Professor Dr. Clyde Ancarno

Biography

Clyde is a member of the ECS research group, working in the field of applied linguistics. His work involves digital discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and corpus-assisted discourse studies. He has explored discourses in a range of professional and communication contexts including education, English Language Teaching (ELT), media, tourism, and intercultural email communication. Clyde's research focuses on social cohesion, particularly heterodox discourses that capture stories of integration, tolerance, and shared identities. He co-organizes the Multilingual Education in The Gambia Hub, which supports a reading group and forum on language in Gambia. With a focus on multilingual education, Clyde is interested in contexts where English and French coexist alongside local languages. His ongoing work includes addressing practical challenges faced by teachers in multilingual classrooms in Gambia. Furthermore, he is involved in interdisciplinary research concerning discourse and identity in inter-religious contexts, utilizing digital corpus tools to analyze anthropological data. Clyde is also a research fellow in a three-year Leverhulme project that investigates the discursive representation of animals through corpus linguistics and discourse analysis.

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