Professor Tom Bartlett

Professor of Functional and Applied Linguistics (English Language & Linguistics)

telephone: 01413303690
email: Tom.Bartlett@glasgow.ac.uk

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.

Research groups

Applied Linguistics

Publications

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Number of items: 38.

2024

Rantsudu, Boitshwarelo and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (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

O’Grady, Gerard and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2023) The Language Dynamic. Equinox: Sheffield. ISBN 9781800503335

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2023) Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish Gaelic. In: Gentens, Caroline, Ghesquière, Lobke, McGregor, William B. and van Linden, An (eds.) Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse. Series: Studies in language companion series (230). John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 71-95. ISBN 9789027212993 (doi: 10.1075/slcs.230.03bar)

2021

Ylänne, Virpi, Aldridge-Waddon, Michelle, Spilioti, Tereza and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2021) Managing information, interaction and team building in nurse shift-change handovers: a case study. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 16(1), pp. 51-75. (doi: 10.1558/jalpp.19140)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Bowcher, Wendy L. (2021) Context in systemic functional linguistics: principles and parameters. Functions of Language, 28(3), pp. 243-259. (doi: 10.1075/fol.20017.bar)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2021) No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics. Lingua, 261, 102953. (doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102953)

Elorza, Izaskun, Arús-Hita, Jorge and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2021) SFL approaches to language dynamics and contrast. Lingua, 261, 103098. (doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103098)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2021) Time, the deer, is in the wood: chronotopic identities, trajectories of texts and community self-management. Applied Linguistics Review, 12(3), pp. 463-491. (doi: 10.1515/applirev-2019-0134)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766, Ylänne, Virpi, Spilioti, Tereza and Aldridge-Waddon, Michelle (2021) Nursing handovers as unbounded and scalar events. Applied Linguistics Review, 12(3), pp. 401-418. (doi: 10.1515/applirev-2019-0135)

Chen, Wenge, Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Peng, Huiling (2021) The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production: Part I of an enhanced Eco-Discourse Analysis. Pragmatics and Society, 12(1), pp. 6-32. (doi: 10.1075/ps.20034.che)

Lloyd, Harriet, Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766, Aldridge-Waddon, Michelle, Spilioti, Tereza and Ylänne, Virpi (2021) Opening up space for compassion in nurses' handover meetings. Communication and Medicine, 16(3), pp. 224-237. (doi: 10.1558/cam.38920)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2021) Interpersonal grammar in Scottish Gaelic. In: Martin, J.R., Quiroz, Beatriz and Figueredo, Giacomo (eds.) Interpersonal Grammar: Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory and Description. Cambridge University Press, pp. 257-284. ISBN 9781108493796 (doi: 10.1017/9781108663120.009)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Montesano Montessori, Nicolina (2021) Towards webs of equivalence and the political nomad in agonistic debate: contributions from CDA and scales theory. Journal of Language and Politics, 20(1), pp. 129-144. (doi: 10.1075/jlp.20046.bar)

Chen, Wenge, Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Peng, Huiling (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(2), pp. 167-187. (doi: 10.1075/ps.20033.che)

2019

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2019) Scaling the incommensurate: discourses of sustainability in the Western Isles of Scotland. In: Montessori, Nicolina Montesano, Farrelly, Michael and Mulderrig, Jane (eds.) Critical Policy Discourse Analysis. Series: Advances in Critical Policy Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 242-263. ISBN 9781788974950

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2019) Models of discourse in systemic functional linguistics. In: Thompson, Geoff, Bowcher, Wendy L., Fontaine, Lise and Schönthal, David (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 285-310. (doi: 10.1017/9781316337936.013)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and O’Grady, Gerard (2019) Language characterology and textual dynamics: a crosslinguistic exploration in English and Scottish Gaelic. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 51(2), pp. 124-159. (doi: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1650607)

O'Grady, Gerard and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2019) Linearity and tone in the unfolding of information. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 51(2), pp. 192-221. (doi: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1668621)

Spilioti, Tereza, Aldridge-Waddon, Michelle, Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Ylänne, Virpi (2019) Conceptualizing language awareness in healthcare communication: the case of nurse shift-change handover meetings. Language Awareness, 28(3), pp. 207-226. (doi: 10.1080/09658416.2019.1636803)

2018

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2018) Rethinking (context of) culture in systemic functional linguistics. In: Sellami-Baklouti, Akila and Fontaine, Lise (eds.) Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138237384

2017

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766, Montessori, Nicolina Montesano and Lloyd, Harriet (2017) Contesting key terms and concepts in the civil sphere. In: Garrett, Peter and Cots, Josep M. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138937048

Altameeni, Yaser and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (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, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2017) Positive discourse analysis. In: Richardson, John and Flowerdew, John (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138826403

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and O'Grady, Gerard (Eds.) (2017) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748407

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2017) Context in systemic functional linguistics. Towards scalar supervenience? In: Bartlett, Tom and O'Grady, Gerard (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics. Routledge: London, pp. 375-390. ISBN 9780415748407

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and O'Grady, Gerard (2017) Reading SFL. In: Bartlett, Tom and O'Grady, Gerard (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748407

O'Grady, Gerard and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2017) Looking ahead: SFL in the 21st Century. In: Bartlett, Tom and O'Grady, Gerard (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748407

Singh, Jaspal Naveel and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2017) Negotiating sustainability across scales. AILA Review, 30(1), pp. 50-71. (doi: 10.1075/aila.00003.sin)

2016

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (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)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2016) Multiscalar modelling of context: some questions raised by the category of mode. In: Bowcher, Wendy L. and Liang, Jennifer Yameng (eds.) Society in Language, Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 166-183. ISBN 9781349572861 (doi: 10.1057/9781137402868_7)

2015

Fontaine, Lise, Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and O'Grady, Gerard (Eds.) (2015) Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107595354

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2015) “I’ll manage the context”: context, environment and the potential for institutional change. In: Fontaine, Lise, Bartlett, Tom and O'Grady, Gerard (eds.) Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107595354

2014

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2014) Analysing Power in Language : A Practical Guide. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415666312

2013

O’Grady, Gerard, Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Fontaine, Lise (Eds.) (2013) Choice in Language: Applications in Text Analysis. Series: Functional linguistics. Equinox: Sheffield. ISBN 9781908049544

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2013) Constructing local voices through English as a lingua franca: a study from intercultural development discourse. In: Erling, Elizabeth J. and Seargeant, Philip (eds.) English and Development: Policy, Pedagogy and Globalization. Series: Critical language and literacy studies (17). Multilingual Matters: Bristol, pp. 163-181. ISBN 9781847699466

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Chen, Honglin (2013) Applying linguistics in making professional practice re-visible. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 9(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1558/japl.v9i1.1)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 and Chen, Honglin (2013) Special Issue: SFL as a Bridge from Theory to Practice in the Analysis of Professional Discourse [Guest Editor]. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 9(1),

2012

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2012) Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9780415893381 (doi: 10.4324/9780203109373)

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Number of items: 38.

Articles

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2021) No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics. Lingua, 261, 102953. (doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102953)

Singh, Jaspal Naveel and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2017) Negotiating sustainability across scales. AILA Review, 30(1), pp. 50-71. (doi: 10.1075/aila.00003.sin)

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (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)

Books

O’Grady, Gerard and Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2023) The Language Dynamic. Equinox: Sheffield. ISBN 9781800503335

Bartlett, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-1766 (2014) Analysing Power in Language : A Practical Guide. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415666312

Book Sections

Edited Books

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Supervision

I am interested in supervising theses on functional grammar, community participation in decision-making processes and/or discourses of sustainability.

Bodig, Emma
Constructing 'voice' and claiming the right to speak: an analysis of women's writing on the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
Cao, Xuan
The issue of the erasure of ecosystems: A corpus-based analysis of transitivity in the UK news reports on climate change (2015-2020)
Hall, Emma
Assessing arts-based interventions for sustainable practice
Jiyajiya, Peter Mayeso
Extending The Listening Zones: Towards A Radical Ecolinguistic Approach In African Localities
MAHRIPAH, SITI
Positioning Strategies in Academic English Writing among L2 Advance Learners
McNair, Janine
A study of how collaborative features in online spoken interaction may affect collective learning.
You, Zijin
Framing design for the marginalised voice of “female boxers” in China

I have supervised eight 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.

Defining ‘Intervention’: A Comparative Study of UK Parliamentary Responses to the Syrian Crisis.

A Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics of Galicianness in the UK: Glottopolitics, Speakerhood , and Ethnolinguistic Mobilisation in the Diaspora.

Teaching

I teaching on the MSc modules Applying Linguistics in Social and Professional Life, Systemic Functional linguistics and its Applications and Critical Approaches to Language and Communication.

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