2016/17

LIP Programme

Term 3 2016/17

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Wednesdays, 2-3pm, County Main SR1. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 21 – Tuesday, 25 April:  Nicolina Montesano Montessori (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht), ‘About the reduction of plurality in EU discourse and the emergence of populism in Europe’, Bowland North SR 01 (note change to usual day and place)
Week 22 – Wednesday, 3 May: Sarah Horrod (Lancaster University), ‘Exploring recontextualisation in UK higher education: from policy to practices’
Week 23 – Wednesday, 10 May: Constance Mbassi Manga (Lancaster University), ‘A case study of Camfranglais in diasporic contexts’
Week 24 – Tuesday, 16 May: Sabine Gatt (University of Innsbruck), ‘Integration into (Post-)Democracy. The relevance of intersectional power relations in the context of citizenship formation in the Austrian migration regime’, Bowland North SR 05, 12-2pm (note change to usual day, time and place)
Week 25 – Thursday, 25 May: Luke Harding, Tineke Brunfaut, Johnny Unger (Lancaster University), ‘Enhancing security, preventing mobility? An analysis of the UK Secure English Language Testing policy’, County South C89, 3pm, joint session with LTRG (note change to usual day, time and place)
Week 27 – Wednesday, 7 June: Michael Farrelly (University of Hull), ‘Using Nvivo for Identifying and Coding Intertextuality in CDA’ (Michael Farrelly, Allison Dunhill, Lee Fallin, Duncan Hunter and Shahadat A. Shahadat)

Term 2 2016/17

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Wednesdays, 2-3pm, Bowland North SR15. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.


Week 12 – 25 January: Abrar Mujaddadi (University of Liverpool), ‘The Representation of Black Ethnicities in English-Arabic Subtitling: The Case of the “N” Word’


Week 13 – 01 February: Jeremy Holland (Lancaster University), ‘Topological and Deictic Structures of Mental Models in Manifesto Texts’

LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Chris Hart on 30 January, 4pm, County South B89


Week 14 – 08 February **4 pm**, County South C89: Isabela Fairclough (UCLan), ‘The logic of conductive arguments and decision-making in the debate over shale gas in the UK, or why the anti-frackers are not “nimbies”‘ (note change to usual time and place)


Week 15 – 15 February: Daniela Ibarra Herrera (Lancaster University), ‘Argumentative resources in tweets related to Chilean political TVs shows’

LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Marco Caracciolo on 16 February, 4pm, County South B89


Week 16 – 23 February: Ruth Wodak with input by Greg Myers, Johnny Unger, and other colleagues from LAEL and beyond, Data Analysis Workshop -‘Trumpism and the crisis of democracy’, 3pm-6pm Frankland Colloquium Room (note change to usual time and place) Sign up to attend.


Week 17 – 01 March: No session, but LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Carolina Fernandez Quintanilla on 27 February, 4pm, County South B89


Week 18 – 08 March: Michael Kranert (Edinburgh Napier University), ‘Mapping political cultures, or ‘genre’ as central category of comparative political discourse analysis. The case of Third Way discourses in Germany and the UK at the turn of the 21st century.’


Week 19 – 15 March: No session, but LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Elisabeth Reber, 13 March, 4pm, County South B89


All welcome!

Term 1 2016/17

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Wednesdays, 2-3pm, Bowland North SR12. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.


Week 1 – 12 October: Introduction to LIP & discussion led by Johnny Unger (Lancaster University) on Interdisciplinarity in critical discourse studies


Week 2 – 19 October **3-4.30pm, County South B89**: Kamran Khan (University of Leicester) ‘(In)security and languages in the UK’ – Joint session with Language Testing Research Group (note change to usual place & time)

Additionally, Ruth Wodak is giving a departmental lecture on “The Politics of Fear” on Monday 17 October at 4pm in Bowland North SR2


Week 3 – 26 October: “Politics of fear” data analysis session (details to be announced)
LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Matteo Fuoli on 24 October, 4pm, County South B89


Week 4 – 02 November: Elie Friedman (The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace) ‘The dialectics of occupation normalization and estrangement in the current Israeli West Bank political discourse’


Week 5 – 09 November: Iman Al-Mulla (Lancaster University) ‘The Role of Language in the Construction of Muslim Identity in Family Interaction in Saudi Arabia: A Study of Intertextuality and Power’

LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Veronika Koller, 7 November, 4pm, County South B89


Week 7 – 23 November **County South C89**: John Richardson (Loughborough University) ‘“Breeders for race and nation”: Women in British fascist discourse’ (note change to usual place)

LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Sam Kirkham, 21 November, 4pm, County South B89


Week 8 – 30 November **4pm**: Jing Huang (Lancaster University) Identity politics in the dispute around ‘promoting Putonghua and eradicating Cantonese’ (note change to usual time)


Week 9 – 07 December: Rami Qawariq (Lancaster University) ‘Critical Language Analysis of Palestinian and Israeli Online Newspapers and News Websites During the 2014 Gaza War’

LIP members may also be interested in the DisTex talk by Zohar Kampf, 9 December, 4pm, County South B89


All welcome!