{"id":89,"date":"2016-09-27T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/distex\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:40:38","slug":"research-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/distex\/people\/research-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current Research Students<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Rakan Alibri:<\/strong> Discourses of threats to life in the British press<\/em><\/p>\n

Victoria Hillier-Extance<\/strong>: Parental mental health and educational attainment: A study of children\u2019s interpretative repertoires<\/em><\/p>\n

Noha Kader:<\/strong>\u00a0A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Islamists in Egyptian, American and British newspapers: A corpus-based study<\/em><\/p>\n

Junyi He:<\/strong> War metaphors and metaphors for war in UN security council discourse<\/em><\/p>\n

Danyang Li:<\/strong> Cross-cultural differences in the interpretation and effects of metaphors relating to Covid-19<\/em><\/p>\n

Sijia Li<\/strong> (Scarlett):<\/strong> Representations of domestic violence in China<\/em><\/p>\n

Tianxin Li:<\/strong> Discourses of voluntary childlessness on Chinese social media<\/em><\/p>\n

Terry McDonough:<\/strong> Embodied Construction Grammar and the problem of discourse coherence<\/em><\/p>\n

Evelin Nikolova<\/strong>: The construction of sexual harassment in the workplace: A discourse analysis of women victims\u2019 narratives<\/em><\/p>\n

Sophie Pastukhova:<\/strong> Legitimation in Russian official discourse justifying the war on Ukraine<\/em><\/p>\n

Tasneem Solie:<\/strong> Metaphor in the narratives of Syrian refugees in the UK<\/em><\/p>\n

Steve Strudwick<\/strong>: Experimental methods in critical discourse analysis<\/em><\/p>\n

Hikaru Suzuki:<\/strong>\u00a0Cognitive linguistic approach to multimodality in TV news<\/em><\/p>\n

Xinmei Sun:<\/strong> Measuring <\/em>impartiality in parliamentary briefing reports using frames and automatic frame annotation<\/em><\/p>\n

Mark Wilkinson<\/strong>: Diachronic Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of representation of gay identities in The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Jiayue Yin:<\/strong> Metaphors about the Gaokao in China on WeChat<\/em><\/p>\n

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Past Research Students<\/span>
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Arezoo Adibeik:\u00a0<\/strong>The construction of ethnic identities in comic books: Analysing the representation of Self and Others in The Adventures of Tintin<\/em><\/p>\n

Afrah Ali:<\/strong> Student-faculty emails – An examination of politeness in Bahraini college students\u2019 emails<\/em><\/p>\n

Shrouq al-Maghlouth:<\/strong> A critical discourse analysis of social change in women-related posts on Saudi English-language blogs posted between 2009 and 2012<\/em><\/p>\n

Dheyaa Al-Fatlawi:\u00a0<\/strong>The Perception of Iraqi EFL Learners of Online British English Sarcasm: A Cross\u2013sectional Study of Learners in Iraq and the UK<\/em><\/p>\n

James Balfour:<\/strong> Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of representations of schizophrenia in the British national press<\/em><\/p>\n

Miranda Barty-Taylor:<\/strong> Media representations of female Scottish politicians and young people\u2019s reactions<\/em><\/p>\n

Huey Fen Cheong:<\/strong> Mediating metrosexuality through L\u2019Or\u00e9al Men Expert\u2019s facebook brand pages: A comparison of Western and Asian Cultures<\/em><\/p>\n

Ahmed Elgadri:<\/strong> (Im)politeness, moral order and Islam in the context of Libya<\/em><\/p>\n

Rania ElNakkouzi:<\/strong>\u00a0Legitimating past actions through strategic maneuvering: A framework for integrating DHA and pragma-dialectics<\/em><\/p>\n

Craig Evans:<\/strong> Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of responses to patient feedback on the NHS Choices website<\/em><\/p>\n

Eleanor Field<\/strong>: Metaphor and trans lives experiences on Reddit<\/em><\/p>\n

Frazer Heritage<\/strong>: Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of gender representation in computer games<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeremy Holland:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Mental models in manifesto texts: The case of students for a democratic society<\/em><\/p>\n

Pernille Bogo Jorgensen<\/strong>: Representations of women undergoing menopause: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis<\/em><\/p>\n

Makarena Julios Costa: <\/strong>Discourse and discrimination. An experimental CDA study of the impact of (de)essentialising media discourses on social attitudes and intergroup bias<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexandra Krendel<\/strong>: Analysing the linguistic features of misogyny as hate speech<\/em><\/p>\n

Susanne Kopf:<\/strong> Representations and discussions of the European Union on Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n

Shengnan Liu:<\/strong> Mock impoliteness in Chinese public discourse – The case of a Chinese online talk show Roast!<\/em><\/p>\n

Javier Marmol Queralto:<\/strong> Representations of the ‘refugee crisis’ in British and Spanish newspapers: A multimodal cognitive linguistic analysi<\/em>s<\/p>\n

Lina Mourad Sakr:<\/strong>\u00a0Impoliteness in the British and Lebanese adult comics of the early 21st century<\/em><\/p>\n

Anne Murphy:<\/strong>\u00a0The dynamics of difference in multi-national corporations<\/em><\/p>\n

Elena Nichele:<\/strong> How do businesses exploit the \u201cnationality\u201d of their goods\/services? The concept of authenticity for Italian food businesses in the UK<\/em><\/p>\n

Lindsay Nickels:<\/strong> The issue of \u2018impairment\u2019: An analysis of diverging discourses used to represent the d\/Deaf population in America<\/em><\/p>\n

Sam Oliver<\/strong>: (Im)polite language and metalanguage in Shakespeare’s plays<\/em><\/p>\n

Naoko Osuka:\u00a0<\/strong>Pragmatic development of Japanese learners of English in the study abroad context<\/em><\/p>\n

Kevin Pat:\u00a0<\/strong>Politeness in English WhatsApp text messaging during university group projects in Hong Kong: An application and evaluation of Leech\u2019s politeness theory<\/em><\/p>\n

Chipo Phili<\/strong>: Gender representations in The Voice newspaper’s ‘Conversations from a combi’ cartoon column<\/em><\/p>\n

Farah Sabbah:<\/strong> Interactivity and the ideal reader in news reports on Arab English-language websites<\/em><\/p>\n

Daniela Silva Paredes:<\/strong> Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis\u00a0of representations of homosexuality in Chilean religious texts and political debates<\/em><\/p>\n

Lexi Webster<\/strong>: Self-constructed transgender identities: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of public social media practices<\/em><\/p>\n

Xiaoxi Wu:<\/strong> \u00a0Earnings conference calls as a medium in financial communication\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Zhongyi Xu:<\/strong>\u00a0Modality and evidentiality in political discourse: A cognitive-functional account<\/em><\/p>\n

Hoi Man Yu:<\/strong>\u00a0Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series <\/em>Bride Wannabes<\/p>\n

Enaliza Zaman:<\/strong> The positioning of English language, pedagogy, and teachers within the Malaysia education blueprint 2013-2025 \u2013 A CDS perspective<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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