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Claire CowieBA (Cape Town) PhD (Cambridge) |
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I joined this department in 2005 after five years in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. Before that I studied and taught in South Africa, the US and Germany as well as the UK. Research Interests World Englishes: Since 2004 I have conducted ethnographic research in India investigating attitudes to English accents in the call centre industry, and am planning further research on communication between Indian agents and UK and US customers. Morphological productivity; Frequency; Corpus Linguistics; Pragmatics I have published several papers on morphological productivity in the history of English, and I am bringing out a book with Blackwell (Publications of the Philological Society) on morphological productivity and the expansion of the Early Modern English lexicon. This work has been supported by a British Academy grant for work on the Oxford English Dictionary Online in 2003, and an AHRC grant in 2004. I have adapted the methodology of morphological productivity studies to investigate the performance of topic-restricting –wise in English, and plan to extend this work to other topic-restricting constructions. Teaching and Supervision I am responsible for three honours courses in the department: Global Englishes, Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics. I also give pre-honours lectures in these areas. From 2007-08 I will be convenor of the MSc in English Language. I have benefited greatly from co-supervising the following PhDs:
I am currently supervising undergraduate and MSc dissertations in the following areas:
Publications In preparation. Morphological Productivity and the expansion of the lexicon in Early Modern English. Publications of the Philological Society. Blackwell. Forthcoming. ‘The demand and supply of accents in the Indian call centre industry’. Language and the Market, eds. Helen Kelly-Holmes and Gerlinde Mautner. Palgrave-Macmillan series on Language and Globalization 2007. ‘The accents of outsourcing: the meanings of ‘neutral’ in the Indian call centre industry’. World Englishes 26(3) 2006. ‘Economical with the truth: register categories and the functions of -wise viewpoint adverbs in the British National Corpus’. ICAME Journal vol. 30 2003. ‘Uncommon terminations: proscription and morphological productivity’, Italian Journal of Linguistics 15:2 Special issue on Morphological Productivity, ed. Livio Gaeta and Mark Aronoff. 2002. With Christiane Dalton-Puffer, ‘Diachronic Word-formation: theoretical and methodological considerations’, in A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical Semantics and Lexis, ed. Javier. E. Díaz Vera, Rodopi 2000. ‘The discourse motivations of neologising: action nominalization in the history of English’, in Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography in English Historical Linguistics: Papers from the Fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, eds. Julie Coleman and Christian Kay, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1995. Grammaticalization and the Snowball Effect, Language and Communication, vol. 15 (2). 181-193. Shorter articles and reviews 2006. Review of Raymond Hickey (ed.), ‘Legacies of colonial English: studies in transported dialects’. Journal of Linguistics 42:473-478 2005. "Bourdieu". In Chapman, S. & Routledge, P. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2005. "Kripke". In Chapman, S. & Routledge, P. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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