This time round we're presenting our research round-up in two parts. Here's what half our staff have been doing with their research time over the past few months.
Lynne Cahill was on research
leave in the spring term, working with a historian at the
University of York on the language of medieval charters (legal
documents). She is presenting this work at the Eleventh International Workshop on
Written Language and Literacy in Nagoya, Japan at the end of August. Her paper "What are the Phonemes in Phoneme-Grapheme Mappings?" has been published in the Journal of Written Language
and Literacy and she co-edited the Special Issue on Orthographic Databases and Lexicons.
Many congratulations to Lynne C's student Aliaa Aloufi who completed her doctorate on The phonology of English loanwords in UHA (Urban Hijazi Arabic). Dr Aloufi graduated in July.
Lynne Murphy returned to teaching in the spring and has been presenting new research at conferences in the summer. At the Dictionary Society of North America in June she presented research based on her British Academy project, British and American Dictionary Cultures: "Language lovers or linguistic authorities?
Contrasts in British and American dictionary cultures". With Sandra Jansen (University of Paderborn), she organised a panel the English Shared Futures
conference in Newcastle: Tomorrow's English Today: Problems in predicting the linguistic future. Lynne's contribution addressed the question: "How American is the future?" Later in July, Lynne and Rachele De Felice (UCL) presented aspects of their work on thanking in British and American emails at the International Pragmatics Association conference in Belfast and at Corpus Linguistics 2017 in Birmingham. Lynne has also been talking about American English (and whether it threatens British English) on on the Radio 4 programmes Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen and Americanize! with Susie Dent. She's recently been quoted on politeness in British workplaces in BBC Capital, on Why British English is full of silly-sounding words in BBC Culture, on a British MP's usage of an American racial slur in the Atlantic, and on why Fears of British English's disappearing are overblown in the Economist.
Charlotte Taylor's article "The
relationship between irony and sarcasm: Insights from a first-order
metalanguage investigation" has been published in Journal
of Politeness Research. She's also published a review article on "Pragmatics
and Discourse" in The Year’s Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press) and a book review of S. Kirkwood, S. Goodman, C. McVittie & A. McKinlay (2016) The Language of
Asylum: Refugees and Discourse in the journal Discourse & Communication. Charlotte has recently become a member of the editorial board for the new Journal
of Corpora and Discourse Studies published by Cardiff University Press.
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| Dr Aloufi with her supervisor and examiners |
Many congratulations to Lynne C's student Aliaa Aloufi who completed her doctorate on The phonology of English loanwords in UHA (Urban Hijazi Arabic). Dr Aloufi graduated in July.
Lynne Murphy returned to teaching in the spring and has been presenting new research at conferences in the summer. At the Dictionary Society of North America in June she presented research based on her British Academy project, British and American Dictionary Cultures: "Language lovers or linguistic authorities?
Contrasts in British and American dictionary cultures". With Sandra Jansen (University of Paderborn), she organised a panel the English Shared Futures
conference in Newcastle: Tomorrow's English Today: Problems in predicting the linguistic future. Lynne's contribution addressed the question: "How American is the future?" Later in July, Lynne and Rachele De Felice (UCL) presented aspects of their work on thanking in British and American emails at the International Pragmatics Association conference in Belfast and at Corpus Linguistics 2017 in Birmingham. Lynne has also been talking about American English (and whether it threatens British English) on on the Radio 4 programmes Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen and Americanize! with Susie Dent. She's recently been quoted on politeness in British workplaces in BBC Capital, on Why British English is full of silly-sounding words in BBC Culture, on a British MP's usage of an American racial slur in the Atlantic, and on why Fears of British English's disappearing are overblown in the Economist. 
Charlotte Taylor's article "The
relationship between irony and sarcasm: Insights from a first-order
metalanguage investigation" has been published in Journal
of Politeness Research. She's also published a review article on "Pragmatics
and Discourse" in The Year’s Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press) and a book review of S. Kirkwood, S. Goodman, C. McVittie & A. McKinlay (2016) The Language of
Asylum: Refugees and Discourse in the journal Discourse & Communication. Charlotte has recently become a member of the editorial board for the new Journal
of Corpora and Discourse Studies published by Cardiff University Press.
Charlotte has given a number of papers in the last few months. She presented "Mock politeness: Perceptions
vs practice" at the University of Reading in February, and in March "Apples and oranges? Comparing across multilingual corpora" at Corpus Linguistics in the
South 14: Corpus Linguistics & Multilingualism at Birkbeck and Discourse keywords of migration: The case of community at the Language & Power Research
Group in Canterbury. In April, Charlotte and Jiayi Wang (UCLan) presented "The conventionalisation of mock
politeness in British & Chinese online forums" at the Imean Conference at the University of West England and in May she attended Approaches
to migration, language and identity at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland to present
Stay tuned for Part 2 in early September!
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