Dr Carol Marley

Room: NW 917
Phone: 0121 204 3808
Email: c.n.marley@aston.ac.uk

2008-2009 Pedagogical Research Fellowship, School of Languages and Social Sciences
2006-2007 School of Languages and Social Sciences Teaching Award
2001-2002 Sir Alistair Pilkington Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Liverpool
1987- 1988 Awarded Constance Naden Medal for best postgraduate thesis submitted to the Arts Faculty, University of Birmingham.

Publications

2008 'Truth Values and Truth-Commitment in Intertextual Dating Ads', Language and Literature, Vol 17(2), 137-154
2007 'Assuming identities: the workings of intertextual metaphors in dating ads', Journal of Pragmatics (2007), doi 10. 1016/j.pragma.2007.09.005
2007 'Metaphors of Identity in Dating Ads and Newspaper Articles', TEXT&TALK, 27-1, 55-78
2005 A section from ‘Popping the Question’ (2002) appears as a key reading in Grammar and Context: An advanced resource book, A Hewings & M Hewings eds, London: Routledge.
2002 ‘Popping the Question: Questions and Modality in Dating Ads’, in Discourse Studies 4(1), 75-98.

'Visualising Identity in Writing: A case study of dating ads', undergoing revision for Functions of Language.
'Interpersonal Issues in the Discourse of Dating Ads', under review; to appear in M Locher & S L Graham, eds, Interpersonal Pragmatics, Vol 6. Handbooks of PRagmatics, Mouton de Gruyter.
'Migration, Movement, Narrative', with Chris Gilligan, in preparation

2000 'Beyond the Usual: The modification of gender in a British Lonely Hearts column', in Text 20(3), 271-306
2000 'Trading talk? Interaction in written dating advertisements', in RM Coulthard, J Cotterill & F Rock, eds, Working with Dialogue, Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 301-314
1998 ‘Agencies in Foreign News: A linguistic complement of a content analytical study’ (with D. Galasinski), Journal of Pragmatics 30 (1998) 565-587.
1995 'A Little Light on the Heart of Darkness', in J Payne, ed, Linguistic Approaches to Literature: Papers in Literary Stylistics, Birmingham: ELR, 74-101.

March 2008 Plenary speaker, A-S Level Sixth Form Conference, Newcastle University, 19th March 2008
1999 - 2001 Speaker at two national circuits of conferences for sixth form students of English language, speaking to audiences of up to 1,000.
January 2001 Presentation on language & gender at a Linguistics Consortium of A Level English Language Teachers, run by Cheshire County Council.

Trainspotter, homemaker, lover: Gendered identities in print-medium dating ads, English Language Research Seminar, University of Birmingham, 28 October 2008
1999 Critical Discourse Analysis Meeting, University of Birmingham, 6-7 April, 1999 - Moderator of the Gender session for the first in a series of annual meetings of Critical Discourse Analysts.

November 2008, ECREA's European Communication Conference, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 25-28 November, 2008 - Migration, Movement, Narrative (with Chris Gilligan).
September 2006, BELP Conference, University of Birmingham - plenary talk.
2006 TESOL Spain, Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, 24-27 March, 2006 - Co-text as clue to metaphorical meaning
2002 29th International Systemic Functional Congress, University of Liverpool, 15-19 July, 2002 - ‘Pauper seeks millionairess: Projecting roles and negotiating identity in dating ads’.
1999 North West Centre for Linguistics, 2nd international conference: Questions, University of Liverpool, 12-14 November, 1999 - ‘Trading Talk? Interaction in written dating advertisements’.
1997 BAAL: Language At Work, University of Birmingham, 11-13 September, 1997 - ‘Journalism & “Story”: Narrative & Expository discourse in international news’.