ISLE Research Network

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Description	Historical sociolinguistics: data, models, methods	Kwd:1 Text:1
	See my homepage (link below) and the homepage of the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English at: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/about/index.html
	Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Sociolinguistics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
	» Website
Description	Nigerian English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Structure and socio-linguistic evolution of Nigerian English
	Sociolinguistics  Varieties of English
	» Website
Description	Null Subjects in English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Postdoc thesis focusing on 1st p. subjects in a soc. stratified corpus spoken English. Questions to be addressed include theoretical (0 S lgg.; priming) as well as practical issues (low input rate).
	Corpus Linguistics  Quantiative linguistics  Sociolinguistics
Description	Asian Englishes	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Investigation of sociohistorical factors and structural features which together contribute to the evolution of Asian Englishes
	Genetic Classification  Sociolinguistics  typology
Description	Variation and change in morphological productivity	Kwd:1 Text:0
	I study sociolinguistic variation and change in the morphological productivity of certain derivational affixes from EModE to PDE; I am also developing corpus linguistic tools and methods for this.
	Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Sociolinguistics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
	» Website
Description	Data mining tools for analysing annotated corpora	Kwd:1 Text:0
	DAMMOC's aims are (1) to identify methods in data analysis and visualisation that are useful for the study of language; (2) to develop these methods into software tools accessible to corpus linguists.
	Computational Linguistics  Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Sociolinguistics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
	» Website
Description	C18: 18th-century change	Kwd:1 Text:0
	We carry out pilot studies on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension, CEECE. The results will be published as a book about sociolinguistic variation and change in the long 18th century.
	Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Sociolinguistics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
	» Website
Description	discourse variation	Kwd:1 Text:0
	I work on functionally and socially conditioned variation in the use and formal encoding of discourse variables.
	Discourse Analysis  Pragmatics  Sociolinguistics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Culture specific communicative styles	Kwd:1 Text:0
	People use languages in different ways according to specific social and linguistic norms, values, socio-cultural conventions, understanding of (im)politeness which shape their communicative styles
	Anthropological Linguistics  Applied Linguistics  Cognitive Science  Discourse Analysis  Intercultural Communication  Language and Cultural Aquisition  Philosophy of Language  Pragmatics  Psycholinguistics  Sociolinguistics
Description	English vs. Russian Politeness	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Differences in English vs. Russian communicative strategies reflect differences in social relationships, they are determined by culture-specific values and understanding of (im)polite behaviour
	Anthropological Linguistics  Cognitive Linguistics  Discourse Analysis  Intercultural Communication  Intercultural Pragmatics  Language and Cultural Aquisition  Politeness Theory  Sociolinguistics

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