Mark Garner
BA DipEd PhD (Melbourne), MA (Essex)

I began my academic career as a lecturer in Russian Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne, Australia. I moved from there into Applied Linguistics, and have taught in that area ever since. After a period as Director of the Language Centre at the University of Melbourne, I was Co-ordinator of Applied Linguistics at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia, and more recently Applied Linguistics Programme Director at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.

My research interests include language ecology and operational communication, and I have participated in a number of national and international projects for police, emergency services, and maritime organizations, researching and developing improved communication procedures. I have also undertaken forensic linguistic work for various police forces.

Recently completed and current doctoral supervisions have been in the following areas: the language of mediaeval spirituality; the discourse of alternative therapies; the language of mysticism; academic writing as social practice; regulatory focus theory and language learning.

recent publications

• Operational Communication: Theory and Practice (with E. Johnson) London: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming, 2006).
• 'A social relations approach to research ethics in sociolinguistics' (with P. Sercombe & C. Raschka) Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (forthcoming, 2005).
• 'An ecological approach to English for Academic Purposes' (with E. Borg) Journal of English for Academic Purposes (forthcoming, 2005).
• Language: An Ecological View. Oxford: Peter Lang (2004).
• 'What is grammar?' Chapter 2 of Teaching English Language in Australia (ed. C. Conlon) Perth: Curtin University Press (2004).
• 'Morphology: the structure of words'. Chapter 6 of Teaching English Language in Australia (Ed. C. Conlon) Perth: Curtin University Press (2004).
• 'Narrative and the self: a study of autobiography' (with K. Massoura) Journal of Language and Literature 1/1 (2003).
• Critical English Grammar Makassar: UNM Press (2002).

contact details

School of Language & Literature

University of Aberdeen

Taylor Building

King's College

Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB

Scotland

Tel.: 01224 272631

Fax: 01224 272624

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