Sara Vilar-Lluch

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Teaching Summary

As a Teaching Associate in Applied Linguistics, I teach in the following modules: Studying Language, Language in Society, Language and Feminism, Discourses of Health and Work, Essentials of English,… read more

Research Summary

I have collaborated on the projects:

Coronavirus Discourses: Linguistic Evidence for Effective Health messaging

"Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation" at the University of Reading.

Selected Publications

• SARA VILAR-LLUCH, 2023. Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’ Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
• VILAR-LLUCH, SARA, MCCLAUGHLIN, EMMA, KNIGHT, DAWN, ADOLPHS, SVENJA and NICHELE, ELENA, 2023. The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19 MEDICAL HUMANITIES.
• LEPOUTRE, MAXIME, VILAR-LLUCH, SARA, BORG, EMMA and HANSEN, NAT, 2023. What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY.

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As a Teaching Associate in Applied Linguistics, I teach in the following modules: Studying Language, Language in Society, Language and Feminism, Discourses of Health and Work, Essentials of English, Language Gender and Sexuality, Research Methods: Corpus Linguistics, Core Concepts in Discourse Analysis (online), Culture and Communication (online)

Before joining the University of Nottingham I taught linguistics and Spanish language modules in the University of East Anglia, the University of Edinburgh, the Modern Language Centre (King's College London), and the University of Roehampton. I have taught modules in discourse analysis, pragmatics, semantics and philosophy of language, and Spanish L2 across A1-C1 levels, in Spanish language modules and institution wide language programs, and business.

Past Research

PhD thesis: "Representation of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Construction of Diagnosed Individual's identity in Institutional discourse."

• SARA VILAR-LLUCH, 2024. Social understanding of inattention: An examination of the representation of inattentive behaviour in clinical, educational and family textual contexts Communication & Medicine. 1(19), 26-14
• EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, SARA VILAR-LLUCH, TAMSIN PARNELL, DAWN KNIGHT, ELENA NICHELE, SVENJA ADOLPHS, JÉRÉMIE CLOS and GIOVANNI SCHIAZZA, 2023. The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic Applied Corpus Linguistics. 3(1),
• LEPOUTRE, MAXIME, VILAR-LLUCH, SARA, BORG, EMMA and HANSEN, NAT, 2023. What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY.
• VILAR-LLUCH, SARA, MCCLAUGHLIN, EMMA, KNIGHT, DAWN, ADOLPHS, SVENJA and NICHELE, ELENA, 2023. The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19 MEDICAL HUMANITIES.
• SARA VILAR-LLUCH, 2023. Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’ Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
• ADOLPHS, S., MCAULEY, D., VILAR-LLUCH, S., KNIGHT, D., MCCLAUGHLIN, E., NICHELE, E., CLOS, J., BARNARD, P., PARNELL, T. and LANG, A., 2023. Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• SARA VILAR-LLUCH, 2022. Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour Functions of Language. 29(2), 199 - 225
• SARA VILAR-LLUCH, 2022. Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships. In: ANDREAS MUSOLFF, RUTH BREEZE, KAYO KONDO and SARA VILAR-LLUCH, eds., Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy Bloomsbury Academic. 185-206
• ANDREAS MUSOLFF, RUTH BREEZE, KAYO KONDO and SARA VILAR-LLUCH, eds., 2022. Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Heath Strategy Bloomsbury Academic.
• SARA VILAR-LLUCH, 2022. Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study Health Communication.
• SARA VILAR-LLUCH, 2021. Review of Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Cadierno & Castañeda Castro (2019): Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2 Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 19(2), 590 - 595