Biography

Satori is a sociolinguist and discourse analyst.  Her PhD (awarded in 2009) was a textual and semiotic analysis of the way older women are represented in UK women's magazines.  In addition to her teaching responsibilities at Surrey, Satori also teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Research Interests

Semiotics 

Analysing media texts

Workplace literacies and models of literacy

Institutional discourses

Publications

Soden S and Mooney A (2011) 'Language and Ethnicity' chapter 6 in Mooney A, Peccei, J, LaBelle S, Henriksen B, Eppler E, Irwin A, Pichler P, Preece S and Soden S Language, Society and Power An Introduction Third edition Oxon: Routledge

Soden S (2012) 'Redefining Cultural Roles in Older Age: Grand-Mothering as an Extension of Motherhood' in Ylanne V (ed) Representing Ageing: Images and Identities Palgrave (forthcoming)

Teaching

Semester 1:     

MA module: The Language of Advertising

MA module: Research Methods (3 sessions:  Ethnography & participant observation; Critical Discourse Analysis; Working with spoken language)

Semester 2:     

MA module: Interpersonal Communication

MA module: Globalization, Communication and Postmodernity

MA dissertation supervision

Additional activities

Co-author of the following study guides for the University of London International Programmes:

Introduction to English Language

Varieties of English: a sociolinguistic approach

Language and the Media