Teaching and Research Staff

Professor Diane Blakemore (Professor of Linguistics)
Research interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Linguistic stylistics
Teaching: Semantics; Pragmatics; Philosophy of linguistics; Linguistic stylistics
d.blakemore@salford.ac.uk

Sue Bromby (Senior lecturer in EFL/TESOL)
Teaching: EFL; TESOL
s.bromby@salford.ac.uk

Dr Axiotis Kechagias (Lecturer in Linguistics)
Research interests: Interaction between configurational and non-configurational aspects of natural language (syntax–information structure interface); Morpho-syntax and semantics of doubling phenomena; Natural language development and psycholinguistics
Teaching: Syntax; Morphology; First language acquisition
a.kechagias@salford.ac.uk

Dr Domenyk Eades (Senior lecturer in Arabic)
Research interests: Documentation and description of Arabic dialects; Arabic/English translation; Arabic linguistics; Language typology
Teaching: Arabic/English translation; Arabic language
d.eades@salford.ac.uk

Dr Siân Etherington (Lecturer in TESOL)
Research interests: TEFL; TESOL grammar and grammar teaching; Second Language Acquisition; English for Academic Purposes; Beliefs and perceptions about language learning; Language learning and emotions
Teaching: Grammar and vocabulary in ELT; Psychology of Language Learning; Research Methods in TESOL
s.etherington@salford.ac.uk

Dr Iván García-Álvarez (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics)
Research interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Syntax-semantics interface
Teaching: Semantics; Pragmatics; Syntax; Syntax-semantics interface
i.garciaalvarez@salford.ac.uk

Huw Jarvis (Senior lecturer in TESOL)
Research interests: Computers in language pedagogy
Teaching: Methodology; Syllabus design; Materials evaluation; Computers in teaching and learning; English for Academic Purposes
h.a.jarvis@salford.ac.uk

Professor Paul Rowlett (Professor of French Language and French Linguistics)
Head of School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences
Research interests: French language and linguistics
p.a.rowlett@salford.ac.uk

Dr Maggie Scott (Lecturer in English Language)
Research interests: Onomastics; Semantics; History and lexicography of English and Scots
Teaching: History of English; Semantics and lexicography; Attitudes to English; Cognitive linguistics
m.r.scott@salford.ac.uk

Dr Nick Smith (Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics)
Research interests: Corpus linguistics; Current change in English; World Englishes; History of English
Teaching: Corpus linguistics; Current change in English; World Englishes; Dialects/Dialectology; History of English;
n.smith@salford.ac.uk

Professor Janet C.E. Watson (Professor of Arabic Linguistics)
Head of Linguistics and Head of Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Research interests: Phonology; Phonetics; Morphology; Semitic descriptive linguistics
Teaching: Phonology & phonetics, Morphology, Arabic language
j.c.e.watson@salford.ac.uk

Teaching Assistants

Adam Gargani (research interests: pragmatics and style)
a.gargani@edu.salford.ac.uk

Gerry Howley (research interests: sociophonetics)
g.m.howley@edu.salford.ac.uk

Rebecca Jackson (research interests: pragmatics, the pragmatics-semantics interface)
R.C.Jackson1@edu.salford.ac.uk