Susan Mandala

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Susan Mandala

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susan.mandala@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

Faculty of Education & Society (2EPD)

Organisation:

University of Sunderland

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Reg Vardy Centre St. Peter's Campus

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http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/research/researchstaff/facultyofeducationsociety/culture/drsusanmandala/#d.en.44884

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Expertise:

Stylistic Analysis and the Interpretation of Drama, Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Phenomena in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Dialect in Fiction, Representation of Early Humans and Hominids in Fiction

Job title:

Reader in Pragmatic Stylistics

Biography:

Susan Mandala is Reader in Pragmatic Stylistics at the University of Sunderland. She obtained her PhD in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Her research interests are in literary stylistics, in particular the representation of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in fiction and drama. She has published widely in this field, singly authoring two monographs as well as a number of essays and journal articles.

My Latest

Mandala, Susan and Lonbay, Sarah (2024) Transcribing and analysing difficult talk data across disciplines: A presentation of a duoethnography. In: Faculty of Education and Society Sixth Annual Staff Research Conference: Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration, 10 Jun 2024, University of Sunderland.
Mandala, Susan (2024) Stylistics, pop culture, and educational research: A systematized review and case study. English Text Construction, 16 (2). pp. 144-168. ISSN 1874-8767
Mandala, Susan (2018) 'Listening to the Neanderthals in William Golding’s The Inheritors: A Sociopragmatic Approach to Fictional Dialogue'. Discourse, Context and Media, 23. pp. 62-69. ISSN 2211-6958
Mandala, Susan (2017) Pragmatic Stylistics and Dramatic Dialogue: Reassessing Gus’s Role in Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter. In: Dialogue Across Media. John Benjamins, pp. 19-36. ISBN 9789027210456
Mandala, Susan (2012) Crime Fiction as Regional Fiction: An Analysis of Dialect and Point of View in Sheila Quigley's Bad Moon Rising. Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism, 46 (2). pp. 177-200. ISSN 0039-4238

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1	'Solidarity and the Scoobies: An Analysis of the -y Suffix in Television Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer'	341	0
2	Twentieth-Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk: Speaking Between the Lines	234	0

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