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Dr Anthony Fisher BA(Hons), MA, PhD

Director of Teaching and Learning

Doctoral Supervisor
CoHSS - Teaching and Learning

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I came to Massey and New Zealand quite recently. I gained my PhD in the UK where I have also worked as a Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and English for Academic Purposes. Before entering academia I worked as an English teacher and before that in television news production.

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Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: 63572
    Location: 7C 12b, Block 7
    Campus: Wellington

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - University of Birmingham (1992)
  • Master of Arts - University of Nottingham (2009)
  • Doctor of Philosophy - University of Nottingham (2014)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

My research interests  include identity construction in mediated political discourse, representations of gendered identities in mass media texts, health communication, and online discourse communities.

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics (200401): Communication and Media Studies (200100): Cultural Studies (200200): Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205): Discourse and Pragmatics (200403): Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) (200405): Languages, Communication And Culture (200000): Linguistics (200400): Organisational, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication (200105)

Keywords

Critical Discourse Analysis

Political Discourse

Media Discourse

Corpus Linguistics

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 0 3

Research Outputs

Journal

Fisher, AJ. (2017). Representation of the British suffrage movement. CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES. 14(4), 458-460
[Journal article]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, AJ. (2017). Representation of the British Suffrage Movement, by Kat Gupta, Bloosmbury, 2016. [Published as part of the Research in Corpus and Discourse Series, edited by Wolfgang Teubert and Michaela Mahlberg].. Critical Discourse Studies. Retreived from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405904.2017.1292933
[Book Review]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Moore, C., Fisher, AJ., & Baber, E. (2016). Virtually unknown: teacher engagement in an online conference. ELT Journal. 70(2), 200-211
[Journal article]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Perez, E., Turner, M., Fisher, AJ., Lockwood, J., & Daley, D. (2014). Linguistic analysis of the preschool five minute sample: What the parents of preschool children with early signs of ADHD say and how they say it. PLoS One. 9(9), 1-15
[Journal article]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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De Felice, R., Darby, J., Fisher, AJ., & Peplow, D. (2013). A classification scheme for annotating speech acts in a business email corpus. ICAME Journal. 37, 71-105 Retrieved from http://clu.uni.no/icame/ij37/index.html
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Fisher, AJ. (2011). Addicted to Talk: Newspaper representation of the female speaking subject. Working with English: medieval and modern language, literature and drama. 7 Retrieved from https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezweb/working_with_english/
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Thesis

Fisher, AJ. (2013). Selling the Self: The discursive construction of identities in the first UK televised Prime Ministerial debates. (Doctoral Thesis, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) Fisher, AJ. (2013). Selling the Self: The discursive construction of identities in the first UK televised Prime Ministerial debates. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, AJ. (2009). The Panoptical Press: An Intertextual Analysis of Language and Gender Discourses in the National Newspapers of the United Kingdom. (Master's Thesis, University of Nottingham, UK)
[Masters Thesis]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Conference

Fisher, A.The Right to a Platform: Testing the Parameters of Free Speech in Aotearoa. . Victroia University of Wellington
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, A.We need a Ministry of Thinking”: Free speech and responsibility in a small country. . University of Canterbury
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, A.Televised Political Debates in the UK: Positioning and Identity in an Evolving Discourse Genre. . Victoria University of Wellington
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Veale, KR., & Fisher, A. (2017, December). Is it ok to punch a Nazi? The American alt-right and the discursive construction of free speech. Presented at 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference. Auckland, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A., Veale, K.Contributed to by: Veale, K.
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Veale, KR., & Fisher, A. (2017, December). Is it ok to punch a Nazi? (Spoiler alert: yes) – How the discursive construction of free speech helps social networks profit from abuse. Presented at 2017 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, "Cultures of Capitalism.". Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A., Veale, K.
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Fisher, AJ., & Petrucci, P. (2017, July). Fit to fly: A multimodal analysis of voice, audience and mitigation in airline safety briefings. Presented at 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Belfast, United Kingdom.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, AJ.(2016, September). Identity, positioning and political marketing in televised leaders’ debates. .
[Conference]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, A.Fit to fly: A Multimodal analysis of voice, audience and speech act mitigation in airline safety briefings.. . Wellington, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, AJ.Categorization and identity in televised political debates. . Dunedin, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Petrucci, PR., & Fisher, A. (2015, December). A plane full of crazies: Analysis of voice and audience design in an Air New Zealand in-flight safety briefing. Presented at The Fifth Biennial New Zealand Discourse Conference. Auckland, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Moore, C. (2015, April). Virtually Unknown: web conferences as a tool for teacher development. Presented at Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Manchester, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Contributed to by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ., Perez, E., Turner, M., & Daley, D. (2014, April). Young People Talking about Mental Health: A Linguistic Analysis. Presented at ICAME 35. University of Nottingham.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ. (2013, September). Making the Political Personal: Identity construction and political personae in the 2010 UK General Election. Presented at Annual conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ. (2013, June). Adolescent Mental Health: A Corpus-Based Approach. Presented at Birmingham-Nottingham Collaboration in Youth Mental Health and Applied linguistics. Birmingham, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ. (2013, April). Constructing the political persona: Categorization and identity in political discourse. Presented at i-Mean. Bristol, United Kingdom.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ.(2012, October). Applying linguistics in the real world: The next ten years. .
[Conference]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Adolphs, S., Churchill, D., Filik, R., Fisher, AJ., Harvey, K., Henshaw, H., . . . Perez, E. (2012). Youth talk: A key to understanding adolescent mental health communication. Poster session presented at the meeting of Involve 2012, the annual conference of the National Institute for Health Research. Nottingham, United Kingdom
[Conference Poster]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, AJ. (2012, June). Selling the Self: Identity and Impression Management in Mediated Political Discourse. Presented at School of English Summer School. University of Nottingham, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ. (2011, July). Face as an alternative to theories of (im)politeness in the analysis of mediated political discourse. Presented at Internationa Face and Politeness Symposium. University of Huddersfield, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ. (2011, July). “This may have the feel of a TV popularity contest”: Face and identity in the discourse of the UK’s first televised Prime Ministerial debates. Panel Presentation: Ruth Wodak, Michal Krzyzanowski & Helmut Gruber - The Pragmatics of (New) Genres in Political Communication. Presented at Annual Conference of the International Pragmatics Association,. University of Manchester, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ. (2011, September). The Linguistics of Ambiguity: Identity and Agency in the UK’s first Televised Prime Ministerial debates. Presented at Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK..
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
Fisher, AJ. (2011). The Panoptical Press: Language and gender discourses in a sample of UK online newspaper articles. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Conference of the International Gender and Language Association.. (pp. 118 - 129).
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, AJ.(2010, April). Teaching and Feminism Symposium. .
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Fisher, AJ. (2010, September). The Panoptical Press: Discourses of language and gender in UK online newspaper texts. Presented at 6th Biennial Conference of the International gender and Language Association (IGALA 6). Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fisher, A.
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Fisher, AJ. (2009, February). Politeness, Interruption, and the Metadiscursive Labeling of Gender. Presented at The Lavender Linguistics Conference. The American University, Washington DC, USA..
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Consultancy and Languages

Consultancy

  • Jan 2012 - Sept 2014 - British Association for Applied Linguistics
    Media Coordinator, Executive Committee member
  • Mar 2012 - Sept 2014 - UK Linguistics Olympiad
    Press Advisor

Languages

  • Russian
    Last used: over a decade ago
    Spoken ability: Needs work
    Written ability: Needs work
  • Japanese
    Last used: in last five years
    Spoken ability: Needs work
    Written ability: Needs work

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

I have experience teaching sociolinguistics, pragmatics, language & gender and communication in organisational settings. I also have over a decade of experience as a language teacher, teaching general English and English for Academic Purposes in both Japan and the UK.

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 1 0
Co-supervisor 0 2

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Pakkawan Udomphol - Doctor of Philosophy
    Critically investigating metadiscourse in New Zealand environmental sustainability reports using corpus linguistics

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2021 - Lin Li - Doctor of Philosophy
    A spoken Chinese corpus: development, description, and application in L2 studies
  • 2019 - Victoria Kerry - Doctor of Philosophy
    Stance, Same-Sex Marriage and Space: An Analysis of Self-Referencing on YouTube

Media and Links

Media

  • 26 Jun 2015 - Television
    Prime News
    expert contribution ot 17.30 Prime News bulletin on new words added to the Oxford Dictionary
  • 24 Apr 2015 - Online
    Swearing - can it ease the pain?
    Expert contribution
  • 08 Oct 2017 - Newspaper, Online
    It's how we speak, but shortening place names can
    Contribution to article published in Sunday Start Times and on stuff.co.nz website
  • 05 Mar 2021 - Radio
    More FM Manawatu appearance
    Interview on formulaic language

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