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 

[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.

Encyclopaedia entries

Parnell, T. (2026). Political Discourse. In: Nesi, H. and Milin, P. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier. 

Parnell, T. (2025). Polycrisis. In: Nai, A., Gromping, M., and Wirz, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Conference reports

Parnell, T. and Humberstone, K. (2026). BAAL / Cambridge University Press seminars 2024. Practicalities and Possibilities: Linguistic approaches to short-form social media. Language Teaching. (Online first).

Book Reviews

Parnell, T. (2024). Book Review: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies. Research in Corpus Linguistics.

Parnell, T. (2022). Book Review: Brexit as a Social and Political Crisis: Discourses in Media and PoliticsDiscourse Studies.

Parnell, T. (2021). Book Review: Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 4.

Parnell, T. (2021). Book Review: Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language: From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’Discourse Studies, 23(3). 

Parnell, T. (2021). Book Review: Britain and Europe in a Troubled WorldJournal of Languages, Texts and Society, 5.

Public engagement and podcasts

Podcast: Conflict Tipping: Tamsin Parnell on Discourse and Division. (2022).

Parnell, T. (2021). Linguistic Horizons: Exploring the language of national identity during Brexit. Babel Magazine. Issue 36.

Kennedy, C. R., Parnell, T. and Rhodes, A. (2022). “Lived experience” activism? Researcher Activist Network Zine