I am a linguist with specialisations in critical discourse analysis, feminist discourse studies, and multimodal discourse analysis.
I earned by PhD in Linguistics (1998) from Lancaster University, UK, and my MA (1991) and BA with Honours (1989) degrees from the National University of Singapore.
Courses Currently Teaching:
Courses Previously Taught (here and in the UK):
Teaching Awards:
Research Supervision:
I have supervised and examined about 100 Honours, Masters, and Ph.D theses and research projects in critical/discourse studies in the following areas:
My current research projects include feminist critical discourse analysis, political discourse, and multimodality in advertising.
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED
Lazar, M. M. (2005) (ed.) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Gender, Power and Ideology in Discourse. London: Palgrave. (Reprinted in paperback, 2007)
JOURNAL ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS/MONOGRAPHS/PROCEEDINGS/REVIEWS
· Lazar, M.M. (1993) 'Equalizing Gender Relations: A Case of Double-Talk’, Discourse & Society, 4(4).
· Lazar, M.M. (1997) 'Gender in Discourse’, in T. A. van Dijk (ed.). Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction. Volume 2: Discourse as Social Interaction.
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· Lazar, M.M. (1998) '“Then Something Wonderful Happened”: Advertising a Lifestyle on Offer’. Centre for Language in Social Life Series, No. 92.
· Lazar, M.M. (1999) 'Family Life Advertisements and the Narrative of Heterosexual Sociality’, in P. Chew and A. Kramer-Dahl (eds.). Reading Culture: Textual Practices in
· Lazar, M.M. (2000) 'El género en el discurso’, en T. A. Van Dijk (compilador). El Discurso
· Lazar, M.M. (2000) 'Gender, Discourse and Semiotics: The Politics of Parenthood Representations’, Discourse & Society, 11(3).
· Lazar, M.M. (2001) 'For the Good of the Nation: “Strategic Egalitarianism” in the
· Lazar, M.M. (2002) 'Women Beyond Borders’, Visual Communication, 1(3).
· Lazar, M.M. (2002) 'Consuming Personal Relationships: The Achievement of Feminine Self-Identity through Other-Centredness’, in L. Litosseliti and J. Sunderland (eds.). Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis.
· Lazar, M.M. (2002) Review of D. Cameron's ‘Working with Spoken Discourse’ in Journal of Sociolinguistics, 6(1).
· Lazar, M.M. (2002) Review of S.Titscher et al.'s ‘Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis’ in Journal of Sociolinguistics, 6(1).
· Lazar, M.M. (2003) ‘Semiosis, Social Change, and Governance: A Critical Semiotic Analysis of a National Campaign’, Social Semiotics, 13 (3).
· Lazar, M.M. (2004) ‘The Discourse of the New World Order: "Outcasting" the Double Face of Threat’, Discourse & Society, 15 (2-3) (with A. Lazar).
· Lazar, M.M. (2005) ‘Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis’, in M.M. Lazar (ed.). Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
· Lazar, M.M. (2005) ‘Performing State Fatherhood: The Remaking of Hegemony’, in M.M. Lazar (ed.). Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
· Lazar, M.M. (2005) ‘American Neo-Liberal Hegemony and the Positioning of the New Enemy: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Global Politics in the Post-Cold War Era’, in M Postigo (ed.). Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia Servei de Publicacions. (with A. Lazar).
· Lazar, M.M. (2005) ‘Discursive Construction of the "Other" in the New World Order’, MICOLLAC 2005 (Critical Perspectives in the Theory and Practice of the New World Order). Serdang: UPM. (with A. Lazar).
· Lazar, M.M. (2006) ‘"In the Pursuit of Justice": The Discursive Construction of America as Global Policeman in the New World Order’ in T. Le (ed.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory into Research. Tasmania: University of Tasmania.
· Lazar, M.M. (2006) ‘Discover the Power of Femininity! Global "Power Femininity" in Local Advertising’, Feminist Media Studies, 6(4).
· Lazar, M.M. (2007) ‘Enforcing Justice, Justifying Force: America's Justification of Violence in the New World Order’, in A. Hodges and C. Nilep (eds.). Discourse, War and Terrorism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with A. Lazar).
· Lazar, M.M. (2007) ‘Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Articulating a Feminist Discourse Praxis’, Critical Discourse Studies, 4(2).
· Lazar, M.M. (2007) ‘Gender, Discourse and Semiotics: The Politics of Parenthood Representations’, in T. A. Van Dijk (ed.). The Study of Discourse. London: Sage. (Reprinted from Discourse & Society, 2000, 11(3)).
· Lazar, M.M. (2007) ‘The Politics of Othering in the New World Order', in F.S. Abdullah, M. H. Abdullah and B.H. Tan (eds.). Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. (with A. Lazar)
· Lazar, M.M. (2008) Review of M. Saraceni's 'Language of Comics' in Journal of Sociolinguistics. 12 (2).
· Lazar, M.M. (2008) Review of P. Herbst's 'Talking Terrorism' in Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12(4).
· Lazar, M.M. (2008) ‘Language and Communication in the Public Sphere: A Perspective from Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis’, in R. Wodak and V. Koller (eds.). Communication in the Public Sphere. Handbook of Applied Linguistics., Vol. 4. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
· Lazar, M.M. (2009) ‘The Discourse of Global Governance: American Hegemony in the Post Cold War Era', Journal of Language and Politics. 7(2). (with A. Lazar)
OTHERS
The series publishes high quality original research monographs broadly in the field of critical discourse studies. It seeks theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous research that advances our critical understandings of the interrelations of discourse and social processes, including all aspects of power relations: from perspectives of maintenance and perpetuation of dominance, to negotiations of power and resistances, as well as solidarity formations for group empowerment. The series encourages interdisciplinarity of research, and welcomes investigations of new topics, domains, issues, frameworks and methods, as well as fresh perspectives on established ones, from a variety of international and cultural contexts. A broad understanding of 'discourse' is adopted in the series to include systematic and explicit analyses of spoken/written language and other modes of semiosis (e.g. visual images, sounds, gestures and actions).
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please send the proposal (with sample chapters and your cv) to me at ellmml@nus.edu.sg
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I have been invited to give presentations and lectures in several countries:
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