ISLE Research Network

Members of ISLE can choose to create a brief profile of their current research activities for publication on our website. Each profile may contain up to 5 'themes', and each theme may include any number of keywords.

We aim for this page to be a showcase of research in English Linguistics. It will enable members to get in touch with others working on related research topics.

Join ISLE or log in to add your research themes.

You need to be logged in to see information about other members.

Themes

Description	Indian English	Kwd:1 Text:1
	Variety of English used by Indians in India and its structure and distinctive features i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics cum Sociology of English in India.
	Sociolinguistics  Variety of English
	» Website
Description	Grammatical Variation	Kwd:1 Text:0
	(De-)Transitivization, Morpho-syntactic Variation, Complexity and Processing, British-American Differences, Language and Gender
	Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Sociolinguistics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Language shift in an Anglo-Paraguayan community	Kwd:1 Text:0
	This study attempts to shed light on the decisive factors in this particular case of language contact and shift with special focus on language attitudes and prestige
	Language contact  Sociolinguistics
Description	Colloquialisation in World Englishes	Kwd:1 Text:0
	My research is devoted to the study of colloquialisation in the selected national varieties of English
	General Linguistics  Sociolinguistics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Discourses of English in Japanese Tweets	Kwd:1 Text:0
	With an aim to critically investigate discourses/ideologies of the English language in Japan, this project is using tweets as data source for a combination of corpus and critical discourse analyses.
	Discourse Analysis  Sociolinguistics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Rhetorics of Face-Saving Strategies. A Comparative	Kwd:1 Text:0
	This study aims at describing the different face-saving strategies employed by politicians in these two opposite cultures of United Kingdom and Nigeria.
	Discourse Analysis  Pragmatics  Sociolinguistics  Typology
Description	English as a European Lingua Franca	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Motschenbacher, Heiko. forthcoming. New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
	ELF  Europe  Intercultural Communication  Sociolinguistics
Description	Hybridity, Discourse Analysis	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Hybrid Discursivity, Discourse Analysis, and Linguistic Anthropology. The analysis of hybrid discourses that function within diasporic communities and/or hybrid cultures.
	Sociolinguistics
Description	Global English(es)	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Research focus: convergent and divergent morphosyntactic features of varieties of English in the British Isles and beyond, esp. in African and Asian countries.
	Historical Linguistics  Sociolinguistics  Syntax  Typology
	» Website
Description	Spoken English and the BBC	Kwd:1 Text:0
	The early BBC has had a major impact on spoken English. My research focuses on its Advisory Committee on Spoken English (1926-39) and its failed attempt to regulate English at large.
	Historical Linguistics  Sociolinguistics

Search

Keywords	Add Keyword	(Linguist List categories) Anthropological Linguistics Applied Linguistics Cognitive Science Computational Linguistics Discipline of Linguistics Discourse Analysis Forensic Linguistics General Linguistics Genetic Classification Historical Linguistics History of Linguistics Language Acquisition Language Documentation Lexicography Linguistics & Literature Linguistic Theories Morphology Neurolinguistics Philosophy of Language Phonetics Phonology Pragmatics Psycholinguistics Semantics Sociolinguistics Syntax Text/Corpus Linguistics Translation Typology Writing Systems
	Search list:	Sociolinguistics
Options	Also search descriptions
	Case sensitive
Search!

Cloud Applied Linguistics  Discourse Analysis  Historical Linguistics  Lexicography  Morphology  Pragmatics  Semantics  Sociolinguistics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics  The Top 10 keywords for ISLE members’ research interests Cloud size    Small (10) Medium (25) Large (50) X Large (100)    Kilo

Key

Clicking on any keyword searches for that keyword alone.

		Adds a single keyword to the Search list.
		Adds an entire set of keywords to the list. (Hint: You can then find themes similar to that set.)
		Removes the keyword from the list.
		Removes the set from the list.
		Searches the keyword set with one click.