Job title
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Job responsibilities
Dean Hardman's main teaching interests lie in the fields of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, particularly in critical approaches to the study of language and online communication. He teaches on the level one Linguistics modules Exploring English Language (LING 102), where he lectures on the History of the English language, and Introduction to Language and Linguistics (LING 101), and is responsible for the design and delivery of the level two module Discourse Analysis (LING 215). At level three he designed and teaches Media Discourse (LING 315). All of these linguistics modules form part of the Joint Honours Humanities programme. He also contributes to the MA in Media and Globalisation, where he supervises dissertations and leads sessions on critical discourse analysis.
Research Centre or Group
Communication, Culture and Media (CCM).
External academic and professional activity
2008 - 2012 External examiner, Sunderland University
Information for prospective research students
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist in the following areas:
- discourse analysis
- media discourse
- political linguistics
- online communication
- sociolinguistics.
Further information may be obtained from the the NTU Graduate School.
