Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics
Director, Centre for Corpus Research
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I have been at the University of Birmingham since September 2009, and I am the Centre for Corpus Research. I am an applied corpus linguist with particular interest in specialised discourses. I am also an Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Corpus Linguistics journal.
Birmingham Fellow
Department of Linguistics and Communication
My applied linguistics research spans two areas, second language acquisition (SLA) and corpus linguistics. I am trying to bring the two areas together so that developmental research in SLA can benefit from large-scale corpus data.
Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics
Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am a cognitive linguist, a quantitative corpus linguist, and a construction grammarian. I teach classes on topics surrounding the grammar and semantics of English.
Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition
Department of Modern Languages
My main research interest is in understanding how our cognitive capacities give rise to the patterns we see in language and how language learners might use these patterns to build up knowledge of their language. I work with the Out Of Our Minds team to understand language knowledge and optimize language learning and am Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognitive Linguistics.
Associate Professor of Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
International Exchange Tutor
Department of Linguistics and Communication
My work combines corpus linguistic and experimental methods with discourse analysis to study the linguistic factors at the heart of important societal issues such as trust, polarization and climate change.
Lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am a lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Communication. My research focuses on the quantitative analysis of grammatical variation.
Professor of Corpus Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
My research focuses on understanding language variation and change through the quantitative analysis of large corpora of natural language data.
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am a corpus linguist. The main focus of my work is on using computers to study latent patterning in very large collections of naturally occurring language data.
Professor of English Language
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I have a background in English Language and Applied Linguistics and have worked in three countries. I enjoy research and teaching at all levels and I especially like supervising Doctoral Researchers.
Professor of English Language
Deputy Director of Education (Distance and Digital Education)
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am a Professor of English Language in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham. I teach a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervise PhD students in Linguistics and Communication. My research focusses on self-representation and identity in academic texts.
Professor of Linguistics and Communication
Department of Linguistics and Communication
Jeannette Littlemore is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the role played by metaphor and metonymy in the understanding and expression of emotional experiences. She also explores the role played by metaphor and metonymy in language learning and cross-cultural communication.
Honorary Professor of Corpus Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
As a corpus linguist, I am interested in language as a social phenomenon and the way in which we use language to understand and shape the world we live in. A large part of my research focuses on the language of Dickens’s fiction, literary linguistics, and discourse analysis.
I am currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded CLiC Dickens project.
Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies
Department of Modern Languages
By combining linguistics and translation studies, I am interested in the interdisciplinary study of cross-cultural communication, which will generate new insights, and challenge the ways in which we have understood how languages, people, and ideas interact through translation.
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe’s principal area of research focuses on the relationship between law, language and translation in the EU legal order. By clarifying the ways in which language plays a key role in determining judicial outcomes at the EU level, she challenges EU scholarship to look beyond more conventional approaches to the development of a rule of law that draw on law alone.
Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning
Department of Modern Languages
My primary research interests are concentrated in areas concerned with understanding the crucial role of learning in human language, its behaviour and use. Previously, my work focused on investigating word or lexical processing, but currently, it extends to the study of natural communication.
Associate Professor in Historical Linguistics
Head of Education for the School of EDACS
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am an Associate Professor in Historical Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Communication. I am also the Head of Education for the School of EDACS.
Assistant Professor in Language and Communication
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am an experienced higher education lecturer and third sector project coordinator with an interest in social movement communication and grassroots storytelling. My main areas of research include the political and social role of digital, new and legacy media and I specialise in content and discourse analysis in the digital environment.
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham. I teach modules on sociolinguistics, language and gesture, and linguistic diversity. My research focuses on the linguistics of sign languages, especially Australian Sign Language (Auslan) and British Sign Language (BSL).
Emeritus Professor
Department of Linguistics and Communication
Now increasingly retired, I gradually move away from corpus linguistics into discourse analysis, from a hermeneutic and neo-pragmatic perspective, believing that the social and natural world we encounter is constituted by the discourse in which we take part.
Emeritus Professor of English Language
Department of Linguistics and Communication
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am a lecturer working in the Department of Linguistics and Communication. I work with both undergraduate and postgraduate students who are following our campus and distance programmes. My main areas of expertise are associated with language teaching and corpus linguistics.
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am a Professor of Linguistics and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. My research uses data science-driven linguistics to study multimodal communication, including iconicity, gesture and metaphor. For my Future Leaders Fellowship, I investigate how people communicate numerical information across different communication channels.
