Dr. Majid KhosraviNik
Majid KhosraviNik worked in Linguistics and English Language until January 2011.
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Research Associate
Degree: PhD in Linguistics
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Language in Social Life, Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP)
General Information
I teach on a number of courses:
Critical Discourse Analysis (LING 440), Qualitative Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis (FASS 517), Corporate Communication (LING 214), Language of Advertising (LING 211), and English for Academic Purposes at ISC. In previous years, I have also taught on: Discourse Analysis: Analysing Language in Use (LING204), Sociolinguistics (LING 153) Analysing Media (232) in addition to LAEL's pre-sessional EAP course and the Introduction to the British Business and Academic Culture (MNGT 121).
I have been working as a researcher on the ESRC funded project, Discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press 1996-2006 (principal investigator: Paul Baker, co-investigator: Ruth Wodak) in 2006-2007. I have been the RA responsible for CDA strand of the project along with Costas Gabrielatos who has been responsible for the Corpus Linguistics strand of the project.
I have also been the academic co-ordinator of the 2nd LAEL Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (LAEL 2007) and have co-edited (with Alexandra Polyzou) Volume 2 of Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching.
In the meantime within the last five years, I have completed a PhD in the Linguistics and English Language Department in Critical Discourse Analysis under the supervision of Professor Ruth Wodak. My PhD investigates the discursive strategies of representing Self and Other in Iranian and British news discourses within a CDA framework.
My academic interests include: Critical Discourse Analysis; its theory, methodology and application, along with research on representation of various social groups/identities in discourse, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. I am interested in the intersection of language & various identities, language and society, and relations of language, power, and ideology.
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Selected publications
KhosraviNik, M. Wodak R. and Krzyzanowski M. (forthcoming 2011), Dynamics of discursive representations of refugees and asylum seekers in the British press 1996-2006. In R. Wodak (ed) Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
KhosraviNik, M. (2010) The representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in British newspapers: a Critical Discourse Analysis. Journal of Language and Politics, 9(1), 1-28.
KhosraviNik, M. (2010) Actor descriptions, action attributions, and argumentation: towards a systematization of CDA analytical categories in the representation of social groups. Critical Discourse Studies, 7(1), 55-72.
KhosraviNik, M. (2009) The representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in British newspapers during the Balkan conflict (1999) and the British general election (2005). Discourse & Society, 20(4), 477-49
Baker, P. Gabrielatos, C. KhosraviNik, M. Krzyzanowski, M. McEnery, A., and Wodak, R. (2008) A useful methodological synergy? Combining Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UK Press. Discourse & Society 19(3), 273-306.
KhosraviNik, M. (2008) British newspapers and the representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants between 1996 and 2006. Centre for Language in Social Life, Lancaster University.
KhosraviNik, M. & Polyzou, A. (eds) (2008) Papers from Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, Vol. 2. Lancaster: Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.
KhosraviNik, M. & Yarmohammadi, L. (2002). A critical analysis of news discourses in Iranian newspapers: A socio-semantic approach, Nameh Farhang (Letter of Culture) Quarterly, Vol. 42, winter 2002.
KhosraviNik, M. (2000) Critical discourse analysis of editorials of Iranian newspapers. Proceedings of the 5th Iranian conference on Linguistics. Allame University, March 10-12, 1999, Tehran, Iran.
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Selected conference papers
KhosraviNik, M. Krzyzanowski M. and Wodak R. (2010) Dynamics of discursive representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the British press 1996-2006. (invited presentation), Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspective conference, Vienna University, Austria, July 1-3.
KhosraviNik, M. (2008) Actor descriptions, action attribution, and argumentation: towards a systematization of CDA analytical categories in representation of social actors. Critical Approaches to Discourse Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference, Hertfordshire University, England, July 12-15.
KhosraviNik, M. (2007) Actors, actions and argumentations: towards an amalgamation of CDA methodological categories in representation of social actors. Second Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference, Lancaster University, England, July 5.
KhosraviNik, M. (2007) Representations of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in British news discourses. Language, Ideology and Power (LIP) Research Group, Linguistics Department, Lancaster University, England, January 15.
KhosraviNik, M. (2003) A discursive study of conservative and reformist ideologies in Iranian newspapers during two critical periods. Submitted to International Society for Language Studies (ISLS) Conference, June 18-21, Virgin Islands, USA.
KhosraviNik, M. (2000) Critical discourse analysis of editorials of Iranian press. The 5th Iranian conference on Linguistics, Allame University, Iran, March 10-12, 1999, Tehran, Iran.
Associated Keywords: Applied linguistics, Broadcast talk and media discourse, Conversation analysis, Critical discourse analysis, Discourse analysis, English for academic purposes EAP, Islam, Language, gender and discourse, Language planning and policy , Language politics, Linguistic ethnography, Media, Migration and diaspora, Multilingualism, Postcolonial, Pragmatics, Semiotics, Social linguistics, Sociolinguistics
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