Tamsin Parnell
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Biography
I am a second-year PhD student using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis (CADS) to explore constructions of British and European identities in government documents, pro-Brexit newspapers, and interviews with Nottinghamshire residents. I am a Learning Community Forum representative for second-year PhD students in the School of English, a peer mentor to MA students in the School, and the Issue Management Editor for Issue 5 of the Faculty of Art's Journal of Languages, Texts and Society. I am also a student committee member for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB), and the co-organiser of the Discourse and Politics Seminar Series.
My research interests include:
- Corpus linguistics
- Critical discourse analysis
- Media discourses
- Political discourses
- Identities (particularly national, migrant, political)
- Stories in oral interviews
Expertise Summary
My research expertise includes:
- Corpus linguistics (specifically CADS and Key Semantic Domain Analysis)
- Critical discourse analysis
- Analysing media and political discourses
- National and supranational identities / nationalism
- Brexit and constructions of national and political identities in this context
- Stories in oral interviews / qualitative interviewing
Teaching Summary
I am currently an Hourly Paid Lecturer in semantics and psycholinguistics at De Montfort University. I have previously taught on the core first-year Liberal Arts module, Introduction to Liberal Arts.… read more
Research Summary
My PhD thesis will be the first corpus-assisted critical discourse study to provide a holistic overview of the construction of British, European and international identities in UK government… read more
I am currently an Hourly Paid Lecturer in semantics and psycholinguistics at De Montfort University. I have previously taught on the core first-year Liberal Arts module, Introduction to Liberal Arts. I have also been a Teaching Affiliate in the School of English.
Current Research
My PhD thesis will be the first corpus-assisted critical discourse study to provide a holistic overview of the construction of British, European and international identities in UK government documents, pro-Brexit newspapers, and public opinion between February 2016 and December 2019.