Term 1
| 20th October, 3pm | MS Teams ONLY | Mohamed Salhi (Goethe University)
The crisis discourse of the radical right |
| 3rd November, 3pm | Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams | Chris Hart (Lancaster University)
Taking a stance through stance: The forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump |
| 17th November, 3pm | Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams | Elena Semino (Lancaster University)
Metaphors and vaccinations |
| 1st December, 3pm | Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams | Emma Putland (Lancaster University)
Public discourses of dementia: A multimodal critical discourse analysis approach to dementia representations and stigma |
Term 2
| 26th January, 3pm | Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams | Sophie Pastukhova (Lancaster University)
Legitimation of the invasion of Ukraine by a Russian TV news programme “Vremya” |
| 9th February, 3pm | Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams | Emma Halliday (Lancaster University)
Preventing future deaths: A corpus- assisted critical discourse study of coroners’ reports |
| 23rd February, 3pm | Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams | Steve Strudwick (Lancaster University)
What’s the catch? How safety net and trap metaphors affect beliefs about benefits |
| 9th March, 3pm | Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams |
Tianxin Li (Lancaster University) Multimodal discourses of voluntary childlessness on Chinese social media: A critical study |