Term 1
| 19th October, 3pm | Bowland North SR7 & MS Teams | Chris Hart (Lancaster University)
Metaphor, multimodality and generative AI: Synthetic images prompted by figurative expressions in immigration discourse |
| 2nd November, 3pm | Bowland North SR7 & MS Teams | Tasneem Solie (Lancaster University)
Metaphors of mental health and recovery: Towards alternative framings through metaphor-led discourse analysis |
| 16th November, 3pm | Bowland North SR7 & MS Teams | Victoria Blaabjerg Hogstad (Københavns Universitet)
“The war in Russia-Ukraine would have never happened if I were President”: An association rule analysis of Donald Trump’s counterfactuals |
| 30th November, 3pm | MS Teams only | Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam)
Metaphors in short animations about depression and cancer |
Term 2
| 25th January, 3pm | Room tbc & MS Teams | Danyang Li (Lancaster University)
COVID-19 WAR and JOURNEY metaphors in China and the UK: Frequencies, functions and framing effects |
| 8th February, 3pm | Room tbc & MS Teams | Emma Putland (Lancaster University)
“Smashing through barriers”? A multimodal critical discourse analysis of media representations of hearing loss and D/deafness |
| 22nd February, 3pm | Room tbc & MS Teams | Elena Semino (Lancaster University)
Resistance against pro-vaccination metaphors |
| 8th March, 3pm | MS Teams only | Silva Ladewig (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Bodies in debate: Gestural practices in German political talk shows |