Staff in English Language and Linguistics

I am a Teaching Fellow in the English Language and Linguistics Department. I have a background in teaching English in England and Italy.

As a business as well as an academic practitioner I am particularly interested in taking analytical approaches from the classroom (e.g. conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis) and applying them to real-world problems.

Through my consultancy business I advise global companies on language in practice across different areas related to my research specialisms:  language and ...

Peter is a sociolinguist with a background in English language teaching and teacher education who works at the intersections of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and TESOL. He has carried out research and taught in a number of HE contexts both in the UK and abroad and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I am a Teaching Fellow in the department of English Language and Linguistics. My research incorporates corpus linguistic methodology and is primarily concerned with irony, humour and language creativity.

I am a senior lecturer in psycholinguistics, with a particular interest in idiomatic and formulaic language in native and non-native speakers.

My research interests include cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, the mental status of linguistic knowledge, and individual differences in linguistic knowledge.

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.

I have a background in English language teaching. My main research interest is in the interface between language teaching and corpus linguistics.

I am a postdoctoral research fellow on the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) project led by Michaela Mahlberg in collaboration with Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). In this role, I am currently leading on the development of a systematic account of strategies used by corpus linguists to organise and analyse concordances.

I am interested ...

Samantha has worked as a Research Assistant for the EMMA project since 2018 alongside Professor Jeannette Littlemore, Dr Paula Pérez-Sobrino, and Dr David Houghton that explores multimodal metaphor in advertising. The EMMA projectinvestigates how multimodal metaphor is used creatively in advertising across the world and involves collaborations with international advertising agencies to ...

I am a Teaching Fellow in Linguistics with a focus on sociolinguistics and sociocultural approaches to discourse analysis. 

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.

I am a Teaching Fellow in the English Language and Linguistics Department. My research interests span the fields of discourse analysis, stylistics, pragmatics and multimodality.

I am a lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics in English Language and Linguistics. My research focuses on the quantitative analysis of grammatical variation.

My research focuses on understanding language variation and change through the quantitative analysis of large corpora of natural language data.

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.

Gregory Hadley received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham (UK), where his primary focus was in the Sociology of English Language Teaching. A Professor of Sociolinguistics and Western Cultural Studies at Niigata University, Japan, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, he is also the author of English for Academic Purposes in Neoliberal Universities: A ...

I am developing new frameworks for analysing government communication and political blame games.

I am a lecturer in Applied Linguistics in English Language Studies at the University of Birmingham. I have a background in English Language teaching, teacher-training and language education project management.

I am a Lecturer in TESOL. I teach several core and optional modules of the MA Applied Linguistics and MA TESOL programmes. My research focuses on using ethnographic methods combined with secondary data analysis to research sociolinguistic practices of individuals, families, schools, and communities.

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.

I am a Professor of English Language in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. I teach a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervise PhD students in English Language and Linguistics. My research focusses on self-representation and identity in academic texts. I am also interested in writing development across boundaries ...

Dr Alexander Laffer is a lecturer and research and editorial consultant. His academic research combines discourse analysis and literary linguistics and he is currently exploring the interaction between digital fiction and empathy. He has taught modules in digital media discourse, professional communication, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. He has received Santander Universities funding to ...

Jeannette Littlemore is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics 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. 

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I am a postdoctoral research fellow on the `Making Numbers Meaningful’ project lead by Dr Bodo Winter. I am doing research in the field of experimental Pragmatics, and I am interested in strategic communication; for example, I focus on how speakers’ formulation choices change depending on the communicative goals they pursue.

Open Research plays a crucial role in my research process, ...

I am a postdoctoral research fellow on the SignMorph project in which I will focus on studying Kata Kolok, a sign language used in a Balinese village. My research interests cover language documentation, language variation, and language acquisition.

I’m a post-doctoral researcher working in the Making Numbers Meaningful project led by Bodo Winter.

I’m interested in how people use language to create and manage meaning in communication, both when interacting with others and when producing and interpreting language in various other settings. In my research I use primarily quantitative empirical methods, including controlled ...

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.

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I work in the Department of English Language and Linguistics where I am responsible for teaching and administration on the MAs in TEFL/TESL and Applied Linguistics.

Joanne McCuaig is a Doctoral Researcher investigating the language use of purportedly co-opted medical terminology from psychology. She uses corpus linguistics and discourse analysis for her interdisciplinary research.

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I collaborate with the deaf community in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). I did my PhD work on three West African sign languages, two used by micro-communities – Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) with about 250 years, and Langue des Signes de Bouakako (Ivory Coast) with about 50 years, and one by a macro-community, Língua Gestual Guineense (Guinea-Bissau) with about 20 years. I compared ...

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.

I am an Associate Professor interested in the acquisition and emergence of manual communication. I specialise in the acquisition of a sign language as a first and second language, sign language processing, and the similarities between sign and gesture. I also explore the role of gesture and iconicity in sign language emergence and evolution.

I am a Reader in Stylistics. My main research explores the language people use when they tell stories, particularly in social media contexts.

I am an Associate Professor in Historical Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics. I am also the Head of Education for the School of EDACS.

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.

I am a lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. My research examines iconicity in speech and gesture, with special interest in the evolution of human communication. I also study the gesturing and vocal behaviour of great apes.

Stephen is the author of several books on language and religion including Antagonism on YouTube (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Religious Talk Online (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His newest book, Talk about Faith, focuses on the public discussion of religious faith on social media, podcasts, and in debates about religion. He’s co-authored a book called Cognitive Linguistics and Religious ...

Corpus Linguistics, EAP and the linguistics of epistemology.

Carla works as a Research Assistant alongside Dr Gerardo Ortega for the AHRC-DFG project From icon to abstraction in sign language: how iconicity shapes the lexicon in the visual modality together with Professor Pamela Perniss (University of Cologne). The project investigates how iconicity constrains form-meaning mappings in the visual modality and shapes a lexicon for both concrete and ...

I am a sign language linguist, focussing on British Sign Language (BSL). I am working part-time on the SignMorph project, using both the BSL Corpus and experimental methods to investigate the morphology of BSL.  In addition, I am completing a PhD at the Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre, University College London, examining the structure of noun phrases within BSL.

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.

I am a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics 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).

I have joined Birmingham University in September 2015, and am teaching MA modules on campus. I am also responsible for Distance Learning modules and DL tutors. My research interests lie in bi- and multilingualism, psycholinguistics and in application of these to TESOL.

PhD title: Morphology and Language Ecology of Nepali Sign Language (NSL)
Supervisors: Professor Adam Schembri and Dr Hannah Lutzenberger
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics (Distance Learning)

I teach on a number of the department’s programmes. I research relations between language, communication and politics, using approaches from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and archival research. My current research looks at issues to do with the simplicity, informality and clarity of political language, in Britain especially.

I have been at the University of Birmingham since September 2009, and I am the Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus I have been at the University of Birmingham since September 2009, and I am the Head of Department for English Language and Linguistics as well as being Co- Director of the Centre for Corpus Research. I am an applied corpus linguist with particular interest in specialised ...

I am a lecturer working in the Department of English Language and Linguistics. 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. 

Dr Rosalind White is Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics at the Centre for Corpus Research and editor of the CLiC Fiction Blog. She is a Victorianist interested in questions of materiality, and the growing field of research on the history of emotions. Her doctoral thesis interpolated between the history of science and the history of emotions, two interdependent fields that ...

I am an Associate Professor in Cognitive 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. 

Webpage: http://www.bodowinter.com
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Greg Woodin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Dr Bodo Winter’s UKRI ‘Making Numbers Meaningful’ project. His research crosscuts linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science, using computational corpus methods and experiments to explore metaphor, iconicity, and multimodal numerical communication. For more information, visit his website.

I work in the area of Critical Discourse Analysis and am the co-editor of Gender and Language, Equinox.

I started my teaching career as a volunteer in Nigeria, followed by several ELT jobs in Africa and South-East Asia, before joining Birmingham to set up ELT teacher development and applied linguistics programmes.

My research and specialist teaching is primarily in the broad field of lexis and also lexicography.

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.