About Professor Brian Paltridge
I am especially interested in the social purposes of language use; that is, not just what people do with language, but why they do what they do.
Brian Paltridge’s expertise is in the areas of discourse analysis, genre analysis, second language writing and English for specific purposes
Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. He has published in ELT Journal, Applied Linguistics, System, The Teacher Trainer, English Teaching Forum, the EA Journal, TESOL Matters, TESOL in Context, the Journal of Pragmatics, World Englishes, Prospect, and English for Specific Purposes.He is editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes (with Diane Belcher) and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. He is author of Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings (John Benjamins), Making Sense of Discourse Analysis (AEE Publishing, Australia), Genre and the Language Learning Classroom (University of Michigan Press), and co-author of Context: An Australian Intensive English Course (Longman Australia). He has recently written a book titled Discourse Analysis for the Continuum Discourse series and a book titled Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language with Sue Starfield for Routledge. He has recently completed a book titled Teaching Academic Writing with his TESOL colleagues at the University of Sydney to be published by the University of Michigan Press and is presently working with Aek Phakiti on an edited volume on research methods in applied linguistics for the Continuum Companion series.Brian has taught ESL/EFL teacher in Australia, New Zealand, and Italy. He has taught postgraduate courses in the areas of second language teaching and learning, language curriculum design and methodology, language testing, research methods, discourse and pragmatics, language for specific purposes, second language acquisition, and thesis and dissertation writing.
Selected publications
- Paltridge, B. (2006). Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
- Paltridge, B. (2004). Academic writing. Language Teaching, 37, (2), 87-105.
- Paltridge, B. (2004). The exegesis as a genre: An ethnographic examination. In L. Ravelli and R. Ellis (Eds). Analyzing Academic Writing: Contextualised Frameworks. London: Continuum.
- Paltridge, B. (2002). Academic literacies and changing university communities. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 44, 15-28.
- Paltridge, B. (2002). Thesis and dissertation writing: An examination of published advice and actual practice. English for Specific Purposes, 21, (2), 125-143.
- Paltridge, B. (2001). Genre and the Language Learning Classroom. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Paltridge, B. (1997). Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.