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Professor Alice Deignan

Professor Alice Deignan

  • Position: Head of School and Professor of Applied Linguistics
  • Areas of expertise: lexical approaches to language analysis and teaching, and applications of corpus linguistics to the study of metaphor, metonymy and pragmatics
  • Email: A.H.Deignan@education.leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 4606
  • Location: G.02 Hillary Place
  • Website: Twitter | Researchgate

Profile

I have worked as a teacher of English and Teacher Educator in various countries in Europe and Asia. I have also worked as a lexicographer and author for Collins COBUILD.

I am a researcher and teacher in applied linguistics, with particular interests in lexical approaches to language analysis and teaching, and applications of corpus linguistics to the study of metaphor, metonymy and pragmatics.

I am on the editorial boards of the journals 'Metaphor and Symbol', 'Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics' and 'Empirical Language Research'. I am co-editor of 'Metaphor and the Social World'.

Responsibilities

  • Head of School

Research interests

My research interests are in lexis, metaphor and pragmatics. I use large-scale corpora to investigate issues in these areas, using analytical techniques developed from corpus lexicography.

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Student education

I teach modules on language description and language skills at undergraduate and Masters level.

Research groups and institutes

  • Centre for Language Education

Current postgraduate research students

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>The school welcomes enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/research-opportunities">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>