Dr Greg Myers
Professor of Rhetoric and Communication
Degree: BA (Pomona College), PhD (Columbia)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Language in Social Life, Centre for Science Studies
Current Teaching
I teach several modules on the BA in English Language and the Media:
Ling 132 - Broadcast Talk
Ling 232 - Understanding Media
Ling 233 - Researching Media
Research Interests
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), Matters of Opinion: Talking about Public Issues (Cambridge, 2004, and .Discourse of Blogs and Wikis(Continuum, 2010). See my blog on this topic at The Language of Blogs.
My current research, with Sofia Lampropoulou, is an ESRC-funded project on 'The Construction of Stance in Social Research Interviews'.
I am on the Editorial Boards of the journals Applied Linguistics, Discourse & Society, ESPecialist, Language in Society, Language Teaching Research, Science as Culture, Text & Talk, and Written Communication. With Ruth Wodak, I edit the John Benjamins book series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society, and Culture.
In 2011 I was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. I was Secretary (1998-2001) of BAAL: the British Association for Applied Linguistics, and have been active in the Ross Priory seminars on Broadcast Talk.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I have supervised more than 25 PhD theses to completion, and I welcome applications in the areas of academic discourse, media discourse, environmental discourse, and qualitative research methods.
Recent Publications
Myers "Analysing interaction in broadcast debates" in R. Wodak and Krzyzanowski (eds.) Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences. London: Palgrave, 2008.
[with Jacki Abell] "Analysing research interviews" in R. Wodak and Krzyzanowski (eds.) Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences. London: Palgrave, 2008.
Discourse of Blogs and Wikis. London: Continuum, 2010.
See Lancaster e-prints for links to some pdf files.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Greg Myers has 16 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
Myers, Greg (2007) Commonplaces in risk talk: Face threats and forms of interaction. Journal of Risk Research, 10 (3). pp. 285-305. ISSN 14664461
Myers, Greg (2007) Enabling talk: How the facilitator shapes a focus group. Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse & Communication Studies, 27 (1). pp. 79-105. ISSN Print ISSN: 1860-7330 Electronic ISSN: 1860-7349
Myers, Greg (2006) Where are you from?: Identifying place in talk. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 10 (3). pp. 320-343. ISSN 1360-6441
MacNaghten, P. and Myers, Greg (2004) Focus groups. In: Qualitative research practice. Sage, London, pp. 65-79. ISBN 0761947760
Myers, Greg (2004) Matters of opinion: talking about public issues. Studies in interactional sociolinguistics, 19 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0521793122
Myers, Greg (2001) I’m out of it; you guys argue: making an issue of it on the Jerry Springer Show. In: Television talk shows: discourse, performance, spectacle. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, pp. 173-192.
Myers, Greg (2000) Entitlement and sincerity in broadcast interviews about Princess Diana. Media Culture and Society, 22 (2). pp. 167-185. ISSN 0163-4437
Myers, Greg (2000) Unspoken speech: hypothetical reported discourse and the rhetoric of everyday talk. Text, 19. pp. 571-590. ISSN 0165-4888
Myers, Greg (1999) Ad worlds: brands, media, audiences. Arnold, London. ISBN 0340700068
Myers, Greg (1999) Functions of reported speech in group discussions. Applied Linguistics, 20 (3). pp. 376-401. ISSN 0142-6001
Associated Keywords: Advertising and the media, Applied linguistics, Conversation analysis, Discourse, English for academic purposes EAP, Environmental discourse, Public understanding of science
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