Sharon Glaas Department of English Language and LinguisticsDoctoral researcher Contact details PhD title: Evaluative Language in Political and Media Discourse on the European Union Supervisors: Professor Susan Hunston and Dr Ruth Page PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics Research My corpus-assisted discourse study will focus on the significance of noun choice for characterising situations in political and media discourse on the European Union in the period surrounding the British membership referendum of June 2016.