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Dr  John Scott Daly

Dr John Scott Daly

Lecturer

Research 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 Experience

  • 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

  • Critical discourse studies
  • Multimodal critical discourse studies
  • Media discourse
  • Online discourse

Research Output

  • 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

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