Manal Alharbi is a fourth-year PhD student in the School of English Language, Communication & Philosophy (ENCAP) at Cardiff University. She holds a BA in English language and Literature (Distinction) awarded from King Abdulaziz University\/ Saudi Arabia (2001). She received an MSc in Developmental Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (2011). Her main research interest is in how bilingual adults maintain two languages in their brain. She is currently under the supervision of Dr Michelle Aldridge-Waddon looking at the process of lexical access by adult bilinguals whose languages have different scripts namely Arabic and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am a second-year PhD student at Cardiff University. Currently, I\nam working on a project entitled \u201cthe phonological effect of Iraqi Arabic as a heritage\nlanguage on Cardiff English as a native and majority language for adult\nheritages speakers of Arabic in Cardiff, the UK\u201d under the supervision of Dr. Gerard O\u2019Grady. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reem\u2019s\narea of research is language in media and particularly on social media. She is\nsupervised by Dr. Mercedes Durham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reem\nAl Madani is a PhD researcher in the Centre of Language and Communication\nResearch at Cardiff University. She received her B.A. in English Language and\nLiterature from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia and her M.A in\nLinguistics from the University of Jordan. Before starting her PhD, Reem worked\nat Effat University in Jeddah \u2013 Saudi Arabia as a Lecturer in the Visual and\nDigital Production Department and she was also the Director of the Management\nof Communication and Public Relations at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nasser Alqahtani is currently a PhD student at Cardiff University and is also an assistant teacher in the department of English Language at Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. His research interests are widely within the field of discourse analysis and academic writing. However, his current topic is particularly focusing on metadiscourse markers in academic writing of MA students from Saudi Arabia and how they are compared to their counterparts in the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zeen\nAl-Rasheed is a PhD student in her writing up stage in the School of English,\nCommunication and Philosophy in Cardiff University. In 2013-2014, she was\nawarded an MA degree in Language Communication Research from the same school.\nBefore pursuing her PhD, she has obtained a BA in Management from\nAdministration & Management College in Mosul University\/Iraq in 1987-1988.\nAnd later, another BA in English Language from Salahaddin University in\nErbil\/Kurdistan Region in 2003-2004. In 2009-2010, she has been awarded an MA\ndegree in English Language at the same University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mashael Assaadi is\ncurrently in her 4rd year of her PhD in linguistics at Cardiff University. In\n2015, she obtained her MA (Hons) in Linguistics-Applied Linguistics from\nCalifornia State University-Fullerton. In 2011, she obtained her BA (Hons)\nin English Language and linguistics from King Abdul-Aziz University- Saudi\nArabia. Mashael’s research interests include semiotics, dialectology,\nphonetics, phonology, sound symbolism, iconicity of language and\ncross-linguistic comparison, everyday conversation analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Banan is a PhD student at Cardiff\nUniversity in the Centre of language and Communication Research (CLCR). She had\nher BA degree in English and Translation Studies (King Khalid University\/2012)\nand her master\u2019s degree in applied Linguistics (Cardiff University\/ 2016).\nBanan PhD research is under the supervision of Prof. Michael Handford. Her\nresearch interests include news\/media cross-lingual critical discourse\nanalysis, corpus linguistics and multimodality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kate completed her LLB degree in Law at the University of Southampton\nbefore going into teaching. She spent\nseventeen years teaching EFL, EAP, ESP and Tort Law in Further and Higher\nEducation as well as teaching Legal English to international solicitors in\nprivate firms in London. She developed her interest in language and the\nlaw by doing a part-time MA in Forensic Linguistics from 2015-2017 and focused\non issues relating to online hate speech, sexual violence and harassment, and\nconsent in rape cases. Kate is continuing in these areas of research and\nis now in the third year of her PhD, looking at discourses on sexual violence\nwithin far-right and Manosphere online blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am a PhD student in Cardiff University\u2019s Centre for Language and Communication Research. My research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council Wales Doctoral Partnership. I completed a BA in English (First Class Hons.) at the University of Southampton before working as a secondary school English teacher and teaching assistant. I then moved to Cardiff University with a Master’s Excellence Scholarship to study for an MA in Language and Linguistics in which I achieved a Distinction. For my Master’s research, I was awarded the Nicholas Coupland Prize for Best Performance in Sociolinguistics. My research combines my teaching experience, fascination for etymology and morphology and hope to aid both children’s vocabulary development and pedagogical practices in the English language classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
D\u00e9bora Cabral Lima is a first-year PhD student at Cardiff University. She finished her MA in Language and Communication Research with focus on Forensic Linguistics with distinction in 2019. She also has a BA in History, a Portuguese Language and Literature Teaching degree and an MA in Discourse Analysis from the University of Brasilia (UnB). Even though she is now a full-time student, she has worked as a tutor at UnB and Centro Universit\u00e1rio UniCeub, in Brazil. Her areas of interest include Forensic Linguistics, Identity construction, Representation and Genre analysis. Science communication is her passion, so she writes fun texts and participates on podcasts (in Portuguese<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alex Carr is a postgraduate\nresearcher at Cardiff University in the Centre of Language and Communication\nResearch (CLCR). His research interests include categorization, lexical\nsemantics and functional grammar, with a particular focus on the classification\nof nominality and the expression of event semantics in nominal form. His PhD\nthesis, supervised by Lise Fontaine, proposes to expand our conception of\nthe nature and degree of nominality, through exploring how nominals express\ntemporal semantics, with specific attention provided to underived event nominals,\ni.e. nouns which express event semantics which have not derived from a verb,\ne.g. storm, fire, death<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucy Chrispin is an ESRC-funded postgraduate researcher at Cardiff University in the Centre of Language and Communication Research (CLCR). Her research interests include functional grammar, construction grammar and corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on the nature of verb classes and verb constructions. Her PhD thesis, supervised by Lise Fontaine, intends to develop our understanding of intransitive constructions, with a particular focus on what are called behavioural <\/em>verb constructions in Halliday (1994), which include bodily processes such as coughing, laughing, dreaming, and listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following completion of degrees in\nMusic, Design and Digital Animation, I discovered my passion for linguistics through\nthe works of JRR Tolkien – specifically his invented languages. This encouraged\na further degree (Linguistics) at De Montfort, which gave me the opportunity to\ndiscover just how influential aesthetics have become in modern day\ncommunication. This concluded with the publishing of my first book, The Elvish Writing Systems of JRR Tolkien<\/em>\n– the content for which required a significant amount of research through\ncollaborative contact of like-minded scholars. From this point, a PhD was a\nlogical progression in further establishing my work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After completing her undergraduate degree in English Language\nat Cardiff University, Aurora studied a MA in Language and Communication\nResearch, formulating a special interest in Twitter communication as a means of\ndemonstrating stance. Her PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. Tereza Spilioti,\nfocusses upon how Twitter disinformation accounts, active around the 2016 US\nPresidential Election, used linguistic resources to authenticate identity\nperformances. She intends to investigate impersonations of American citizens by\nfocussing upon the identity aspects presented in their metadata, the use of\nhashtags as a means of affiliation, and how vernacular features were used in\nrelation to social group identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Katharine\nKavanagh is a first year ESRC-funded PhD student with a background in\nperforming arts, arts criticism, and circus journalism. She has worked as a\nLecturer at the National Centre for Circus Arts, London, and as Visiting\nLecturer at Circomedia, Bristol and Stockholm University of the Arts. Katharine\nholds an MA with Distinction in Language and Communication Research from\nCardiff University, and recently published her first peer reviewed article:<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlex Carr<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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