Research Interests
The crossroads of political language, social semiotics, and identity politics; the politics of Scotland, gender debates.
Selected Publications
Monographs
2020
Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse. London: Routledge.
Refereed Journals
2017
‘Real women: objectivity versus situatedness in Critical Discourse Studies’ Critical Discourse Studies 14:5, p. 548-568.
2017
‘Order, order’, Language Sciences 61, p. 86-92.
2015
‘Multimodal legitimation: selling Scottish independence’, Discourse & Society 26:3, p. 323-348.
2014
‘The clichéd juxtapositions and pleasing patterns of political advertising’, Language & Communication 37, p. 100-119.
2013
‘Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil’, Semiotica 196: Aug., p. 431-441.
Co-authored
2020
Testing, stretching, and aligning: Using ‘ironic personae’to make sense of complicated issues’; Kwon, W.; Clarke, I, Vaara, E, Mackay, R; Wodak R.; Journal of Pragmatics 166: 44-58.
2020
‘Using Verbal Irony to Move on with Controversial Issues’; Clarke, I., Kwon, W., Mackay, R., Vaara, E., Wodak, R.; Organization Science.
