Paul Kerswill

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Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change, Youth Language, Dialectology, Dialect Contact, New Dialect Formation, English Language, Norwegian Language, Sociolinguistics of West Africa

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PE English
Sociolinguistics

15 Chapter
6 Article
2 Book

Phonetic and phonological variation in England
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Kerswill, P., 1 Oct 2024, Language in Britain and Ireland. Fox, S. (ed.). 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, p. 790-97 28 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Ethnicity, conflict and language choice: an example from northern Ghana
Kerswill, P. E. & Mahama, E. S., 23 May 2019, The Routledge Handbook of Languiage in Conflict. Evans, M., Jeffries, L. & O'Driscoll, J. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 339-360 22 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century
Kerswill, P., 23 Jul 2018, Southern English Varieties Then and Now. Wright, L. (ed.). De Gruyter, p. 8-38 31 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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Communicating a global pandemic in a multilingual space: Language choice and language use in COVID-19 campaigns in Ghana
Kerswill, P.
THE BRITISH ACADEMY
1/09/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Research project (funded) › Research

30 Invited talk
6 PhD
2 Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
2 Public lecture
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Managing Sustainable Small-Scale Goldmining in Ghana (1957-2057) workshop
Joshua Daniel Kirshner (Speaker), Henrice Altink (Speaker), Paul Kerswill (Speaker) & Rob Marchant (Speaker)
14 Jan 2019 → 16 Jan 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Seminar
Demography vs. identity in the formation of new urban contact dialects. Keynote lecture given at the Urban Language Research 2018 conference, Graz.
Paul Kerswill (Invited speaker)
31 Oct 2018 → 3 Nov 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
MAPPING VOWELS Variation and change in the speech of Gothenburg adolescents
Paul Kerswill (Examiner (external))
28 Sept 2018
Activity: Examination › PhD

British Academy
Kerswill, Paul (Recipient), 25 Sept 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
Kerswill, Paul (Recipient), 1 Sept 2015
Prize: Appointment

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