Dr. Annabelle Lukin

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Annabelle Lukin is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University, focusing on the study of language politics, media, and healthcare literature. With over 15 years of research, she published the book 'War and its Ideologies: A Social-Semiotic Theory and Description' in 2019, which explores how language can legitimize forms of violence and stigmatization. Additionally, she contributes to public understanding of language power through interviews on commercial public radio and articles in various media outlets. Her research employs discourse analysis and corpus methods, and she is affiliated with the Sydney Corpus Lab. A member of Communicators Declare, she advocates for communication practices that address climate denialism within the public relations and marketing sector. Currently, she is conducting research on the communication strategies surrounding inflammatory bowel disease at the Ingham Applied Medical Research Institute, and she supervises students interested in Halliday's systemic functional linguistics, particularly in law, media, and healthcare communication.

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