Dr Nicholas Groom

Department of Linguistics and Communication
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3881
Email
n.w.groom@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Frankland Building
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am a corpus linguist. The main focus of my work is on using computers to study latent patterning in very large collections of naturally occurring language data.

Qualifications

BA, MA (London); PhD (Birmingham)

Biography

I taught at schools and universities in Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam, before coming to Birmingham as a postgraduate research student in 2001. I have been a member of staff here at UoB since September 2005.

Teaching

I currently convene or teach on the following course modules:

Undergraduate

  • Theories of Language
  • Corpus Linguistics

Postgraduate

  • Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
  • Research Methods in Corpus Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics (campus and distance MA option modules)

Postgraduate supervision

I supervise PhD and MRes students working in the following areas:

Corpus-based approaches to the analysis of phraseology (e.g. pattern grammar, construction grammar)
Corpus-based discourse analysis
Corpus-based critical discourse analysis
Learner corpus analysis
Corpora in cognitive linguistics
Corpora in systemic-functional linguistics
Please get in touch if you are interested in working with me.

Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics  page has information about doctoral research at the 黑料吃瓜网.

Research

I am interested in phraseology, discourse analysis, and usage-based theories of language in general.

I am currently carrying out research on the following topics:

  • The relationship between phraseology and epistemology in written and spoken academic discourse.
  • The language of patents, from the C17th to the present day.

Other activities

Internal roles

  • I am Director of Postgraduate Research and Postgraduate Research Admissions Tutor for the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics.

External roles

  • I am a member of the and the .
  • I am currently serving as a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press journal .
  • I am a member of the editorial boards of the and the International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching.
  • I am a member of the Economic and Social Research Council Peer Review College.
  • I am a peer reviewer for the journals Applied Linguistics, Corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Second Language Writing, ReCALL and Text and Talk, and for the book publishers John Benjamins, Bloomsbury, Continuum, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang, Pearson Longman, Routledge and Wiley-Blackwell. I have also served on the programme and scientific committees of numerous international conferences in my field.
  • I am currently serving as External Examiner for two universities, one in the UK and one in Greece.
  • I have acted as External Examiner for PhD candidates at the universities of Essex, Lancaster, León, Málaga and Nottingham.
  • I have represented the 黑料吃瓜网 at conferences and on invited visits to universities and other institutions in Belgium, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the UK.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Groom, N, Charles, M & John, S (eds) 2015, . vol. 73, Studies in Corpus Linguistics edn, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Groom, N & Littlemore, J 2011, . Routledge, London.

Article

J眉rine, A, Leijen, D, Hint, H, Laiveniece, D, 艩ink奴nien臈, J, Johansson, C & Groom, N 2021, '', Educare - Vetenskapliga Skrifter, vol. 2021, no. 1, pp. 27-37.

Groom, N 2019, '', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 291-323.

Lin, MH, Groom, N & Lin, C-Y 2013, '', Educational Technology & Society, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 130鈥�139. <>

Groom, N 2005, '', Journal of English for Academic Purposes, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 257-277.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Grabowski, 艁 & Groom, N 2021, . in A Trklja & 艁 Grabowski (eds), Formulaic language: Theories and methods. Phraseology and Multiword Expressions, vol. 5, Language Science Press, Berlin, pp. 171鈥�190.

Groom, N & Grieve, J 2019, . in T Fanego & P Rodr铆guez-Puente (eds), Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse. vol. 91, John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 201-234.

Groom, N, Charles, M & John, S 2015, . in N Groom, M Charles & S John (eds), Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 2-19.

Chapter

Groom, N 2010, . in M Bondi & M Scott (eds), Keyness in Texts. Studies in Corpus Linguistics, vol. 41, John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 59-78. <>

Groom, N 2009, . in A Barfield & H Gyllstad (eds), Researching Collocations in Another Language: Multiple Interpretations. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 21-33. <>

Groom, N 2009, . in Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Settings. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 122-139. <>

Groom, N 2000, . in P Thompson (ed.), Patterns and Perspectives: : Insights into EAP writing practice. Centre for Applied Language Studies, Reading, pp. 14-25.

Groom, N 2000, . in S Mitchell & R Andrews (eds), Learning to Argue in Higher Education. Boynton/Cook : Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, pp. 65-73.

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Groom, N 2013, . in C Chapelle (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.