Lesley Jeffries

Personal profile

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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Projects

2 Finished

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

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

Research Output

14 Chapter
8 Article
6 Book
1 Foreword/postscript
1 More
- 1 Review article

Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015)

Jeffries, L. & Walker, B., 25 Mar 2019, Discourse Analysis and Austerity: Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics . Power, K., Ali, T. & Lebdušková, E. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Introduction: Textual choice and communication in conflict

Jeffries, L., 23 May 2019, The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict. Evans, M., Jeffries, L. & O'Driscoll, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Abingdon & New York: Taylor and Francis Ltd., p. 13-24 12 p. (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Introduction: The origins of The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict

Jeffries, L. & O'Driscoll, J., 23 May 2019, The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict. Evans, M., Jeffries, L. & O'Driscoll, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Abingdon & New York: Taylor and Francis Ltd., p. 1-9 9 p. (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

Introduction: The potential for linguistics to change conflict in the “real" world

Jeffries, L., 23 May 2019, The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict. Evans, M., Jeffries, L. & O'Driscoll, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Abingdon & New York: Taylor and Francis Ltd., p. 451-453 3 p. (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter