Emily Powell

Qualifications:

PhD, MA, FHEA, PGCE (PCET), BA (Hons).

Position:

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics

Department:

College of Arts, Technology and Environment

Telephone:

+441179656261

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About me

I am a forensic and corpus linguist working at the intersection between linguistics and criminology. My research applies corpus analysis to large quantities of texts such as mass shooter manifestos, missing person appeals, and extremist discourse. My ESRC funded doctoral research diachronically examined the linguistic navigation of moral agency in pre-crime texts. I continue to build on this, exploring the way in which writers of such texts address past and future attackers and inspire future harm, and examining the language and labels used to describe both those who harm others and those at the receiving end of that harm.

I have taught in higher education institutions since 2004, teaching linguistics (including forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics and second language acquisition), English for specific purposes (e.g. for police officers and medical professionals), and English for academic purposes.

Area of expertise

Forensic and Legal Linguistics

Corpus Linguistics

Narrative Analysis

Genre Analysis

Pre-crime narratives

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