Dr Andrew John Merrison
Senior Lecturer in
Linguistics
Contact
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E: a.merrison@yorksj.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1904 876780
Having started his professional life training to be an
accountant, Andrew switched to linguistics in 1987. After a BA in
Language (German and Mandarin) & Linguistic Science (York,
1991) and an MSc in Cognitive Science and Natural Language
(Edinburgh, 1992), he gained his PhD in linguistics from the
University of Edinburgh in June 1998. He started working for York
St John in September 1998. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the
Centre for English Language & Linguistics within the Business
School.
He is the founder and co-organiser of the York St John
University Colloquium Series in Linguistics (which to date has
hosted 53 lectures). This series is now organised under the
auspices of Languages and Identities in InterAction Research Unit
(LIdIA) of which he is a co-founder.
Andrew is a mac-using viola
player who, if lucky, occasionally gets to play bridge and golf. He
spends most of his life doing Conversation Analysis and studying
the socio-pragmatics of inter-action, too much money on books, way
too much time on Facebook, and nowhere near enough with Sally, Ben
and Joe Merrison. Invariably quite cheerful, his favourite words
are minimum and outwith. He usually finds it much harder to stick
to word counts.