Student profiles
Sayuri Kusama
Email: s.kusama1@lancaster.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sayuri-kusama-825349159/
Thesis Title
Institution
Supervisors
Dr Gavin Brookes
Professor Tony McEnery
Research Summary
The overarching aim of her study is to investigate how language is used to represent homelessness in the British press over 10 years (2014-2024). Employing a corpus-assisted approach to critical discourse analysis, her research will focus on linguistic choices which could stigmatise those with experiences of homelessness, and explore variations in such representations according to newspapers. In collaboration with homeless charities, this project encompasses the development of media guidelines to report on homelessness in ways that mitigate potential stigmatisation.
Research Interests
Critical discourse studies, corpus linguistics, homelessness, news media discourse
Publications
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