Professor Mike McCarthy

Position:

• Teaching Officer, Academic Development and Training for International Students

Contact Information

Telephone:
Email: mm2326@cam.ac.uk

Profile

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK. He holds/has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Limerick, Ireland, Newcastle University, UK, and Penn State University, USA. He is an Honorary Professor of the University of Valencia, Spain. Mike did his MA and PhD degrees at Downing College, Cambridge. He has been involved in the study and teaching of English for more than 50 years. For the last 30 years, he has worked with large, computerised corpora of English texts, investigating them to establish how the vocabulary and grammar of English are really used at the present time and how they are evolving and changing. His research has focused on spoken English.

He is author of 56 books and 116 academic papers dealing with research and teaching of the English language. He has taught in the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Malaysia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

When not teaching and writing, he grows vegetables and fruit in his garden, goes on long country walks and plays Irish traditional music on the fiddle (though not all at the same time).

Books

1. (2004-2006) (With J. McCarten and H. Sandiford) Touchstone. Student’s Book. Levels 1-4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. (2005) (With F. O’Dell) English Collocations in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. (2006) (With R. Carter) Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. (2007) (With A. O’Keeffe and R. Carter) From Corpus to Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. (2008) (With F. O’Dell) Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. McCarthy, M. J., McCarten, J., Clark, D. and Clark, R. (2009) Grammar for Business. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. (2010) (With F. O’Dell) English Idioms in Use. Advanced. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. O’Keeffe, A. and McCarthy, M. J. (eds.) (2010) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge.
9. Carter, R., McCarthy, M. J., Mark, G. and O’Keeffe, A. (2011) English Grammar Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. (2012) (with Felicity O’Dell) English Vocabulary in Use. Upper Intermediate. Third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. (2012-2013) (with J. McCarten and H. Sandiford) Viewpoint 1 and 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
12. (2013) (with J. McCarten and H. Sandiford) Viewpoint 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. (2016) McCarthy, M. J. (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. McCarthy, M. J. (2019) Grammar and Usage: Your Questions Answered. Cambridge: Prolinguam Publishing.
15. McCarthy, M. J. (2019) 101 Tips for Language Leaners. Cambridge: Prolinguam Publishing.
16. McCarthy, M. J. (2021) Innovations and Challenges in Grammar. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Research articles

1. Buttery, P., McCarthy, M. J. & Carter, R. A. (2015) Chatting in the academy: informality in spoken academic discourse. In N. Groom, M. Charles and S. John (eds.) Corpora, Grammar and Discourse. In honour of Susan Hunston. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 183-210.
2. McCarthy, M. J. (2016) Teaching grammar at the advanced level. In E. Hinkel (ed.) Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages.  New York: Routledge, 203-221.
3. McCarthy, M. J. & McCarten, J. (2016) Creativity and conversation: key concepts in spoken grammar. In D. Xerri and O. Vassallo (eds.) Creativity in English Language Teaching. Malta: ELT Council, 127-136.
4. McCarthy, M. J. (2017). Usage on the move: evolution and re-volution. Training, Language and Culture 1 (2): 8-22.
5. Carter, R. A. & McCarthy, M. J. (2017) Spoken grammar: Where are we and where are we going? Applied Linguistics 38(1): 1-20.
6. Caines, A., McCarthy M. J. & Buttery, P. (2017) Parsing transcripts of speech. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing, pages 27–36, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7–11, 2017. Association for Computational Linguistics.
7. McCarthy, M. J. & McCarten, J. (2018) Now You’re Talking! Practising Conversation in Second Language Learning. In C. Jones (ed.) Practice in Second Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 7-29.
8. Malyuga, E. & McCarthy, M. J. (2018) English and Russian vague category markers in business discourse: Linguistic identity aspects. Journal of Pragmatics 135: 39-52.
9. McCarthy, M. (2019). Vague language in business and academic contexts. Language Teaching,1-12.
10. McCarthy, M. & McCarten, J. (2020). Interaction management in academic speaking. Interaction management in academic speaking. Linx [Online], 79 https://journals.openedition.org/linx/3611 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/linx.3611