LIP Programme
Term 1 2020/2021
Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Tuesdays, from 12pm, Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.
Week 1 – Tuesday, 06 October: LIP Introductory session |
| Week 3 – Tuesday, 20 October: Data analysis session: US election debates |
| Week 4 – Tuesday, 27 October: Jess Aiston (Lancaster University): Ethical challenges for using social media data in critical discourse studies |
| Week 7 – Tuesday, 17 November: Richard Budd, Claire Nance, Johnny Unger (Lancaster University): Decolonising Linguistics Workshop |
| Week 9: Tuesday, 01 December: PhD student workshop |
Term 2 2020/2021
Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Tuesday, from 12pm, Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.
Week 11 – Tuesday, 12 January: Marwa Mahmoud Reda abdelaziz Elkhodairy: “A study of how Egyptian Bloggers shaped the UK newspaper coverage of Political Events in Egypt, A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of Argumentative, Narrative and Framing Strategies” |
| Week 13 – Tuesday, 26 January: Data analysis session: Permanent suspension of @realdonaldtrump |
| Week 15 – Tuesday, 9 February: Javier Mármol Queraltó (Lancaster University): ‘Discourses of Brexit outside the UK: The representation of Gibraltar’s status in the online Spanish press’ |
| Week 17 – Tuesday, 23 February: PhD student workshop |
| Week 18: Tuesday, 02 March: Rianna Walcott (Kings College London): ‘The oppositional gaze and (web)sites of resistance’ |
| Week 19: Tuesday, 09 March: Pernille Bøgo Jorgensen (Lancaster University): ‘Health ideologies in the representation of menopause’ |
| Week 20 – 16 March: Patricia Palomino Manjón (University of Valencia): ‘(Verbal) sexual aggression on Twitter: The discursive construction of sexual violence and social actors during Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation process’ |
Term 3 2020/2021
Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Tuesdays, from 12pm, Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.
Week 22 – 27 April: Reading discussion: Catalano & Waugh (2020). Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond: Chapter 5: ’Critiques of CDA/CDS and Responses’, p219-245 |
| Week 23 – 4 May: Angela Zottola (University of Torino): ‘Transgender Identities in the Press. A corpus-based Discourse Analysis’ |
| Week 24 – 11 May **10am BST**: Charlotte-Rose Kennedy (Nottingham-Trent): ‘Differing representations of the same instances of politicians’ speech in the pro- and anti-Brexit press coverage of the People’s Vote March’ |
| Week 25 – 18 May: Johnny Unger (Lancaster): ‘The “securitisation” of higher education in the UK’s “hostile environment” for migrants’ |
| Week 26 – 25 May: Data Analysis session |
| Week 27 – 1 June: MA Dissertation Workshop – Short work-in-progress presentations by MA students working on discourse-related topics for their dissertations |
| Week 28 – 8 June: PhD Workshop – Work-in-progress presentations by PhD students |
| Week 29 – 15 June: Daria Dayter (Basel) & Sofia Rüdiger (Bayreuth): ‘Pick-up artists’ conversations with women: Power asymmetry and forced engagement’ |
| Week 30 – 22 June: Janja Komljenovic and Javier Mármol Queraltó (Lancaster University): ‘Universities and Unicorns: Building digital assets in the Higher Education industry’ |