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Dr Jane Lugea

Dr Jane Lugea

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Lugea is interested in language use and linguistic creativity, in English, Spanish and beyond. Although she often focuses on the pinnacle of linguistic creativity, literature, and also analyses other rhetorical texts from subtitles to Internet memes, applying models from Cognitive Stylistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics. Her research reveals how meaning is created through texts and cognitive processes.

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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

The language of literature
(Cognitive) Stylistics
(Critical) Discourse Analysis
Translation Studies (of audiovisual/literary texts or from a linguistic perspective)

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Public outreach & key achievements

Worldbuilder V1.0 l (an online tool for visualising discourse, using Text World Theory, developed as part of a project at University of Huddersfield)
Report on the HEA-funded project ‘Employability in the Humanities Curriculum’:
Submission to Ofcom’s consultation on ‘The Quality of Live Subtitling’ (Dan McIntyre, Brian Walker and Jane Lugea, University of Huddersfield, UK):