Publications

Books

Parnell, T., van Hout, T. and Del Fante, D. (eds.) (2025). Critical Approaches to Polycrisis: Discourses of Conflict, Migration, Risk and Climate. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Parnell, T. (2024). Constructing Brexit Britain. London: Bloomsbury.

Articles

Parnell, T., Hunt, D., Wilkins, J. et al. (2025). ‘Falling down the rabbit hole’: a thematic analysis of young people’s views on TikTok algorithms and eating disorder content. Journal of Eating Disorders.

McClaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Jewitt S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Dunham, S., Parnell, T., Clark, M. and Tarlinton, R. (2024). UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 224: 106117.

Jewitt, S. Smallman-Raynor, M., McClaughlin, E., Clark, M., Dunham, S., Elliot, S., Munro, A., Parnell, T. and Tarlinton, R. (2023). Exploring the Responses of Smallscale Poultry Keepers Avian Influenza Regulations and Guidance in the United Kingdom with Recommendations for Improved Biosecurity MessagingHeliyon, 9(9): e19211. 

Parnell, T. (2023). ‘A tide of homeless, drug-addicted and mentally ill people’: Representing homeless people in MailOnline content. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 6: 1-24.

Parnell, T. (2022). The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit: a corpus-assisted analysisJournal of Language and Politics, 22(1): 46-65.

McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Parnell, T., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Clos, J., & Schiazza, G. (2022). The reception of public health messages during the Covid-19 pandemicApplied Corpus Linguistics (ACORP).

Parnell, T. (2022). “Tinpot revolutionary agitation”: Framing Brexit-related demonstrations in the British pro-Brexit press. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines. 14(1): 45-62.

Parnell, T. (2022). Unravelling the Global Britain vision? International relationships and national identity in UK Government documents about Brexit, 2016-2019Discourse & Society, 33(3): 391-410.

Parnell, T. (2021). Humiliating and dividing the nation in the British pro-Brexit press: a corpus-assisted analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, 20(1): 53-69.

Book chapters / encyclopaedia entries

[Forthcoming] Parnell, T. (2026). The language of aggression and conflict in intranational, political communication: Brexit in UK politics. In: Blitvich, P. and Sifianou, M. (Eds.) The Handbook of Language Aggression and Conflict. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Parnell, T. (2025). “Don’t let ‘em hear that we’re speaking English”: Constructing national and Brexit-related identities in oral interviews. In: Tyler, K., Banducci, S. and Degnen, C. (Eds.) Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times. London: Routledge.

Parnell, T. (2025). ‘Homeless’ and the cost-of-living crisis in The Guardian and MailOnline: a corpus-assisted analysis. In: Parnell, T., van Hout, T. and Del Fante, D. (eds.) Critical Approaches to Polycrisis: Discourses of Conflict, Migration, Risk and Climate. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Parnell, T. (2024). Polycrisis. In: Nai, A., Gromping, M., and Wirz, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Parnell, T. (2023). Brexit and disinformation. In: Maci, S., Demata, M, McGlashan, M. and Seargeant, P. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation. London: Routledge.