School of Critical Studies

Dr Tom Bartlett

Reader in Applied Linguistics (English Language & Linguistics)

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766

Research interests

I am interested in language as a social phenomenon, from the functional description of structure to linguistic ethnography and critical analysis. I specialise in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), with a particular focus on functional descriptions of Scottish Gaelic at one end of the scale and the Discourses of Sustainability and Community Management at the other. I am co-editor, with Gerard O’Grady, of the Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics (2017) and have published a monograph on community management and development, Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis (Routledge 2012) and a textbook on discourse analysis, Analysing Power in Language: A Practical Guide (Routledge 2014).

Biography

I have taught English in the UK, Europe, North America and Latin America, and have previously held academic posts in the US and the UK. My most recent academic post before coming to Glasgow in 2019 was Professor of Language and Communication at Cardiff University.

Supervision

I am interested in supervising theses on functional grammar, linguistic ethnography and discourse analysis, particular in relation to community participation in decision-making processes and/or discourses of sustainability.

I have supervised six PhDs to completion, on the following topics:

Ellipsis and Context: A Corpus-Based Approach.

Reading Strategies of Chinese Students in Tertiary Education in the UK.

A Functional and Cognitive Investigation of Language Transfer in Italian Learners of English.

Neutrality and Stance in Botswanan newspapers.

Sacred texts and identity construction in the Cardiff Muslim community: sojourners’ narratives and majales.

Contestation of the Concept of ‘Liberalism’ in The Saudi Press.

Teaching

I will be teaching on the MSc modules Applying Linguistics in Social and Professional Life and Systemic Functional linguistics and its Applications. I will be developing a further MSc course on Discourse Analysis and Critical Theory for the academic year 2020-2021.

Publications

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Number of items: 10.

2018

Bartlett, T. (2018) Rethinking (context of) culture in Systemic Functional Linguistics. In: Sellami-Baklouti, A. and Fontaine, L. (eds.) Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138237384

2017

Bartlett, T. , Montessori, N. M. and Lloyd, H. (2017) Contesting key terms and concepts in the civil sphere. In: Garrett, P. and Cots, J. M. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138937048

Altameeni, Y. and 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. In: Richardson, J. and Flowerdew, J. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138826403

Bartlett, T. and O'Grady, G. (Eds.) (2017) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748407

Bartlett, T. (2017) Context in SFL: Towards scalar supervenience. In: Bartlett, T. and O'Grady, G. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748407

Bartlett, T. and O'Grady, G. (2017) Reading SFL. In: Bartlett, T. and O'Grady, G. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748407

O'Grady, G. and Bartlett, T. (2017) Looking ahead: SFL in the 21st Century. In: Bartlett, T. and O'Grady, G. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748407

Singh, J. N. and Bartlett, T. (2017) Negotiating sustainability across scales. AILA Review, 30(1), pp. 50-71. (doi:10.1075/aila.00003.sin)

2016

Bartlett, T. (2016) Phasal dynamism and the unfolding of meaning as text. English Text Construction, 9(1), pp. 143-164. (doi:10.1075/etc.9.1.08bar)

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