An EconoTimes perspective

Aimee Bailey

Lecturer in English Language, De Montfort University

Lecturer in English Language, De Montfort University I am a discourse analyst interested in the relationship between language and identity, particularly in terms of gender and sexuality. My research looks at how gender and sexuality are constructed through digital and news media. It makes use of queer theory, feminist theory, corpus linguistics and (multimodal) critical discourse analysis. I am especially interested in the role of language in issues of inclusion and exclusion, and have examined this in contexts such as queer women's online spaces and the representation of trans athletes.