Alon Lischinsky

Position

Postdoctoral fellow

Address

Department of Media and Culture Studies
University of Umeå, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden

Telephone

+46 90 7865352

Email

alon dot lischinsky at kultmed dot umu dot se

Institutional website

http://www.kultmed.umu.se/om-institutionen/personal/alon-lischinsky

Alon Lischinsky has a Ph.D. in Linguistics (Discourse Analysis), and is presently employed as a postdoctoral fellow within the Initiative for the Humanities project. His current research uses corpus methods to analyse the conceptual models and principles of classification that the business community brings to public debates about development, sustainability and the environment, through a focus on Corporate Social Responsibility reports.

Other long-standing interests include the demarcation and hierarchisation of knowledge fields in both expert and lay communities; the argumentative use of fictional and non-fictional narratives; and multimodal strategies in persuasion.

Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, Corpus linguistics, Expert knowledge, Managerialism, Political Economy