As usual, we are starting the new term with a
round-up of what we have all been doing when not in the classroom with our
lovely students.
Charlotte Taylor was on research leave in the autumn term starting
a new project investigating the representation
of migrants over time. She spent the term as a visiting researcher at
Lancaster University working on a wonderful archive of nineteenth century newspapers.
In September she co-organised a panel on comparative
approaches to migration discourse at the conference
for Critical Approaches to Discourse
Analysis across Disciplines
(CADAAD) and co-presented a paper on Evaluation
of communities in migration discourse. From her other research area of
pragmatics, in October her new book was published Mock
Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis. She also published a research paper on Mock
politeness and culture: Perceptions and practice in the journal Intercultural Pragmatics (November) and gave an invited paper at
Edge Hill University on Mock
politeness: Perceptions vs practice
(October).
In the
spring term, Roberta Piazza will be on research leave working on a monograph
investigating the discourse that reflects and constructs the relation between
identity and space in mobile and marginal individuals. She presented some of
her work on this topic at the Sixth Conference on
Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Diversities in global
societies in
Stockholm (September) with a paper on Diverse
mobile geographies: The impact of unsettled place on individuals’ identity.
In this area, she has also been awarded a HEIF grant to for an impact event to
sensitise Brighton and Hove citizens about Irish travellers’ rights. Together with Charlotte Taylor, she organised
the excellent symposium on Discourse: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (November)
where she presented a paper on Corbyn by
the BBC. The symposium is now leading to a special issue of CADAAD
Journal.
Lynne Murphy was
on research leave in the autumn term continuing work on her new book on British
and American English. While on leave, she made a research
trip to the Oxford University Press archives as part of her 'British and
American Dictionary Cultures' grant project (January). She has also talked
about the relationship between British/American English in her usual blog, Separated by a Common Language, and she featured on The Verb (BBC
Radio 3) in November, talking about American
and British election words. The segment then featured in Radio 4's Pick of the Week. She has continued her
work of bringing the wonder of linguistics to a wider audience. In a very busy
October, this included an article in Quartz
on Linguistics
explains why Trump sounds racist when he says “the” African Americans, an interview on KCBS talk radio
San Francisco about Donald Trump’s ‘othering’ language, and discussing Trump’s use of
language on Talk the Talk (RTR FM, Australia).
Postgraduate research students
Many
congratulations to: Alexandra Reynolds (co-supervised by Jules Winchester & Roberta
Piazza) and Rukayah AlHedayani (supervised by Lynne Murphy) who were
awarded their PhDs at the winter graduation!
New faces on campus
We are
pleased to welcome two visiting researchers to Sussex this term. We still have Prof. Gerlinde Mautner with us and she
will be sharing her research on ‘UK Supreme Court Judgements: A corpus-based
genre analysis’ on 22 February as part of ROLLS.
We also welcome Shuyun Huang from Huaiyin Normal University in Jiangsu Province,
China. She will be spending the spring term with us, working with Charlotte
Taylor & Roberta Piazza to develop her research project on ‘A critical discourse
analysis of the reported speech in disaster news’.
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