About

Maria Rieder is a Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Limerick where she works in different projects that critically study the role of language in situations of economic and social inequality. Her main current project is a major interdisciplinary and international study of the news coverage of Thomas Piketty’s book ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ using Critical Discourse Analysis, Framing and Content Analysis. Further, she is involved in projects on media and social protest, issues of immigration and asylum, critical intercultural communication and minority languages and economics. Prior to her research position, the undertook a folk-linguistic and ethnographic study of the Irish Traveller Cant. Her research interests lie in the fields of social and economic inequality, intercultural communication, human rights and minority communities, with a specific focus on the role of language in the production of power and social conflict.