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Dr  John Scott Daly

Dr John Scott Daly

Lecturer

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

  • Critical discourse studies
  • Multimodal critical discourse studies
  • Media discourse
  • Digital discourse

Research Output

  1. Daly, J. S. (2024). The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant: Contrasting figures of personhood in YouTube comments. Journal of Language and Politicshttps://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23192.dal
  2. 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
  1. 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.
  2. Adam Mickiewicz University and International Conference on New Culture of Signs and Media, Hongik University.
  3. 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.
  4. Daly, J.S. (2019). Below the line: Constructing a “permanent underclass” in YouTube comments. British Association for Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University.
  5. Daly, J.S. (2018). Constructing a “permanent underclass” in YouTube comments. Winter School in Sociolinguistics, University of Copenhagen.
  6. Daly, J.S. (2018). Below the line: Social class discourse in YouTube comments. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland.
  7. Daly, J.S. (2018). Benefits Street on YouTube: A neoliberal commentary? ALT Doctoral Seminar, University College London.
  8. Daly, J.S. (2018). The use of heteroglossia in YouTube comments to “other” benefits recipients. King’s College London.
  9. Daly, J.S. (2015). The Necessity of Extensive Reading for EFL Students. Qatar TESOL, TESOL Arabia, and World Extensive Reading conferences.
  1. 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

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