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Professor
Clive Upton, University of Leeds |
| Clive is consultant to the Voices project.
The word map is based on the SuRE (Survey of Regional English) methodology that has been developed at Leeds and Sheffield Universities to investigate regional and social variation in English. Voices recordings will be deposited
permanently with the Special Collections Library, University of Leeds,
to allow for full public access. |
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Professor
David Crystal |
| David is an expert on the subject of language (he's been awarded an OBE for his work) and is a consultant to the Voices project. He is a prolific author and some of his recent books include �The Stories of English' (Penguin) and �The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language' (Cambridge University Press). |
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Dr
Peter Garrett, University of Cardiff |
| Peter is based at Cardiff University and his research
is mainly in sociolinguistics and the social psychology of language.
Peter and Nik Coupland have collaborated to produce the 'How good
is your ear?' game. |
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Professor
Nikolas Coupland, University of Cardiff |
| Nik is also based at Cardiff University and his
areas of research include sociolinguistics. Nik, along with Peter,
has collaborated on our accent and language game. |
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Dr
Rachel Sutton-Spence, University of Bristol |
| Rachel is based at the Centre for Deaf Studies
at Bristol University and her research areas include sign linguistics
and social and regional variation in BSL. Rachel is a consultant to
the Voices project and has collaborated to produce the BSL survey. |
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Linda Day, University of Bristol |
| Linda is also based at Bristol University and her research areas include the acquisition of sign language acquisition sociolinguistics. Linda has collaborated to produce the BSL survey and acted as the model for the BSL video clips. |
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Prof. Viv Edwards |
| Viv is based at the University of Reading where she is Director of the National Centre for Language and Literacy. Her main area of interest is teaching and learning in multilingual classrooms - publications include
'Multilingualism in the English-speaking world' (Blackwell 2004) - and she has written many of the features included in �Multilingual Nation'. |
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Jonnie Robinson, British Library Sound Archive |
| Jonnie is Curator of English Accents and Dialects at the British Library Sound Archive. He's provided sociolinguistic annotations for many of the Voices Recordings audio clips. The recordings will be deposited permanently with the British Library Sound Archive to allow for full public access.
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Susie Dent |
| Susie is the resident word expert on Channel 4�s Countdown and contributes regularly to radio and TV discussions of words in the news. She's written several books on language change, including an annual popular survey of language trends and new words. Susie wrote some of the annotations on the word map results. |
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