
ABOUT CURRENT WORK EDUCATION & TRAINING TEACHING RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS PRESENTATIONS
I am Senior Lecturer in English
language at the Department of
English & History, Edge Hill University. I
have been working within corpus linguistics since 2001; previously, I worked in
applied linguistics and language teacher education (1992-2001) and English
language teaching (1984-1993).
My
general research interests are in the use and development of corpus approaches to issues in descriptive,
theoretical and applied linguistics ‒ particularly as regards the English
language. More specifically, my research focuses on the following areas:
·
Modality and conditionals
·
The compatibility between construction grammar and
lexical grammar
·
Pedagogical lexicogrammar –
and, more generally, the connection between linguistics and TESOL
·
Learner language and learner corpora
·
The use of corpus approaches to (critical) discourse
studies
My PhD thesis
examined conditionals through the lens of modality, and presented
classifications of conditionals and modality. It also proposed a view of
conditionals as environments of indeterminacy; that is, constructions with
obligatory internal modal marking, whose function is akin to that of linguistic
qubits (quantum
bits).
I have published on the nature, techniques, metrics
and applications of corpus linguistics, conditionals, modality, language
teacher education, and language teaching approaches – particularly on the role
of language awareness. My h-index is
3 when measured by ISI Web of Knowledge
and Scopus,
and 11 when measured by Google Scholar
Citations and Publish or Perish.
Thematic index of
publications and presentations
Corpus
approaches, metrics and techniques
Corpus-based (critical) discourse studies