Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Discourse Analysis
- Political Discourse
- Comparative Political Discourse Analysis
- Discourse and Institutions
- Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
Current research
I am a linguist interested in comparative discourse analysis in English and German speaking countries. I also have an interest in institutional discourses. I have published on the discourses of New Labour and the German SPD at the turn of the twenty-first century, ‘populist’ discourses as well as on discourse in the workplace. Some interesting documentation of the conference ‘New Discourses of Populism and Nationalism’ I organised in June 2018 can be found here. I am also working on ideas of language ideologies and political discourse and have co-organised DN 27 on that topic.
I am currently embarking on a new discourse studies project that considers how language is used at the level of local politics and devolved government, how this differs from the national level, and what impact this has on the policy-making process in crucial areas like climate change.