School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)

Profile

I am primarily interested in all issues related to English as a transnational and deanglicized language. Recognisable names for this area are ‘World Englishes’ and ‘English as a Lingua Franca’. I am also interested in Systemic Functional Linguistics and how it can help us understand the nature and roles of discourse in real-world ‘problems’. Before coming to Portsmouth I taught at Assumption University in Bangkok and, while studying for my PhD, at the University of Nottingham.

I supervise students researching in World Englishes/English as a Lingua Franca and (Critical) Discourse Analysis (including Multimodal Discourse Analysis).

Publications

• Saraceni, M. (forthcoming) World Englishes: A Critical Analysis. London: Continuum
• Saraceni, M. (forthcoming) The language of Malaysian and Indonesian users of social networks: practice vs system. In Rubdy, R. &Alsagoff, L. (eds) The Global-Local Interface, Language Choice and Hybridity, Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
• Saraceni, M. (2011) Reflections on the rhetorics on the (re-)location of English. Changing English, 18(3).
• Saraceni, M. (2011) Language as a Local Practice by Alastair Pennycook. World Englishes, 40(3), 452-455.
• Saraceni, M. (2010) The Relocation of English: Shifting Paradigms in a Global Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Read a review]
• Saraceni, M. (2009) Relocating English: towards a new paradigm for English in the world. Language and Intercultural Communication, 9(3), 175-186.
• Saraceni, M. (2008) English as a Lingua Franca: Between Form and Function.English Today, 24(2), 20-26.
• Saraceni, M. (2008) Comment 7. World Englishes, 27(2), 280-281.
• Saraceni, M. (2008) Meaningful form: transitivity and intentionality, ELT Journal, 62(2), 164-172.
• Rubdy, R. and  M. Saraceni (Eds.) (2006) English in the World: Global Rules, Global Roles. London: Continuum. [Read a review]
• Saraceni, M. (2006) Comics as ELT materials. In Mukundan, J. (Ed.) Readings on ELT Materials II.Petaling Jaya: Pearson Malaysia.
• Saraceni, M. (2004) Reading comics, Emagazine, issue 24.
• Saraceni, M. (2003) The Language of Comics. London: Routledge. [Read a review]
• Saraceni, M. (2003) The strange case of Dr Blair and Mr Bush: Counting their words to solve the mystery, English Today, 19(3), 3-13.
• Saraceni, M. (2003) Literature in the EFL Classroom: roses or thorns? A Thai experience. In Subramaniam, G. (ed.) Teaching Literature in ESL / EFL Contexts. Petaling Jaya: Sasbadi.
• Saraceni, M. (2001) Seeing beyond language: when words are not alone, in McRae, J. (ed.) Reading Beyond Text: Processes and Skills, Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla.
• Saraceni, M. (2001) Relatedness: on the verbo-visual cohesion in comics. In Baetens, J (ed.) The Graphic Novel, Leuven: Leuven University Press.