All Outputs (28)

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.

Pragmatics: Leadership and Team Communication in Emergency Medicine Training (2021)
Book Chapter

Team interaction in healthcare settings: Leadership, rapport-building and clinical outcomes in ad hoc medical teams. (2020)
Book Chapter

“Everyone happy with what their role is?”: A pragmalinguistic evaluation of leadership practices in emergency medicine training (2020)
Journal Article

This article reports a study of simulated interactions between emergency medical teams, as they are used in education for specialist trainee doctors. We focus on a key area of communicative competence that trainees are assessed on: the performance of... Read More about “Everyone happy with what their role is?”: A pragmalinguistic evaluation of leadership practices in emergency medicine training.

(Im)politeness and gender (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter maps out key developments in gender and (Im)politeness scholarship, focusing on theories and concepts which have advanced the field and contributed to its theoretical and methodological sophistication. The authors chronologically catalog... Read More about (Im)politeness and gender.