Profile

Dr Derek Bousfield

Head of Linguistics, English Language, Literature & Cultures

School of Journalism, Media and Communication

Harrington Building 211

+44 (0)1772 893032

debousfield@uclan.ac.uk

Derek earned his BA (Hons), MA and PhD from Lancaster University, UK. After a 4-year period as a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of English Language at the University of Huddersfield (2003-2007), Derek returned to the North West and took up a position here at UCLan. He has been head of the division since March 2010.

Current Research and Supervision

As part of an ongoing professional interest in the way in which language and linguistics contributes to the causing, or management (defence against) of offence and offensiveness (i.e. being impolite, rude, antagonistic, etc…) Derek currently supervises two PhD students pursuing research in this area. His research and supervision interests encompass work within Politeness, Impoliteness, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics and Stylistics. He is happy to receive applications from interested parties in these areas of linguistic research.

Teaching

Derek teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels on a wide array of linguistic and cross- disciplinary modules including Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Conversation Analysis, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Linguistics and Social Semiotics, Stylistics in Literature and Stylistics in the Media.

Derek was awarded a HEFCE-backed ‘Extra Mile’ Teaching Award in December 2007 for his enthusiasm, dedication and ability as an educator.

Publications

Archer, D. and Bousfield, D. (2010) ‘“See better, Lear”? See Lear better! A corpus-based pragma-stylistic investigation of Shakespeare’s King Lear.’ In: Busse, B. and McIntyre, D. (eds.) Language and Style. London: Routledge: 183-203.

Bousfield, D. (2010). ‘Issues in impoliteness research’ In: Locher, Miriam and Sage Lambert Graham (eds.) Interpersonal Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 101-134.

Bousfield, D. (2009) ‘On Impoliteness in Interaction’. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 5 (2): 305-312.

Bousfield, D. (2008a) Impoliteness in Interaction. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series. Amsterdam / New York: John Benjamins.

Bousfield, D. (2008b) 'Impoliteness in the struggle for power' In: Bousfield, D. and Locher, M. (eds) Impoliteness in Language. Language, Power and Social Processes Series. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 127-154.

Bousfield, D. (2007a) 'Never a truer word said in jest' A Pragmastylistic analysis of Impoliteness as Banter in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, part I’ In: Lambrou, M, and Stockwell, P (eds) Contemporary Stylistics. London: Continuum: 209-220.

Bousfield, D. (2007b) 'Impoliteness, preference organization and conducivity' Multilingua 26 (1-2): 1-33.

Bousfield, D. (2007c) 'Beginnings, middles and ends: a biopsy of the dynamics of impolite exchanges', Journal of Pragmatics 39 (12): 2185-2216

Bousfield, D. (2006) 'The Grand Debate: Where next for politeness research?' Culture, Language and Representation Vol. III: 9-16

Bousfield, D. (2005a) 'Richard Watts: Politeness'. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 1 (2) 296-300.

Bousfield, D. (2005b) ‘Saeko Fukushima: Requests and Culture’. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (7): 1117-1127.

Bousfield, D. and Culpeper, J. (2008) ‘Impoliteness: Eclecticism and Diaspora’ The Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 4 (2): 161-168.

Bousfield, D. and Grainger, K. (2010) ‘Politeness Research: Retrospect and Prospect’ Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 6 (2). 161-182.

Bousfield, D., Jeffries, L., McIntyre, D., and Short, M. (2011). ‘Processes of interpretation: using meta-analysis to inform pedagogic practice.’ In: McIntyre, D. and Jeffries, L. (eds.) Teaching Stylistics. London: Routledge.

Bousfield, D. and Locher, M. (eds) (2008) Impoliteness in Language. Language, Power and Social Processes Series. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Bousfield, D. and McIntyre, D. (2011) 'Fear and Empathy in Scorcese’s Goodfellas' In: R. Piazza, R, Rossi, F, and Bednarek, M (eds) Telecinematic Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 105-123.

Culpeper J., Bousfield, D. and Wichmann, A. (2003) 'Impoliteness revisited: with special reference to dynamic and prosodic aspects', Journal of Pragmatics 35 (10-11): 1545-1579.

Haugh, M. And Bousfield, D. (in press) ‘Mock impoliteness in interactions amongst Australian and British speakers of English’ Journal of Pragmatics

Jeffries, L., McIntyre D., and Bousfield, D. (eds) (2007) Stylistics and Social Cognition. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Locher, Miriam A. and Bousfield, D. (2008) 'Impoliteness and Power in Language' In: Bousfield, D. and Locher, M. (eds) Impoliteness in Language. Language, Power and Social Processes Series. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 1-17.

Projects

Working with colleagues from around the globe, Derek is currently involved in a number of projects including:

‘Conflict’. A Corpus. With Dr Dawn Archer (UCLan) and Dr. Richard Xiao (University of Edge Hill)
(Im)politeness across English(es). With Dr. Michael Haugh, (Griffith University, Australia).
‘Interpretation’. with Professor Mick Short (Lancaster University, UK), Professor Lesley Jeffries and Dr. Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield, UK)).

Grants

2008 British Academy Conference Grant
1999 Economic and Social Research Council Grant, 3-year PhD research project.

External

Derek is Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Politeness Research. He is also a member of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group (LPRG), International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) and the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).

Other

Derek is Editor-In-Chief (With Dr. Karen Grainger of Sheffield Hallam University) of the high-impact Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture.

Derek has acted as external examiner for the European PhD programme (Universidad de Granada, Spain); external expert verifier for the periodic revalidation of courses at the School of Linguistics and English Language, University of Bangor, Wales; and external examiner for Lancaster University's BA (Hons) in Language, Literature and Writing degree delivered at Blackpool and The Fylde college, UK.