Alison Sealey

Lancaster University, Linguistics and English Language, Faculty Member

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My research is driven by a keen interest in the connections between social processes and language in use – from face-to-face interactions to the laws which prescribe and proscribe people's actions. My current research uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to explore how language about non-human animals affects how they are treated.

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Joseph Carroll

University of Missouri - St. Louis

Michael Spivey

University of California, Merced

Ahmar Mahboob

The University of Sydney

Paul Baker

Lancaster University

Ute Römer-Barron

Georgia State University

Banu Bargu

UCSC

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Eitan Grossman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

John Sutton

Macquarie University

Peter E Jones

Sheffield Hallam University

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Books by Alison Sealey

Researching English Language: a resource book for students

Applied Linguistics as Social Science

Childly Language: Children, language and the social world

Learning about Language: issues for primary teachers

Papers by Alison Sealey

The Social Status of 'Child' in Informal Talk

Children in the News (1): Threatened, Protected, Active

Through children’s eyes?

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Mar 16, 2007

This article reports on an analysis of a small corpus of fiction written for children, extracted ... more This article reports on an analysis of a small corpus of fiction written for children, extracted from the BNC. Quantitative analyses of most frequent words and sequences of words, and of parts-of-speech, were conducted, and compared with their equivalents in two other sub-corpora of the BNC, of adult fiction and of newspaper texts. The main findings point to some characteristics of both the fiction corpora which are very similar, and which contrast markedly with the news texts. However, more nuanced comparison of concordance lines in which the frequent items occur reveal subtle but telling differences between their use in context in adult fiction and in fiction written for children.

Children in the News (2): The Idea of the Child

Childly Language

Routledge eBooks, Jun 11, 2014

Author's Acknowledgements Publisher's Acknowledgements PART I: DISCOURSES OF CHILDHOOD In... more Author's Acknowledgements Publisher's Acknowledgements PART I: DISCOURSES OF CHILDHOOD Introduction to Part I 1. Children in the news (1): threatened, protected, active 2. Children in the news (2): the idea of the child 3. Children in the English language PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN, LANGUAGE AND THE SOCIAL WORLD Introduction to Part II 4. Perpectives on researching cihldren and language 5. Perspectives on language, identity and the social world PART III: CHILDREN'S TALK Introduction to Part III 6. The social status of 'child' in informal talk 7. Blurred boundaries: speaking to children, speaking as a child 8. Children's negotiations of the social world PART IV 9. Conclusions and implications References Index

Perspectives on Language, Identity and the Social World

do You Think You Are?': Four Sociolinguistic Strategies in the of Self

Current Issues in language and society, Apr 1, 1996

Researching 'real' language

Routledge eBooks, Oct 9, 2005

Blurred Boundaries: Speaking to Children, Speaking as a Child

An Introduction to language policy : theory and method

... paper) 1. Language policy. I. Ricento, Thomas. II. Series. P119. 3. I577 2006 306.449dc22 20... more

The Dazzlers’ dictionary

Reflections on historicizing discourses:Connections, linkages, continuities

Review for "Applied Linguistics, language guidelines, and inclusive practices: The case for the use of “Who” with nonhuman animals

Researching English language:a resource book for students

This series covers core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. The book... more This series covers core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. The book •provides comprehensive support for readers tackling their first independent research projects •offers advice about research methods with reference to an extensive range of English Language topics including variation in accents, news discourse, forensic linguistics, child language development and many more •guides readers step-by-step through the research process, from initial ideas to the submission of the dissertation •includes an extensive range of activities and points for discussion •illustrates each topic with examples from actual student projects and published studies •includes key readings from leading English language researchers, including Ronald Carter; Jennifer Coates; Ruqaiya Hasan; Roz Ivanic; Ben Rampton; John Sinclair

Children's Negotiations of the Social World

Routledge, Jun 11, 2014

Primary School projects, a multicultural approach

Researching English Language: a resource book for students

Applied Linguistics as Social Science

Childly Language: Children, language and the social world

Learning about Language: issues for primary teachers

The Social Status of 'Child' in Informal Talk

Children in the News (1): Threatened, Protected, Active

Through children’s eyes?

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Mar 16, 2007

Children in the News (2): The Idea of the Child

Childly Language

Routledge eBooks, Jun 11, 2014

Perspectives on Language, Identity and the Social World

do You Think You Are?': Four Sociolinguistic Strategies in the of Self

Current Issues in language and society, Apr 1, 1996

Researching 'real' language

Routledge eBooks, Oct 9, 2005

Blurred Boundaries: Speaking to Children, Speaking as a Child

An Introduction to language policy : theory and method

... paper) 1. Language policy. I. Ricento, Thomas. II. Series. P119. 3. I577 2006 306.449dc22 20... more

The Dazzlers’ dictionary

Reflections on historicizing discourses:Connections, linkages, continuities

Review for "Applied Linguistics, language guidelines, and inclusive practices: The case for the use of “Who” with nonhuman animals

Researching English language:a resource book for students

Children's Negotiations of the Social World

Routledge, Jun 11, 2014

Primary School projects, a multicultural approach

Evaluation of interactive video for school management training:final report to the NCET Steering Group

Cultures or concepts - which emphasis for ‘white’ schools?

Words at work week : an alternative to the traditional book week

It doesn’t happen here : racism and young children

The Discursive Representation of Animals in the Twittersphere

by Chris Pak and Alison Sealey

'People', 'Products', 'Pests' and 'Pets': How we Talk About Animals

by Alison Sealey, Chris Pak, and Emma Franklin

Starting with verbs: complementary methods for the corpus-assisted discourse analysis of HEAR.

by Emma Franklin and Alison Sealey

UCREL Seminar Series, Lancaster University, 2017

We are both interested in the ways nonhuman animals are represented in language. One theme within... more We are both interested in the ways nonhuman animals are represented in language. One theme within these investigations is patterns in how discourse represents animals’ perceptive and communicative capacities. A core verb relevant to both is HEAR, and we use corpus evidence to help answer the following questions: What are humans reported to ‘hear’, in general and in relation to sounds made by animals? What are animals reported to ‘hear’?
In our presentation, we will explain the different corpora, corpus tools and analytical approaches we have used to generate answers to these questions. These include both familiar reference corpora (BNC, enTenTen), methods and tools (concordances using AntConc, Sketch Engine), as well as a topic-specific corpus compiled for the project 'People', 'Products', 'Pests' and 'Pets' , and the Corpus Pattern Analysis method that was originally developed for lexicography, but is adapted here for discourse analysis.

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