Louise Mullany

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Expertise Summary

BA, MA, PhD Areas of expertise - sociolinguistics; pragmatics; discourse analysis

Research Summary

My main areas of research specialisation are sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. I am particularly interested in investigating professional and institutional discourse and I have… read more

Recent Publications

• MULLANY, L. J., 2012. The Sociolinguistics of Gender in Public Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave. (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2011. Discourse, gender and professional communication. In: HANDFORD, M and GEE, J., eds., The Handbook of Discourse Analysis London: Routledge In press. (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2011. Frontstage and backstage: Gordon Brown, the “bigoted woman” and im/politeness in the 2010 UK General Election. In: THE LINGUISTIC POLITENESS RESEARCH GROUP, ed., Politeness Now: Discursive Approaches to Politeness Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In press. (In Press.)
• MILLS, S and MULLANY, L. J., 2011. Language, Gender and Feminism: Theory and Methodology London: Routledge. (In Press.)

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Current Research

My main areas of research specialisation are sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. I am particularly interested in investigating professional and institutional discourse and I have conducted empirical research in business, health care and media settings. I am also interested in electronic discourse and the language of the internet, particularly how sociolinguistic identities are performed in online communication.

Recent book publications include a monograph entitled Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace (2007, Palgrave), which was shortlisted for the International Gender and Language Association Book Prize, 2008: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=274997

I have also co-authored The English Language with Peter Stockwell (Routledge, 2010) and co-edited The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics with Carmen Llamas and Peter Stockwell (Routledge, 2007). For further details see my author homepage on the Routledge website: www.routledge.com/books/search/author/louise_mullany/

Click on the above 'Publications' tab for full details of all of my other journal articles and book chapter publications.

I am currently co-holder of an ESRC research grant, with Svenja Adolphs (PI), on the language of adolescent health communication and the internet.

I am presently supervising PhD students in the areas of media discourse, language and gender, language and identity, health communication and forensic linguistics. I welcome PhD applications in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics.

Future Research

I am currently working on a jointly-authored book with Sara Mills, Sheffield Hallam University, entitled Language, Gender and Feminism: Theory and Methodology, to be published by Routledge (2011); I am also working on a project on the sociolinguistics of gender in public life which brings together a number of different studies which I have recently conducted in businesses, health care and media settings. I am also completing a number of chapters in edited collections and co-editing a book on discursive approaches to politeness with the Linguistic Politeness Research Group (Mouton de Gruyter, 2011).

• MULLANY, L. J., 2012. The Sociolinguistics of Gender in Public Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave. (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2011. Discourse, gender and professional communication. In: HANDFORD, M and GEE, J., eds., The Handbook of Discourse Analysis London: Routledge In press. (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2011. Frontstage and backstage: Gordon Brown, the “bigoted woman” and im/politeness in the 2010 UK General Election. In: THE LINGUISTIC POLITENESS RESEARCH GROUP, ed., Politeness Now: Discursive Approaches to Politeness Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In press. (In Press.)
• MILLS, S and MULLANY, L. J., 2011. Language, Gender and Feminism: Theory and Methodology London: Routledge. (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J. & STOCKWELL, P.J., 2010. Introducing English Language: A Resource Book for Students London: Routledge. (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2010. Gendered identities in the professional workplace: Negotiating the glass ceiling. In: LLAMAS, C and WATT, D., eds., Language and Identities Edinburgh University Press. 179-191
• MULLANY, L. J., 2010. Im/politeness, rapport management and workplace culture: Truckers performing masculinities on Canadian ice-roads. In: BARGIELA-CHIAPPINI, F and KADAR, D., eds., Politeness Across Cultures Basingstoke: Palgrave. In press. 61-84 (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2010. Gender and interpersonal pragmatics. In: GRAHAM, S. L and LOCHER, M., eds., The Handbook of Interpersonal Pragmatics Mouton de Gruyter. 225-250 (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2009. Gender studies and business discourse.. In: BARGIELA-CHIAPPINI, F., ed., The Handbook of Business Discourse. Edinburgh University Press. 213-225
• MULLANY L. J. (ED.), 2009. Special Issue Guest Editor: Politeness in Health Care Settings Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture. 5(1), (In Press.)
• MULLANY, L. J., 2009. Applying politeness research to health care communication Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture. 5(1), 1-10 (In Press.)
• HARVEY, K., CHURCHILL, D., CRAWFORD, P., BROWN, B., MULLANY, L., MACFARLANE, A. and MCPHERSON, A., 2008. Health communication and adolescents: what do their emails tell us? Family Practice. 25, 1-18
• MULLANY, L. J., 2008. Negotiating methodologies: Making language and gender relevant in the professional workplace.. In: HARRINGTON, K, LITOSSELITI, L, SAUNTSON, H and SUNDERLAND, J., eds., Gender and Language Research Methodologies Palgrave. 43-55
• MULLANY, L. J., 2008. "Stop hassling me!": Impoliteness, power and gender identity in the professional workplace.. In: BOUSFIELD, D and LOCHER, M., eds., Impoliteness in Language Mouton de Gruyter. 231-255
• MULLANY, L.J., 2007. Gendered discourse in the professional workplace Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• LLAMAS, C. and MULLANY, L. J. & STOCKWELL, P.J., eds., 2007. The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics London: Routledge.
• MULLANY, L. J., 2007. Speech communities. In: LLAMAS, C, MULLANY, L and STOCKWELL, P., eds., The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics Routledge. 84-92.
• MULLANY, L.J., 2006. Girls on tour: politeness, small talk, and gender in managerial business meetings Journal of Politeness Research. 2(1), 55-77
• MULLANY, L.J., 2006. Narrative constructions of gender and professional identities. In: OMONIYI, T. and WHITE, G., eds., The Sociolinguistics of Identity London: Continuum. 157-172
• MULLANY, L.J., 2006. Language and gender in the workplace (with L. Litosseliti). In: LITOSSELITI, L., ed., Gender and Language: Theory and Practice London : Hodder Arnold.
• HARRIS, S, K. GRAINGER and L. MULLANY, 2006. The pragmatics of political apologies Discourse & Society. 17(6), 715-737
• BROWN, B, CRAWFORD, P and MULLANY, L, 2005. Clinical governmentality: A critical linguistic perspective on clinical governance discourse in health care organisations Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2(3), 299-324
• MULLANY, L.J., 2005. Review of Mills' "Gender and Politeness" Journal of Politeness Research. 1(2), 291-295
• MULLANY, L.J., 2004. `Become the man that women desire': gender identities and dominant discourses in email advertising language Language and Literature. 13(4), 291-305
• MULLANY, L.J., 2004. Gender, politeness and institutional power roles: Humour as a tactic to gain compliance in workplace business meetings Multilingua. VOL 23(PART 1/2), 13-38
• MULLANY, L.J., 2004. An examination of the discourse strategies of female and male chairs in managerial business meetings. In: GOUVEIA, C., SILVESTRE, C. and AZUAGA, L., eds., Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise: Linguistic Perspectives Lisbon : ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies).
• MULLANY, L.J., 2002. 'I don't think you want me to get a word in edgeways do you John?': Re-assessing (im)politeness, language and gender in political broadcast interviews. English Studies Working Papers on the Web: Sheffield Hallam University. 3,
• MULLANY, L.J., 2000. The application of current language and gender theory to managerial meeting discourse The Nottingham Linguistic Circular. 15, 1-13
• MULLANY, L.J., 1999. Linguistic politeness and sex differences in BBC Radio 4 broadcast interviews Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics. 7, 119-142