Current Research Students
Rakan Alibri: Discourses of threats to life in the British press
Makarena Julios Costa: Discourse and discrimination. An experimental CDA study of the impact of (de)essentialising media discourses on social attitudes and intergroup bias
Eleanor Field: Metaphor and trans lives experiences on Reddit
Victoria Hillier-Extance: Parental mental health and educational attainment: A study of children’s interpretative repertoires
Noha Kader: A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Islamists in Egyptian, American and British newspapers: A corpus-based study
Danyang Li: Cross-cultural differences in the interpretation and effects of metaphors relating to Covid-19
Sijia Li (Scarlett): Representations of domestic violence in China
Tianxin Li: Discourses of voluntary childlessness on Chinese social media
Terry McDonough: Embodied Construction Grammar and the problem of discourse coherence
Evelin Nikolova: The construction of sexual harassment in the workplace: A discourse analysis of women victims’ narratives
Sophie Pastukhova: Legitimation in Russian official discourse justifying the war on Ukraine
Tasneem Solie: Metaphor in the narratives of Syrian refugees in the UK
Steve Strudwick: Experimental methods in critical discourse analysis
Hikaru Suzuki: Cognitive linguistic approach to multimodality in TV news
Mark Wilkinson: Diachronic Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of representation of gay identities in The Times
Jiayue Yin: Metaphors about the Gaokao in China on WeChat
Past Research Students
Arezoo Adibeik: The construction of ethnic identities in comic books: Analysing the representation of Self and Others in The Adventures of Tintin
Afrah Ali: Student-faculty emails – An examination of politeness in Bahraini college students’ emails
Shrouq al-Maghlouth: A critical discourse analysis of social change in women-related posts on Saudi English-language blogs posted between 2009 and 2012
Dheyaa Al-Fatlawi: The Perception of Iraqi EFL Learners of Online British English Sarcasm: A Cross–sectional Study of Learners in Iraq and the UK
James Balfour: Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of representations of schizophrenia in the British national press
Miranda Barty-Taylor: Media representations of female Scottish politicians and young people’s reactions
Huey Fen Cheong: Mediating metrosexuality through L’Oréal Men Expert’s facebook brand pages: A comparison of Western and Asian Cultures
Ahmed Elgadri: (Im)politeness, moral order and Islam in the context of Libya
Rania ElNakkouzi: Legitimating past actions through strategic maneuvering: A framework for integrating DHA and pragma-dialectics
Craig Evans: Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of responses to patient feedback on the NHS Choices website
Frazer Heritage: Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of gender representation in computer games
Jeremy Holland: Mental models in manifesto texts: The case of students for a democratic society
Pernille Bogo Jorgensen: Representations of women undergoing menopause: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis
Alexandra Krendel: Analysing the linguistic features of misogyny as hate speech
Susanne Kopf: Representations and discussions of the European Union on Wikipedia
Shengnan Liu: Mock impoliteness in Chinese public discourse – The case of a Chinese online talk show Roast!
Javier Marmol Queralto: Representations of the ‘refugee crisis’ in British and Spanish newspapers: A multimodal cognitive linguistic analysis
Lina Mourad Sakr: Impoliteness in the British and Lebanese adult comics of the early 21st century
Anne Murphy: The dynamics of difference in multi-national corporations
Elena Nichele: How do businesses exploit the “nationality” of their goods/services? The concept of authenticity for Italian food businesses in the UK
Lindsay Nickels: The issue of ‘impairment’: An analysis of diverging discourses used to represent the d/Deaf population in America
Sam Oliver: (Im)polite language and metalanguage in Shakespeare’s plays
Naoko Osuka: Pragmatic development of Japanese learners of English in the study abroad context
Kevin Pat: Politeness in English WhatsApp text messaging during university group projects in Hong Kong: An application and evaluation of Leech’s politeness theory
Chipo Phili: Gender representations in The Voice newspaper’s ‘Conversations from a combi’ cartoon column
Farah Sabbah: Interactivity and the ideal reader in news reports on Arab English-language websites
Daniela Silva Paredes: Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of representations of homosexuality in Chilean religious texts and political debates
Lexi Webster: Self-constructed transgender identities: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of public social media practices
Xiaoxi Wu: Earnings conference calls as a medium in financial communication
Zhongyi Xu: Modality and evidentiality in political discourse: A cognitive-functional account
Hoi Man Yu: Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
Enaliza Zaman: The positioning of English language, pedagogy, and teachers within the Malaysia education blueprint 2013-2025 – A CDS perspective