Dr Johann Unger
Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes
Degree: MA(Hons), MLitt, MA, PhD
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Language in Social Life, Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP), Research in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Current Teaching
I am contributing to the following modules in 2011-12:>
Undergraduate
LING204 - Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in use
LING301 - Dissertation Workshops: Qualitative Analysis>
Postgraduate
LING402 - Postgraduate Academic Study Skills
LING442 - Introduction to Discourse Studies
MA TESOL (Hong Kong) - Foundation Module
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
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I am particularly interested in supervising students in the areas of 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 co-supervising students working on parliamentary debates in Kenya, Arabic media constructions of Iraq, and Maasai identity.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Johann Unger has 6 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Unger, Johann W. (2010) Legitimating inaction : differing identity constructions of the Scots language. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13 (1). pp. 99-117. ISSN 1367-5494
Unger, Johann W. (2009) Economic discourses of Scots on Bourdieu’s “Linguistic Market”. In: Language and Economic Development. Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics . Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, Belfast. ISBN 085389910X
Unger, Johann W. (2008) A keek at Scots lang syne : a brief overview of the historical development of the Scots language. Vienna English Working Papers, 17 (1). pp. 91-101.
Unger, Johann W. and Sunderland, Jane (2007) Gendered discourses in a contemporary animated film : subversion and confirmation of gender stereotypes in Shrek. In: Discourse and Contemporary Social Change. Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 459-486. ISBN 9783039112760
Gabrielatos, Costas and Slessor, Richard and Unger, J. W. (2007) Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, Vol. 1: Papers from LAEL PG 2006. Lancaster University, Lancaster.
Unger, J. and Sunderland, Jane (2005) Gendered discourses in a contemporary animated film: subversion and confirmation of gender stereotypes in Shrek. Working Paper. Lancaster University, Lancaster. (Unpublished)
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