Beth Beattie
Research title: Controversial Beliefs in 16th-century Scotland and England
Research Summary
My research involves using corpora to establish how the Scottish and English Reformations were realised linguistically and explore how language relates to religion and national identity during the sixteenth century. To do this, I am creating a semantically-tagged corpus of polemic texts from Scotland and England during this period, and using corpus analysis techniques to explore the similarities and differences in language used across different communities of practise, religions, and nations.
Grants
- College of Arts Doctoral Scholarship, 2022-2025
- Historical Thesaurus 'Wotherspoon' Postgraduate Scholarship, 2021
Conferences
Oral Presentations
- Beth Beattie. 2023. Texts of the Scottish Reformation: Creating and Normalising Corpora, July 2023. International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Languages, Literature and Culture (Scoticonference 2023). University of St Andrews
- Beth Beattie. 2023. Exclusionary Discourse in the Scottish Reformation: A Case Study, June 2023. Glasgow Early Modern Society 'Exclusion' Conference. University of Glasgow
- Beth Beattie. 2021. Beyond Anglo-Norman: The Lexical Influence of Old French Dialects on Middle English, April 2021. Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain Conference (ULAB 2021). University of Aberdeen [Online]
Poster Presentations
- Beth Beattie. 2023. Texts of the Scottish Reformation: Creating and Normalising Corpora (Poster), July 2023. Twelfth International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2023). University of Lancaster
Teaching
Courses
- English Language Level 1 Seminars, 2021-present
- English Language Level 2 Seminars, 2021-present
Workshops and Seminars
- Sutton Trust Summer School, English Language and Linguistics Workshop, University of Glasgow, 2023
- S5 University Experience Week, English Language and Linguistics Workshop, University of Glasgow, 2023
