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Text & Talk
An Interdisciplinary Journal
of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies
Editor: SRIKANT SARANGI
6 issues per year, approx. 800 pages per volume. Paperback.
14.8 x 22.5 cm
ISSN (Print) 1860-7330
ISSN (Online) 1860-7349
Increased IMPACT FACTOR 2009: 0.635
5year IMPACT FACTOR: 0.811
De Gruyter Mouton
Languages: English
Type of Publication: Journal

Editorial Information

Srikant Sarangi is Professor in Language and Communication and Director of the Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff University. He also holds the following positions:

  • General Editor (with C. N. Candlin) of two book series: Communication in Public Life (Continuum); Advances in Applied Linguistics (Continuum).
  • Advisory Editor (with G. Kress and C. Roberts) of British Studies in Applied Linguistics (Continuum).
  • Editorial Board member of Journal of Applied Language Studies.
  • Consultant Researcher at the Royal College of General Practitioners (since 1995).
  • Publications Secretary (1997–2000 and 2001–to date) of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL).

Member-at-Large (1999–2002, with special brief on publications) of the Executive Board of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA).

His main areas of research interest are: institutional and professional discourse (e.g. healthcare, social welfare, bureaucracy, education etc.); language and identity in public life; intercultural pragmatics; racism and ethnicity in multicultural societies. He holds several project grants (funding bodies include The Wellcome Trust, The Leverhulme Trust) to study various aspects of health communication: genetic counselling, ethnicity and general practice, oral assessment in medical education, risk communication, quality of life and telemedicine. He has guest-edited four journal special issues (Language and Education, Language Awareness, TEXT, Applied Linguistics) and has published more than seventy book chapters and articles in leading journals in discourse and communication.

Selected publications:

and Slembrouck, S. (1996). Language, Bureaucracy and Social Control. London: Longman.

and Roberts, C. (1999). Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings (Language, Power and Social Process 1). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

and Coulthard, M. (2000). Discourse and Social Life. London: Longman.

Coupland, N. and Candlin, C. N. (2001). Sociolinguistics and Social Theory. London: Longman.

Hall, C. and Slembrouck, S. (forthcoming). Talking Social Work. London: Longman

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts (as e-mail attachments and one hard copy, see Instructions for Authors) to the editor.

Editor

Srikant Sarangi
Centre for Language and Communication Research
Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Cardiff University
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
Wales, UK
E-mail: textandtalk@cardiff.ac.uk

Editorial Associates

Aileen Doyle (Cardiff University, UK)

Specialist Board

Malcolm Coulthard (University of Birmingham, UK)
Gunther Kress (Institute of Education, London, UK)
Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University, UK)
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, USA)

Honorary Board

Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Aaron B. Cicourel (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Susan Ervin-Tripp (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
John Gumperz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
M. A. K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia)
Dell H. Hymes (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
Bohumil Palek (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Janos Petöfi (University of Macerata, Italy)

Advisory Board

Stuart Allan (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Karin Aronsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Peter Auer (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Jack Bilmes (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Jan Blommaert (Institute of Education, London, UK)
Charles Briggs (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Christopher N. Candlin (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Donal Carbaugh (University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA)
Paul Drew (University of York, UK)
Norman Fairclough (Lancaster University, UK)
Andrew Goatly (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, P. R. China)
Gu Yueguo (Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, P. R. China)
Marjorie Harness Goodwin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Sandra Harris (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
David Herman (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
Richard Heyman (University of Calgary, Canada)
Yoshihiko Ikegami (Showa Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan)
Richard Lanigan (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA)
Per Linell (Linköping University, Sweden)
Ivana Markova (University of Stirling, UK)
Douglas W. Maynard (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Jacob L. Mey (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
Greg Myers (Lancaster University, UK)
Neal R. Norrick (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Gerry Philipsen (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Paul Prior (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Kay Richardson (University of Liverpool, UK)
Deborah Schiffrin (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)
John Stewart (University of Dubuque, USA)
Mike Stubbs (University of Trier, Germany)
John Swales (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)
Paul Thibault (Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway)
Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool, UK)
Joanna Thornborrow (Cardiff University, UK)
Eija Ventola (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Margaret Wetherell (Open University, UK)