
Research Overview
My research involves the critical and multimodal analysis of social class discourse in broadcast and digital media.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- PhD, School of English, University of Hong Kong
- MA Applied Linguistics & TESOL, University of Leicester
- MA Creative Writing, Lancaster University
- BA (Hons) English, Nottingham Trent University
Teaching Areas
- (Critical) discourse analysis
- Sociolinguistics
- Multimodality
- English lexis and semantics
- English for academic purposes
Research Interests
Research Output
- Daly, J. S. (2024). The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant: Contrasting figures of personhood in YouTube comments. Journal of Language and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23192.dal
- Daly, J. S. (2024). The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: A multimodal analysis. Social Semiotics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2041364
- Daly, J.S. (2025). The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant: Contrasting figures of personhood in YouTube comments. International Academy for Intercultural Research & International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Joint Conference, University of Queensland.
- Adam Mickiewicz University and International Conference on New Culture of Signs and Media, Hongik University.
- Daly, J.S. (2021). The intersections of social class, migration, and citizenship in YouTube comments. Invited panel on intersectionality, Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, University of Hong Kong.
- Daly, J.S. (2019). Below the line: Constructing a “permanent underclass” in YouTube comments. British Association for Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University.
- Daly, J.S. (2018). Constructing a “permanent underclass” in YouTube comments. Winter School in Sociolinguistics, University of Copenhagen.
- Daly, J.S. (2018). Below the line: Social class discourse in YouTube comments. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland.
- Daly, J.S. (2018). Benefits Street on YouTube: A neoliberal commentary? ALT Doctoral Seminar, University College London.
- Daly, J.S. (2018). The use of heteroglossia in YouTube comments to “other” benefits recipients. King’s College London.
- Daly, J.S. (2015). The Necessity of Extensive Reading for EFL Students. Qatar TESOL, TESOL Arabia, and World Extensive Reading conferences.
- Daly, J. S. (2021). David Malinowski & Stefania Tufi (eds.), Reterritorializing linguistic landscapes: Questioning boundaries and opening spaces. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 383. Hb. £117. Language in Society, 50(1), 161-162. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404520000962