Profile

 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

BA in foreign language education; MA and PhD in linguistics (Germanic)

 

Dissertation:

Genesis and evolution of an email sibling code.

 

Research interests

Internet communication

Interpersonal interaction

Development, usage, form, and structure (of English and other Germanic varieties)

Dialectological studies (of English and other Germanic varieties)

 

Research grants

Continuing Professional Development Grant, HKU (2005)

 

HKU Small Grant (2006)

British Academy overseas conference grant (2002, 2003, 2004)

Catherine Cookson Foundation award (2004-2005)

University of Geneva conference grant (2002)

UNC graduate student conference grant (1993, 1998)

UNC Pre-dissertation fellowship (1993)

UNC Germanic Languages Departmental Fellowship (1991-1992).

 

Professional contribution

Member, Societas Linguistica Europaea; International Pragmatics Association; Linguistic Society of America

Expert Panelist, Ask-A-Linguist (service of the LINGUIST List)

Organiser and session chair for Sociolinguistics Symposium 2004

Workshop co-organiser: Ethical and legal considerations when collecting and protecting speaker data.?(with Joan Beal). UK-Language Variation and Change. September 2003.

Principal organiser, UNC Germanic Languages Colloquium (1993)

 

Supervision

I currently supervise the following students:

Jessie Cheung (MA)

 

Interviews (selection)

Guardian UK

BBC-Newcastle

Journal-Newcastle

Languages

German

Netherlandic

Scandinavian

Spanish

 

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Publications

In preparation

Anti-ambisyllabicity and the Status of Glottals in Tyneside English. (with John Stonham).

Hyper-formality and ultra-casualness:?Native and non-native English style on the Ask-A-Linguist web-based bulletin board.

 

Under review

Genesis and evolution of an email sibling code (book manuscript under review, Mouton de Gruyter).

 

Journal articles and book chapters

Whatchanade?:? Rapid language change in a private email sibling code.?In: Herring, Susan, ed. Computer-mediated conversation. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (to appear 2006).

New media and language change. (co-edited with Eva Wyss). (Communication Series). Creskill NJ: Hampton Press. (projected submission date: December 2006).

Building code: Development, maintenance, and change in a private language. (to appear, Summer 2007, American Speech).

Ye divn’t gan tiv a college ti di that, man! The origins of do (and to) in Tyneside English. (to appear Spring 2007: Language Sciences).

The problematic Holtzmann’s Law in Germanic. (Indogermanische Forschungen Bd. 108, 2003).

 

Book reviews and notices

Doric. (J. Derrick McClure). The LINGUIST List. January 2003.

Practical dictionary of German usage. (K.B. Beaton). The LINGUIST List. October 2003.

Politics as text and talk. (Paul Chilton and Christina Schaeffner). Language. June 2005.

Conference talks and other refereed presentations

Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Accommodation in an email sibling code, July 6-8, 2006. Limerick, Ireland.

ICLaVE. (International Conference on Language Variation in Europe). Divn·t di that!: Sociolinguistic variation in Tyneside English divn·t ·don·t? June 22-25, 2005. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

LSA (Linguistic Society of America). Anti-ambisyllabicity and the status of glottals in Tyneside English. (with John Stonham). January 2005.

ICLaVE. (International Conference on Language Variation in Europe). Divn’t ye di it as well?: Sociolinguistic variation in the do paradigm of Tyneside English. June 11-14, 2003. Uppsala, Sweden.

IPrA. (International Pragmatics Assocation conference). Sistah Tawk:?The radical development of a written-spoken email hybrid.?July 2003. Toronto, Canada.

ICHL. (International Conference on Historical Linguistics).?(Language and Media panel).? I can’t beleeb dat!:?Email play, a sibling code, and accelerated change.?August 2003. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Manipulation by suggestion: The red-white-and-blue cloak of deception.?Presentation (funded) at the international conference on The Manipulative Discourse of Totalitarianism. Tessin, Switzerland. September 2002.?A linguistic time capsule: The Newcastle electronic corpus of Tyneside English. (with K. Corrigan, J. Beal, H. Moisl, W. Allen).?Poster presented at Methods in Dialectology XI conference, Joensuu, Finland. August 2002.

Topographic mapping as a tool for multivariate analysis and results visualization of dialectal data. (with Moisl, Hermann, K. Corrigan, J. Beal, W. Allen).?Paper presented at Computational Dialectometry workshop, at the Methods in Dialectology XI conference, Joensuu, Finland. August 2002.

Divn’t ya knaa? The do-paradigm in Tyneside English.?Paper presented at the Conference in English Phonology. Toulouse, France. June 2002.

Building code:? Development of an email sibling code. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 27. Athens, GA, USA. 1998.

The course of the Germanic passive. Paper presented at the Berkeley-Michigan Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Berkeley, CA. 1992.

 

Editorial vetting

Journal Language Sciences

Palgrave

Sociolinguistics Symposium 2004

 

Invited talks

Digital layers of dialect and culture: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. Lancaster University, Department of Linguistics monthly seminar.

Divn’t think ye cannot di it, man!: Cracking the mysterious di ‘do? in Tyneside English. Invited talk.?University of Essex Department of Language and Linguistics bi-monthly Departmental Seminar. October 2002.

The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE) and the ethical and legal consequences of linguistic archaeology. (with J. Beal). The AHDS Copyright and Digitisation Workshop. London. 21 Jan 2003.

UK-LCV. (UK Language Variation and Change). The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE) and the ethical and legal consequences of linguistic archaeology. (with J. Beal).?Sheffield, UK. September 2003.

A linguistic time capsule: The Newcastle electronic corpus of Tyneside English. (with H. Moisl, J. Beal, K. Corrigan, W. Allen).?Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, 2004. Newcastle upon Tyne. April 1-3 2004.