Language, Ideology and Power Research Group (LIP)

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The Language, Ideology and Power research group is based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. The Group was first set up around 30 years ago.

Researchers associated with the group investigate the way language and other semiotic resources are used to communicate, legitimate and reproduce social identities and relations in a variety of contexts. As such, its work falls broadly within the interdisciplinary field of Critical Discourse Studies, an approach to discourse and discourse analysis which focuses on the way social issues are constructed through text and talk. LIPs research addresses, for example:

• The discursive construction of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in media and political communication
• Digitally mediated politics
• Language policy and representations of minority languages
• Right-wing populist discourses, including in multimodal texts
• Multilingualism in European institutions

The Group welcomes new members, visiting researchers and guest speakers.

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