Philip Seargeant
job title: Snr Lecturer (English Lang/App Ling)
biography: I am an applied linguist, specialising in the relationship between language, politics and social media. @philipseargeant philipseargeant.com Research My research focuses on: Language and social media, with a particular focus on the politics of online interaction. This includes the project Creating Facebook: the management of conflict and the pursuit of online conviviality (with Caroline Tagg). Details of'context design' can be found here. Findings from this project fed into theevidencewe presented to the parliamentary select committee on'fake news' in 2017/18. (Link to supplementaryevidence.) English around the world. Language and creativity. This includes the project Creativity and politics in the linguistic landscape(with Korina Giaxoglou and Frank Monaghan). I was prevoiusly director of the Language and Communication Research group, and before that of the Applied Linguistics and Literacies Research Group. I am on the editorial boards ofEnglish TodayandWorld Englishes. In addition to this I have worked as a consultant for the BBC on a number of programmes, and written for publications such as The New European, The Huffington Post, Times Higher Education, Prospect, The Independent, The Washington Post, OpenDemocracy, The New Statesman and Libération. Please see philipseargeant.com for more details. Teaching I teach language and communication studies, focusing on topics including linguistic creativity, English around the world, and the relationship between language, politics and society. I am currently working on the new Level 2 undergaduate module L201. Previously I was deputy chair on the production of L101 An Introduction to English Language Studies, production chair of the undergraduate module E302 Language and Creativity, (winner of a Teaching Excellence Award) and have contributed to A105 Voices, Texts and Material Culture, A150 Voices and Texts, U214 Worlds of English, U211 Exploring the English Language, EA300 Children’s Literature (winner of OU Teaching Awa…
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description: I am an applied linguist, specialising in the relationship between language, politics and social media. @philipseargeant philipseargeant.com Research My research focuses on: Language and social media, with a particular focus on the politics of online interaction. This includes the project Creating Facebook: the management of conflict and the pursuit of online conviviality (with Caroline Tagg). Details of'context design' can be found here. Findings from this project fed into theevidencewe presented to the parliamentary select committee on'fake news' in 2017/18. (Link to supplementaryevidence.) English around the world. Language and creativity. This includes the project Creativity and politics in the linguistic landscape(with Korina Giaxoglou and Frank Monaghan). I was prevoiusly director of the Language and Communication Research group, and before that of the Applied Linguistics and Literacies Research Group. I am on the editorial boards ofEnglish TodayandWorld Englishes. In addition to this I have worked as a consultant for the BBC on a number of programmes, and written for publications such as The New European, The Huffington Post, Times Higher Education, Prospect, The Independent, The Washington Post, OpenDemocracy, The New Statesman and Libération. Please see philipseargeant.com for more details. Teaching I teach language and communication studies, focusing on topics including linguistic creativity, English around the world, and the relationship between language, politics and society. I am currently working on the new Level 2 undergaduate module L201. Previously I was deputy chair on the production of L101 An Introduction to English Language Studies, production chair of the undergraduate module E302 Language and Creativity, (winner of a Teaching Excellence Award) and have contributed to A105 Voices, Texts and Material Culture, A150 Voices and Texts, U214 Worlds of English, U211 Exploring the English Language, EA300 Children’s Literature (winner of OU Teaching Awa…
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