Ulrike Hanna Meinhof is an
Emeritus Professor
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In some c ...
in the Department of Modern Languages at the
University of Southampton
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in
Hampshire
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. She previously worked as a
professor
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and Chair of Cultural Studies at the
University of Bradford
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in
West Yorkshire
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.
She is a specialist in
discourse analysis
Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, spoken, or sign language, including any significant semiotic event.
The objects of discourse analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative sy ...
. Her main areas of research involve ethnographic research in European border communities and a comparative media-project about the 20th century on
television
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.
Meinhof is the author of ''Language Learning in the Age of Satellite Television'', published by
Oxford University Press
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.
[Google Books website, ''Language Learning in the Age of Satellite Television'']
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Works
*''Text, Discourse and Context: Representation of Poverty in Britain''. (with K. Richardson, eds.), London & New York: Longman, 1994
*''Télé-textes'' (with Elspeth Broady) (1995)[ Amazon website, ''Ulrike Meinhof'']
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*''Intertextuality and the Media: from Genre to Everyday life'' (with Jonathan M. Smith, eds.) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000)[ GoodReads website, ''Books by Ulrike Hanna Meinhof'']
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*''Africa and Applied Linguistics'' (editor) (2003)
*''Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe'' (editor) (2006)
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*''Negotiating Multicultural Europe: Borders, Networks, Neighbourhoods'' (editor) (2011)
References
External links
Page at Oxford University Press
Professor Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, University of Southampton
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20th-century births
Academics of the University of Bradford
Living people
Discourse analysts
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sociolinguists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Southampton