Dr John Scott Daly
Teaching Fellow
- FG330
- +852 2766 7644
- scott.daly@polyu.edu.hk
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Research GateResearch Overview
My research involves the critical and multimodal study of social class discourse in media and online contexts.
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
Academic and Professional Experiences
- Instructor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- PhD candidate, University of Hong Kong
- Lecturer, Qatar University
- Visiting lecturer, Chung Cheong University
Teaching Areas
- (Critical) discourse analysis
- Sociolinguistics
- Multimodality
- English lexis and semantics
- English for academic purposes
Research Interests
Research Output
- Daly, J. S. (2022). ‘The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: A multimodal analysis’. Social Semiotics. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2041364
- ‘The intersections of social class, migration, and citizenship in YouTube comments’ at invited panel on intersectionality, Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, June 2021
- ‘Below the line: Constructing a “permanent underclass” in YouTube comments’ at British Association for Applied Linguistics, August 2019.
- ‘Constructing a “permanent underclass” in YouTube comments’ at University of Copenhagen Winter School in Sociolinguistics, March 2018
- ‘Below the line: Social class discourse in YouTube comments’ at Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, June 2018.
- ‘Benefits Street on YouTube: A neoliberal commentary?’ at UCL ALT Doctoral Seminar, June 2018.
- ‘The use of heteroglossia in YouTube comments to “other” benefits recipients’ at King’s College London summer school, June 2018.
- ‘The Necessity of Extensive Reading for EFL Students’ at Qatar TESOL, TESOL Arabia, and World Extensive Reading conferences in 2015.
- 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