• Staff Profiles
• Staff A-Z
• By role
• By research centre/group
• Staff keywords
• Search by keyword

Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA

Professor of English Language and Linguistics

Degree: BA (Lancaster), MSc (De Montfort), PhD (Lancaster)

Associated research centres and groups: University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)

---

Current Teaching

I currently teach in the areas of corpus linguistics and language acquisition. I also teach at the University of Limerick, where I hold the post od Adjunct Professor.

In the past I have taught a wide range of courses at Lancaster at both UG and PGT levels. The following is an indicative list of the modules for which I have been responsible at both UG and PGT levels:

UG: English Language, Introduction to General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language and Computing, Linguistic Description, Linguistic Methodology and Syntax.

PGT: Corpus Linguistics, Language Acquisition, New Directions in Language Analysis, Research Issues in Applied Linguistics.

My teaching was 'highly commended' in the Lancaster University staff awards in 2012.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Corpus linguistics

Corpus-based approaches to any area of linguistics and applied linguistics

Additional Information

Research awards

I have received research funding to date of £2,762,370.[1] This has been gained from a wide range of funders, noted below.

Funders

Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), British Academy (BA), British Council (BC), British Telecom (BT), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), European Commission (CEC), Innovation in Higher Education (IHE), Leverhulme Trust (LT), Longman (LUK), Nuffield Foundation, Routledge, Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP).

Academic collaborators: international

Beijing University of Foreign Studies (China), Central Institute of Indian Languages (India), Indian Statistical Institute (India), National Centre for Software Technology (India), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), University of Chemnitz (Germany), University of Limerick (Ireland), University ofLodz (Poland), University of Louvain (Belgium), University of Moratua (Sri Lanka), Université de Paris VI (France), University of Pisa (Italy) and University of Tampere (Finland).

Academic collaborators: national

King's College London, Open University, Oxford University Computing Service, University of Birmingham, University of Edinburgh, University of Essex, University of Sheffield, University of Sussex and UMIST.

Industrial/public sector collaborators: international

Canon (Japan), Computers, Communications and Visions (France), Kielekone Oy (Finland), IBM (France), Nokia (Finland), Sharp (Japan) and Research in Motion (Canada).

Industrial/public sector collaborators: national

BBC World Service, British Telecom, Department of Health, Harper Collins, Liverpool City Council, Longman, Manchester City Council, Oxford University Press and Routledge.

Projects

· I was the principal investigator on the EU funded project Nelralec (£27,000, February 2005 to January 2008).

· I was the principal investigator on the ESRC funded project Contrasting English and Chinese (£127,273, July 2004 to October 2007)

· I was the principal investigator on the BA funded project Decoding The News - Mercurius Fumigosus As A Source Of News In The Interregnum, 1654-1655 (£20,000, May 2003 to April 2006)

· I was the principal investigator of the CEC funded project Benedict (£300,000, April 2002 to March 2005).

· I was the principal investigator on the CEC funded project Sharing Capability In Localisation And Human Language Technologies (£42,736, October 2000 to March 2004)

· I was the principal investigator on the ESRC funded project Contrasting Aspect And Tense In English And Chinese: A Corpus-Based Perspective (£40,000, October 2002 to December 2003)

· I was the principal investigator on the EPSRC Enabling Minority Language Engineering project (£280,000, June 2000 to October 2003)

· I was principal investigator of the BA funded project Investigating Text Reuse In Early Modern English Newsbooks (£5,000 November 2001 to April 2003)

· I was principal investigator of a grant from BT to explore patterns of interaction in transactional telephone dialogues (£10,000, October 1999 to January 2000)

· I was principal investigator on BC link projects with Łódź University, Poland and the University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain (£15,000, January 1997 to December 2000)

· I was the principal investigator on the ELRA funded CRATER 2 project (£7,000, January 2000 to December 2000)

· I was the principal investigator on the EPSRC Minority Language Engineering Field Trip 2 project (£4,000, June 2000 to December 2000)

· I was principal investigator of a grant from Routledge to construct and exploit a corpus based on the Survey of English Dialects (£10,000, March 1999 to October 1999)

· I was the principal investigator on the EPSRC funded Minority Language Engineering project (£52,000, July 1998 to October 1999)

· I was the principal investigator on the ELRA sub-contract to examine the validation of corpora, develop a catalogue of language engineering resources and construct multilingual corpus resources (£13,000, September 1997 to September 1999).

· I was the principal investigator of an EPSRC funded travel grant, for a fact finding trip to Sri Lanka (£2,700, March to June 1999)

· I was the principal investigator of the CEC sponsored CRATER project (£500,000, 1994 to 1998)

· I was the principal investigator on the CEC MULTEXT sub-contract (£37,000, 1996 to 1997)

· I have been principal investigator on a range of British Council projects designed to promote contacts and joint research between Lancaster and the Universities of Chemnitz, Graz, Limerick and Louvain (£9,000, 1992 to 1998)

· I was principal investigator on one Innovation in Higher Education (IHE) grant and one Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) grant for work on self-access grammar teaching software (£2,000 in 1993 and £17,000 in 1994). I was co-investigator on a further TLTP grant (with Prof. Charles Alderson, Linguistics, and Dr. David Nott, French, £20,000 in 1995) awarded to build an automated assessment package. I was principal investigator on a further IHE grant (£5,000 in 1996) to investigate the use of hypermedia in teaching.

Co-investigator

· I was a co-investigator on the ESRC funded project The Representation of Islam in the UK Press, 1998-2009 (with Dr. Paul Baker, Linguistics, £100,000, October 2009 to November 2010)

· I was a co-investigator on the ESRC funded project Discourse of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press, 1996-2006 (with Dr. Paul Baker, Linguistics, £40,000, November 2005 to June 2007)

· I was a co-investigator on the Nuffield Foundation sponsored project The Representation Of Muslims In The UK And US Press Post 9/11 (with Dr. Paul Baker, Linguistics, £7,500, January 2006 to December 2006).

· I was co-investigator on the EPSRC funded project ASSIST (with Mr. Roger Garside, Computing, £185,161, April 2005 to March 2007)

· I was a co-investigator on ESRC funded High Performance Computing project (with Dr. Rob Crouchley, Management School, January 2001 to October 2004, £250,000)

· I was co-investigator of the AHRB funded project Corpus-Based Study of Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation in Spoken English (with Prof. Mick Short, Linguistics, £109,000, March 2001 to April 2003).

· I was co-investigator of an ESRC project A Corpus of Writing for Learning (with Dr. Roz Ivanic, Linguistics, £40,000, March 1999 to June 2000)

· I was a co-investigator on the EPSRC funded Parallel Wordclass Tagging project (with Mr. Roger Garside, Computing, £40,000, 1997-1998)

· I was a co-investigator on the LT sponsored Longitudinal Hypermedia Corpus of Children's Writing (with Dr. Roz Ivanic, Linguistics, £60,000, 1996-1998).

· I was a co-investigator on the EPSRC sponsored project British National Corpus: Tagging Enhancement (with Prof. Geoffrey Leech, Linguistics, £200,000, 1994-1996)

· I was a co-investigator on the CEC sponsored project ET10/63 (with Mr. J.M. Langé, IBM Paris, £155,000, 1992-1993)

· I was a co-investigator on the Lancaster/Longman project Automatic Sense Disambiguation in Context (with Prof. Geoffrey Leech, Linguistics, £30,000, 1994)

[1] Note that the lion's share of this income is pre-fEC.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA has 97 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

---

Associated Keywords: Applied linguistics, Corpus linguistics, Discourse analysis, Linguistics, Representation, Swearing

 

View all research activities, ePrints, news and events associated with Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA.

 

«Back