Inequality Discourses in the Media symposium

The University of Birmingham presents a one-day symposium where discussion will be held around the discursive representation of different forms of exclusion, inequality or discrimination in the British media (print, TV, radio or online).

Contributions to the symposium use a range of disciplines and methods, including critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics, corpus linguistics, corpus-assisted discourse studies and blends of these and other approaches. The symposium is organized as part of our DINEQ project, and is fully funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020).

The symposium will feature talks from the following speakers:

• Lynsey Hanley (Liverpool John Moores University, Author of Estates and Respectable, Guardian contributor)
• Joe Bennett (University of Birmingham)
• Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham)
• Matt Davies (University of Chester)
• Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield)
• Brian Walker (University of Huddersfield)
• Mark McGlashan (Birmingham City University)
• Jane Mulderrig (University of Sheffield)
• Ilse Ras (Leeds University)
• Alessia Tranchese (University of Portsmouth)