Dr Andrew John Merrison
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Contact
Details
E: a.merrison@yorksj.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1904 876780
Since 2000, Andrew has been an executive member of the
Linguistic Politeness Research Group (LPRG). The LPRG management
group organises conferences, research seminars, symposia and
reading groups on the subject of politeness and impoliteness. It
was also responsible for founding the Journal of Politeness
Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture in 2005. The LPRG
maintains a website of relevant resources which is available at
< http://research.shu.ac.uk/politeness/index.html >.
In 2009, at a serendipitous
breakfast in a café in Brisbane following a symposium on Face
hosted at Griffith University, Andrew co-founded GAS (the Goffman
Appreciation Society) with Jim O’Driscoll and Oliver
Hambling-Jones. GAS currently operates as a reading group with the
aim of reading and discussing all of Erving Goffman’s publications
in chronological order. After eleven meetings, our twelfth will be
a discussion of Stigma (1963) at the University of
Huddersfield on the 12th of September 2012. Although GAS
has regular participants from Huddersfield, Leeds, Loughborough,
Nottingham, Sheffield and York, it is a group that is open to all
(contact Andrew for details).
Andrew is a regular peer
reviewer for the Journal of Politeness Research and the
Journal of Pragmatics. He is in his fourth year as
external examiner for a suite of BAs in English Language and
Communication at Cardiff University’s School of English,
Communication and Philosophy. In September 2012 he is about to
start a three year term as external examiner for linguistic
components of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the
Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of
Sheffield.
Since 2008, Andrew has been
a Principal Investigator on a Collaborative Multi-Institutional
Research Project (A.J. Merrison, York St John University; G.H.
Turner and G.A. Quinn, Heriot–Watt University; B.L. Davies,
University of Leeds): Interpreting Task-Oriented Discourse
between Deaf and Hearing Participants.