Research and Scholarship

Language and Society

The Language and Society cluster (SocioLang) focuses on language and social life. It brings together expertise on:

• Critical sociolinguistics
• Discourse studies
• Linguistic anthropology
• Linguistic ethnography
• Language learning
• Geographies of Language

In the cluster we explore the dynamics of intra- and inter-linguistic linguistic variation in the repertoires of individual speakers and within and between multilingual and linguistically diverse societies.

We explore language and ethnicity, bilingualism, language ideologies, linguistic landscapes, language policy and planning, language and the political economy, social movements and language activism, language and place, multilingual literacies, language and tourism and issues pertaining to regional minority languages, migrant languages and 'new speakers' of these languages.

SocioLang transcends disciplinary boundaries and builds a dialogue amongst researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists to explore the dynamics of language, society and change.

Members 

• Bernadette O’Rourke (convenor)
• Guillem Colom-Montero (co-convenor)
• Mirna Solic
• Elwira Gossman
• Jordi Cornella
• Enza De Francisci
• Tatiana Heise
• Elise Segnini
• Robert Gibb (School of Social and Political Sciences)
• David Featherstone (School of Geographical and Earth Science)
• James Rann
• Tom Bartlett (School of Critical Studies)
• Piotr Wegorowski (School of Critical Studies)
• Joanna Kopaczyk (School of Critical Studies)
• Kate Botterill (School of Geographical and Earth Science)
• Lavinia Hirsu (School of Education)
• Jennifer Smith (School of Critical Studies)
• Johnny Rodger (Glasgow School of Art)
• Susan Brind (Glasgow School of Art)
• Soledad Montanez 

Research Assistants

Euan Dickson

Kirsty MacDougall

PhD Students

• Eneida Garcia Villanueva
• Alejandro Dayan-Fernandez
• Eleanor Chapman
• Andreea Tint
• Noah Rose
• Hamid Boudiaf
• Erin McNulty