Bio

I am an Associate Professor of Digital Text Analysis at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen, Norway, focusing on the study of professional and specialized communication. I have been in my current position since 2022. I hold a PhD degree form the University of Bergen.

My research employs corpus linguistics and NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques to analyze textual data from business related domains. Recently, I have been focusing my research on meeting transcripts of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). In 2023 I co-authored a paper on turn taking mechanisms in FOMC meetings. Building on the same data set, I co-authored a paper exploring humor and laughter in FOMC meetings as indicators of meeting leadership style.

Research

Published and submitted papers

Andersen, G., & Langerfeld, C. (submitted). A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies approach to meeting leadership style in FOMC deliberations. In N. Yáñez-Bouza, D. González-Alvarez, & E. Rama-Martínez (Eds.), Register and discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. John Benjamins.

Andersen, G., & Langerfeld, C. (2024). Humour and laughter as indicators of meeting leadership style in FOMC meetings. Discourse Studies, 27(3): 327-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241276762

Langerfeld, C & Andersen, G (2023): “The Dynamics of Turn-taking in Meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee.” Fachsprache. Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication 45.3–4: 187–210.

Simonnæs, I., Langerfeld, C., Roald, J. & Sandvei, B. (2015). “Teaching legal translation in Norway – JurDist: an online course.” Terminology Science & Research 25: 28–39.

Langerfeld, C. (2015). Metaphern und metaphorische Modelle in Artikeln der Wirtschaftspresse und in wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenaufsätzen. Am Beispiel des Deutschen und Norwegischen. University of Bergen: Bergen.

Langerfeld, C. (2009). Zur Differenzierung des Metaphernbegriffs. Synaps 22: 31–52.

Presentations

Who interrupts? Investigating contestive and supportive interruptions in FOMC meetings
ICAME46, Vilnius, Lithuania. (20.6.2025)
Together with Gisle Andersen

A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies approach to meeting leadership style in FOMC deliberations
ICAME45, Vigo, Spain. (21.6.2024)
Together with Gisle Andersen

The dynamics of turn-taking in deliberations of monetary policy.
23rd International Conference on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP 2022), Lisboa. (13.9.2022)
Together with Gisle Andersen

Pragmatic markers in deliberations of monetary policy.
International Pragmatics Conference. Winthertur. (29.6.2021)
Together with Gisle Andersen

Extracting information from unstructured text.
Samling for analytikere i Skateetaten, Bergen. (23.9.2019)
Invited talk

Multi-word-sequences in German legislation and court decisions.
21st European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes. Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen. (29.6.2017)

Teaching (most recent)

Norwegian School of Economics:

• Master course BAN432, “Applied Textual Data Analysis for Business and Finance”

• Master course BAN439, “Detecting Fraud through Textual Analysis”

• Bachelor course TYS10, “German for Economics”

• Bachelor course TYS11, “German for Economics II”

Vita

Academic appointments

• Norwegian School of Economics, associate professor, 2022 – present
• Norwegian School of Economics, assistant professor, 2019 – 2022
• Norwegian School of Economics, postdoc, 2015 – 2019
• University of Bergen, assistant professor, 2007

Education

University of Bergen/Norwegian School of Economics: PhD in German linguistics, 2015

University of Bergen: Masters degree in German linguistics, 2006