Dr David Peplow BA, MA ,PhD
Senior Lecturer in English Language
Summary
I am a Senior Lecturer in English Language. My teaching and research interests are face-to-face interaction, digital communication, and linguistic creativity. I work mainly within the field of Conversation Analysis and am particularly interested in the relationships between talk and social structure.
About
I joined Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in 2012 and have contributed to teaching and research in the English subject group. I am currently course leader for BA English Language, and teach on the following modules: Language in Use, Digital Communication, and Creative Language Awareness.
I have written two books on reader response and literacy practices in group settings: The Discourse of Reading Groups: Integrated Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives (Routledge; co-authored with Joan Swann, Paola Trimarco, and Sara Whiteley), and Talk About Books: A Study of Reading Groups (Bloomsbury). I am currently working on a textbook, entitled Language in Interaction (Edinburgh University Press).
Specialist areas of interest
Conversation analysis, creativity in language, digital communication, stylistics, social class
Teaching
Department of Humanities
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Subject area
English
Courses
BA (Honours) English Language
Modules
Language in Use
Digital Communication
Creative Language Awareness
Language Dissertation
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- Humanities Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre
- Culture and Creativity Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
A comparative study of the language used in remote and in-person parole hearings - funded by BA/Leverhulme Small Grants scheme (SRG2021\210438).
Publications
Journal articles
Peplow, D., & Phillips, J. (2024). . Journal of Criminology, 57 (3), 352-371.
Peplow, D., & Phillips, J. (2023). Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Whiteley, S., & Peplow, D. (2020). . Text & Talk.
Peplow, D. (2020). . Narrative Inquiry, 30 (2), 427-450.
Healey, J., Hopkins, C., Mcclimens, A., & Peplow, D. (2017). The potential therapeutic benefits of reading poetry to nursing home residents: the road less travelled? Journal of Poetry Therapy, 30 (3), 153-165.
Van Der Bom, I., Grainger, K., Paterson, L., & Peplow, D. (2017). . Discourse, Context, & Media, 21, 36-45.
Albertson, K., Pateman, M., Albertson, K., Barnes, A., & Peplow, D. (2016). . The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies, 11 (2), 29-46.
Paterson, L., Coffey-Glover, L., & Peplow, D. (2016). . Discourse and Society, 27 (2), 195-214.
Peplow, D. (2011). . Language and Literature, 20 (4), 295-315.
Peplow, D., & Phillips, J. (n.d.). . Language in society.
Book chapters
Peplow, D., & Phillips, J. (2025). . In Ringrow, H., & Piazza, R. (Eds.) The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context. Bloomsbury
Peplow, D., & Whiteley, S. (2021). Interpretation in interaction. In Linguistic Approaches to Literature. (pp. 23-42). John Benjamins Publishing Company:
Bell, A., Browse, S., Gibbons, A., & Peplow, D. (2021). Responding to Style. In Style and Reader Response: Minds, Media, Methods. (pp. 1-20). John Benjamins:
Paterson, L., Grainger, K., & Peplow, D. (2017). . In Mooney, A., & Sifaki, E. (Eds.) The Language of Money and Debt : a Multidisciplinary Approach. (pp. 205-231). Palgrave Macmillan:
Peplow, D. (2016). . In Demjen, S., & Seargeant, P. (Eds.) Creativity in Language : From Everyday Style to Verbal Art. Open University Press:
Peplow, D. (2016). . In Burke, M., Fialho, O., & Zygnier, S. (Eds.) Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments. John Benjamins
Peplow, D. (2014). . In Chapman, S., & Clark, B. (Eds.) Pragmatics and Literary Stylistics. (pp. 152-171). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Peplow, D. (2014). . In Stockwell, P., & Whiteley, S. (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics. (pp. 590-606). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press:
Peplow, D., & Carter, R. (2014). . In Burke, M. (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. (pp. 440-454). London: Routledge
Books
Bell, A., Browse, S., Gibbons, A., & Peplow, D. (Eds.). (2021). Style and Reader Response: Minds, Media, Methods. John Benjamins.
Bell, A., Browse, S., Gibbons, A., & Peplow, D. (Eds.). (2021). Style and Reader Response: Minds, Media, Methods. John Benjamins.
Peplow, D. (2016). . Bloomsbury Academic.
Peplow, D. (2016). Talk about books: A study of reading groups.
Peplow, D., Swann, J., Trimarco, P., & Whiteley, S. (2015). . Routledge.
Reports
Kelly, S., Davies, L., Harrop, D., Mcclimens, A., Peplow, D., & Pollard, N. (2015). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Theses / Dissertations
Ashmore, C. (2024). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Peplow, D., Mills, S., & Grainger, K.
Ivansson, E.A.C. (2023). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Gibbons, A., Bell, A., & Peplow, D.
Postgraduate supervision
Claire Ashmore: Dialect and identity in Chesterfield: A perceptual and apparent-time study
Daniel Pinder: Relevance Theory and Complex Poetic Texts
Media
Dr David Peplow is interested in social interaction, focusing particularly on how readers outside of university talk about literary reading. In his research he also considers how taste intersects with social class and how the poor are represented in the media.