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West Midlands English: Speech and Society
The West Midlands English: Speech and Society project examines links between local language and social history in the West Midlands Region. One of the aims of the project, which focuses on an under-researched subject area, is to raise the profile of West Midlands dialects locally and nationally.
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Funded Projects:
The Leverhulme Trust:Language and Place: Birmingham
ESRC:Language, Performance, and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in the Black Country
ESRC: Language, Performance and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in the wider West Midlands
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Aston's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Society InterLanD)
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Languages & Social Sciences
Research
Research projects
OPTIMALE Optimising professional translator training in a multilingual Europe
West Midlands English Speech and Society
The politics of ‘transformative’ culture in popular arts and education
Opposition to nuclear power plants in France
GeWiss (Spoken Academic Discourse)
ACORN (Aston Corpus Network)
Discourse of Climate Change
Cycles of Grammaticalization