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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.

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Standardization of the English language

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The topic of my research is the history of normative English grammar, particularly its contacts with contemporary philosophy of language, rhetoric and poetics.

  • Expires after: 01-01-2525
  • Keywords: Standardization,Historical Linguistics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language And Culture,Prescriptivism,Grammar Writing

Variation in English World-Wide

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Corpus-based studies on morphosyntactic variation in Englishes

  • Website: http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/
  • Expires after: 01-01-2525
  • Keywords: World Englishes,Variationist Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Registers,Corpus Linguistics

Comparative sociolinguistics

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Comparative analysis across multiple regional dialects of English

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Regional Dialects,Comparative Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistic typology

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What is the diachronic effect of shifts in population makeup on language structure? And how can this be investigated in historical corpora?

  • Website: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/walkden/starfish/
  • Expires after: 01-07-2030
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,First And Second Language Acquisition,Historical Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,L2,Historical Syntax,History Of English,Diachronic Linguistics,Language Change,Language Contact,Syntactic Complexity

The BE-passive in Gibraltar English

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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

Relativization strategies in Gibraltar English

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My research focuses on the non-categorical variation of relative clauses in Gibraltar English.

Letter writing in Late Modern English

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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

Gender pronoun declaration in digital social media networks

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An exploration of gender pronoun declaration in large social media datasets in light of the weak-tie hypothesis

  • Expires after: 31-12-2027
  • Keywords: Language Change,Social Network Analysis,Sociolinguistics,Language And Gender

Aboriginal English in the Pilbara

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My PhD explores Aboriginal English as spoken in the Pilbara, where I examine the language repertoires of Indigenous communities using a participatory approach.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2027
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,Variationist Linguistics,Variation,Discourse Analysis,Discourse-pragmatic,Language Contact,Language Identity,Lexical Diversity,Styles,World Englishes

Guyanese Creolese, Guyanese English and Education

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I am interested in the interaction of English and Creolese in Guyana, the boundaries between them, and the variation in English and creoles across the Caribbean.

  • Expires after: 01-12-2027
  • Keywords: Applied Linguistics,Diachronic Variation,Sociolinguistics,Variationist Linguistics,World Englishes,Pidgins And Creoles,Caribbean Englishes

AJAY MALIK

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Ajay Malik is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at Central University of Rajasthan, India. He holds dual master's degrees, one in Linguistics, and another in English.

  • Expires after: 01-11-2027
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,Dialectology,Legal English

Dynamic Adaptation in Dialect-Sensitive and Standard ASR Systems

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The project aims to investigate how users adapt their speech when interacting with dialect-sensitive versus neutral automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems.

  • Expires after: 01-09-2027
  • Keywords: Speech Technology,Speech Recognition,Sociolinguistics,ASR,Computational Linguistics,Acoustics,Sociophonetics,Alignment

Purrieties of Language

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language variation in cat-related digital spaces

English in Late Modern times

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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

Effects of language attitudes and accent bias in health communication

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PhD project looking into the effects of language attitudes and accent bias in health communication, more specifically in pain assessment.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2026
  • Keywords: Applied Linguistics,English,Language Attitudes,Medical Humanities,Sociolinguistics,Accent Bias,Health Communication

Constructing discursive opposition: a corpus study of negation in Ta-Nehisi Coates's discourse on race

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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

Figurative language in Interpreting

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Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers

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Collaborative research project on a (mainly) 18C archive, involving network relations, verbal syntax, and other literary and linguistic strands.

Communication Strategies and Language Attitudes of West African Users of English as Lingua Franca in France and Germany: Case Studies from the Medical Field

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This PhD project investigates attitudes-strategies of Anglophone West African professionals in English interactions in France and Germany, providing insights on cross-cultural healthcare communication

  • Expires after: 31-12-2025
  • Keywords: English As A Lingua Franca,Comparative Sociolinguistics,Discourse Analysis,West African Englishes,World Englishes,Language Attitudes,Language Identity,Multilingualism,Nigerian English

Geospatial Linguistics

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Modelling language variation and change in local populations using geo-referenced social media language data

  • Expires after: 01-10-2025
  • Keywords: Geographical Variation,Language Change,Variationist Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Online Language

Historical Sociolinguistics Meets Construction Grammar: The Case of Productivity in English

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Aims: (1) increase the explanatory power of CxG by drawing on historical sociolinguistics; (2) learn more about linguistic phenomena in the field of productivity in the history of English.

Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin and World Englishes

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I am interested in English grammar, pidgin and creole studies, World Englishes and sociolinguistics. I am willing to learn and develop professionally.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2019
  • Keywords: Grammar,Dialectology,Language Contact,Grammaticalisation,Lexical Variation,Multilingualism,Syntax,World Englishes,Sociolinguistics