Programme 2025-26

Term 1

20th October, 3pm MS Teams ONLY Mohamed Salhi (Goethe University)

The crisis discourse of the radical right

3rd November, 3pm Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams Chris Hart (Lancaster University)

Taking a stance through stance: The forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump

17th November, 3pm Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams Elena Semino (Lancaster University)

Metaphors and vaccinations

1st December, 3pm Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams Emma Putland (Lancaster University)

Public discourses of dementia: A multimodal critical discourse analysis approach to dementia representations and stigma

 

Term 2

26th January, 3pm Bowland North SR11MS Teams Sophie Pastukhova (Lancaster University)

Legitimation of the invasion of Ukraine by a Russian TV news programme “Vremya”

9th February, 3pm Bowland North SR11MS Teams Emma Halliday (Lancaster University)

Preventing future deaths: A corpus- assisted critical discourse study of coroners’ reports

23rd February, 3pm Bowland North SR11MS Teams Steve Strudwick (Lancaster University)

What’s the catch? How safety net and trap metaphors affect beliefs about benefits

9th March, 3pm MS Teams ONLY Petre Breazu  (University of Cambridge)

tbc