John Currie

Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages
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Doctoral Research Fellow
Contact
+4769608525
john.currie@hiof.no
Study place
Halden
Office nr.
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Academic interests

  • Climate change discourse
  • Corpus-assisted discourse studies
  • Metaphors
  • Ecolinguistics

PhD project

My PhD project examines the ways in which climate change is discussed and conceptualised in different discourses in the UK as well as the extent to which this may or may not have changed over time. My project makes use of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics.

My supervisors are Daniel Lees Fryer and Ben Clarke.

Background

I am a doctoral research fellow at Østfold University College and Gothenburg University. I am part of the ELLA research programme at ØUC (Education, Literature, Language). I have a master’s degree in Communication from the University of Gothenburg (MSc) and an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh (MA Hons). I also have several years’ experience of teaching English as a foreign language.

Projects

ELLA

Publications

Currie, J., & Clarke, B. (2022). FIGHTING TALK: The use of the conceptual metaphor CLIMATE CHANGE IS CONFLICT in the UK Houses of Parliament, 2015-2019. Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of language and politics, 2022. doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21052.cur

 

Research groups

Publications

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  • Currie, John; Clarke, Ben & Fryer, Daniel Lees (2022). Towards understanding trends in climate change discourse in UK institutions 2015-2021.
  • Currie, John; Clarke, Ben & Fryer, Daniel Lees (2022). Tackling climate change: investigating transitivity patterns in UK institutions.

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