Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nuria Lorenzo-Dus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nuria |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorenzo-Dus |
| SIGNATURE | LORENZO-DUS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6211-7939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hidden Worlds: How Child Sexual Abuse Offenders Portray Themselves in Clear-Web Paedophile Community Interactions and Dark-Web Survey Responses
The protection of children from sexual abuse is of paramount importance to society, and the threat of this abuse has only grown in recent years. Those who pose this threat, child sex offenders, have been found to congregate in online communities where they can trade abusive material and interact with each other. Despite concerns raised in research about the harmful influence of these communities on their members, they remain greatly understudied.…
‘Trade?’ – The discourse of online sexual harmful exchanges between children
This study provides the first examination of the language practices underpinning online sexual harmful exchanges (OSHE) between children, focusing on interactions involving child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEAM). While research on OSHE has grown, its communicative dimension remains underexplored, despite language being central to these exchanges. Drawing on a corpus of 227 textual fragments embedded within 28,000 words of chat logs …
Not right now”: Children's resistance during online grooming interactions
YOT Talk: Examining the communicative influences on children’s engagement with youth justice assessment processes
This article presents an evidence-based analysis of the communicative influences on children’s engagement in the Youth Justice System of England and Wales. The multidisciplinary criminologist–linguist ‘YOT Talk’ project utilized Svalberg’s (2009) dimensions of engagement (cognitive, affective, social; augmented by behavioural) to explore the enablers of, and barriers to, children’s engagement with youth justice assessment processes. A tripartite …
Violencia y víctimas: Evaluando el efecto de los códigos deontológicos en las representaciones de la esquizofrenia masculina en los periódicos nacionales del Reino Unido (2013-2016)
La prensa británica se orienta hacia una información responsable mediante directrices elaboradas por organizaciones como el Sindicato Nacional de Periodistas (NUJ). En lo que respecta a la salud mental, estas directrices aconsejan, entre otros, evitar los vínculos entre la salud mental y la violencia, así como el uso de representaciones que estigmaticen. Sin embargo, el cumplimiento de estas recomendaciones no siempre se consigue de forma sistemá…
Impacts of Radical Right Groups’ Movements across Social Media Platforms – A Case Study of Changes to Britain First’s Visual Strategy in Its Removal from Facebook to Gab
This article examines the visual strategy of the U.K. radical right group Britain First as they were removed from Facebook and migrated to a less regulated platform – Gab. Data was collected over two four month periods in 2017 and 2018. Using methods from discourse analysis, the study identifies visual changes in terms of content, including a shift on Gab toward promoting the group's inner core members and expanding “othering” practices to Islam …
Poverty and social exclusion in Britain: A corpus-assisted discourse study of Labour and Conservative Party leaders’ speeches, 1900–2014
This study examines discursive representations of poverty and social exclusion by the leaders of the two main political parties in the UK (Labour and Conservative) across time.The political context selected for analysis is that of the parties' annual conferences, specifically all the speeches delivered by their leaders between 1900 and 2014 (c. 1 million words).Using a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies methodology, we identify two recurring disco…
The discourse of the US alt-right online – a case study of the Traditionalist Worker Party blog
The use of social media by extreme right groups and the self-proclaimed formation of the ‘alt-right’ in recent years have been linked to the rise in US white nationalism. Against a backdrop of widespread concern regarding the growing nature of the ‘alt-right’ phenomenon, this article responds to the pressing need to understand its appeal. Specifically, we examine the discursive means by which a hitherto unexamined US ‘alt-right’ group, the Tradit…
The communicative modus operandi of online child sexual groomers: Recurring patterns in their language use
Visual Jihad: Constructing the “Good Muslim” in Online Jihadist Magazines
Images are known to have important effects on human perception and persuasion. Jihadist groups are also known to make strategic use of emotive imagery and symbolism for persuasive ends. Yet until recently studies of the online magazines published by violent jihadist groups largely focused on their textual, not their image, content and, while the image content of these magazines is now the subject of a burgeoning number of studies, few of these co…
Othering the West in the online Jihadist propaganda magazines Inspire and Dabiq
This paper examines how the jihadist terrorist groups Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State discursively construct ‘the West’ as an alien, aberrant ‘other’ in their respective online propaganda magazines Inspire and Dabiq over a 5 year period (2010–2015). The analysis integrates insights from the field of Terrorism Studies into a Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies approach, working centrally with the notions of othering and conventionalised imp…
Introduction: Online jihadist magazines
Representing the West and “non-believers” in the online jihadist magazines Dabiq and Inspire
This article analyses how jihadist ideology groups discursively represent “the West” and “non-believers” in their online propagandamagazines. In doing so, it contributes to the field of Critical Terrorism Studies conceptually, by considering the voices of violent actors, and methodologically, by illustrating how linguistic tools of enquiry can advance current knowledge of jihadist ideology groups. Our work adopts a case study approach, focusing o…
Cause Ur Special: Understanding trust and complimenting behaviour in online grooming discourse
Understanding grooming discourse in computer-mediated environments
Living/minimum wage: Influential citizen talk in twitter
Investigating how vocabulary is assessed in a narrative task through raters' verbal protocols
Discourse approaches to the study of reality television
In the previous chapter we discussed why the study of reality television (RTV) can benefit much from adopting a discourse-analytical approach. We also noted that, even within this approach, different theoretical and methodological frameworks can be fruitfully drawn upon in order to examine the two key themes covered in this book: identity and aggression. This chapter is thus intended to equip readers whose background is not in discourse analysis …
Discourse approaches to the study of reality television
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows
Reality television: A discourse-analytical perspective
The empirical chapters of this book offer original studies of reality television (RTV henceforth) in a wide range of cultural contexts. Importantly, they all share a discourse-analytical approach even though they employ different discourse-analytic frameworks in order to address specific research questions, from multimodality and interactional sociolinguistics to Critical Discourse Analysis. The aim of this chapter is to explain the need, at this…
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows: A diachronic study of the evolution of a genre
Reality television (RTV) has been under considerable scrutiny within the academic fields of media/cultural studies and, to a lesser extent, linguistics. Here, and within the context of ‘exploitative reality shows’, research has focused on impoliteness by lay participants (for example, Bousfield 2007, 2008; Culpeper 1996; Culpeper, Bousfield & Wichmann 2003) and ‘experts’, ranging from forthright property and lifestyle gurus and no-nonsense courtr…
Reality television
A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English: The role of (in)formality and (in)directness
This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate regarding, respectively (i) the general stylistic drift towards orality and informality in technology-mediated communication, and (ii) the degree of communicat…
Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol
Premised on the belief that both identity construction and im/politeness assessments relate to norms associated with genre practices, the aim of this paper is to examine the interconnections between identity co-construction and impoliteness in a media genre: the talent show. This aim is innovative in so far as im/politeness has traditionally been related to the notion of face, rather than identity. Our study draws upon a corpus of 160 interaction…
Compliment responses among British and Spanish university students: A Contrastive Study
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultur
A genre approach to impoliteness1 in a Spanish television talk show: Evidence from corpus-based analysis, questionnaires and focus groups
The aim of this paper is to conduct a contextually and culturally sensitive investigation of how impoliteness works in Peninsular Spanish discourse. This is achieved by adopting a genre-approach to im-politeness (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, International Review of Pragmatics 2: 46–94, 2010), which argues that genre notions, as understood by Fairclough, Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research, Routledge, (2003), can anchor top-down …
You're barking mad, I'm out”: Impoliteness and broadcast talk
This paper examines impoliteness in a discourse context marked by double articulation (i. e., broadcasting), specifically in the television show Dragons' Den (BBC2, UK). Like past work on impoliteness within ‘exploitative’ reality television, this study explores face-threatening behaviour by those involved in the interaction within the studio. Analysis of five hours of broadcast material reveals a number of patterns underlying both the interactio…
Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media
What is the connection between what is said on TV and how it is said? Structured around 4 key features of the current broadcast landscape (storytelling, closeness, conflict and persuasion), Television Discourse examines the specific forms and structures of talk across media genres as varied as reality shows and political interviews
Representing the West and “non-believers” in the online jihadist magazines Dabiq and Inspire
This article analyses how jihadist ideology groups discursively represent “the West” and “non-believers” in their online propagandamagazines. In doing so, it contributes to the field of Critical Terrorism Studies conceptually, by considering the voices of violent actors, and methodologically, by illustrating how linguistic tools of enquiry can advance current knowledge of jihadist ideology groups. Our work adopts a case study approach, focusing o…
The communicative modus operandi of online child sexual groomers: Recurring patterns in their language use
Visual Jihad: Constructing the “Good Muslim” in Online Jihadist Magazines
Images are known to have important effects on human perception and persuasion. Jihadist groups are also known to make strategic use of emotive imagery and symbolism for persuasive ends. Yet until recently studies of the online magazines published by violent jihadist groups largely focused on their textual, not their image, content and, while the image content of these magazines is now the subject of a burgeoning number of studies, few of these co…
Real disorder in the court: An investigation of conflict talk in US television courtroom shows
A rapport and impression management approach to public figures' performance of talk
Understanding grooming discourse in computer-mediated environments
Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol
Premised on the belief that both identity construction and im/politeness assessments relate to norms associated with genre practices, the aim of this paper is to examine the interconnections between identity co-construction and impoliteness in a media genre: the talent show. This aim is innovative in so far as im/politeness has traditionally been related to the notion of face, rather than identity. Our study draws upon a corpus of 160 interaction…
Despierten, Latinos(‘Wake up, Latinos): Latino Identity, US Politics and YouTube
This study examines the schemata underlying the social dimensions and relationships associated with the processes of Latino identity construction in 500 YouTube postings in response to the Obama Reggaeton video. According to Van Dijk (1998), such schemata allow members of a given group to provide answers to questions such as who they are, what criteria need to be met for membership in their group, and what kinds of relationships are established a…
Bridging the gap: Interdisciplinary insights into the securitization of poverty
A significant body of literature within International Relations research attests to a securitization of poverty, since 9/11 especially, and within this process to the centrality of discourse. Remarkably, there has been little reciprocal work within Discourse Analysis to scrutinize the emergence of contemporary security agendas of non-traditional security issues and, as far as we were able to discern, nothing at all of the securitization of povert…
The discourse of the US alt-right online – a case study of the Traditionalist Worker Party blog
The use of social media by extreme right groups and the self-proclaimed formation of the ‘alt-right’ in recent years have been linked to the rise in US white nationalism. Against a backdrop of widespread concern regarding the growing nature of the ‘alt-right’ phenomenon, this article responds to the pressing need to understand its appeal. Specifically, we examine the discursive means by which a hitherto unexamined US ‘alt-right’ group, the Tradit…
Cause Ur Special: Understanding trust and complimenting behaviour in online grooming discourse
The Falklands/Malvinas 25 years on: A comparative analysis of constructions of heroism on Argentinean and British television
This paper examines constructions of war heroism within the context of the commemoration in 2007 on Argentinean and British television of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. In order to do this, it combines two analytic frameworks: synchronic-diachronic analysis (Pardo 2006, 2008, 2010) and revisionist face-work/politeness analysis (e.g. Bravo 1999). The origins of both frameworks, especially the synchronic-diachronic analysis, …
Impacts of Radical Right Groups’ Movements across Social Media Platforms – A Case Study of Changes to Britain First’s Visual Strategy in Its Removal from Facebook to Gab
This article examines the visual strategy of the U.K. radical right group Britain First as they were removed from Facebook and migrated to a less regulated platform – Gab. Data was collected over two four month periods in 2017 and 2018. Using methods from discourse analysis, the study identifies visual changes in terms of content, including a shift on Gab toward promoting the group's inner core members and expanding “othering” practices to Islam …
Dynamics of memory: Commemorating the 2005 London bombings in British television news
This article seeks to examine coverage of the 2005 London bombings’ first year anniversary commemorations vis-à-vis reportage of the attacks as a breaking news story. Adopting a multimodal discourse analysis approach, informed by both qualitative and quantitative methods, the study explores the thematic relationship between the two sets of coverage. Although our results show a number of dynamic processes at work, a key finding is the strong tende…
Living/minimum wage: Influential citizen talk in twitter
Investigating how vocabulary is assessed in a narrative task through raters' verbal protocols
Buying and selling: Mediating persuasion in British property shows
Persuasion has been extensively examined in broadcast contexts such as political speeches/debates and advertisements. In contrast, it has only been tangentiallyconsidered in relation to the increasingly popular lifestyle media. This is despite both scholarly consensus that these programmes actively promote certain lifestyles as desirable over others and that general views of these programmes being nothing more than trivial, mindless entertainment…
Compliment responses among British and Spanish university students: A Contrastive Study
A rapport and impression management approach to public figures' performance of talk
Buying and selling: Mediating persuasion in British property shows
Persuasion has been extensively examined in broadcast contexts such as political speeches/debates and advertisements. In contrast, it has only been tangentiallyconsidered in relation to the increasingly popular lifestyle media. This is despite both scholarly consensus that these programmes actively promote certain lifestyles as desirable over others and that general views of these programmes being nothing more than trivial, mindless entertainment…
Natural versus elicited data in cross-cultural speech act realisation: The case of requests in Peninsular Spanish and British English
This paper explicitly addresses the ‘elicited versus natural data debate’ in cross-cultural speech act realisation research through critical discussion of an empirical study of comparable request sequences by Spanish and British undergraduates to one of their lecturers. Elicited (discourse completion tests) and natural data (unsolicited emails) were used and, not unexpectedly, produced significantly different results for each language community. …
Real disorder in the court: An investigation of conflict talk in US television courtroom shows
Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media
What is the connection between what is said on TV and how it is said? Structured around 4 key features of the current broadcast landscape (storytelling, closeness, conflict and persuasion), Television Discourse examines the specific forms and structures of talk across media genres as varied as reality shows and political interviews
You're barking mad, I'm out”: Impoliteness and broadcast talk
This paper examines impoliteness in a discourse context marked by double articulation (i. e., broadcasting), specifically in the television show Dragons' Den (BBC2, UK). Like past work on impoliteness within ‘exploitative’ reality television, this study explores face-threatening behaviour by those involved in the interaction within the studio. Analysis of five hours of broadcast material reveals a number of patterns underlying both the interactio…
The Falklands/Malvinas 25 years on: A comparative analysis of constructions of heroism on Argentinean and British television
This paper examines constructions of war heroism within the context of the commemoration in 2007 on Argentinean and British television of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. In order to do this, it combines two analytic frameworks: synchronic-diachronic analysis (Pardo 2006, 2008, 2010) and revisionist face-work/politeness analysis (e.g. Bravo 1999). The origins of both frameworks, especially the synchronic-diachronic analysis, …
A genre approach to impoliteness1 in a Spanish television talk show: Evidence from corpus-based analysis, questionnaires and focus groups
The aim of this paper is to conduct a contextually and culturally sensitive investigation of how impoliteness works in Peninsular Spanish discourse. This is achieved by adopting a genre-approach to im-politeness (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, International Review of Pragmatics 2: 46–94, 2010), which argues that genre notions, as understood by Fairclough, Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research, Routledge, (2003), can anchor top-down …
On-line polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video
Dynamics of memory: Commemorating the 2005 London bombings in British television news
This article seeks to examine coverage of the 2005 London bombings’ first year anniversary commemorations vis-à-vis reportage of the attacks as a breaking news story. Adopting a multimodal discourse analysis approach, informed by both qualitative and quantitative methods, the study explores the thematic relationship between the two sets of coverage. Although our results show a number of dynamic processes at work, a key finding is the strong tende…
Bridging the gap: Interdisciplinary insights into the securitization of poverty
A significant body of literature within International Relations research attests to a securitization of poverty, since 9/11 especially, and within this process to the centrality of discourse. Remarkably, there has been little reciprocal work within Discourse Analysis to scrutinize the emergence of contemporary security agendas of non-traditional security issues and, as far as we were able to discern, nothing at all of the securitization of povert…
Discourse approaches to the study of reality television
In the previous chapter we discussed why the study of reality television (RTV) can benefit much from adopting a discourse-analytical approach. We also noted that, even within this approach, different theoretical and methodological frameworks can be fruitfully drawn upon in order to examine the two key themes covered in this book: identity and aggression. This chapter is thus intended to equip readers whose background is not in discourse analysis …
Discourse approaches to the study of reality television
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows
Reality television: A discourse-analytical perspective
The empirical chapters of this book offer original studies of reality television (RTV henceforth) in a wide range of cultural contexts. Importantly, they all share a discourse-analytical approach even though they employ different discourse-analytic frameworks in order to address specific research questions, from multimodality and interactional sociolinguistics to Critical Discourse Analysis. The aim of this chapter is to explain the need, at this…
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows: A diachronic study of the evolution of a genre
Reality television (RTV) has been under considerable scrutiny within the academic fields of media/cultural studies and, to a lesser extent, linguistics. Here, and within the context of ‘exploitative reality shows’, research has focused on impoliteness by lay participants (for example, Bousfield 2007, 2008; Culpeper 1996; Culpeper, Bousfield & Wichmann 2003) and ‘experts’, ranging from forthright property and lifestyle gurus and no-nonsense courtr…
Reality television
A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English: The role of (in)formality and (in)directness
This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate regarding, respectively (i) the general stylistic drift towards orality and informality in technology-mediated communication, and (ii) the degree of communicat…
Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol
Premised on the belief that both identity construction and im/politeness assessments relate to norms associated with genre practices, the aim of this paper is to examine the interconnections between identity co-construction and impoliteness in a media genre: the talent show. This aim is innovative in so far as im/politeness has traditionally been related to the notion of face, rather than identity. Our study draws upon a corpus of 160 interaction…
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultur
Despierten, Latinos(‘Wake up, Latinos): Latino Identity, US Politics and YouTube
This study examines the schemata underlying the social dimensions and relationships associated with the processes of Latino identity construction in 500 YouTube postings in response to the Obama Reggaeton video. According to Van Dijk (1998), such schemata allow members of a given group to provide answers to questions such as who they are, what criteria need to be met for membership in their group, and what kinds of relationships are established a…
Investigating how vocabulary is assessed in a narrative task through raters' verbal protocols
Understanding grooming discourse in computer-mediated environments
Living/minimum wage: Influential citizen talk in twitter
Sociology (27 works) · Political science (24 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Law (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (14 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Art (11 works)