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Jane Helen Johnson

Assistant professor

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Academic discipline: ANGL-01/C English Language, Translation and Linguistics

Teaching

Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.

Second cycle degree programmes dissertations

  • A comparative study of English use in Italian and German Influencer Marketing
  • An Analysis of the Linguistic Dynamics of Aviation English in the U.S. Airspace: a Corpus-based Approach
  • Comprehension and coping strategies in the EMI classroom: students' perspectives
  • Connecting through Captions: An Analysis of Linguistic Strategies in Influencer Marketing on Instagram
  • Humour, social sensitivity and political correctness: can we still laugh at everything in the woke era?
  • Mao Zedong's portrayal in media news headlines in various countries
  • Persuasion across languages: 2024 U.S.A. Presidential election and 2025 Romanian Presidential election
  • Racist Discourse in Gender-Based Violence Reporting: A Comparative Study of Media Narratives in Italy, England, and Germany.
  • The Role of Effective External Communication in the Contemporary Era: a Linguistic Study of the International Labour Association (ILA) through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodal Studies

PhD programmes thesis

  • Embodied lecturing in engineering in English-Medium Instruction (EMI): exploring the interaction between gestures, (Dis)Fluencies, and pragmatic challenges