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(Socio)Linguistic Effects across Political Borders

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Long neglected as "unimportant" variation, political borders that cut across older dialect zones reveal interesting linguistic and sociolinguistic features that are very "real" for speakers

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

Variation and Change in English

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Grammatical and phonological variation in past and present varieties of English; functional conditioning; based on linguistic corpora and text databases; with a focus on quantitative methodologies.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2030
  • Keywords: Alternations,Constraints On Variation,Corpus Linguistics,Diachronic Variation,Historical Linguistics,Language Change,Phonology,Quantitative Methods,Variationist Linguistics,World Englishes,Grammar

A Corpus Pragmatic Study of Expressive Speech Acts in Global South Englishes

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My current research focuses on corpus pragmatics and World Englishes with particular attention to speech acts in Global South Englishes.

  • Expires after: 13-02-2030
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Cultural Linguistics,Diachronic World Englishes,Variationist Linguistics,Caribbean Englishes,Comparative Sociolinguistics,Critical Discourse Analysis,Discourse-pragmatic,Data Analysis With R,Discourse Analysis,Multimodal Discourse Analysis,Nigerian English,Pragmatics,Singapore English,Sociolinguistics,Statistical Analysis,West African Englishes,World Englishes,Corpus Pragmatics

Sociolinguistic Processes and English Variation in Expanding Circle Contexts: The Case of El Salvador

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Undergraduate researcher focusing on sociolinguistics, World Englishes, linguistic prestige, and language ideology in emerging English varieties in El Salvador.

  • Website: sociolinguistics-el-salvador
  • Expires after: 31-12-2029
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,World Englishes,Language Contact,Language Identity,Accent Bias,Indexicality,Phonetics,Phonology,Variationist Linguistics,English

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.

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

Teacher Development Programmes of English Language Teachers at the Secondary Level In Kashmir

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I am working on the professional development trainings given to the English Language Teachers in Kashmir Valley by different training institutes of the valley - their curriculum, methods of teaching.

  • Expires after: 21-07-2026
  • Keywords: ELT,Language Acquisition,Language Pedagogy,TEFL,World Englishes,Professional Development,English,Teachers,Needs Analysis

Historical sociolinguistic analysis of post-colonial Englishes

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My PhD analysed settler English and Aboriginal English in 19th and early 20th-century Australia, with a particular focus on a small isolated settler population of 19th-century Western Australia.

  • Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-2288
  • Expires after: 30-06-2026
  • Keywords: Historical Sociolinguistics,Historical Linguistics,History Of English,Diachronic World Englishes,Written Language,Socio-historical Linguistics

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