Research Areas
Discourse analysis, English Language and Linguistics
Dr Johann Unger
Lecturer & Academic Director
County South
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YL
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Tel: +44 1524 592591
Affiliations
Research in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
PaSTY - Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group
I am currently interested in three main research areas:
- Online forms of political resistance;
- Language policy and the politics of language (especially in Scotland);
- Students' attitudes towards their use of academic language, particularly when they are studying in international contexts.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am particularly interested in supervising students in the areas of online political resistance, critical discourse analysis and language policy, also more broadly in the areas related to my other research interests (see 'Research Interests' on my staff profile). I am currently supervising or co-supervising students working on: parliamentary debates in Kenya, Arabic media constructions of Iraq; the cultural impact of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the English and German-speaking world; UK Uncut and Twitter; Latin-American identity in the UN mission in Haiti; language policy among proofreaders in Slovenia; public discourse on the financial crisis in Portugal; linguistic identities in Southern China; the construction of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the press; student academic writing.
Research Interests
My research to date has been in the following areas:
- Language Policy
- Minority Languages
- Scots
- Discursive representations of minority languages
- Discourse sociolinguistics
- Critical discourse analysis
- Academic writing
- Language and gender
- Cartoons, fairy stories and sexist stereotypes
- Dialect speech (re)presentation in fiction and non-fiction
- Dialect and non-standard orthography
- Political resistance and new media
Current Teaching
I am contributing to the following modules in 2012-13:
Undergraduate
- LING204 - Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in use
Postgraduate
- LING402 - Postgraduate Academic Study Skills
- LING442 - Introduction to Discourse Studies
- Hong Kong MA TESOL Foundation Module and Research Methods Module
Office Hours
County South C79, By arrangement
Selected Publications
Legitimating inaction: differing identity constructions of the Scots language.
Unger, J. W. 02/2010 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 13, 1, p. 99-117, 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
In Press
Rebranding the Scottish Executive: a discourse-historical analysis
Unger, J. W. 2013 In: Journal of Language and Politics. 12, 1, p. n/a
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2010
Legitimating inaction: differing identity constructions of the Scots language.
Unger, J. W. 02/2010 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 13, 1, p. 99-117, 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
Economic discourses of Scots on Bourdieu’s “Linguistic Market”.
Unger, J. W. 2009 Language and Economic Development. Kirk, J. M. & Ó Baoill, D. P. (eds.). Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, (Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
The Discursive Construction of National Identity.
Wodak, R., De Cillia, R., Reisigl, M., Liebhart, K., Hirsch, A. (Translator), Mitten, R. (Translator) & Unger, J. W. (Translator) 2009 2nd ed. ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 288 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2008
Michael Halliday, On grammar
Unger, J. 2008 In: Language in Society. 37, 2, p. 312, 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of their own: female fandoms online
Unger, J. 2008 In: Language in Society. 37, 2, p. 311, 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
A keek at Scots lang syne: a brief overview of the historical development of the Scots language.
Unger, J. W. 06/2008 In: Vienna English Working Papers. 17, 1, p. 91-101, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2007
Gendered discourses in a contemporary animated film: subversion and confirmation of gender stereotypes in Shrek.
Unger, J. W. & Sunderland, J. 2007 Discourse and Contemporary Social Change. Fairclough, N., Cortese, G. & Ardizzone, P. (eds.). Frankfurt: Peter Lang, p. 459-486 28 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2006
Shi-Xu, a cultural approach to discourse
Unger, J. 2006 In: Language in Society. 35, 4, p. 617-620, 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Political Resistance Online Research Project
01/03/2011 →
Research into online political resistance practices, particularly in social media. ... Read more»
Linguistics colleagues present at Georgetown University Roundtable
11/03/2011
Ruth Wodak, David Barton and Johann Unger are presenting at Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics: Discourse 2.0 Language and New Media today. For details of the panel, conven ... Read more»Sociolinguistics Symposium, SS 18
01/09/2010
Ruth Wodak, Michal Krzyzanowski, and Johnny Unger organized a panel at SS 18 (Multilingualism in institutional spaces) which took place on September 2, 2010 (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ss18/informat ... Read more»
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
(Associate Editor) 1/6/2010 → 30/4/2012
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Read more»Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
(Assistant Editor) 1/2/2007 → 31/5/2010
Activity: Editorial activity
Read more»Journal of Cultural Mediation
(Editorial board member) 1/9/2011
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Read more»Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
(Editor) 1/5/2012
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