Greg Myers (linguist)


Greg Myers is an American linguist. He is currently an Emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on critical discourse analysis.

Career

He was the editor of the journal: Discourse, Context and Media.
He has 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 and Talk, and Written Communication.
Myers was the editor, along with Ruth Wodak, the John Benjamins Publishing Company's series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society, and Culture.
In 2011, Myers was elected as the Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Between 2012 and 2015, Myers was the Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.

Research

Myers's most cited work is entitled Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. It was published by the University of Wisconsin Press, in 1990. By using the techniques of rhetorical analysis, Myers studied the fortunes of two biologists: David Bloch and David Crews.
In a research article, entitled The pragmatics of politeness in scientific articles and published in Applied Linguistics in 1989, Myers proposed a simple model of a two-part audience, and focus on two kinds of impositions: claims and denials of claims.

Publications

Myers has publications in several major journals such as Discourse Studies, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Journal of Risk Research, Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Qualitative Research, Language and Literature, Celebrity Studies, Text and Talk, Media, Culture and Society, and Environment and Planning.

Books