The Open University

Faculty Member, Centre for Language and Communication

Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics

Centre for Language and Communication

About

I am an applied linguist with particular interests in
• discourse analysis
• English language teaching
• translation studies
• language in public  debates about food policy
• literary stylistics and literature teaching
• language play
• the language of advertising and public relations

I shall be leaving my current post in June 2012 to take up the Chair of Language in Education at King's College London.

I was co-editor of the journal Applied Linguistics from 2004-2009.  I am an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)and current Chair (2009-2012) of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.
Email: g.cook@open.ac.uk

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