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Baker, Paul Linguistics and English Language

PhD Students

I will be on sabbatical from August 2012-August 2013 and will not be able to take any new students until I return.

Most of my PhD students are involved in corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, language and identities or a combination of these. My current PhD students are working on the following topics:

the construction of gender identity in Iranian bloggers
a corpus study examining how The Guardian reports on the topic of journalism.
a corpus-based comparison of two academic books about Wahhabi Islam, focussing on the use of collocation to create ideology
a corpus study examining construction of in and out groups in American newspapers.

Recent PhDs I supervised to completion:

a corpus-based examination of the concept of political correctness in British broadsheet newspapers
the language of marriage rituals in Botswana
combining corpus approaches and CDA to examine discourses of terrorism in the British and Chinese popular press
combining corpus approaches and CDA to examine discourses of homophobia in a right-wing political organisation
a corpus study to compare lexical bundle use of Chinese learners of English with native speakers of English
a corpus study of keywords to examine gender identity in British and Malaysian children's writing

Gillen, Julia Linguistics and English Language

I welcome potential doctoral students studying children's and teenagers' digital literacies; literacies in early childhood; multimodality in various contexts; historical and contemporary studies of communication technologies where language is the particular focus. I am open to a broad range of topics and methodologies.

A recent PhD I have supervised to completion: S-Y Ruby Chen: Adolescents' linguistic practices in College-affiliated Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) in Taiwan.

Recent doctoral dissertations I have examined include:

Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, PhD. Lancaster University. The construction of gender and sexuality in Iranian love blogs: a discursive approach to couples' love. 2011

Lynde Tan, PhD. Lancaster University.Adolescent literacies, multimodal textual repertoires, and digital media: exploring sites of digital literacy practices and learning inside and outside school. 2011

Mark Childs, PhD. University of Warwick. Learners' experience of presence in virtual worlds. 2010

Patrick Camilleri, EdD., University of Sheffield. A structurational interpretation of issues underlying the implementation of internet based systems in Malta. 2009

Michael Dunne, EdD., Manchester Metropolitan University. Out-of-classroom visits: Unravelling the experience of a short residential trip of primary school children. 2009

Jing Sheng, PhD., Lancaster University. Chinese migrant children's multiliteracy practices in Britain. 2009

Hardie, Andrew Linguistics and English Language

I would be especially interested in supervising PhD candidates working in the following areas:

corpora of languages other than English - and in alphabets other than Latin;
development and applications of corpus annotation ("tagging" at various levels);
corpus-based grammatical analysis, especially cross-linguistic and/or quantitative approaches to grammar;
investigating languageusing statistical collocation;
the exploitation of corpus methods and resources in the other fields of the humanities and social sciences (e.g. history);
or, more generally, in any area coherent with my research interests.