Newcastle University

Introduction

My main research interests revolve around social inequalities and language use, and the ways that these interact with and affect each other. I work within a field of research known as Critical Discourse Studies. We argue that because language use contributes to the production and the reproduction of social life, logically, it must play a part in producing and reproducing social inequalities. Critical Discourse Analysts aim to show how this occurs, thereby linking social and linguistic analysis.

Research Interests

Critical Discourse Studies; Discourse Historic Analysis; the discourse of British fascism; political propaganda, particularly leaflets; race, racism and journalism; social class and mass media; rhetoric and argumentation; visual arguments; Pragma-Dialectical Argumentation.

I am the co-convenor of the newly established Newcastle and Northumbria Critical Discourse Group. 
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For details of past publications, please go to my website.

Other Expertise

In the past I have written on critical discourse studies, newspaper representations of Muslims, local newspaper reporting, political journalism, balance and impartiality in BBC reporting of Israel/Palestine, argumentation in readers’ letters, political communications and party political leaflets.

Current Work

I am currently working on two books. The first is a monograph contextualising and analysing the multimedia discourses of the British National Party (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). The second is a co-edited volume analysing continuity and change in the discourses of European fascist (and extreme-right wing) parties since the Second World War.

Postgraduate Supervision

I would welcome applications from students wishing to conduct PhD research in the areas of: Critical Discourse Studies; Discourse Historic Analysis; discourses of fascism; rhetoric and argumentation; analysing journalistic discourse.

Esteem Indicators

I am the Editor of the international peer-review journal Critical Discourse Studies

I am on the Editorial Boards of the following Scholarly Journals:
Discourse and Society
Journal of Language and Politics
Social Semiotics
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (Cadaad)

I am the co-convenor of the Newcastle and Northumbria Critical Discourse Group. 

My co-authored book Key Concepts in Journalism Studies (2005, London: Sage) has been translated into Chinese (2008) and Japanese (2009) and republished in India.

• Wodak R, Richardson JE, ed. Analysing Fascist Discourse: European fascism in talk and text. London: Routledge, 2012. In Preparation.
• Richardson JE, Columbo M. Continuity and change in populist anti-immigrant discourse in Italy: an analysis of Lega leaflets. Journal of Language and Politics 2012, Special Issue: Immigration in Italy.
• Richardson JE. 'Our England': discourses of ‘race’ and class in party election leaflets. In: Richardson, J.E., Burridge, J.D, ed. Analysing Media Discourses. London, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.47-62.
• Richardson JE, Burridge JD, ed. Analysing Media Discourses. London, UK: Routledge, 2011.
• Jiwani Y, Richardson JE. Discourse, Ethnicity and Racism. In: Van Dijk, T.A, ed. Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2011, pp.241-262.
• Ihnen C, Richardson JE. On combining pragma-dialectics with critical discourse analysis. In: Feteris, E.T., Garssen, B., Henkemans, F.S, ed. Keeping in Touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins, 2011, pp.231–244.
• Richardson JE. Race and racial difference: the surface and depth of BNP ideology. In: Copsey, N., Macklin, G, ed. British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives. London, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.38-61.
• Richardson JE, Stanyer J. Reader opinion in the digital age: Tabloid and broadsheet newspaper websites and the exercise of political voice. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 2011, 12(8), 983-1003.
• Ihnen C, Richardson JE. Sobre a Combinaçã da Pragma-Dialética com a Análise Crítica do Discurso. Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Integrados em Discurso e Argumentação 2011, 1, 38-48.
• Richardson JE. 'Get shot of the lot of them': Election Reporting of Muslims in British Newspapers. In:Malik, M., ed. Anti-Muslim Prejudice: Past and Present.London:Routledge,2010, pp. 146-168.
• Barkho L, Richardson JE. A critique of the BBC's Middle East News Production Strategy. American Communication Journal 2010, 12, 18pp.
• Richardson JE, ed. Language and Journalism. London:Routledge,2010.
• Richardson JE. The Lure of Fascism? Extremist ideology in the Newspaper Reality before WWII. In:Potounenko, K., ed. Totalitarian Communication: Hierarchies, Codes and Messages .Berlin, Germany:Transcript-Verlag,2010, pp. 249-274.
• Richardson JE, Wodak R. Recontextualising fascist ideologies of the past: right-wing discourses on employment and nativism in Austria and the United Kingdom. Critical Discourse Studies 2009,6 4 251-267.
• Richardson JE, Barkho L. Reporting Israel/Palestine: The verbal and visual rhetoric of BBC journalism. Journalism Studies 2009,10 5 594-622.
• Richardson JE, Wodak R. The impact of visual racism: Visual arguments in political leaflets of Austrian and British far-right parties. Controversia: an international journal of debate and democratic renewal 2009,6 2 45-77.