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J. R. Martin

J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.  His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focusing on English and Tagálog – with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics, forensic linguistics and social semiotics.  Recent publications include an introduction to the genre-based literacy pedagogy of the ‘Sydney School’ (Learning to Write, Reading to Learn, Equinox 2012), with David Rose; with Clare Painter and Len Unsworth, a book on children’s picture books (Reading Visual Narratives, Equinox 2013); a book on system network writing (Systemic Functional Grammar: a next step into the theory – axial relations, Higher Education Press, Beijing 2013); a collection of interviews with Wang Zhenhua (Interviews with J R Martin Foreign Language and Research Press, Beijing 2015); and a book on teaching academic discourse (Genre Pedagogy in Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan 2016), with Shoshana Dreyfus, Sally Humphrey and Ahmar Mahboob;.  Eight volumes of his collected papers (edited by Wang Zhenhua, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press) have recently been published in China (2010, 2012). Professor Martin was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998, and was Head of its Linguistics Section from 2010-2012; he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003. In April 2014 Shanghai Jiao Tong University opened its Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics.

研究方向：系统理论、功能语法、语篇语义学、语域、语类、多模态理论、批评话语分析、教育语言学、司法语言学。
电子邮箱：james.martin@sydney.edu.au