Koller received a MA in English literature from the University of Vienna in 1998, and a Ph.D in English linguistics from the same university in 2003 with a thesis "Metaphor clusters in business media discourse:a social cognition approach."
One of Koller's best known work is Discourses of Brexit, published by Routledge in 2019. Edited along with Susanne Kopf and Marlene Miglbauer, the book provides an insight into how discourse influenced the outcome of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. The authors analysed political speeches on Twitter and other related platforms to analyse discourses regarding the Brexit.
Publications
Books
Koller, V., Kopf, S., & Miglbauer, M. . Discourses of Brexit. Abingdon: Routledge.
Darics, E., & Koller, V.. Language in Business, Language at Work. London : Palgrave Higher Education.
translated into Chinese as 商务媒体话语中的隐喻与性别 /Shang wu mei ti hua yu zhong de yin yu yu xing bie
Wodak, Ruth, and Veronika Koller. Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Koller, Veronika. Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community. New York: Routledge,.
Koller, Veronika. Metaphor and Gender in Business Media Discourse A Critical Cognitive Study. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
*translated into Chinese as 商务媒体话语中的隐喻与性别 /Shang wu mei ti hua yu zhong de yin yu yu xing bie
Koller, V., & Bullo, S.. ‘Fight like a girl’: Tattoos as identity constructions for women living with illness. Multimodal Communication, 8. doi:
Koller, V.. Language awareness and language workers. Language Awareness, 27, 4-20. doi:
Koller, V.. The light within: metaphor consistency in Quaker pamphlets, 1659-2010. Metaphor and the Social World, 7, 5-25. doi:
Demjen, Z., Semino, E., & Koller, V.. Metaphors for 'good' and 'bad' deaths: a health professional view. Metaphor and the Social World, 6, 1-19. doi:
Koller, V.. The subversive potential of queer pornography: a systemic-functional analysis of a written online text. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 4, 254-271. doi:
Semino, E., Demjen, Z., & Koller, V.. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers. Discourse Studies, 16, 667-685. doi:
Koller, V.. Constructing normative identities in written lesbian discourse: a diachronic study. Discourse and Society, 24, 551-568. doi:
Ng, C. J. W., & Koller, V.. Deliberate conventional metaphor in images: the case of corporate branding discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 28, 131-147. doi:
Merkl-Davies, D., & Koller, V.. ‘Metaphoring’ people out of this world: a critical discourse analysis of a chairman’s statement of a UK defence firm. Accounting Forum, 36, 178-193. doi:
