Dr Tom Bartlett
Overview
Position: Lecturer Email: BartlettT@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 76076
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74242
Extension: 76076
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
Centre for Language and Communication Research
Research Interests
My central areas of research are functional approaches to grammar and discourse analysis. I am interested in all functional approaches to grammar and specialise in Systemic Functional Linguistics and its applications in discourse analysis. I am one of the founders of the research network LinC, which is responsible for extracurricular seminars and the Cardiff Summer School in Systemic Functional Linguistics. My grammatical work includes functional analyses of English and Scottish Gaelic and I have strong interest in comparative work with other languages, especially Spanish. My discourse work has centred around Language, Culture and Ideology and Intercultural Genre Studies and I have published and presented on Discourse and Development and Discourse and Conflict Analysis.
Selected Publications
Towards an Interventionist CDA. In Caroline Coffin, Theresa Lillis and Kieran O’Halloran (Eds) Investigating Language in Action: Tools for Analysis. (Milton Keynes: Open University 2010).
Legitimacy, Comprehension and Empathy: The Importance of Recontextualisation in Intercultural Negotiations. European Journal of English Studies 13.2. 2010.
Wheels within Wheels: The Timescales of Discourse. In Fathali M. Moghaddam and Rom Harré (Eds), Global Conflict Resolution through Positioning Analysis. (New York: Springer, 2007)
Amerindian development in Guyana: Legal documents as background to discourse practice. Discourse and Society 16.1 (2005)
Genres of the third space: The communities strike back. Language and Intercultural Communication 4:3 (2004)
Use the Road: The Appropriacy of Appropriation. Language and Intercultural Communication 1:1 (2001)
Mapping distinction: Towards a systematic representation of power in language. In Lynne Young and Claire Harrison (Eds), Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change (London and New York: Continuum, 2004)
Publications
Recent Publications
In preparation.
Bucking the System: A Collaborative Approach to Powers in Discourse.
Submitted. ¡Hasta la gramática siempre! Metadiscourse on neutrality in Wikipedi’s entry for Che Guevara.
Forthcoming. Functional motivations for ‘passive’ constructions in Scottish Gaelic. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Systemic Functional Congress.
2010 a. Towards an Interventionist CDA. In Caroline Coffin, Theresa Lillis and
Kieran O’Halloran (Eds) Investigating Language in Action: Tools for Analysis. Open University.
2010 b. Legitimacy, Comprehension and Empathy: The Importance of Recontextualisation in Intercultural Negotiations. European Journal of English Studies 13(2). Special Edition on Intercultural Negotiation.
2008 a. Wheels within Wheels or Triangles within Triangles: Time and Context in Positioning Theory. In Fathali M. Moghaddam, Rom Harré and Naomi Lee (Eds) Global Conflict Resolution through Positioning Analysis. New York: Springer.
2008 b. With Daniel Rothbart. Rwandan Radio Broadcasts and Hutu/Tutsi Positioning. In Fathali M. Moghaddam, Rom Harré and Naomi Lee (Eds) Global Conflict Resolution through Positioning Analysis. New York: Springer.
2008 c. Agency in Cardiff and IFG: Competition or collaboration? In Canzhong Wu, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Maria Herke (Eds) Proceedings of ISFC 35:
Voices around the World. Sydney: ISFC 35 Organising Committee.
2008 d. With Beth Erling. Making space for us: German graduate student voices in English. In Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 2(2).
2007 a. With Beth Erling. Making English Their Own: The Use of ELF among Students of English at the FUB. In Nordic Journal of English Studies, Special Issue on English as Lingua Franca.
2007 b. With Beth Erling. Local Voices in Global English: The Authenticity and Legitimation of Non Standard Ways of Speaking. In Leila Barbara and Tony Berber Sardinha (Eds.). Proceedings of the 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress (PUCSP, São Paulo, Brazil). Online publication available at http://www.pucsp.br/isfc. ISBN 85-283-0342-X.
2006a. Linguistics and Positioning Theory within Conflict Analysis and Resolution: Work in Progress. Social Justice: Anthropology, Human Rights and Peace, (6)1.
2006 b. Genre as Ideological Mediation. In Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Special Issue on Genre.
2005 a. The Communities Strike Back: Genres of the Third Space. Journal of Language and Intercultural Development, Vol. 5, No 1. March 2005.
2005 b. Amerindian Development in Guyana: Legal Documents as Background to Discourse Practice. Discourse and Society, Vol. 16, No 3. May 2005.
2004. Mapping Distinction. In Lynne Young and Claire Harrison (Eds). Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change, pp.68-84. London and New York: Continuum.
2001. Use the Road: The Appropriacy of Appropriation. Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 1, No 1.
2000. Dictionary, Systemicity, Motivation. Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, Vol. 10.
1997. Una justificación de los diccionarios bilingües en el contexto sociolingüístico Maya/Zoque-Español. Proceedings of First Forum and Workshop on Studies in the Advances in Writing and Production of Maya and Zoque Language Materials, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Research
My principal current research projects are:
Sociocultural context and language variation in Systemic Functional Linguistics
The concept of ‘local voice’ in international development discourse
Existential structures and process types in Scottish Gaelic
The concept of neutrality in Wikipedia – an analysis from the grammar up
Postgraduate Students
At present I am supervising doctoral work on: ellipsis and context in Systemic Functional Grammar; conceptual transfer as evidenced in tense and aspect error from Italian learners of English; and reading strategies and development amongst Chinese students in Cardiff University with respect to sociocultural and educational background.
Biography
I have been at Cardiff since 2007, where I am Course Director of the MA programme in Applied Linguistics and the Deputy Chair of the Postgraduate Board of Studies and Exam Board. Before coming to Cardiff I taught in the USA from 2005 to 2007 and between 1996 and 2002 was involved in language projects in Mexico and Guyana. I have taught English in Scotland, Spain, Costa Rica and the USA and worked as a lexicographer on English and Spanish/English dictionaries and as a freelance translator.