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2024

Aloufey, Mariam (2024) Tracing the Trajectory and Development of Language Teachers’ Resilience Stories from the Saudi context. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bali, Persefoni (2024) Incidental foreign vocabulary learning through multimodal exposure; the role of orthographic input. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Derecskey, Veronika Csilla (2024) Understanding and Overcoming Burnout: Insights into EFL Teacher Engagement and Reengagement in Hungarian Secondary Schools. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Elotteebi, Ghozayel (2024) The Role of Input Modality in Idiom Learning in L1 English and Arabic-speaking Adults and Children and L2 English-speaking Adults. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Heaton, Dan (2024) Agency, Trust and Blame in Decision-Making Algorithms: An Analysis of Twitter Discourses. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Reason, Emily (2024) The changing nature of θυμός in Homer, Plato and Apollonius of Rhodes. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wheddon, Rebecca (2024) Propaganda and persuasion: political discourse and the negotiation of power and authority in Yorkist and early Tudor England. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2023

Bennett, Sarah (2023) The Rhetoric of Conspiracy Theories. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Birch, Kathryn (2023) Comparing attitudes towards standard language use in French and Russian. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Chen, Jin (2023) A corpus-based study on China's international counterterrorism discourse (2001-2021). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Desai, Shreyasi (2023) The Impact of Hyperbole on the Perception of Testimonies from Victims of Sexual Crime. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Harrington, Leigh (2023) Facework and (im)politeness in professional communication: an analysis of debt collection encounters. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Kalsi, T.K (2023) Investigating the age differences in good enough processing: eye-tracking evidence from young and older adults. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Leveridge, Francesca (2023) Subtitling Francophone World Cinema: Narratives of Identity, Alterity and Power in Audiovisual Translation. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Marley, Jodie Lorna (2023) The Mystic Communities of William Blake and W. B. Yeats: Shared Spiritual Influences and Legacies. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Mundt, Klaus (2023) Dealing with the Allegedly Impossible: a pedagogical action research investigation into teaching and learning the translation of cultural items. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Parnell, Tamsin (2023) Constructing British and European identities in Brexit Britain: a critical linguistic analysis of press, political, and personal discourses. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Rosen, Sam (2023) A Sociocultural Linguistic Analysis of Asexual Identity Construction in an Online Forum. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2022

Bowman, Alicia (2022) The Non-Literate ‘Other’: The Gendered Narratives of Indian and Pakistani Female Migrant Spouses with emerging English language and literacy skills. EdD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Cotgrove, Louis A (2022) #GlockeAktiv: A corpus linguistic study of German youth language on YouTube. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Duro-Bello, Olaoluwa (2022) A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Boko Haram in Nigerian Presidential speeches. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Edmondson, Daniel (2022) Reclaiming Colourful Language: The Impact of Linguistic Reclamation on the Cognitive Processing of LGBTQ+ Slurs. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Francois-Cull, Whitney Nikita (2022) Teenage pregnancy and abortion: discourse, identity and power. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Putland, Emma (2022) Representing dementia: A qualitative analysis of how people affected by dementia situate themselves in relation to different dementia discourses. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Ruiz Guerrero, Leticia A. (2022) Finding a pathway to language learning advising through teacher autonomy within an Ignatian pedagogical model in a Mexican private university. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Teoh, Sing Fei (2022) Participatory governmentality: social network transitions in Malaysia’s mental healthcare. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Watts, Matthew (2022) Mobile translation applications: On the verge of a post-Babel world 2.0? PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wu, Jiaye (2022) Representing language, culture and citizenship to minoritised ethnic groups: the teaching of Mandarin Chinese to Mongolian learners as a second language in China since 1912. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2021

Altamimi, Abdulaziz (2021) The Acquisition and Processing of Formulaic Language: A Focus on Binomials and Collocations and the Effects of Congruency, Frequency and Learning Conditions. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bailey, Aimee (2021) How to be a queer woman: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of online media. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Boo, Peizhen/Zann (2021) Implicit attitudes in L2 motivation research: The case of learning English and Mandarin in Hong Kong. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Cong, Mu (2021) Drawing QSers' mind : a cognitively-informed critical metaphor analysis tracing the cultural model of the Quantified Self. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Cox, George (2021) Platformalism: Finding the Forms of Platform Literature. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Dempsey, Lauren (2021) From occasion to obsession: the connection between relationships, media literacy and the changing use of computer mediated communication from 2005-2018. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Emerson, Tristan (2021) Discourse and professional identities in healthcare communication. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Esteban, Anthony (2021) Dubbing Star Wars: a journey to bridge the uncanny valley. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

GALMICHE, Dominique (2021) Shame in SLA: Narrative insights from French learners of FLs. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Genovesi, Marco (2021) Social interactions in international forums: a new model. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hammas, Wedyan (2021) Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Translation: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of English FEAR Metaphors and Metonymies into Arabic. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Harbi, Raya (2021) Reader Response to Literary Political Discourse: A Critical Text World Theory Approach. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

McIntosh, Michele G. (2021) Constructing the model citizen in healthcare communication. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Mohamed, Nourhan (2021) Re-imagining Egyptian national identity in the post-Arab Spring novel: the stylistics of representing social agents and building fictional worlds in The Queue and Otared. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Morgan, Katherine Rebecca Anne (2021) Medicalising and Pharmaceuticalising Discourses in Food Supplement Advertising: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) of Weight Loss Websites. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Neurohr, Benedict Jürgen (2021) Situational Language Understanding in Texts. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Stevens, Michael P. (2021) The interactive ecology of construal in gesture: a microethnographic analysis of peer learning at an EMI university in China. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2020

Alotaibi, Sara (2020) The effect of input mode, input enhancement and number of exposures on the learning and processing of binomials in the L2. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Altuwaijri, Nada (2020) Representation of women in advertisements in Arabic and English magazines: a multimodal critical discourse approach. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bakeer, Samira (2020) A multimodal investigation of Discourse Markers in doctoral supervision sessions: Two case studies. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Fitton-Hayward, Melanie (2020) Translation and narrative voice: translating ambiguities and narrators in Virgil’s Aeneid. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Harrison, Katie (2020) Ukrainian in the United Kingdom: language use, attitudes, ideologies and identities in the Ukrainian community. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Howard, Victoria (2020) Rules, practices and identities: an interactional sociolinguistic study of Queen’s Speech Debates in the House of Lords. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Julian, Northbrook (2020) How many CDs do you have?: The impact of teaching-materials on formulaic language processing in Japanese learners of English. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Kyriacou, Marianna (2020) Understanding modified idiomatic expressions: the 'impossible' just takes a little longer. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Lake, Fiona (2020) Infant formula milk promotion: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of packaging and homepages. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Quintana Blanco, Cristina (2020) Sherlock Holmes, A Drama in Four Acts: an approach to the translation of late-Victorian mystery drama. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2019

Azizan, Mazlin (2019) A discourse analysis of lecturer identities in classroom interactions. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bailey, Annika (2019) Discourses of dementia in the British press: a corpus linguistic approach. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Chen, Yaoyao (2019) Towards the multimodal unit of meaning: a multimodal corpus-based approach. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Haines, Alice (2019) A cognitive poetic model of humour in fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Kreischer, Kim-Sue (2019) A corpus-cognitive approach to ideological attention in discourse. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Le Thi, Duyen (2019) Motivation and Vocabulary Learning: Increasing the Effectiveness of Teaching L2 Formulaic Sequences Through Motivational Strategies and Mental Imagery. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Molinari, Julia (2019) What makes writing academic: an educational and philosophical response. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, UK.

Rade, Rachel E. (2019) A longitudinal critical discourse analysis of ‘immigration’ in the UK parliament. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Sia, Ming Yean (2019) The role of linguistic biases in word learning. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wang, Lifang (2019) A corpus-based investigation of pausing and the production of formulaic Language in EAP speech fluency. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

de Montety, Felix (2019) Mapping Other and Self: Language, Space and Identity in the Modern European Geographical Imagination of Central Asia. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2018

Albalawi, Fatemah (2018) L2 demotivation among Saudi learners of English: the role of the language learning mindsets. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Alruwaili, Awatif (2018) Integrating corpus linguistics in second language vocabulary acquisition. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Amasha, Siti Azlinda (2018) Dialogic space in three lower primary classrooms a multimodal approach. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Carrillo-Viramontes, Jose Antonio (2018) Essays on political accountability and selection. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Cotgrove, Louis (2018) #GlockeAktiv: gender and ethnicity differences in German-language YouTube comments. MA(Res) thesis, University of Nottingham.

González-Fernández, Beatriz (2018) Vocabulary knowledge components: knowledge, acquisition and conceptualisation. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hagger-Vaughan, Lesley (2018) How schools in England understand and enact education policy: the case of modern languages at key stage 4. EdD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Jordan Enriquez, Rosa Margarita (2018) Don't panic! Cultural difficulties in the translation of English humour into Spanish for a Cuban context: The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. MA(Res) thesis, University of Nottingham.

Kremmel, Benjamin (2018) Development and initial validation of a diagnostic computer-adaptive profiler of vocabulary knowledge. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Ofemile, Abdulmalik Caxton Yusuf (2018) Listenership in human-agent collectives: a study of unidirectional instruction-giving. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Tang, Beibei (2018) Feminist translation equivalence and norms: gender and female alienation in Chinese translation of Chinese American women's literature. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Yoong, Melissa (2018) An analysis of professional discourses and gendered identities in Malaysian media. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Şimşek, Erdi (2018) Anxiety and L2 self-images: the anxious self. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2017

Al-Hoorie, Ali (2017) Implicit attitudes in language learning. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Escobar Hernandez, Rosa Margarita (2017) Question time in the Mexican Congress: the rules of the game. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Leong, Christine Xiang Ru (2017) Spoken English discrimination (SED) training with multilingual Malaysians: effect of adaptive staircase procedure and background babble in high variability phonetic training. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Liu, Ning (2017) A study of genre changes and privileged pedagogic identity in teaching contest discourse. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Waninge, Freerkien (2017) Emotion and motivation in language learning. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wen, Yun (2017) Behavioural and electrophysiological investigations of Chinese translation activation during English word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Zhang, Jing (2017) Exploring a social-linguistic construction of Chinese students’ disciplinary identities in the mediated process of group membership affiliation in a UK-based university in China. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2016

Brookes, Gavin John (2016) The discursive construction of diabulimia: a corpus linguistic examination of online health communication. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Garnier, Mélodie (2016) English phrasal verbs: usage, knowledge, acquisition. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hiver, Philip V. (2016) Tracing the signature dynamics of language teacher immunity. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Ibrahim, Zana Ismail (2016) Directed motivational currents: optimal productivity and long-term sustainability in second language acquisition. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Kirk, Steven J. (2016) Second language spoken fluency in monologue and dialogue. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Macis, Marijana (2016) The figurative nature of collocations: extent, knowledge and acquisition of duplex collocations by non-native speakers. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Muir, Christine (2016) The dynamics of intense long-term motivation in language learning: Directed Motivational Currents in theory and practice. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Parente, Fabio (2016) Moving through language: a behavioural and linguistic analysis of spatial mental model construction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Qaiwer, Shatha Naiyf (2016) A study of identity construction in political discourse. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Vilkaitė, Laura (2016) Formulaic language: distribution, processing, and acquisition. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2015

Chuang, Chieh-Hsiang (2015) Learner anxiety and EFL learning: A study of tertiary students' and teachers' perceptions in Taiwan. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Steadman, Mark (2015) Investigating the neural code for dynamic speech and the effect of signal degradation. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2014

Alahirsh, Hamed (2014) Exploring the effectiveness of extensive reading on incidental vocabulary acquisition by EFL learners: an experimental case study in a Libyan University. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Chan, Hing Yee Letty (2014) Possible selves, vision, and dynamic systems theory in second language learning and teaching. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2013

Bisson, Marie-Josee (2013) Incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary through multi-modal situations. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Brown, Melissa Shani (2013) Cartographies of silence: mapping concepts of silence and their contexts. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gentile, Francesco Paolo (2013) Talking metaphors: metaphors and the philosophy of language. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gupta, Katherine E. (2013) A corpus linguistic investigation into the media representation of the suffrage movement. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hunt, Daniel (2013) Anorexia nervosa, depression and medicalisation: a corpus-based study of patients and professionals. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Le, Quynh X. (2013) Fostering learner autonomy in language learning in tertiary education: an intervention study of university students in Hochiminh City, Vietnam. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Lepp-Kaethler, Elfrieda (2013) Wellspring of motivation and L2 vision in second language acquisition (SLA): sacred texts as source. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Lin, Yen-Liang (2013) Intercultural communication and adolescent learners: a corpus-based approach to online and face-to-face interaction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Liu, Li-E. (2013) Register awareness and English language learning: the case of multi-word discourse markers. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Saba, Riad (2013) Language learning in virtual worlds. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Yuan, Wenjuan (2013) A cognitive poetics of kinaesthesia in Wordsworth. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2012

Coderre, Emily L. (2012) Exploring the cognitive effects of bilingualism: neuroimaging investigations of lexical processing, executive control, and the bilingual advantage. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Cooker, Lucy (2012) Formative (self-)assessment as autonomous language learning. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Du, Ping (2012) Intercultural differences in relational strategies at workplace meetings: a case study for two frameworks. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gallagher, Hugh Colin (2012) In the loop: a social network approach to the willingness to communicate in the L2 (L2 WTC). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Mevel, Pierre-Alexis (2012) Can we do the right thing?: subtitling African American vernacular English into French. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2011

Martinez, Ron (2011) The development of a corpus-informed list of formulaic sequences for language pedagogy. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Méndez López, Mariza Guadalupe (2011) Emotion and language learning: an exploration of experience and motivation in a Mexican university context. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Petraki, Elpida (2011) From Napaŋ to N'haber: is reshaping language, reshaping national identity?: the case of Cypriot Turkish. MA(Res) thesis, University of Nottingham.

Taylor, Florentina (2011) A quadripolar model of identity in adolescent foreign language learners. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2010

Siyanova, Anna (2010) On-line processing of multi-word sequences in a first and second language: evidence from eye-tracking and ERP. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Tangkiengsirisin, Supong (2010) Enhancing cohesion in Thai postgraduate students' expository writing through feedback delivery and revision. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Tsuchiya, Keiko (2010) A culture-sensitive taxonomy of response tokens: moving from listnership to speakership. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2009

Christopher, Anne A. (2009) A longitudinal study of the use of rhetorical figures and communicative and stylistic strategies in advertising slogans. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Haworth, Kate (2009) An analysis of police interview discourse and its role(s) in the judicial process. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Jones, Susan Mary (2009) Bilingual identities in two UK communities: a study of the languages and literacies of Welsh and British-Asian girls. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Knight, Dawn (2009) A multi-modal corpus approach to the analysis of backchanneling behaviour. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Xu, Jun (2009) Displaying overt recipiency: reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented conversation. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2006

Edwards, Peter A. (2006) Willingness to communicate among Korean learners of English. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hill, Kent A. (2006) Sociocognitive metaphorm. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hnin Tun, San San (2006) Discourse marking in Burmese and English: a corpus-based approach. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2005

Lamb, Terence E. (2005) Listening to our learners' voices: pupils' constructions of language learning in an urban school. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wiśniewska, Sylwia (2005) Struggling for change: provision for the professional development of foreign language teachers of young learners in Bydgoszcz, Poland. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2004

Taylor, Linda (2004) Teachers' awareness and use of language for setting up teacher-independent activities in the language class: a case study and a chess game. EdD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2003

Faulkner, Hilary (2003) Predicting gifted foreign language learning and performance. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Fung, Loretta Po-yin (2003) The use and teaching of discourse markers in Hong Kong: students' production and teachers' perspectives. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2002

Badran, Dany (2002) Ideology through modality. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Harrison, Julia (2002) The structure of discussion: a discourse analytical approach to the identification of structure in the text type 'discussion'. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Lu, Zhongshe (2002) Readability in reading materials selection and coursebook design for college English in China. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wiesemes, Rolf (2002) Developing my theory of practice as a teacher-researcher through a case-study of CLIL classroom interaction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2000

Rowland, Caroline F. (2000) The grammatical acquisition of wh-questions in early English multi-word speech. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1999

Coyle, Do (1999) Adolescent voices speak out: if only they would - if only they could : a case study : the interplay between linguistic and strategic competence in classrooms where modern languages are used. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1998

Bissoonauth, Anu (1998) Language use, language choice and language attitudes among young Mauritian adolescents in secondary education. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1997

Chincotta, Dino (1997) The determinants of bilingual memory capacity. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gibbs, Simon James Colville (1997) Phonological awareness: influences and associates in the context of the development of word reading in young children. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Schmitt, Norbert (1997) Using a word knowledge framework to research vocabulary. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1996

Forsyth, Richard (1996) Stylistic atructures: a computational approach to text classification. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Ramkalawan, Tina Winnie (1996) Factors that influence the language and communication of hearing-impaired children. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1993

Zhu, Chunshen (1993) Structure of Meaning (SOM): towards a three-dimensional perspective on translating between Chinese and English. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1991

Marley, Dawn (1991) A sociolinguistic description of Perpignan. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1990

Skelton, Robert David (1990) The narrative discourse of deaf children: a concept of story. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.