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Biography
My PhD (Leeds) was in stylistics of newspapers, and my first book (Jeffries 1993) was on the stylistics of poetry. I joined the University in 1989 and was Head of English before being appointed to the Research Coordinator post in 2005 and to the Chair of English Language and Linguistics in 2007. I have been Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and was organiser of the 25th annual conference of PALA in 2005 editing the proceedings (Rodopi 2007) with two colleagues, Dan McIntyre and Derek Bousfield. I am the series editor (with Dan McIntyre) of the Perspectives on the English Language series for Palgrave and a member of the editorial board of the journals Language and Literature (Sage) and English Text Construction (Benjamins). I supervise PhD students on topics in stylistics and critical stylistics ranging from contemporary poetry to political discourse. I have been awarded grant funding from the AHRC for a sabbatical in 2005-6, as Co-I for the SAMUELS project(AH/L010062/1) in 2014-15 and for follow-on funding for the Hansard at Huddersfield project (AHR007136/1) in 2018-19. I am the Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Critical stylistics
- Language in conflict
- Stylistics of poetry
- Language in the news
- Corpus approaches to stylistics
Research Expertise and Interests
- Stylistics
- Terrorism Narratives
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Hansard at Huddersfield: Making the Parliamentary Record More Accessible
Jeffries, L., Von Lunen, A. & Alexander, M. G.
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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Semantic Annotation and Mark Up for Enhancing Lexical Searches
Jeffries, L., Alexander, M. G., Baron, A., Archer, D., Hope, J., Rayson, P. E. & Kay, C. J.
1/01/14 → 31/03/15
Project: Research
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The Babel Lexicon of Language
McIntyre, D., Jeffries, L., Evans, M., Price, H. & Gold, E., 17 Feb 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 200 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Engaging the public and enriching language education through Babel: The Language Magazine
McIntyre, D. & Jeffries, L., 16 Apr 2021, (Accepted/In press) Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement. Price, H. & McIntyre, D. (eds.). Abingdon: RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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A special issue
Jeffries, L. & Giovanelli, M., 1 Nov 2020, In: Language and Literature. 29, 4, p. 355-357 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015)
Jeffries, L. & Walker, B., 20 Mar 2019, Discourse Analysis and Austerity: Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics . Power, K., Ali, T. & Lebdušková, E. (eds.). 1st ed. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 53-79 27 p. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Democratising Hansard: Improving the accessibility of parliamentary records
Jeffries, L. & Stradling, F., 1 May 2019, Babel: The Language Magazine, 27, p. 25-28 4 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Making Hansard accessible to non-expert users through data visualisation
Lesley Jeffries (Speaker) & Hugo Sanjurjo Gonzalez (Speaker)
1 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Making corpus-based searching accessible for non-expert users: the case of Hansard
Lesley Jeffries (Speaker) & Hugo Sanjurjo Gonzalez (Speaker)
15 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Shaping public perceptions of linguistics through Babel: The Language Magazine
Dan McIntyre (Speaker) & Lesley Jeffries (Speaker)
10 Jun 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Language in Conflict: a conversation with Peace Studies
Jim O'Driscoll (Participant) & Lesley Jeffries (Participant)
2010Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Language in Conflict Workshop
Jim O'Driscoll (Participant) & Lesley Jeffries (Participant)
2008Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Press / Media
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Democratising Hansard: continuing to improve the accessibility of parliamentary records
Lesley Jeffries & Fransina Stradling
6/03/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other