Sociolinguistics and language variation and change
Our research focuses on how language varies across time, space, society and communicative context, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. We look at variation and change in vocabulary, grammar and styles in spoken, written and signed languages.
Areas of research include:
- Computational sociolinguistics
- Dialectology
- Genre, register and style variation
- Language evolution
- Lexical and grammatical change
- Sign language sociolinguistics
Academic staff
Academic staff
- Dr Jason Grafmiller - Lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics
- Professor Jack Grieve - Professor of Corpus Linguistics
- Dr Nicholas Groom - Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
- Robert Holland - Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
- Professor Ruth Page - Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Dr Amanda Patten - Associate Professor in Historical Linguistics
- Dr Florent Perek - Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics
- Dr Marcus Perlman - Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics
- Professor Adam Schembri - Professor of Linguistics
- Dr Joe Spencer-Bennett - Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
- Professor Bodo Winter - Professor of Linguistics