Dr Sara Vilar Lluch

BA, MA, PhD, FHEA

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Research

Broadly, I am interested in how we use language to make sense of our experience and manage to communicate effectively despite difficulties, particularly as applied to health communication. I combine qualitative analysis with corpus linguistics methods.

More specifically, this covers:

• Health communication: representations of ADHD in different institutional and lay discourses, communication of illness and recovery, communication of health risks and reception of health guidance
• Linguistics interests: expression of evaluation and emotion, figurative language, systemic functional linguistics

As a Research Fellow (UoN), I worked on different research projects on health communication (Coronavirus Discourses, PI: Svenja Adolphs; Wild Swimming and Blue Spaces, PI: Svenja Adolphs). At the University of Reading I was part of the interdisciplinary research project Law and Corpus Linguistics (PI: Nat Hansen).

Teaching

I teach on discourse analysis and languages modules including Discourse and Social Interaction, Language Learning, Language and Gender, Public and Professional Discourse.

In previous appointments I have taught across a variety of linguistics modules (BA and MA levels) including Language and Feminism (UoN), Language and Society (UoN), Discourses of Health and Work (UoN), Language Gender and Sexuality (UoN), Research Methods: Corpus Linguistics (UoN), Studying Language (UoN), Essentials of English (UoN), Core Concepts in Discourse Analysis (UoN, online), Culture and Communication (UoN, online), Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching (Roehampton), Discourse and Pragmatics (Roehampton), Semantics (Roehampton), Philosophy of language (Roehampton), Language and Power (UEA), Language Culture and Society (MLC, King’s).

As a Spanish language teacher, I have taught across levels A1-C1 as part of BA programmes, language-for-all modules, short courses, and Spanish for specific purposes (business and medicine).

Biography

Academic positions

• Lecturer in language and linguistics, Cardiff University (2024 - present)
• Teaching Associate in Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham (2022-2024)
• Research Fellow, University of Nottingham (2022-2024)
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Reading (2021-2022)
• Visiting Lecturer in linguistics, University of Roehampton (2021-2022)
• Spanish Language Teacher, King’s College London (Modern Language Centre) (2020-2021)
• Spanish Language Teacher, University of Edinburgh (2020-2021)
• Teaching Assistant in linguistics and Spanish language, University of East Anglia (2018-2021)

Education 

• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Nottingham (2024)
• MA in Spanish language teaching as a second language (Máster en didáctica del español como lengua extranjera), Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (2019-2021, part-time, distance learning)
• PhD in Linguistics, University of East Anglia (2016-2020) (funded by the faculty scholarship)
• MA in English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Huddersfield (2014-2016, part-time, distance learning)
• BA in Philosophy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2008-2012)

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2024 - present

Committees and reviewing

Peer reviewer for academic journals including Discourse & Communication; Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict; Journal of Medical Humanities; Qualitative Health Communication; International Journal of Language and Culture; Review of Cognitive Linguistics; Revista de Llengua i Dret; Science Advances; Sociological Forum; Communication and the Public; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Supervisions

• Health communication
• Expression of evaluation
• Metaphor
• Discourse analysis
• Corpus lingusitics