Media and Communication | Department of English and Communication

This research area focuses on all aspects of media communication in various contexts, including but not limited to creative cultural industries, public communication, and corporate communication. Research in this area analyses language, image, sound and other semiotic resources in old and new (creative) media, such as advertisements, news, comics, film, and television from different theoretical approaches.

(1) Critical Discourse Analysis

Prof. Kathleen Ahrens*

(Political discourse, critical metaphor analysis)

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(2) Discourse analysis

Prof. Eric Friginal*

(Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis, Language and Smart Cities)

Prof. Dennis Tay*

(Metaphor and metonymy in discourse, statistical modelling of discourse)

Dr William Feng*

(Multimodality, media discourse, advertising discourse)

Dr Phoenix Lam*

(Multimodality, professional discourse, computer-mediated discourse)

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(3) Public health messaging

Prof. Louise Cummings*

(Reasoning and Argumentation)

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*All faculty members with a star next to their name are potential Principal Supervisors for the 2023-24 intake of RPg students.

Research Highlights

Author	Title	Year	Research type
Ahrens, K.	First Lady, Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate: A Comparative Study of the Role-Dependent Use of Metaphor in Politics. In Julien Perrez, Min Reuchamps and Paul Thibodeau (Eds.) Variation in Political Metaphor. (pp. 13-34). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.	2019	Book Chapter
Bhatia, A.	The ‘saffronisation’ of India and contemporary political ideology. World Englishes. 2020;39:568–580. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12494	2020	Journal Article
Cummings, L.	‘Convincing a sceptical public: The challenge of public health’, in B. Watson and J. Krieger (eds.), Expanding Health Communication in Asia, The Humanities in Asia, Springer, 249-274.	2020	Book Chapter
Tay, D.	Time Series Analysis of Discourse. Method and Case Studies. London and New York: Routledge.	2019	Book