Welcome to the new academic year! This year’s what’s new is more of a who’s new.
We
are delighted to welcome Rebecca Jackson
who is joining us this year. She will mostly be covering for Charlotte Taylor
& Roberta Piazza during their research leave and will be teaching modules
relating to semantics (1st year), pragmatics and intercultural
communication (2nd year and MA), discourse analysis (2nd
year) and stylistics (2nd and 3rd year). Rebecca’s own research sits
at the interfaces of pragmatics with stylistics, prosody, and semantics. Her
PhD explored ‘The Pragmatics of Repetition, EMPHASIS, and intensification’ and
was a part-pragmatic/stylistic and part-linguistic treatment of some of the
very disparate phenomena which have been called repetition. While working on
the project, she became very interested in emphasis, nonverbal communication,
and intonation/prosody. She is currently preparing papers on developing and
applying a pragmatic theory of emphasis. If you would like to find out more
about her research, look out for an appearance on the ROLLS programme!
We will also be welcoming
Dario del Fante from
University of Siena, Italy, who is visiting on an Erasmus placement from
October-March. He has just finished his MA with a dissertation on A corpus based study of the representation
of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in British broadsheets. He will be
working with Charlotte Taylor as a research-assistant, mainly focussing on
corpus design and building.
And lastly of course, we are looking forward
to meeting all our new students – welcome to Sussex!
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