The Centre was extremely pleased to welcome this conference at the end of April: 

14th BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG Event: Language, Gender and Health Inequalities, 29th April 2022.

 

Event Schedule

10.15-11.00 Keynote address: Dr Francis-Ray White (University of Westminster) (room 121-122)

11.15 Panel 1: Language and gender-based inequalities in pregnancy and childcare (room 121-122)

11.15-11.45 ‘At the breast is best?’ A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of normative and non-normative babyfeeding practices in online infant feeding promotional discourse (Laura Coffey-Glover and Victoria Howard,Nottingham Trent University)

11.45-12.15 The Language of Pregnancy Loss: Time for a change? (Beth Malory, University of Lancaster)

12.15-12.45 Gender and Agency in the Linguistic Landscape of Ireland’s 2018 Referendum Campaign on Abortion (Louis Strange)

1.45 Panel 2: Language, gender and illness (room 121-122)

1.45-2.15 Perceptions of Breast Health Practices among South Asian Women Living in the North West of England (Linda McLoughlin)

2.15-2.45 ‘Vulnerable Women and Dead Men’: A corpus-based analysis of discourses on Twitter about gendered social actors who have dementia (Ivana Babicova, Frazer Heritage and David Robertshaw)

2.45-3.15 Gender Construal and Gender Attraction in Analysing Linguistic Indicators of Mood Disorders (Kate Sayers)

3.15-4.00 Round-table (room 121-122): using research in Language, Gender and

Sexuality for improving healthcare communication (Gavin Brookes, Karen Kinloch, Sylvia Jaworska and Francis-Ray White)

 

4.15-4.45 Judith Baxter Award talk – Aimee Bailey, De Montfort University (room 121-122)