Paul Kerswill

Paul Kerswill
FBA
Academic background
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline Linguist
Sub-discipline Sociolinguistics
Institutions
Main interests Language variation
Website www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/paul-kerswill/

Paul Kerswill, FBA, is a sociolinguist. Since 2012, he has been Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. After completing his undergraduate degree and doctorate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was a Research Assistant from 1985 to 1986 at the University of Cambridge, before working as a lecturer at the University of Reading until his appointment in 2004 as a professor at Lancaster University.[1][2]

Honours

In July 2017, Kerswill was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[3]

Selected works

  • (Co-edited with P. Auer and F. Hinskens) Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European languages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
  • (Co-edited with R. Wodak and B. Johnstone) The SAGE handbook of Sociolinguistics (London: SAGE Publications, 2010).

References

  1. ↑ "Paul Kerswill", University of York. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Professor Paul Kerswill", British Academy. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research", British Academy, 5 August 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
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