Chris Pak
Last Updated: 28th October 2024
Digital Projects Co-Ordinator for the Medical Humanities Blog
Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Digital Cultures, Swansea University
'People', 'Products', 'Pests' and 'Pets': The Discursive Representation of Animals
October 2013—January 2016
I completed my first postdoctoral appointment as a Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded project, “‘People’, ‘Products’, ‘Pests’ and ‘Pets: The Discursive Representation of Animals,’” a Corpus Linguistics (Digital Humanities) project that uses specialised computer software to analyse large numbers of digitised texts to understand the ways animals are represented in spoken and written discourse in the UK from 1995–2015. Genres analysed include news media, legislation, scientific journal articles, transcribed speech from interviews and focus groups and promotional food websites.
More details can be found at the project blog: http://animaldiscourse.wordpress.com/.
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Predictor Podcast Ep 80 - People, Products, Pests and Pets.
Listen to the ten minute interview with The University of Birmingham's Ideas Lab, Professor Alison Sealey and myself. It introduces some of the thinking behind the 'People, Products, Pests and Pets' project.
Visit Ideas Lab for more podcasts at http://www.ideaslab.bham.ac.uk/ideaslab_podcast.htm.