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Dr. Pauline Madella is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bedfordshire, where she is affiliated with the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA) within the School of Education and English. She holds a BA and MA in English from Coventry University and completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Brighton in 2021 under the supervision of Dr. Tim Wharton, Dr. Kate Scott, and Professor Elly Ifantidou.
Dr. Madella's research focuses on the intersection of pragmatics, prosody, and multimodal communication in second language acquisition. Her work applies relevance theory to investigate how nonverbal cues, particularly prosodic features and gestures, influence L2 listeners' inferential comprehension and pragmatic competence. She has extensive experience teaching English for Specific Purposes in professional contexts across multiple countries including Norway, France, and the UK, with previous teaching positions at University of Brighton, Middlesex University, University College London, University of Surrey, Royal Holloway University, and Lancaster University.
Her recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on multimodal pragmatic development in L2 learners, particularly examining how prosodic pointing and gesture contribute to pragmatic understanding. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical language teaching applications, with strong emphasis on relevance theory as a framework for understanding inferential processes in communication. She has increasingly incorporated forensic linguistics applications into her research, as seen in her 2024 study on manipulation discourse in online grooming contexts.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Reviewer for Journal of Pragmatics, Corpus Pragmatics, and Cambridge University Press
- Member of Relevance Researchers' Network
- Member of International Association for Teaching Pragmatics (ITAP)
- Member of International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Dr. Madella is actively involved in the academic community as a reviewer for several prestigious journals and maintains professional affiliations with key organizations in her field. She is interested in supervising students in interlanguage pragmatics, relevance theory applications to instructed SLA, pragmatics of humor and irony, and multimodality in communication. Her teaching experience spans core linguistics modules, global Englishes, and research communication, with a focus on developing students' pragmatic competence through awareness of multimodal communication cues.
