Webinar l PhD Graduate Research Showcase and Information Session on PhD Fellowships in Hong Kong
Info Seminars
RCPCE Events
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Date
12 Nov 2021
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Organiser
Department of English and Communication
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Time
16:00 - 17:00
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Venue
Zoom
Speaker
Dr Mark Nartey
Summary
The analysis of public discourses and the discursive construction of social, cultural and political phenomena represent a vibrant area of research in applied linguistics, in general, and critical linguistics, in particular. In this talk, I demonstrate how my research is positioned within and contributes to this body of knowledge. The talk is divided into three sections. First, I delineate what critical inquiry entails and how it contributes to an understanding of identity and discursive construction. Next, I present a synopsis of my research and illustrate how it not only has its roots in my PhD work, but also builds on it. Finally, I articulate a number of reasons why students aspiring to pursue a PhD in applied linguistics or communication studies must look no further than the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Keynote Speaker
Dr Mark Nartey
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mark Nartey holds The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English and Communication. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in corpus-assisted discourse studies, with a focus on issues at the intersection of language, culture and society. He is interested in how discourse figures in social processes, social structures and social change. He has recently guest-edited a Special Issue on emancipatory discourses for Critical Discourse Studies and has an upcoming monograph on political myth-making, populist performance and nationalist resistance to be published in the Routledge Studies in Language and Linguistics book series.
