chemtrail conspiracy theory. In: Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur 14, pp. 239-258.

Römer, David & Sören Stumpf (2018): Linguistic construction of conspiracy theories. A project outline. In: Mother tongue 128, pp. 394-402.

09/2024: "Zensurvorwürfe und Zensursehnsüchte in verschwörungstheoretischen Texten" (lecture by Merle Hormann, Hanna Poloschek & David Römer as part of the GAL annual conference at the Technical University of Dresden).

09/2024: "Word formation in conspiracy theories: Zur Verschränkung von Konstruktionsmorphologie und Diskurssemantik" (presentation by Sören Stumpf at the 10th International Conference of the German Association for Cognitive Linguistics in the panel "Die Bedeutungsebene von Wortbildungskonstruktionen" at the University of Osnabrück).

06/2024: "Ölpreisexplosion, Bankencrash, Coronalüge | Krisen - und wie sie sprachlich glaubhaft gemacht werden" (presentation by David Römer & Hanna Poloschek at the conference "Krisen als Impulse für die Germanistik? Considerations, Investigations, Reflections" Seoul National University).

05/2024: "Verschwörungstheorien kognitivsemantisch" (lecture by Sören Stumpf at the University of Zurich, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Marie-Luis Merten).

03/2024: "Corona is only over when the corona criminals who orchestrated everything have been brought to justice and we, the people, have ensured that something like this can never happen again." On the argumentative production of plausibility in conspiracy theories (lecture by Hanna Poloschek at the Second Political Linguistics Colloquium of the Working Group Language in Politics at the University of Kassel).

02/2024: "We call this 'Wehret den Anfängen', regardless of whether these beginnings are brown, red or rainbow-colored." Zur argumentativen Herstellung von Plausibilität in Gender-Verschwörungstheorien. Lecture at the conference Genderpragmatik (lecture by Hanna Poloschek at the conference 'Genderpragmatik' (annual conference of the ALP) at the Ruhr-University Bochum).

02/2024: Antisemitic conspiracy theories in the past and present (lecture by Sören Stumpf at the workshop "Die Konstruktion des Juden: Sprachwissenschaftliche Zugänge zum Antisemitismus", University of Paderborn).

12/2023: Sprache in Verschwörungstheorien (Guest lecture by Hanna Poloschek and David Römer at Leibniz Universität Hannover, at the invitation of Sina Lautenschläger).

10/2023: Conspiracy theories. Sprachliche Muster ihrer Plausibilisierung (lecture by Hanna Poloschek at the conference of the doctoral college GeKKo in Hofgeismar).

06/2023: Sprache in Verschwörungstheorien (Guest lecture by Hanna Poloschek and David Römer at the TU Darmstadt, at the invitation of Nina Janich).

06/2023: Sprache in Verschwörungstheorien (Guest lecture by Hanna Poloschek and David Römer at the University of Cologne, at the invitation of Bettina Bock).

05/2023: Verschwörungstheorien diskurslinguistisch erforschen: Semantische und Grammatische Perspektiven (lecture by Sören Stumpf in the Oberseminar "Germanistische Linguistik" at the LMU Munich).

01/2023: Exploring conspiracy theories discourse grammatically. (Lecture by Sören Stumpf at the University of Kassel, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. David Römer).

01/2023: Linguistic perspectives on conspiracy theories. (Lecture by David Römer and Sören Stumpf at the Forschungskaleidoskop Linguistik of the University of Hamburg, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Natalia Filatkina).

06/2022: Language in conspiracy theories. (Lecture by David Römer at the Evangelische Hochschule Dresden, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Nina Weimann-Sandig).

06/2022: Conspiracy theories and right-wing populism. (Lecture by David Römer at the University of Trier, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Martin Wengeler).

04/2022: Language in conspiracy theories. (Lecture by Sören Stumpf at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz).

02/2022: Exploring conspiracy theories linguistically. (Lecture by David Römer at the University of Trier, at the invitation of Dr. Fausto Ravida).

12/2021: Dissent in conspiracy theory texts. (Lecture by David Römer at the University of Magdeburg, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Kersten S. Roth).

12/2021: Language in conspiracy theories. (Lecture by David Römer at the University of Duisburg-Essen, at the invitation of PD Dr. Steffen Pappert).

09/2021: Language in conspiracy theories. (Lecture by David Römer at the DAAD University Dialogue in Menaggio (Italy), at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Sandro Monaldo and Prof. Dr. Thomas Niehr).

07/2021: Conspiracy theories - and how they are made credible linguistically. (GfdS lecture by David Römer of the Marburg branch, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Constanze Spieß).

06/2021: Conspiracy theories - and how they are made linguistically credible. (Lecture by David Römer as part of the educational series "Fight for Democracy" of the Falken Bildungs- und Freizeitwerk Bergisch Land e.V., at the invitation of Dr. Karin Böke).

05/2021: Conspiracy theories - and how they are made credible linguistically. (GfdS lecture by David Römer of the Vechta branch, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Jochen A. Bär).

04/2021: Linguistic patterns in conspiracy theories. (Lecture by David Römer and Sören Stumpf at the "Colloquium Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft: Linguistik des Dissens" at the University of Bremen, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke).

07/2020: Distant kinship: Conspiracy theories and right-wing populism from a linguistic perspective. (Lecture by David Römer at the University of Trier, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Martin Wengeler).

07/2020: "Yes we Ken". Corona conspiracy theories under a mainstream linguistic magnifying glass. (Lecture by David Römer as part of a workshop of the joint project "Musterhaftigkeit. Linguistic Creativity and Variation in Synchrony and Diachrony" on the topic of "Language and Corona" at the University of Trier).

07/2020: "'Umvolkung' is not 'Nazi-speak', but an apt and appropriate term for what is currently happening in our country."Zur sprachlichen Manifestation von Verschwörungsdenken im Rechtspopulismus. (Lecture by David Römer as part of the "Koblenz Weeks of Democracy" in cooperation with the University of Koblenz-Landau, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Wolf-Andreas Liebert).

03/2020: "We should sue the sun! Can we agree on that?" (Right-wing) populism and conspiracy theories from a linguistic perspective. (Lecture by David Römer at the VHS Oberhausen, at the invitation of the further education institution Arbeit und Leben of the German Trade Union Confederation and the adult education centers in Oberhausen).

07/2019: Linguistic patterns in conspiracy theories. (Lecture by David Römer as part of the senior studies program at the University of Trier).

01/2019: Conspiracy theories - and how they are made linguistically credible (GfdS lecture by David Römer of the Aachen branch, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Thomas Niehr).