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Research Interests

I retired in 2017. My best-known work focused on the social context of written academic texts, especially in science, treating such issues as politeness, cohesion, narrative structure, commonplaces, and illustration, drawing on frameworks from the sociology of scientific knowledge. More recent work has studied expression of opinions in talk, particularly in focus groups and consultation processes; the approach is largely through conversation analysis. I have written five books: Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Science (Wisconsin, 1990), Words in Ads (Arnold, 1994), Ad Worlds: Brands, Media, Audiences (Arnold, 1998), (Cambridge, 2004, and (Continuum, 2010).

My research with Sofia Lampropoulou (Liverpool) has drawn on an ESRC-funded project on 'The Construction of Stance in Social Research Interviews'.

Until 2015 I edited the Elsevier journal (The new editor is Richard Fitzgerald, University of Macau). I have been on the Editorial Boards of the journals Applied Linguistics, Discourse & Society, English for Specific Purposes, ESPecialist, Language in Society, Language Teaching Research, Science as Culture, Text & Talk, and Written Communication. With Ruth Wodak, I edited the John Benjamins book series (current editors are Johnny Unger, Andreas Musolff, and Jo Angouri).

In 2011 I was elected as a Fellow of the . I have been active in the since 1995. I was Chair (2012-15) of BAAL, the . (The current chair is Tess Fitzpatrick, Cardiff).