Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Stylistics
People
Paul Baker | Paul Chilton | Jonathan Culpeper | Norman Fairclough | Costas Gabrielatos | Veronika Koller | Geoffrey Leech | Tony McEnery | Greg Myers | Gila Schauer | Elena Semino | Mick Short | Jane Sunderland | Ruth Wodak
Overview
Lancaster has been an influential world-leading centre for the study of language in use for over 30 years, and this remains a key area of our research. Our areas of specialism in this area include:
- Argumentation theory
- Advertising and the media
- Conversation analysis
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Metaphor studies
- Multimodality and semiotics
- Pragmatics
- Stylistics
We are very happy to receive applications to our research degree programmes from anyone interested in these or different, connected areas
Associated Research Groups
Gender and Language Research Group (GAL)
Language, Ideology & Power Research Group (LIP)
Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group (PaSTY)
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)