Main contact person 

Dr Mark Wyatt 

Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics 

Member of the Languages Across Borders research group in the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

mark.wyatt@port.ac.uk

+44 (0) 2392 846095

Research areas available or 2014 entry

  • Language teacher education
  • Materials design and evaluation
  • Motivation 
  • Reflective practice and mentoring
  • Attitudes towards the spread of English as a lingua franca in globalisation
  • Language as ideology
  • Language choices of bilingual families in diasporas
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • Multimodality and semiotics
  • Politeness
  • Computer mediated communication
  • Intercultural communication
  • Translation as creation, as gate-keeping and as bridge-building
  • Technical translation
  • Translator education

Additional contact persons 

The following potential supervisors participated in the Algerian delegation’s visit to Portsmouth in March 2014, and may provide a useful point of contact for PhD candidates interested in the following specific areas: 

  • Dr Mark Wyatt, Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics: mark.wyatt@port.ac.uk +44 (0)23 9284 6095

Language motivation, language teacher education, materials design and evaluation, reflective practice and mentoring 

World Englishes and the sociolinguistics of globalisation, systemic functional linguistics and multimodality for (critical) discourse analysis.

Language teacher education, materials design and evaluation, reflective practice and mentoring.

Translation, including adaptation and rewriting, the translation of multimodal texts. 

Additional potential supervisors include (not an exhaustive list):

Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes

  • Dr Ben Clarke, Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics: ben.clarke@port.ac.uk +44 (0)23 9284 2153

Multimodality and semiotics

Intercultural communication, language education, applied contrastive linguistics.

Function of language in the digital world, including (e-)politeness, computer mediated communication and discourse.

  • Dr Stephen Crabbe, Lecturer in Translation Studies and Technical/Professional Communication: stephen.crabbe@port.ac.uk +44 (0)2392 846149

Technical translation.

Critical discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics; pragmatics; stylistics; and semantics.

Materials writing, ESP and ESAP, language in the workplace.

Every member of staff has a profile with more details of their research interests and publications on the University of Portsmouth website, which students are strongly encouraged to consult: www.port.ac.uk 

 

 

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