DrPauline Madella

I specialise in Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Forensic Linguistics. 

My primary domain of expertise as a cognitive linguist includes the realm of pragmatics, the use of prosody and nonverbal communication in utterance interpretation, and the role of multimodality in interlanguage and instructional pragmatics.

My second research strand focuses on analysing the pragmatics of discursive manipulation and deception in the context of online child sexual grooming, with a view to detecting and preventing OCSEA. 

I am an Associate member of the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA) and the Safer Young Lives Research Centre (SYLRC). 

I am also a member of 

ENACSA - the Expert Network Addressing Child Sexual Abuse

IAFLL - the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics 

IPrA - the International Pragmatics Association 

& UKALTA - the UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment 

Current Research England funded project: Co-Creating Youth-Informed Policy Responses to Online Grooming: Bridging Research and Participation; for details of the project, see Pauline Madella's lab | University of Bedfordshire based on collaboration between CRELLA and SYLRC within Institute of Applied Social Research 

You can read my thoughts on International Women Day #GiveToGain here. 

Current Pearson funded project: Is PTE Core fit-for-specific purpose? Analysing the suitability of PTE Core for testing healthcare professionals' English oral proficiency, with my colleagues N. Latimer and F. Nakatsuhara.