Senior Lecturer of English Language and Linguistics, University of Portsmouth
I do research in corpus linguistics, formulaic language and new World Englishes especially Asian Englishes. My current research projects are about the language of citizen science, language and the well-being of students, and supporting women getting jobs in the digital workforce.
Tweet, stream, cloud: it's time to bring 'nature' words back to the countryside
Jan 23, 2020 10:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
As new generations reach for words to describe the world around them they often delve into the vocabulary of nature. Words such as stream, tweet and cloud have been adopted and given new meaning, in these cases to describe...
Evolution: how the theory is inspiring a new way of understanding language
Apr 08, 2019 05:26 am UTC| Nature
Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we dont learn lists of words like we might in a school language class. We learn longer strings of sounds and break them up into words as we grow up....
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