Jenny Cheshire

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Jenny L. Cheshire is a British sociolinguist and emeritus professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. [1] Her research interests include language variation and change, language contact and dialect convergence, and language in education, with a focus on conversational narratives and spoken English. She is most known for her work on grammatical variation, especially syntax and discourse structures, in adolescent speech and on Multicultural London English.

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Career highlights

Cheshire completed the Certificat pratique de langue française at the Sorbonne in Paris. She earned her B.A. at the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. at the University of Reading. She has been a lecturer at the University of Bath and University of Reading, a lecturer and then senior lecturer at Birkbeck College London from 1983–91, and professor of English linguistics at the University of Fribourg and the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland from 1991-96. She is currently professor emeritus of linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. [2]

Since 2013 she has been the editor-in-chief of the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Language in Society . She has also served on the editorial boards for: Lynx, Te Reo, English World-Wide, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language and Education, Multilingua.

Cheshire was elected as Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2011. [3] To honor her contribution to the field of Sociolinguistics, in 2011, Queen Mary, University of London set up the Jenny Cheshire Sociolinguistics Lecture Series. [4]

Research awards

Cheshire has received numerous research awards recognising her significant contributions to the field of sociolinguistics:

She has also served as a reviewer for many research grant applications from such organisation as: UK Economic and Social Research Council; AHRB/AHRC; Leverhulme Trust, British Academy; Canadian Social Science Research Council; New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology; New Zealand Public Good Research Council; Swiss Fonds National; USA National Science Foundation; Canadian National Science Foundation.

Notable contributions

Following are some of Cheshire's most notable contributions to the field of sociolinguistics:

Selected publications

Among her publications, she has written over ten academic books and over 90 articles in peer-reviewed international research journals and edited collections. Following are some of her most notable publications: [16]

References

  1. "Jenny Cheshire". www.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  2. Debrett's People of Today. http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/21552/Jenny-CHESHIRE%5B‍%5D
  3. British Academy. Elections to the Fellowship "British Academy | Elections to the Fellowship - British Academy". Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  4. "Jenny Chesire Sociolinguistics Lecture series". Queen Mary, University of London.
  5. Cheshire, Jenny; Fox, Sue; Kerswill, Paul; Khan, Arfaan; Torgersen, Eivind. "Multicultural London English: the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety". www.lancaster.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  6. Cheshire, Jenny; Nortier, Jacomine; Adger, David (2015). "Emerging Multiethnolects in Europe" (PDF). Queen Mary Occasional Papers Advancing Linguistics. 33: 1–27.
  7. Cheshire, Jenny; Fox, Sue; Kerswill, Paul; Torgersen, Eivind (2008). Sociolinguistica Jahrbuch (2008) (PDF). Sociolinguistica. p. 1. doi:10.1515/9783484605299.1. ISBN   9783484605299. S2CID   10973301.
  8. Cheshire, Jenny (2003). "Social dimensions of syntactic variation". Social dimensions of syntactic variation: The case of 'when' clauses (PDF). IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society. Vol. 16. pp. 245–261. doi:10.1075/impact.16.17che. ISBN   978-90-272-1854-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017 via Social Dialectology.
  9. Cheshire, Jenny (1999). "Taming the Vernacular: Some Repercussions for the Study of Syntactic Variation and Spoken Grammar". Te Reo. 8: 59–80.
  10. Cheshire, Jenny (2005). "Syntactic variation and beyond: gender and social class variation in the use of discourse-new markers" (PDF). Journal of Sociolinguistics. 9 (4): 479–507. doi:10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00303.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  11. Cheshire, Jenny; Kerswill, Paul; Williams, Ann (2005). Phonology, grammar and discourse in dialect convergence. In P. Auer, P., F. Hinskens, and P. Kerswill, (eds.) Dialect Change: The convergence and Divergence of Dialects in Contemporary Societies. Cambridge University Press via books.google.co.uk.
  12. 1 2 Cheshire, Jenny; Gillett, Ann; Kerswill, Paul; Williams, Ann (1999). "The role of adolescents in dialect levelling". Final Report to Economic and Social Research Council.
  13. Cheshire, Jenny; Edwards, Viv (1998). "Lessons from a Survey of British Dialect Grammar". Links & Letters: 61–73. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  14. Cheshire, Jenny; Fox, Sue; Kerswill, Paul; Torgersen, Eivind (2007). "Linguistic Innovators: The English of Adolescents in London" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2016.
  15. Cheshire, Jenny (1991). English around the world: Sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781316582350.
  16. "Jenny Cheshire". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 30 December 2021.