My name is Francine de Jager and I'm doing a taught MA in English Language
and Applied Linguistics.
Language has always been a passion, in my Undergraduate degree I majored in both Linguistics
and Literature. Seeing the interface between those two in stylistics I decided to study Linguistics.
My name is Soran I am from Kurdistan, Iraq. I'm a student studying a PhD
in English Language and Literature. The title of my thesis is Father/Daughter relationship in Sylvia Plath
and Anne Sexton selected poems and I want to use critical stylistics to
analyse the poems and to find out how the female speakers express their
different attitudes or viewpoints towards their fathers.
My name is Manal Abeed, I'm doing PhD research in Linguistics.
My research actually focuses on discourse analysis, examining the representation of
political events and media discourse. I chose to use critical stylistics in order to
investigate some of the newspapers in order to reveal the implicit ideologies in their texts.
The university college Roosevelt in the Netherlands, I had to do a final project
which involved working together with two professors from the University of Huddersfield.
Together with them I did a project on Corpus Linguistics, through that I decided
to come here because they inspired me to study with them.
My supervisor Lesley Jeffries is a leading expert in critical stylistics.
She has produced great influential work in this area. She has been able to open my eyes
and my mind to the levels of analysis I didn't realise existed.
Actually all the staff are supportive, helpful and friendly. And this is very  important for
International students who are far away from any support system.
Our universities in Libya are much more formal, with different respectful distance between students and the teachers.
While here all the staff are more like friends to us and actually my supervisor has been like my Mum.
