Staff Profiles

• PhD Language and Communication, Cardiff University, UK
• MA Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK
• MA English Language and Linguistics, University of Botswana
• Post Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Botswana
• BA English, University of Botswana

I currently teach the following undergraduate modules:

• Communication and Academic Literacy for Science 
• Academic and Professional Communication for Science
• Advanced Communication Skills
• Advanced Oral Presentation Skills

• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Systemic Functional Linguistics with a focus on Appraisal framework
• Evaluative stance and 'objectivity' in media discourse
• Linguistic strategies for the construction of cohesion and coherence in media discourse

• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Evaluation and stance in media discourse
• Appraisal framework and its application to media discourse

Rantsudu, B. and Bartlett, T. (2024). The role of deontic modality in the construction and mitigation of evaluation in hard news reporting. Journal of World Languages. doi:10.1515/jwl-2023-0059.

Rantsudu, B. (2023). Setting the scene for other voices: Strategic stance-taking and the construal of objectivity in hard news reporting. In: Marin-Arresse, J. I., Hidalgo-Downing, L. and Zamorano-Mansilla, J. R. (eds.) Stance, Inter/Subjectivity and Identity in Discourse. Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 443-460.

Rantsudu, B. (2022). Alternative discourses and their evaluative power in the journalists' coverage of a public sector workers' strike in Botswana. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 16(3), 315-334. https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.19264

Rantsudu, B. (2019). Taking a stance through the voice of others: Attribution in the news coverage of a public sector workers' strike in two Botswana newspapers. In: Hart, C. and Kelsey, D. (eds.) Discourses of Disorder: Riots, strikes and protests in the media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 93-108.