Research staff
Dr Natalie Braber is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Arts and Humanities. Her main research interests lie in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and emotion and psycholinguistics. Her recent research has focused on identity and language change in Glasgow, with specific emphasis on the relation between the two. Her current research continues these themes with particular emphasis on language variation in the East Midlands, accent perception and the usage of modal particles in German and Dutch.
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Postgraduates: Sociolinguistics, including accent perception; interplay between language and emotion and the effects of aphasia on language.
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Louise Cummings is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Arts and Humanities. Her research interests lie in pragmatics (particularly philosophical aspects), clinical linguistics (particularly pragmatic disorders), argumentation and fallacies of reasoning.
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Postgraduates: Pragmatics; communication disorders; clinical linguistics; argumentation theory; reasoning and fallacies.
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Dr Dean Hardman is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Arts and Humanities. His main research interests lie in the fields of critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. His recent research has focused upon the construction of identity as a marker of ideology and point of view in written media discourse, while his current work examines identity, community and identity in online communication.
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Postgraduates: (Critical) Discourse Analysis, media discourse, sports discourse, political discourse, online communication. Current research students are examining the discourse of broadcasting regulations and the discourse of teaching literature.
Project: Computer Mediated Discourse
Dr Liz Morrish is Subject Leader of Linguistics. As well as introductory first year modules, she has taught Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, and Language, Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests lie in the intersections of linguistics and queer theory, especially the study of the discursive materialization of lesbian identity. More recent work aims to critique neoliberal discourse as it is found in the managerial and regulatory structures of the HE academy, and the implications for gender and sexuality equality.
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See also: Postgraduate Supervision: gender, sexual identity and queer theory; lesbian identity and discourse. A current research student is examining implications of asexual identity.
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