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 SR11 & MS Teams |
Sophie Pastukhova (Lancaster University)
Legitimation of the invasion of Ukraine by a Russian TV news programme “Vremya” |
| 9th February | 3pm
Bowland North SR11 & MS Teams |
Emma Halliday (Lancaster University)
Preventing future deaths: A corpus- assisted critical discourse study of coroners’ reports |
| 23rd February | 3pm
Bowland North SR11 & MS 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 |