mmontgomery@emeritus.um.edu.mo
Martin MONTGOMERY
Research Interests
Martin conducts research on the analysis of discourse, particularly mediated forms of discourse. Most recently his main focus has been upon news discourse as the dominant public genre of our age, one which reflects changes in technologies of mediation as well as larger social, political and cultural shifts. This research builds upon his long-standing interest in language and the media, which has included work on a wide variety of media genres and events from press reports of civil disorder to radio D-J talk. He is currently editing (with Michael Higgins and Joanna Thornborrow) a special issue of the journal Journalism on Broadcast Talk and Journalism
Martin Montgomery was appointed Chair Professor in English at the University of Macau in April 2010, as one of the very first Chair Professors to be appointed by the University. He was Head of its Department of English from 2010 to 2013 and also served simultaneously as Head of the Department of Communication from 2012 to 2013, before becoming the first Dean of the newly-formed Faculty of Arts and Humanities as it was established on the new campus.
Prior to his appointment at Macau, he was Reader in Literary Linguistics and Director of the Scottish Centre of Journalism Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, where he also served as Vice Dean for Planning and Resources (1998-2003), Head of the Department of English (1993-97), and Director of the Programme in Literary Linguistics (1990-1994). In 1992 he founded (with Joanna Thornborrow) the Ross Priory International Seminar for the Study of Broadcast Talk and has convened or co-convened many of its annual meetings.
Previously he held posts at the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol and the Polytechnic of Wales (now the University of South Wales).
He is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Macau; and he also holds an appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is editing (with Michael Higgins and Joanna Thornborrow) a special issue of the journal Journalism on Broadcast Talk and Journalism
Publications from 2017 onwards
SSCI/AHCI Journal Articles
2017 “Post-truth politics? Authenticity, populism and the electoral discourses of Donald Trump” in Journal of Language and Politics Volume 16, Issue 4, 2017, pp. 619-639
2017 M. Montgomery & Shen Jin “Direct address and television news-reading: Discourse, technology and changing cultural form in Chinese and western TV news” in Discourse, Context & Media Volume 17, June 2017, Pages 30-41
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.03.004
2020 Wu, X. & Montgomery, M. “Witnessing in crisis contexts in the social media age: the case of the 2015 Tianjin blasts on Weibo” in Media, Culture and Society Volume 42 (5) pp. 675-691
2020 “Populism in performance?: Trump on the stump and his audience”
In Journal of Language and Politics, 2020, 19(5), pp. 733-76
2021 Wu, X. & Montgomery, M. (2021). The microblogging discourse of disasters: Twitter and Weibo in action in the aftermath of two major industrial accidents. Social Semiotics, 33(4), 731–749. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2021.19310972024
2023 Ting, C., & Montgomery, M. (2023). Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments. Social Epistemology, 38(5), 651–667. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2023.2177128
2024 Montgomery, M., and Ting, C. (2024) Habeas Corpus? Cultural Keywords, Statistical Keywords, and the Role of a Corpus in their Identification. Critical Quarterly, 66: 18–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12734.
Book
2018 Language, Media & Culture: The key concepts London: Routledge. Pp 163.
Chapters in Books
2017 “Talking for Fun and Talking in Earnest: Two Styles of Mediated Broadcast Talk” in Mortensen, Janus, Nikolas Coupland, and Jacob Thogersen (eds.) Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) Oxford: Oxford University Press
2018 “Mediation, technological change, and discourse: the case of television talk” in Cotter, Colleen and Perrin, Daniel (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media London: Routledge, pp 113-136
2019 “Political offensiveness in the mediated public sphere: The performative play of alignments” (with HIGGINS, M. & SMITH, A.) in Graefer, Anne (ed.) Media and the Politics of Offence London: Palgrave
2021 “Language, Media and Culture in an Era of Communicative Change” in Esperança Bielsa (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Media and Translation London: Routledge, pp.28-43.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221678
Forthcoming 2024
Special Issue of the journal Journalism on “Broadcast Talk and Journalism”
Co-edited with Michael Higgins and Joanna Thornborrow, 250pp.