Laura Mercé
PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics
Doctoral Programme in Languages, Literatures, Cultures and their Applications
Department of English and German Philology
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8038-423X
Research affiliations
Member of the Gender, Language & Sexual (In)equality (GENTEXT) Research Group
Member of the Stoponsexgroom Project at Universitat Politècnica de València
Member of the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages of the Valencian Community (IULMA)
Education / Academic qualifications
- – BA in English Studies, Universitat de València.
- – MA in Advanced English Studies, Universitat de València.
- – MA in Secondary Education Teaching (English), Universitat de València.
Research interests
I am interested in the liaison between language use and gender-based violence.
Although my PhD thesis is still in the works, I have published on this topic from different angles:
- – Domestic violence against women as a form of gender-based violence in telecinematic discourse.
- – Gender-based violence in news and social media discourse.
I have also published on the issues of antifeminism and postfeminism in education, online grooming (with Prof Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Dr Carmen Pérez-Sabater and Dr Sergio Maruenda-Bataller), and critical pedagogy (with Dr Villacañas de Castro).
Book chapters
Maruenda-Bataller, S. & Mercé, L. (forthcoming). Why is gender-based violence a discursive issue? In Discourse approaches to gender-based violence: Deconstructing social inequality through linguistic inquiry (pp. X-XX). DeGruyter.
Mercé, L. & Maruenda-Bataller, S. (forthcoming). Postfeminism in English teaching materials? A feminist critical discourse analysis. In Hoskins, K. & M.P. Moreau, Handbook of gender and sexuality (pp. XX-XX). Edward Elgar.
Maruenda-Bataller, S., Mercé, L., & Castellano-Ortolà, E. (2024). Discourse, gender, and violence in news and social media texts: Setting the scene. In Maruenda-Bataller, S., Mercé, L., & E. Castellano-Ortolà, Discourse, gender, and violence: Insights from news and social media texts (pp. 1-18). Peter Lang.
Moreno-Serrano, L. (2021). The discursive representation of domestic violence in Big Little Lies: A feminist critical discourse analysis of the cycle of violence. In C. Gregori-Signes, M. Fuster-Márquez & S. Maruenda-Bataller, Discourse, dialogue and characterisation in TV series (pp. 141-157). Comares. Retrieved 10 August 2022, from https://www.comares.com/libro/discoursedialogue-and-characterisation-in-tvseries_136666/.
Journal articles
Lorenzo-Dus, N., Moreno-Serrano, L., Pérez-Sabater, C., & Maruenda-Bataller, S. (2021). Ciberacoso sexual a menores (Online Grooming) y pandemia: Actuar con el lenguaje ante la vulneración de los derechos de la infancia. Signo y Seña, 40, 166-187.
Villacañas de Castro, Luis S., Moreno-Serrano, L. M., & Giner, C. (2021). Museum Education, Cultural Sustainability and English Language Teaching in Spain. Pedagogy, Culture & Society.
Encyclopedia entries
Mercé, L. (Forthcoming). Anti-feminist backlash in education. In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
Book reviews
Mercé, L. (2022). Book review: Camilla Vásquez, Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis. Discourse Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221132685.