Dr. Majid KhosraviNik
BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer in Mass Communication/ Critical Discourse Analysis
Contact details:School of Arts & Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST majid.khosravinik@northumbria.ac.uk
Biography
Before joining Northumbria University I held a research position and was a p/t teaching staff at Linguistics and English Language department of Lancaster University where I also finished my PhD in Discourse Studies. I was involved in the ESRC funded research project RASIM as a researcher and taught on a range of courses including Critical Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis, Analysing Media, Language of Advertising, Corporate Communication, and Language in Society.
Research Interests
My areas of academic interest generally lie in theory, methods and application of Critical Discourse Analysis in a range of topics. I am interested in the representation of various social/political collective identities e.g. ethnic, religious, national, class, gender identities as well as the representation of events/issues/entities e.g. racism/discrimination, political conflicts, wars/unrests, forms of protests, Olympics, cities and countries in media discourses of various genres: press, TV, adverts, movies, New Media etc.
Within the past few years I have been focused on representation of migrants as a social group in the British newspapers. I am interested in construction of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ identity, and de/legitimacy within national and international levels. Generally speaking I look at the interplay of discourse, ideology and power in mass media as the mediator between language and society.
Postgraduate Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD projects in Critical Discourse Analysis with a socio-political or socio-historical approach in areas such as discourse and discrimination/racism, discourse and social/political identities e.g. immigration, discourse and international conflicts in media e.g. the Middle East conflict, Self and Other representation in political inter/national debates, interplay of mass communication and political institutions, expression/construction of identity in New Media e.g. Facebook, advertising and social stereotypes etc.
Publications
Rightwing Populism Across Europe: Communication, Discourses and Developments, Bloomsbury. Wodak, R. Mral, B. and KhosraviNik, M. (eds) (forthcoming 2012)
Dynamics of discursive representations of refugees and asylum seekers in the British press 1996-2006. In M. Messer, R. Schroeder and R. Wodak (eds) Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Springer-Verlag. KhosraviNik, M . Wodak R. and Krzyzanowski M. (forthcoming 2011),
The representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in British newspapers: a Critical Discourse Analysis.Journal of Language and Politics, 9(1), 1-28.(2010)
Actor descriptions, action attributions, and argumentation: towards a systematization of CDA analytical categories in the representation of social groups. Critical Discourse Studies, 7(1), 55-72.(2010)
The representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in British newspapers during the Balkan conflict (1999) and the British general election (2005).Discourse & Society, 20(4), 477-49 (2009)
Baker, P. Gabrielatos, C. KhosraviNik, M. Krzyzanowski, M. McEnery, A., and Wodak, R. (2008) A useful methodological synergy? Combining Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UK Press.Discourse & Society 19(3), 273-306.
British newspapers and the representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants between 1996 and 2006. Centre for Language in Social Life, Lancaster University.(2008)
Papers from Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, Vol. 2. Lancaster: Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. KhosraviNik, M. & Polyzou, A. (eds) (2008)
A critical analysis of news discourses in Iranian newspapers: A socio-semantic approach, Nameh Farhang (Letter of Culture) Quarterly, Vol. 42, winter 2002. (with Yarmohammadi, L.).
Critical discourse analysis of editorials of Iranian newspapers. Proceedings of the 5th Iranian conference on Linguistics. Allame University, March 10-12, 1999, Tehran, Iran.
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