Applied Linguistics
This cluster runs specialist postgraduate programmes, and has expertise in areas including: language education; forensic linguistics; multilingualism; systemic functional linguistics.
Staff
Publications
2026
Wegorowski, P. (2026) Linguistic ethnography. Elsevier
(2026) Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide.
Hunt, M., Strange, L., Holmes-Elliott, S. (2026) Gender penalty? Linguistic discrimination and perceptions of female football commentators. Gender and Language, 20, pp. 60-89. (doi: 10.3138/gl-2025-0027)
2025
Forbes, K., Evans, M., Fisher, L., Gayton, A., Liu, Y., Rutgers, D. (2025) Willingness to identify: an exploration of the factors that influence secondary school students’ willingness to identify as multilingual. The Language Learning Journal, (doi: 10.1080/09571736.2025.2549114)
Gayton, A., Wegorowski, P. (2025) Looking back to move forward: tracing students’ experiences of transitioning to university. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 7, pp. 28-51. (doi: 10.47989/kpdc586)
Lam, D. M. K., Gayton, A. M. (2025) ‘6.5 sounds a bit better than 6.0?’: A case for embedding language assessment literacy in university teaching staff professional development. Higher Education Research and Development, 44, pp. 976-991. (doi: 10.1080/07294360.2024.2439854)
Gayton, A., Evans, M., Fisher, L., Forbes, K., Rutgers, D. (2025) Participative multilingual identity construction in higher education: challenging monolingual ideologies and practices. Education Sciences, 15, (doi: 10.3390/educsci15040463)
2024
Strange, L. (2024) My body my choice: magical thinking and discourses of bodily autonomy in anti-mask rhetoric. Routledge
Strange, L. (2024) The discursive construction of gender and agency in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum campaign. Critical Discourse Studies, 21, pp. 293-321. (doi: 10.1080/17405904.2022.2150669)
Rutgers, D., Evans, M., Fisher, L., Forbes, K., Gayton, A., Liu, Y. (2024) Multilingualism, multilingual identity and academic attainment: evidence from secondary schools in England. Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 23, pp. 210-227. (doi: 10.1080/15348458.2021.1986397)
Forbes, K., Evans, M., Fisher, L., Gayton, A., Liu, Y., Rutgers, D. (2024) ‘I feel like I have a superpower’: a qualitative study of adolescents’ experiences of multilingual identity development during an identity-based pedagogical intervention. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, (doi: 10.1080/01434632.2024.2313564)
Ferry, L., Wegorowski, P., Andrews, R. (2024) Hybridity, institutional logics and value creation mechanisms in the corporatisation of social care. British Accounting Review, 56, (doi: 10.1016/j.bar.2023.101244)
Fisher, L., Evans, M., Forbes, K., Gayton, A., Liu, Y., Rutgers, D. (2024) Language experiences, evaluations and emotions (3Es): analysis of structural models of multilingual identity for language learners in schools in England. International Journal of Multilingualism, 21, pp. 418-438. (doi: 10.1080/14790718.2022.2060235)
Rantsudu, B., Bartlett, T. (2024) The role of deontic modality in the construction and mitigation of evaluation in hard news reporting. Journal of World Languages, (doi: 10.1515/jwl-2023-0059)
2023
Strange, L. (2023) Irish English and national identity in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2023, pp. 167-193. (doi: 10.1515/ijsl-2023-0005)
O’Grady, G., Bartlett, T. (2023) The Language Dynamic. Equinox
Reilly, C., Scandurra, R., Rescue, E., Hermannsson, K., Gayton, A. (2023) Language and employment in Ghana: capturing the multilingual reality. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44, pp. 807-826. (doi: 10.1080/01434632.2023.2195853)
Bartlett, T. (2023) Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish Gaelic. John Benjamins Publishing Company
Węgorowski, P. (2023) Tying ethnography down: Linguistic approaches to investigating community policing. Routledge
2022
Strange, L. (2022) Covid-19 and public responsibility: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of blaming the public during the UK’s third wave. Linguistic Landscape, 8, pp. 168-183. (doi: 10.1075/ll.21034.str)
Gayton, A., Fisher, L. (2022) Multilingual identity construction through participative reflective practice in the languages classroom. Cambridge University Press
Strange, L. (2022) Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan: Gender and the Irish language in the linguistic landscape of Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum. Language in Society, 52, pp. 215-239. (doi: 10.1017/s0047404521001214)
Strange, L. (2022) The intersection of nation and gender in the Linguistic Landscape of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment referendum campaign. Linguistic Landscape, 8, pp. 1-31. (doi: 10.1075/ll.20027.str)
Mason, M. J., Gayton, A. M. (2022) Active learning in flipped classroom and tutorials: complementary or redundant? International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 16, (doi: 10.20429/ijsotl.2022.160206)
2021
Ylänne, V., Aldridge-Waddon, M., Spilioti, T., Bartlett, T. (2021) Managing information, interaction and team building in nurse shift-change handovers: a case study. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 16, pp. 51-75. (doi: 10.1558/jalpp.19140)
Bartlett, T., Bowcher, W. L. (2021) Context in systemic functional linguistics: principles and parameters. Functions of Language, 28, pp. 243-259. (doi: 10.1075/fol.20017.bar)
Bartlett, T. (2021) No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics. Lingua, 261, (doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102953)
Elorza, I., Arús-Hita, J., Bartlett, T. (2021) SFL approaches to language dynamics and contrast. Lingua, 261, (doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103098)
Bartlett, T., Ylänne, V., Spilioti, T., Aldridge-Waddon, M. (2021) Nursing handovers as unbounded and scalar events. Applied Linguistics Review, 12, pp. 401-418. (doi: 10.1515/applirev-2019-0135)
Bartlett, T. (2021) Time, the deer, is in the wood: chronotopic identities, trajectories of texts and community self-management. Applied Linguistics Review, 12, pp. 463-491. (doi: 10.1515/applirev-2019-0134)
Ó hÍr, L., Strange, L. (2021) Tiocfaidh Ár Lá, get the brits out, lad: masculinity and nationalism in Irish-language rap videos. Social Semiotics, 31, pp. 466-488. (doi: 10.1080/10350330.2021.1930856)
Chen, W., Bartlett, T., Peng, H. (2021) The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production: Part I of an enhanced Eco-Discourse Analysis. Pragmatics and Society, 12, pp. 6-32. (doi: 10.1075/ps.20034.che)
Lloyd, H., Bartlett, T., Aldridge-Waddon, M., Spilioti, T., Ylänne, V. (2021) Opening up space for compassion in nurses' handover meetings. Communication and Medicine, 16, pp. 224-237. (doi: 10.1558/cam.38920)
Forbes, K., Evans, M., Fisher, L., Gayton, A., Liu, Y., Rutgers, D. (2021) Developing a multilingual identity in the languages classroom: the influence of an identity-based pedagogical intervention. Language Learning Journal, 49, pp. 433-451. (doi: 10.1080/09571736.2021.1906733)
Chen, W., Bartlett, T., Peng, H. (2021) Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production: An enhanced eco-discourse analysis, Part 2. Pragmatics and Society, 12, pp. 167-187. (doi: 10.1075/ps.20033.che)
Lam, D. M.K., Green, A., Murray, N., Gayton, A. (2021) How are IELTS scores set and used for university admissions selection: A cross-institutional case study. IELTS Research Reports Online Series, No. 3.
Bartlett, T. (2021) Interpersonal grammar in Scottish Gaelic. Cambridge University Press
Bartlett, T., Montesano Montessori, N. (2021) Towards webs of equivalence and the political nomad in agonistic debate: contributions from CDA and scales theory. Journal of Language and Politics, 20, pp. 129-144. (doi: 10.1075/jlp.20046.bar)
2020
Strange, L. (2020) Affective and epistemic stance as approaches to educating the public (or not) during ireland's eighth amendment referendum campaign. Bloomsbury Academic
Andrews, R., Ferry, L., Skelcher, C., Wegorowski, P. (2020) Corporatization in the public sector: explaining the growth of local government companies. Public Administration Review, 80, pp. 482-493. (doi: 10.1111/puar.13052)
Gayton, A. M. (2020) Exploring the widening participation-internationalisation nexus: Evidence from current theory and practice. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44, pp. 1275-1288. (doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2019.1678014)
Fisher, L., Evans, M., Forbes, K., Gayton, A., Liu, Y. (2020) Participative multilingual identity construction in the languages classroom: a multi-theoretical conceptualisation. International Journal of Multilingualism, 17, pp. 448-466. (doi: 10.1080/14790718.2018.1524896)
2019
Bartlett, T. (2019) Scaling the incommensurate: discourses of sustainability in the Western Isles of Scotland. Edward Elgar Publishing
Hennebry‐Leung, M., Gayton, A., Hu, X. A., Chen, X. (2019) Transitioning from master's studies to the classroom: from theory to practice. TESOL Quarterly, 53, pp. 685-711. (doi: 10.1002/tesq.505)
Bartlett, T. (2019) Models of discourse in systemic functional linguistics. Cambridge University Press
Spilioti, T., Aldridge-Waddon, M., Bartlett, T., Ylänne, V. (2019) Conceptualizing language awareness in healthcare communication: the case of nurse shift-change handover meetings. Language Awareness, 28, pp. 207-226. (doi: 10.1080/09658416.2019.1636803)
Bartlett, T., O’Grady, G. (2019) Language characterology and textual dynamics: a crosslinguistic exploration in English and Scottish Gaelic. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 51, pp. 124-159. (doi: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1650607)
O'Grady, G., Bartlett, T. (2019) Linearity and tone in the unfolding of information. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 51, pp. 192-221. (doi: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1668621)
2018
Ferry, L., Andrews, R., Skelcher, C., Wegorowski, P. (2018) New development: corporatization of local authorities in England in the wake of austerity 2010–2016. Public Money and Management, 38, pp. 477-480. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2018.1486629)
Węgorowski, P. (2018) Fiona Copland and Angela Creese, with Frances Rock and Sara Shaw, Linguistic Ethnography: Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Data. Qualitative Research, 18, pp. 243-244. (doi: 10.1177/1468794115618007)
Bartlett, T. (2018) Rethinking (context of) culture in systemic functional linguistics. Routledge
Gayton, A. M. (2018) A context-specific approach to L2 motivation in Anglophone settings: a first step towards theory development. Language Learning Journal, 46, pp. 384-397. (doi: 10.1080/09571736.2015.1130081)
Lanvers, U., Hultgren, K., Gayton, A. M. (2018) ‘People can be smarter with two languages’: changing anglophone students' attitudes to language learning through teaching linguistics * Language Learning Journal, 47, pp. 88-104. (doi: 10.1080/09571736.2016.1196384)
2017
Bartlett, T., Montessori, N. M., Lloyd, H. (2017) Contesting key terms and concepts in the civil sphere. Routledge
Altameeni, Y., Bartlett, T. (2017) Negotiating “intervention”: Shifting signifiers in the UK’s response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. 10plus1: Living Linguistics, 3, pp. 67-86.
Bartlett, T. (2017) Positive discourse analysis. Routledge
Bartlett, T. (2017) Context in systemic functional linguistics. Towards scalar supervenience? Routledge
O'Grady, G., Bartlett, T. (2017) Looking ahead: SFL in the 21st Century. Routledge
Bartlett, T., O'Grady, G. (2017) Reading SFL. Routledge
(2017) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Singh, J. N., Bartlett, T. (2017) Negotiating sustainability across scales. AILA Review, 30, pp. 50-71. (doi: 10.1075/aila.00003.sin)
Postgraduate research students
Refine By
-
{{student.surname}} {{student.forename}}
{{student.surname}} {{student.forename}}
({{student.subject}})
{{student.title}}
The University of Glasgow has a long connection with the field of Applied Linguistics, and this was formalised in 2019 with the establishment of the MSc in Applied Linguistics and a few years later with a specialist PhD programme in Applied Linguistics. In recent years we have hosted flagship conferences for the Association of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (2024), Systemic Functional Linguistics (2025) and the British Association for Applied Linguistics (2025), as well as two networking events on environmental communication (2022 and 2024).
At Glasgow we work with a broad definition of Applied Linguistics as the application and development of linguistic theory and methods to any aspect of social life. Language Education is naturally a significant area of research for us, particularly in the global context, but we also specialise in forensic linguistics, multilingualism, environmental communication, professional communication, critical discourse analysis, gendered attitudes to language, political activism, and systemic functional linguistics. Researching in these areas means we have developed working relations with colleagues in Modern Languages and Cultures, Education and the Social Sciences within Glasgow as well as colleagues from China, Brazil, Hong Kong and the United States. We are also developing a special research and teaching relationship with several universities in Vietnam.
We have a very lively community of postgraduate researchers, who regular meet to showcase and discuss their work with their peers over a coffee and snacks and each year we organise an online symposium on Linguacultural Space with colleagues and students from Bologna, Tilburg and Salamanca. We are also affiliated with the LINDES research group based in Salamanca.