Search for research themes
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.
Language building in the digital era
We are leveraging on social media as a part of the tools to add to the word corpus of Dholuo language which is spoken in East Africa
- Expires after: 01-01-2040
- Keywords: Wager Dhowa,Language And Culture,Lexicology,Pragmatics
The BE-passive in Gibraltar English
The study of the BE-passive in Gibraltar English, with a focus on grammatical variation, socio-cultural pragmatics and language contact.
- Website: view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/marina-perez
- Expires after: 31-05-2029
- Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Dialectology,Grammatical Variation,Language Contact,Language Identity,Pragmatics,Sociolinguistics,Synchronic Linguistics,Syntax,World Englishes
Letter writing in Late Modern English
Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. A window onto eighteenth-century life, literature and language
- Website: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/about/
- Expires after: 31-12-2027
- Keywords: Grammar Writing,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language Attitudes,Diachronic Variation,Prescriptivism,Standardization,Variationist Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,Historical Correspondence,Pragmatics,Social Network Analysis,Socio-historical Linguistics
Australian English 1788-1945
I am focusing on the evolution of Australian English from colonial invasion in 1788 to the end of World War 2 in 1945, building a corpus of ego-documents for historical sociolinguistic analysis
- Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-2288
- Expires after: 30-09-2027
- Keywords: Historical Sociolinguistics,Dialectology,Corpus Creation,Historical Pragmatics,History Of English,Historical Correspondence
English in Late Modern times
The aim is to take into consideration LModE usage in a range of previously unedited texts, especially as far as popular culture is concerned.
- Expires after: 31-12-2026
- Keywords: Historical Pragmatics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Geographical Variation,Early Business Discourse,Early Multimodality,Popular Culture,Entertainment
Constructing discursive opposition: a corpus study of negation in Ta-Nehisi Coates's discourse on race
I am a PhD student in English linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway). My research focuses on negation strategies in oppositional discourse, specifically anti-racist discourse.
- Expires after: 31-07-2026
- Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Discourse Analysis,Sociolinguistics,Pragmatics
Pragmatics and Discourse
Pragmatics and Discourse
- Expires after: 01-04-2023
- Keywords: Pragmatics,Corpus Linguistics,English,L2 Pragmatics,Pragmatic Information In EFL Textbooks,Contrastive Pragmatics,Compliment Research,Internet Pragmatics,Statistical Methods Of Data Analysis In Applied Li,TEFL,English As A Lingua Franca
The linguistic profile of I think
Describing synchronic and diachronic structure and use of the comment clause "I think" from phonetics to pragmatics
- Expires after: 20-11-2021
- Keywords: Conversation Analysis,Corpus Linguistics,Data Analysis With R,Diachronic Linguistics,Grammaticalisation,Discourse-pragmatic,Phonetics,Prosody,Synchronic Linguistics
Transforming Early English
Historical pragmatics offers a powerful explanatory paradigm for the formal changes medieval English and Scots texts undergo as they are transmitted across time and space
- Expires after: 31-07-2020
- Keywords: English Historical Linguistics,History Of Scots,Philology,Historical Pragmatics,Written Language