Dr Pauline Madella
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics
I hold a BA in English and an MA in English Language Teaching from Coventry ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. I have extensive experience in teaching English for Specific Purposes in professional contexts. I taught in Norway and in France, before relocating to the UK.
I completed my PhD in Linguistics in 2021 at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Brighton under the supervision of Dr Tim Wharton, Dr Kate Scott (Kingston ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½), and Professor Elly Ifantidou (National and Kapodistrian ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Athens). Prior to joining the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s School of Education in 2021, I taught English Language and Linguistics at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Brighton, Middlesex ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, and ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ College London, and English for Academic Purposes at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Surrey, Royal Holloway ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of London, and Lancaster ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.
My domains of interest and expertise include the realm of pragmatics, the use of prosody and nonverbal communication in utterance interpretation, and the role of multimodality in interlanguage pragmatics. As a cognitive linguist, I apply relevance theory – a cognitive theory of utterance interpretation – to develop L2 learners’ oral inferential abilities based on their increased attention to and reading of the speaker’s paralinguistic behaviours. More specifically, my research explores the role of multimodal pointing in interlanguage and instructional pragmatics. My broader research interests include literary nonsense and the teaching of linguistics, pragmatics & stylistics, and forensic linguistics.
I am a reviewer for the Journal of Pragmatics, Corpus Pragmatics, and CUP.
I am a member of the Relevance Researchers’ Network - , the International Association for Teaching Pragmatics (ITAP), and the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA).
I am interested in supervising students in the following (sub)disciplines:
- Interlanguage Pragmatics / Instructional Pragmatics
- Relevance theory and Instructed SLA
- Pragmatics of humour (irony) and assessing irony comprehension in the L2
- Pragmatics & prosody
- Multimodality (prosody and gesture in interaction)
- First and second language development, (social) cognition and psychology
- or a combination of these areas
address
Professor Tony Green
Director of CRELLA
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
Putteridge Bury
Hitchin Road
Luton, Bedfordshire
UK, LU2 8LE
telephone
+44 (0)1582 489086