Mercedes Bengoechea
Mercedes Bengoechea is Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain). She was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (2003-2008). Her research on language and gender has focused on denouncing, on the one hand, the sexist usage of the language in the Spanish media and, on the other hand, normative linguistic policies and dictionaries of Spanish. She has also led proposals for non-sexist use of Spanish. She is a member of IGALA (International Gender and Language Association) Advisory Board; member of the Advisory Language Committee of the Instituto de la Mujer, NOMBRA (Ministry of Social Affairs) since 1994; member of the Experts Committee on Gender and Childhood for the Institute of the National Spanish Television (Instituto Oficial de Radio Televisión Española) since 2005; and was the co-ordinator of the 2006 Report of the Spanish National Observatory on Gender Violence. Currently, she is a visiting scolar in the Department of Linguistics and English Language in Lancaster University.
Email: mercedes.bengoechea@uah.es
Grace Bota
Grace Bota is a PhD student at the Department of Linguistics and English
Language. Her current research is on Gender, Language and identity
construction about Ghanaians in the Diaspora. She has also worked on
gender, politics, language and the media - with a specific interest in the
Liberian elections (a CDA approach). For future research, she plans to look
at various discourses of domestic violence and sexual assault in Ghana,
with a focus on the media and the courts."
E-mail: g.bota@lancaster.ac.uk
Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty
Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty is a PhD student in the department from 2007. She has been a member of Gender and Language (GaL) research group since then. Her research interests include language, gender, cyberspace and Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. She is also a member of IGALA (International Gender and Language Association) Executive Board from 2008. She is currently researching on gender construction in Iranian online society using the approach of Feminist Post-structuralist Dicourse Analysis (FPDA) and acts as the Web Weaver of GaL research group in Lancaster University.
E-mail: m.paknahadjabarooty@lancaster.ac.uk
Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/gws/pgrprofiles/232/
Alexandra Polyzou
Alexandra Polyzou graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and joined the Linguistics Department in 2003 when she did her MA in Language Studies. Her interests include Critical Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Metaphor Theory and the application of both to Gender and Language Studies. For her MA dissertation she investigated gendered metaphors in 'Nitro', a Greek men's lifestyle magazine.
E-mail: a.polyzou@lancaster.ac.uk
Ayako Tominari
She is a PhD student at the department. Her PhD research is about male hero construction and masculinity in the Japanese newspaper coverage of a baseball championship. Her interests are gender and language, gender and the media, and critical discourse analysis.
E-mail: a.tominari@lancaster.ac.uk
Yunhua Xiang
Yunhua Xiang is a professor in the English Department of Foreign Languages College,
Jilin University, P. R. China. In 2005, She got her PhD from Nankai University, P. R. China. The title of her thesis was "From “Half the Sky” to the Socially Marginalized:
A sociolinguistic study of the multiplicity of laid-off women workers’ identity". Her research interests are language and gender, CDA and sociolinguistics. Currently, she is a visiting researcher in the Department of Linguistics and English Language in Lancaster University.
E-mail: yunhuaxiang@hotmail.com
