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Grammar, construal and ideology: Representations of violence in recent political protests.  Paper presented at Bangor Linguistics Circle, 26 October 2011.

 

Evidence and epistemic vigilance in exclusionary discourse.  Keynote lecture delivered at First International Young Scholars Symposium on Discourse, Ideology and Society.  University of Lodz, 17-19 March 2011.

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Activating the cheater-detection module in argumentation: Where communication meets cognition.  Paper presented at ComCog conference. University of Neuchatel 26-28 January 2011.

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Argumentation and adapted cogntion: Activations of the cheater-detection module in anti-immigration discourse.  Paper presented as part of the English Language and Communication seminar series at the University of Hertfordshire, 9th December 2010.

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Media , mind and manipulation: Critical discourse analysis and social cognition.  Invited lecture delivered at University of Huddersfield, 22 October 2010.

 

Critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics.  Summer School lecture given at University of Lodz, 16 September 2010.

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Agent mystification revisiting, again: A cognitive grammar analysis. Paper presented at Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines conference.  University of Lodz, 13-15 September 2010.

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Moving beyond metaphor in the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to CDA: A case study in force-dynamics.  Paper presented at 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics conference. University of Hertfordshire, 6-8 July 2010.

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Activating the cheater-detection module in immigration discourse: Where communication meets cognition.  Paper presented at University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society.  University of Malaya, 16-18 June 2010.

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Legitimising assertions in political discourse: A cognitive and evolutionary analysis.  Paper presented at Political Linguistics conference.  University of Lodz, 17-19 September 2009.

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Critical discourse analysis and social cognition: An evolutionary perspective on argumentation. Invited lecture delivered at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 19 May 2009.

 

Meaning construction in conditionals: Ideology, argumentation and implicature.  Paper presented at Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Acrocss Disciplines conference.  University of Hertfordshire, 10-12 July 2008.

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Critical discourse analysis and conceptualisation: Strategic functions of distance and proximity in discourse space.  Paper presented at Political Linguistics conference. University of Warsaw, 13-15 September 2007.

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Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse analysis: Mental spaces, blended spaces and discourse spaces in immigration rhetoric.  Paper presented at 2nd UK Cognitive Linguistics conference. Cardiff University, 27-30 August 2007.

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Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse analysis: Strategic functions of metaphor. Paper presented at 10th International Cognitive Linguistics conference. Krakow, 15-20 July 2007. 

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