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RESEARCH GROUP

| English Studies: Text, Discourse, Corpus, Media, Culture

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Text, Discourse, Corpus, Media, Culture is a group of researchers collaborating on common projects and publications within linguistics, cultural studies and media studies, often adopting a critical perspective, who focus on studying: - media representations of social phenomena and social groups - constructions of identities and interactions in and through discourse - legitimization and argumentation and their cultural constraints - humour in discourse, media and culture - intercultural communication and conflict - discourses of and on gendered and migrant social actors - cognitive constructs and culture/language-specific conceptualizations - professional discursive practices in journalism and science communication - media representation of race, ethnicity and gender, using qualitative and quantitative approaches, such as critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis, corpus-assisted text analysis and rhetorical analysis. The group is open to collaborating with FORTHEM partners. Already involved in FORTHEM Labs: Multilingualism in School and Higher Education, and Diversity and Migration, in FIT FORTHEM science communications, organization of staff weeks and student mobilities events, outreach to schools and Citizen Science