Dr Johann Unger
Senior Lecturer in Critical Discourse StudiesResearch Overview
I am currently interested in two main research areas:
- Language and digitally mediated politics, and particularly political resistance
- Language policy and the politics of language
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
In 2022-23 I am contributing to teaching on the following modules:
Undergraduate
- LING102 - English Language Part I
- LING103 - Linguistics Part I
- GEN.101 - Gender Studies Part I
- LING204 - Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
- LING232 - Understanding Media
Postgraduate
- LING440 - Critical Discourse Studies
Additional Information
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: Anti-feminist discourse in online forums; Accounts of sexual harassment among sex-workers; Language policy and ideologies in Pakistan; Attitudes towards migrants on Twitter in Saudi Arabia; Persuasion and manipulation in TED talks
Selected Publications
Page, R., Barton, D., Lee, C., Unger, J., Zappavigna, M. 28/02/2022 2nd ed. London : Routledge. 216 p. ISBN: 9780367640088, 9780367640095. Electronic ISBN: 9781003121763.
Book
Harding, L., Brunfaut, T., Unger, J.W. 1/10/2020 In: Applied Linguistics. 41, 5, p. 662–687. 26 p.
Journal article
Unger, J.W. 7/04/2020 In: Researching Discourse. London : Routledge ISBN: 9781138551084. Electronic ISBN: 9780367815042.
Chapter
Barakos, E., Unger, J.W. 22/11/2016 London : Palgrave Macmillan. 299 p. ISBN: 9781137531339. Electronic ISBN: 9781137531346.
Book
Unger, J. 4/02/2016 In: Palgrave Communications. 2, 4 p.
Comment/debate
Unger, J.W. 10/2013 John Benjamins. 178 p.
Monograph
All Publications
01/01/2024 → 31/07/2024
Research
22/06/2022 → …
Other
01/09/2019 → 31/12/2022
Research
17/10/2017 → 30/06/2018
Research
06/01/2014 → 05/01/2016
Research
02/07/2012 → 28/09/2012
Research
01/03/2011 → 31/12/2021
Other
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Editorial activity
Editorial activity
Editorial activity
Editorial activity
- Authors and the World
- DisTex - Discourse and Text Research Group
- Institute for Social Futures Fellow
- Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
- LIP - Language, Ideology and Power Group