Greg Myers (linguist)

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Greg Myers
Born (1954-11-22) 22 November 1954 (age 69)
Boise, Idaho, United States
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WebsiteMyers on the website of Lancaster University

Greg Myers (born 1954) is an

Emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom.[1] His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on critical discourse analysis.[2]

Career

He was the editor of the journal: Discourse, Context and Media.[3]

He has been on the editorial boards of the journals

Text and Talk, and Written Communication
.

Myers was the editor, along with Ruth Wodak, the John Benjamins Publishing Company's series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society, and Culture.[4]

In 2011, Myers was elected as the Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[5]

Between 2012 and 2015, Myers was the Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL).[6]

Research

Myers's most cited work is entitled Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. It was published by the

David Bloch and David Crews.[7]

In a research article, entitled The pragmatics of politeness in scientific articles and published in Applied Linguistics in 1989, Myers proposed a simple model of a two-part audience, and focus on two kinds of impositions: claims and denials of claims.[8]

Publications

Myers has publications in several major journals such as

Media, Culture and Society, and Environment and Planning.[citation needed
]

Bibliography

Books

  • Myers, G. (1990). Writing biology: Texts in the social construction of scientific knowledge. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Myers, G. (1994). Words in Ads. London: Arnold.
  • Myers, G. (1999). Ad worlds: brands, media, audiences. London: Arnold.
  • Myers, G. (2004). Matters of opinion: talking about public issues. (Studies in interactional sociolinguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Myers, G. (2010). The discourse of blogs and wikis. (Continuum Discourse Series). London: Continuum.

Articles

  • Myers, G., & Lampropoulou, S. (2012). Impersonal you and stance-taking in social research interviews. Journal of Pragmatics, 44(10), 1206-1218. doi:[1]
  • Lampropoulou, S., & Myers, G. (2013). Stance-taking in interviews from the Qualidata Archive. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14(1), [12].
  • Myers, G., & Lampropoulou, S. (2013). What Place References Can Do in Social Research Interviews. Discourse Studies, 15(3), 333-351. doi:[2]
  • Myers, G. A., & Lampropoulou, S. (2016). Laughter, non-seriousness and transitions in social research interview transcripts. Qualitative Research, 16(1), 78-94. doi:[3]
  • Myers, G. (2016). Response to 'Reading in the age of the internet'. Language and Literature, 25(3), 279-285. doi:[4]
  • Myers, G. (2016). Everyday oracles: authors on Twitter. Celebrity Studies, 7(4), 476-492. doi:[5]

References

  1. ^ "Greg Myers". Lancaster University. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Greg Myers - Research interest". Lancaster University. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  3. ^ Discourse, context and media. Elsevier. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture". John Benjamins Publishing Company. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Academy of Social Sciences - Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  6. ^ "History - BAAL". British Association for Applied Linguistics. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  7. S2CID 144870888
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  8. doi:10.1093/applin/10.1.1
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