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Dr Nicola Macleod

Research Associate, Centre for Forensic Linguistics (CFL)

 

Room: MB 741
Phone: 01212043769
Email: n.macleod1@aston.ac.uk

 Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) English Language, Bangor University

  • MA (Distinction) Forensic Linguistics, Cardiff University

  • PhD Forensic Linguistics, Aston University

Research Interests

  • Critical Discourse Analysis

  • Language & Representation

  • Language, Power & Ideology, particularly in Forensic Contexts

  • Forensic Text Analysis

  • Language & News Media.

Publications

MacLeod, N. (forthcoming 2013) ‘Forensic Linguistics’ The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics C.A. Chapelle (Ed.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

MacLeod, N. (forthcoming 2013) ‘Solan, Lawrence M.’ The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics C.A. Chapelle (Ed.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Macleod, N. (revisions submitted August 2011) ‘Pre-empting blame: defence components in the talk of women reporting rape’ to appear in Feminism & Psychology 

MacLeod, N., & Fennell, B. (revisions submitted March 2011) ‘Lexical portraits of vulnerable women in war: The 1641 Depositions’ Historical Pragmatics  

MacLeod, N. (forthcoming 2012) ‘Rogues, villaines & base trulls: Constructing the other in the 1641 Depositions’ to appear in E. Darcy, A. Margey & E. Murphy (eds.) The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion London: Pickering & Chatto. (due November 2011).

MacLeod,N. & Grant, T. (submitted) ‘Whose tweet? Authorship analysis of micro-blogs and other short-form messages’ to appear in Proceedings of the International Association of Forensic Linguists’ 10th Biennial Conference, 2011. 

MacLeod, N. (2011). ‘Risks and benefits of selective (re)presentation of interviewees’ talk: Some insights from discourse analysis’. British Journal of Forensic Practice.

MacLeod,N. (2009) ‘‘Well did you feel jealous?’ Control & ideology in police interviews with rape complainants’ Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 3 (1), 46 – 57.