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
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of York
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Debra Myhill FBA
Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
Professor Caroline Heycock FBA
Theoretical linguistics; syntax; the syntax of Germanic languages; the syntax of Japanese
