Michele Zappavigna

Current PhD Students

I am currently supervising students who are interested in applying methods derived from social semiotics, multimodality, and Systemic Functional Linguistics to AI discourse (e.g. LLM Chatbots conversations) and Social Media discourse.

Kaixi Yuan

Thesis: Exploring Tenor in Depression Discourse on YouTube: A Social Semiotic Analysis of TED Talks and Comment Threads

Dalal Altayari

Thesis: Emoji-text Relations in Arabic Marketing Discourse: Exploring Tenor in Social Media Paralanguage

Completed Students

Dr Lorenzo Logi

Thesis: Impersonation, Expectation and Humorous Affiliation

Dr Olivia Inwood

Thesis: A Discourse-Analytic Approach to the Study of Information Disorders: How Online Communities Legitimate Social Bonds When Communing Around Misinformation and Disinformation

Dr Giselle Newton

Thesis: Everyday belongings: Exploring Australian donor-conceived adults’ social, linguistic and digital practices across private and public domains

Dr Awni Etaywe

Thesis: Language as Evidence: A Discourse Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Approach to Examining Written Terrorist Threatening Communication

Dr Jiani Chen

Thesis: Corporate crisis communication on Twitter: Exploring the role of affiliation in image repair strategies.

Nida Tahseen

Thesis: Comparing Australian newspaper commentaries: An evaluative approach to studying argumentative media discourse on the representation of women.

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