TERM 2 – all talks Mondays 2-3pm
| 5th February
County South C89 |
Jane Mulderrig
Nudging ‘the least sophisticated’ working classes: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of government health campaigns |
| 12th February
County South C89 |
Edward De Vooght (Ghent University)
A reader-response account of schema theory in Italian Short Story Collections: A Pilot Study |
| 19th February
County South C89 |
Josie Ryan (Bangor University) and Veronika Koller (Lancaster University)
“A nation divided”: spatial metaphor scenarios in news reports about the 2016 British EU referendum |
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**CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE** |
| 19th March
County South C89 |
Jonathan Culpepper (Lancaster University) and Vittorio Tantucci (Lancaster University)
Reciprocity and (im)politeness |
TERM 1 – all talks Mondays 1-2pm, County South C89
| 16th October | Dima Atanasova (Lancaster University)
Fighting obesity, sustaining stigma: Metaphorical representations of obesity in the news |
| 30th October | Sam Browse (Sheffield Hallam University)
‘Are you thinking what we’re thinking?’ Mind modelling in the critical reception of political discourse |
| 13th November | Chloe Harrison (Coventry University)
Action chains, grounding and ‘narrative urgency’ in Enduring Love |
| 27th November | Chris Hart (Lancaster University) and Matteo Fuoli (University of Birmingham)
How persuasive is corporate discourse? An experiment testing the effectiveness of trust-building strategies in companies’ texts |
| 11th December | Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield)
From austerity to Brexit: corpus-based investigations into lexical meaning and political realities |