Professor Rodney Jones 

Rodney's main areas of interest are discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and language and digital media. He is particularly interested in how digital media affect the way people conduct social interactions and manage social identities.

For the past 25 years he has been involved with the late Professor Ron Scollon and other colleagues in developing the theory and analytical practices of mediated discourse analysis, which he has applied to studying a range of contexts including HIV/AIDS prevention, classroom discourse, digital literacies, and creativity in professional contexts. He has authored or edited fifteen books and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters. His books include Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective (Routledge, 2013), Spoken Discourse (Bloomsbury, 2016), Understanding Digital Literacies: A practical introduction, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity (2015).

He has recently edited a collection about the language of COVID-19 entitled Viral Discourse with Cambridge University Press, as well as co-authoring the textbook Introducing Language and Society, also with CUP.  In March 2022 he was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.