Professor of Phonetics at @UniofReading & @UniRdg_EngLang, NTF, SFHEA, FRSA. Author, Your Voice Speaks Volumes. [email protected]. Menopausal. She/her.
An excellent gift for anyone interested in (British English) speech, accents, voice quality and their link with identity and cultural stereotyping. Or so I’m told … 😉
#language#linguistics#EngLang
If all goes to plan, I’ll be on Times Radio at 11:20pm GMT tonight (2 Nov) on the topic of “the increasing number of (British) children adopting American slang and accent as a result of the media they consume”.
Unboxing video! My copies of the Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, co-edited with Sender Dovchin and Vijay Ramjattan, have finally arrived! Available at all good booksellers. 😊 https://t.co/vLYuwM2bf3
Honoured to interview Prof David Crystal for the 60th Anniversary of Linguistics at Reading! View the entire conversation here.
https://t.co/lHFhi2ZBhn
Out now! The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, co-edited with @SDovchin and @Vijay_Ramjattan, is available here and from all good booksellers: https://t.co/zktmlR0h8Q
Turns out the youth of today refers to fashion as “drip”. This seems to derive from describing people who wear a lot of items from top fashion houses as “dripping with it”.
Every day is a school day.
Another example of how the media - and a respected institution such as the BBC - perpetuates negative stereotypes about #English#accents. #englang
https://t.co/xORlMxwVuE
TODAY (Fri 17th Jan 2025)! I will be on BBC Radio 5 Live with Nicky Campbell talking about (what else?) how English accents are perceived from 10am UK time.
https://t.co/anpYsqmk7H
TODAY (8th Jan)! I'll be on BBC Radio Berkshire talking about accents and #TheTraitorsUK from about 14.15 UK time. I'll be chatting with Katie Tyler. Follow this link to listen live:
https://t.co/wQO3dVtrBk
TODAY (8th Jan)! I'll be on BBC Radio Berkshire talking about accents and #TheTraitorsUK from about 14.15 UK time. I'll be chatting with Katie Tyler. Follow this link to listen live:
https://t.co/wQO3dVtrBk
Very pleased to have taken on the role of the Secretary to the Association of National Teaching Fellows! You can find the committee members list here. @NTF_Tweet
https://t.co/Dh7cNidJez
My article about accent modification as a mechanism of workplace accentism is now placed in an issue of Career Development International:
https://t.co/Y73evDpKtH
It is part of a special issue on linguistic profiling and career development.