Academic interests
Linguistics, social semiotics, multimodality, discourse analysis; scientific/medical discourse, the discourse of social movements, critical animal studies
Recent, ongoing, and forthcoming research
- Fryer, Daniel Lees. 2024. Feeling, thinking, acting: an intersemiotic study of empathy and compassion in vegan discourse. Language, Context and Text 6(1): 123-146.
- Fryer, Daniel Lees and Alison Rotha Moore. 2024. Social semiotics and the animal other: systemic functional perspectives on the animal turn. Routledge
- Fryer, Daniel Lees. 2022. #AllCatsAreBeautiful: ambient affiliation and the visual-verbal representation and appreciation of cats in online subversive discourses. Discourse & Society 33(1): 3-33.
- Fryer, Daniel Lees. 2021. Engagement in Medical Research Discourse. New York: Routledge. Paperback edition published May 2023.
For a full list of publications, see below.
Teaching and supervision
Co-supervising John Currie's PhD thesis
Supervision on the master's programme in foreign languages in school (masterstudium i fremmedspråk i skolen / nordiskt masterprogram för språklärare)
Teaching:
- Grammar and Phonetics I (SFE11118)
- Grammar and Phonetics II (SFE11418)
- Multimodal Texts (SFE20816)
- Language Variation (SFE42415)
- Language Research with Corpus Data (SFBS30121)
- English 2 for Teachers, Grades 1-7 (SFVSPR115)
- English 2 for Teachers, Grades 5-10 (SFVSPR515)
Background
I teach English at the Department of Languages, Literature, and Culture. I have a PhD in linguistics from the University of Gothenburg and master degrees in English language and publishing studies from the University of Oslo and the University of Stirling. I also have a bachelor degree in physics from the University of Liverpool.
Appointments, roles
- Member of board for Norwegian Study Centre in Great Britain (University of York)
- Head of Language Cultures, part of the ELLA project
- Visiting scholar, University of Wollongong, Australia (2023)
- Coordinator for Masterstudium i fremmedspråk i skolen / Nordiskt masterprogram för språklärare
- Former coordinator for English foundation course and English extension course; former coordinator for bachelor in society, language, and culture
- Former member of faculty/department board (2017-2021)
- Former union representative for Norwegian Association of Researchers (Forskerforbundet) (2018-2022)
Member of Nordic Society for Systemic Functional Linguistics and Social Semiotics and International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association
Peer review work for Functions of Language, Language and Communication, Multimodality & Society, RASK, Social Semiotics, Text & Talk, and Visual Communication