Language Across Borders Research Group
The structuralist legacy is a general acceptance of language as a bounded system that can be defined and learnt. Our research group is interested in studying what happens as speakers and writers cross the boundaries of language systems or transgress the rules within them, and what insights can be gained when linguists explore the contributions made by fields as diverse as semiotics, social theory, political theory, literary theory, psychology and neuroscience. We are, in short, interested in the breaking of barriers and the building of bridges. We see language as practice embedded in and shaped by socio-cultural factors.
Our focus is varied. We investigate language choices of bilingual families in diaspora, attitudes towards the spread of English as a lingua franca in globalisation, language and the internationalisation of HE, translation as creation, as gate-keeping and as bridge-building, language as ideology, language and the unconscious, language and the brain, languages and technologies, language policy and language rights in new political settings. In all our enquiries we are concerned to investigate language practices within their social and political contexts and to monitor and comment on change in an increasingly post-structuralist and post-national era.
Language Across Borders also encompasses research in corpus linguistics.
Teaching and research
Corpus linguistic methodologies are integrated in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in lexicology, discourse analysis and linguistic workshops. We supervise postgraduate linguistic dissertations, at both MA and PhD level.
Our research interests cover a wide area of corpus linguistic work, and provide for doctoral supervision in a range of specialisms. Glenn Hadikin’s research is about phraseology and Lexical Priming in New Englishes/learner language and John Williams has extensive experience of using corpora in lexicography. Other members of staff have been involved in designing corpus interrogation software and building corpora. We have also been involved in knowledge transfer activities, such as the 'Using Corpora in Translation' webinar for eCPD
Research group lead

Dr Glenn Hadikin
- Job Title Senior Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics
- Email Address Glenn.Hadikin@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Members

Mr Mahmood Asgari
- Job Title Teaching Fellow
- Email Address mahmood.asgari@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Nick Bertenshaw
- Job Title Senior lecturer in English language and linguistics
- Email Address Nick.Bertenshaw@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Mr James Bullock
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address james.bullock@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Stephen Crabbe
- Job Title Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Translation (Japanese to English)
- Email Address las71489@myport.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Angela Crack
- Job Title Reader in Civil Society and Research Degree Coordinator
- Email Address Angela.Crack@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Area Studies History Politics and Literature
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Alessandra Fasulo
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Alessandra.Fasulo@port.ac.uk
- Department Department of Psychology
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Mr William Forsyth
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address William.Forsyth@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Miss Rebecca Hamlet
- Job Title Teaching Fellow
- Email Address Rebecca.Hamlet@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Mr Richard Hitchcock
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Richard.Hitchcock@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Mrs Marjorie Huet-Martin
- Job Title Senior Teaching Fellow
- Email Address marjorie.huet-martin@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Mr Ian Johnson
- Job Title Learning Support Tutor
- Email Address Ian.Johnson@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Education and Sociology
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Marie McCullagh
- Job Title Senior Lecturer Professional Communication and Applied Linguistics
- Email Address marie.mccullagh@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Rusten Menard
- Job Title Lecturer in Social Psychology
- Email Address rusten.menard@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Education and Sociology
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Media ready expert
Dr Valentina Migliarini
- Job Title Lecturer
- Email Address Valentina.Migliarini@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Education and Sociology
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Iris Nomikou
- Job Title Associate Head (Innovation)
- Email Address iris.nomikou@port.ac.uk
- Department Department of Psychology
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Lee Oakley
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address lee.oakley@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Mrs Carmen Pasamar Marquez
- Job Title Interim Head of School and Associate Head (Academic)
- Email Address Carmen.Pasamar@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Helen Ringrow
- Job Title Associate Head (Research and Innovation)
- Email Address helen.ringrow@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Begona Rodriguez De Cespedes
- Job Title Senior Lecturer in Translation
- Email Address Begona.Rodriguez@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Akiko Sakamoto
- Job Title Senior Lecturer in Japanese Language and Translation
- Email Address Akiko.Sakamoto@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Mario Saraceni
- Job Title Reader, English and Linguistics; Associate Head (Research)
- Email Address Mario.Saraceni@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten
- Job Title Reader in Childhood Studies and Director of Postgraduate
- Email Address Wendy.Sims-Schouten@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Education and Sociology
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Miss Jennifer Sizer
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Jennifer.Sizer@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Germaine Stockbridge
- Job Title Lecturer in Social Psychology
- Email Address Germaine.Stockbridge@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Education and Sociology
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Media ready expert
Dr Alessia Tranchese
- Job Title Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics
- Email Address alessia.tranchese@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Youxuan Wang
- Job Title Lecturer
- Email Address Youxuan.Wang@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Peter Watkins
- Job Title Principal Lecturer
- Email Address peter.watkins@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Mr Nicholas Mark White
- Job Title Teaching Fellow
- Email Address nicholas.white@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Media ready expert
Mr John Williams
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address John.X.Williams@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ms Yuan Yang
- Job Title Teaching Fellow
- Email Address yuan.yang@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Creative Technologies
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries

Dr Lin Zheng
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Lin.Zheng@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
PhD candidates
- Alessandra Belletti
- Rob Sharples
- Abdoul Dieng
- Shelton Humpleby
- Lucia Iorgal
- Nina Remmelgas
- Safia Serai
- Manita Srisawat
- Claudia Viggiano