Professor Paul Kerswill FBA

Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination

Elected 2017

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2017
Website: https://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/paul-kerswill/

Current post

Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of York

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