All Outputs (9)

Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media (2022)
Journal Article

Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike) is a grassroots campaign established in Poland in 2016 in response to the proposed tightening of abortion laws but which also engages with broader social, feminist and women’s rights issues. Usin... Read More about Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media.

‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community (2022)
Journal Article

This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with he... Read More about ‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community.

Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article

In the context of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, female medical staff constituted a large proportion of frontline healthcare workers in China, with 50% of doctors and over 90% of nurses being women. In this paper, we aim to examine how these... Read More about Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19.

Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change (2022)
Journal Article

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health challenge. Although theoretically informed public health campaigns are more effective for changing behaviour, there is little evidence of their use when campaigns are commissioned to th... Read More about Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change.

‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen (2022)
Journal Article

This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with... Read More about ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen.

Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press (2022)
Journal Article

This article examines discourse representations of vegans in UK newspapers, comparing broadsheets with tabloids published between 2016 and 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach to CDA, we identify a series of discourses, some of which overlap between... Read More about Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press.

Storying selves and others at work Story ownership, tellership and functions of narratives in a workplace domain (2021)
Journal Article

This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership - so who owns a story, tellership - so who has the right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well as the broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse and na... Read More about Storying selves and others at work Story ownership, tellership and functions of narratives in a workplace domain.

'You said, we did': A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites (2021)
Journal Article

In recent years, social and political commentators have criticised the ongoing marketisation of the UK's state-based healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS). This paper examines the websites of 187 NHS's Clinical Commissioning Groups (CC... Read More about 'You said, we did': A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites.

Framing trauma leaders’ request in emergency care interactions A multimodal analysis using eye-tracking glasses (2021)
Journal Article

A team leader’s request is a crucial factor for successful team interaction to ensure patient safety in emergency care. This study examines how team leaders accomplish and frame immediate requests through language use and corresponding eye-movement p... Read More about Framing trauma leaders’ request in emergency care interactions A multimodal analysis using eye-tracking glasses.