Current PhD Students

I am currently supervising students who are interested in applying methods derived from social semiotics, multimodality, and Systemic Functional Linguistics to AI discourse (e.g. LLM Chatbots conversations) and Social Media discourse.

Kiaxi Yuan

Thesis: Exploring Tenor in Depression Discourse on YouTube: A Social Semiotic Analysis of TED Talks and Comment Threads

Dalal Altayari

Thesis: Emoji-text Relations in Arabic Marketing Discourse: Exploring Tenor in Social Media Paralanguage

Completed Students