linguist Jenny Cheshire

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Jenny Cheshire is a British sociolinguist known for her influential research on language variation and change in urban youth speech, particularly in London.

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instanceOf British academic
linguist
person
sociolinguist
academicDiscipline linguistics
sociolinguistics
academicTitle Professor of Linguistics
affiliation Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London NERFINISHED
contributedTo theory of language change in urban settings
understanding of grammatical variation in British English
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
employer Queen Mary University of London NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork language variation and change
linguistics
sociolinguistics
urban dialectology
youth language
gender female
hasPublishedOn discourse markers such as "innit" in British English
innovations in London English
multicultural London English features
non-standard grammar in British English
hasResearchInterest grammaticalization in spoken language
language and adolescence
multicultural urban dialects
pragmatics of spoken interaction
syntax of spoken English
variationist sociolinguistics
influenced research on urban British dialects
studies of youth language in sociolinguistics
knownFor research on London English
research on language variation and change in urban youth speech
studies of multicultural London English
work on discourse markers in English
work on grammatical variation in spoken English
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf British sociolinguistics community
name Jenny Cheshire NERFINISHED
nationality United Kingdom NERFINISHED
notableFor empirical studies of spoken language in naturalistic settings
long-term fieldwork in London schools
occupation linguist
university professor
placeOfActivity London, England
surface form: London

United Kingdom
residence United Kingdom
studies social factors in linguistic variation
speech of adolescents in multicultural urban areas
workLocation London, England
surface form: London

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Multicultural London English (as an influence and predecessor) researchedBy linguist Jenny Cheshire
subject surface form: Multicultural London English