Daniel Soule

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Daniel Soule

• How my teaching and research experience makes me
  suitable for this post in the School of English

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My Place in the Research Profile
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Strands of Current Research
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Publication Profile

• Publications on nationalism, media and
  publication research interests
• Soule, D. P. J. (Ed.) (In Press) Writing for
  Scholarly Journals, Electronic Social Science,
  Arts and Humanities Review for Postgraduates,
  www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk
• Soule, D. P. J. (In Press) Introduction to
  writing for scholarly journals in Writing for
  Scholarly Journals, Electronic Social Science,
  Arts and Humanities Review for Postgraduates,
  www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk
• Soule, D. P. J. (2006) Book Review of Nations and
  Nationalism A Reader. Spencer, P. and Wollman,
  H. (Eds.) (2005) Edinburgh University Press, in
  the Electronic Social Science, Arts and
  Humanities Review for Postgraduate,
  www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk
• Soule, D. P. J. The Language of News in
  Venable, J. (2005) Making Headlines New Values
  and Risk Signals in Journalism pp 4.8-4.14,
  Huntingdon Elm Publications

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Publications in Development

• Representing elections with conflict metaphors in
  the language of politicians and the media.
• Distinguishing national and state identities in
  the political discourse of a sub-state nation
  the Scottish case.
• Near and far the political manipulation of state
  and national identities in the construction of
  Scottish nationalist and unionist discourse.
• Framing the debate the language of media
  training. Co-authored John Venables
• Politics and language an interdisciplinary
  approach to the analysis of national identity in
  party political manifestos. Co-author Murray Leith

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Representing elections with conflict metaphors in
the language of politicians and the media.
Target Journal Discourse Society Description
The article is based on an analysis of a corpus
of newspaper articles covering UK political
elections at devolved, Westminster and European
levels. The analysis shows that elections are
routinely represented by journalists and
politicians with three interrelated metaphors,
politics is war, politics is argument, and
politics is pugilism. It is suggested that these
three metaphors are related at a cognitive level
by an overarching conflict schema. The metaphors
form part of an habituated discourse practice,
the tropes by which politicians and journalists
alike constitute politics as a conflict between
two sides. The structural features of the
conflict schema are shown to foreground
particular representative meanings of the
political field while occluding others. As such,
these discourse practices can be seen to
reproduce and instantiate existing dominant
relations of power which are discursively
difficult to resist in mediatised political
discourse. Complete final draft
November/December 2006
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Distinguishing national state identities in the
political discourse of a sub-state nation a
Scottish case study.
Target Journal Journal of Language and
Politics Description The article analyses of a
corpus of Scottish based political and media
texts associated with devolved, Westminster and
European elections. The study builds on and
critiques several dominant research paradigms in
the study of national identity, particularly
Billigs Banal Nationalism (1995) and Wodak et
als The Discursive Construction of National
Identity (1999). Analysis demonstrates that
national identity as represented in these works
conflates national and state identities. Scotland
provides an example of a sub-state nation that
clearly distinguishes between its state and
national identities. Such discursive
differentiations are made regardless of political
hue. Nationalist and unionists alike make the
same nation/state distinction however, the
mediation of these two identities in public
discourse can be understood through an analysis
of party political and media representations of
nationalism and unionism. This article,
therefore, augments current research paradigms in
nationalism and critical discourse studies, as
well as adding to the understanding of Scottish
national identity. Complete final draft
December/January 2006/7
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Near and far the political manipulation of state
and national identities in the construction of
Scottish nationalist and unionist discourse.
Target Journal Media, Culture and
Society Description This article analyses of a
corpus of Scottish based political texts
associated with devolved, Westminster and
European elections. This research explores the
discursive construction of party political in and
out-groups in Scottish political discourse. It
demonstrates that while at Westminster the
dominant political conflicts centre on the
left/right ideological divide, in Scotland it is
on the nationalist/unionist distinction.
Employing an approach that synthesizes the
cognitive approaches to CDA of van Dijk (1998)
and Chilton (2004), this article shows how state
and national identities are constructed in party
political discourse. A three dimensional deictic
analysis illustrates how party political in and
out groups are constructed in discourse as
proximal and distal objects. These constructions
of varying degrees of metaphorical closeness are
systematically related to nationalist and
unionist ideologies. Nationalists identify
out-groups with English, London and UK locations,
while unionists obfuscate Scottish/UK
distinctions, modulating between Scottish and UK
foci when discursively constructing the in-group.
This article adds to the discursive analysis of
ideological competition and to an understanding
of Scottish national identity in party political
discourse. Complete final draft
January/February 2007
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Previous Funding

• Previous funding demonstrating ability to enhance
  the institutional research and learning
  environment
• EPSRC studentship (GU Eng Lang SCOTS Project)
• 10,000 SharpEdge thesis writing summer school GU
  Arts Humanities, Education, and LBSS faculties
• AHRC, ESECT, LTDF eSharp ejournal included
  Glasgow PG ejournal symposium The Future for
  Postgraduate Journals attended by Quest

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Future Projects and Research

• Future projects
• Imagining Britishness studies in national, state
  and community identities in the British Isles
• Builds on current departmental research
  interests, e.g. BSLCP series
• Opportunity for inter disciplinary collaboration
  in line with Schools current ethos of research
  fora
• Opportunity for inter institutional
  collaborations in research, publications, and
  symposia
• Keys into present scholarly and public interest
  in identity and culture
• Discourse of ethical consumerism
• Builds on current staff interest in language of
  advertising
• Proven area of funding for related research
  projects, for example OUP ESRC funded project
  The Discourse of Organic Food Promotion
• Area of populist books No Logo and All consuming
  (Gavin Hayes forthcoming)
• New area of research for CDA

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Research Teaching Adding to Undergraduate Study

• Familiar with a broad based approach to English
  studies the Department of English Language and
  School of English
• Lecturing and tutoring experience at University
  of Glasgow in Modern English Language and
  Politics
• Lectures on critical discourse analysis and
  language and the media
• Research in language and politics, language and
  the media, CDA, discourse of national identity
• Developed of interactive seminar materials for
  applied linguistic studies
• Taught stylistics at GU for last four years based
  on Prof. Simpsons Language, Ideology and Point
  of View

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Research Teaching Adding to Postgraduate Study

• eSharp editor, trainer and peer reviewer
• Supporting postgraduate and postdoctoral research
  and career skills. Delivering copy editing, proof
  reading and peer review training
• Developing early career researchers. The journal
  provides a supportive gateway to scholarly
  publication. Double blind peer reviewed
  international journal
• Experience developing and running eSharp would be
  directly relevant to the School of Englishs
  Professionalizing the PHD doctoral seminars
  series
• Writing for Scholarly Journals eBook. Free online
  starter guild.
• SharpEdge
• Training company delivering thesis and
  publication writing skills training to
  postgraduates and early career researchers
• HealthQWest
• Publications Coordinator. Providing publication
  support to early career and established
  researchers, including developing online writers
  resources, writing for publication seminars, and
  prepublication support (such as copy editing and
  proof reading)