Stephen Lucek is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education at University College Dublin. His research focuses on linguistic competencies and resources of language users in Ireland. This extends to multilingualism, register variation, and polydialectalism. His latest project examines teenage language use and attitudes within the framework of Standard Language… Read More »In Conversation with Dr. Stephen Lucek
Peter Joseph Torres is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include applied and interactional sociolinguistics with an emphasis on discourse analysis as well as language and medicine. His recent work is on the language of the opioid crisis, from… Read More »In Conversation with Peter Joseph Torres
Tracey Adams is a PhD candidate in French linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation utilizes a blend of ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods to investigate diverse speech communities in Montreal. The COVID pandemic began shortly before her data collection efforts; she has since explored ways to recruit… Read More »In Conversation with Tracey Adams
Marcelo Sevilla is a PhD student in the Linguistics department at the University of Hong Kong, currently working on the Xiang subgroup of Sinitic. He got his BA in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MA at HKU, writing a dissertation on the synchronic and diachronic… Read More »In conversation with Marcelo Sevilla
Ashley Blake is a PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham where her research investigates cognitive predictors of individual differences in children’s language acquisition. This is part of a large research project led by Professor Ewa Dąbrowska (University of Birmingham and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). Ashley’s research investigates language from the perspective… Read More »In conversation with Ashley Blake
Junyan Guo is a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland, conducting research on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. She’s specifically focusing on Chinese EFL, and is looking at the role vocabulary plays in speaking EFL. The pandemic had disrupted her data collection plans, and she had to… Read More »In conversation with Junyan Guo
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Her research expertise includes sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, discourse-pragmatic variation, language attitudes and ideologies, and discourse analysis. This is the first of our series of interviews with participants in the… Read More »In conversation with Dr Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
Can you talk about the sorts of data that you’ve worked with throughout your career and how the landscape of data collection has changed over time? I’m a big fan of different data collection methodologies. I don’t think one is superior to the other, I think they can complement each… Read More »In conversation with Professor Adrian Leemann
This is a first of a series of interviews I will be conducting with people who have interesting and relevant things to share about linguistic data collection. I chose Bertus van Rooy, Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, and my colleague, for this inaugural interview, as he… Read More »In conversation with Professor Bertus van Rooy
