2022/23

The module engages you in empirical studies of real-world speech communities. You will describe regional and social dialects of English, with a particular focus on Coventry and the West Midlands. You will gather language data through a variety of methodologies, including collecting written surveys, conducting face-to-face interviews, and data-mining social media. You will deepen your knowledge about types of language change, motivations for it, and models to describe it. You will be challenged to create high-quality research outputs that advance knowledge, and hone qualitative and quantitative analytic skills that will be essential to your dissertation and other linguistic work.