Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle


2025-02-14 15:00: Language purism in language contact: A case study of New Zealand English and New Zealand Maori (Miriam Meyerhoff (Oxford))

2025-02-28 15:00: Onward Migration and Heritage Languages: The Case of 'New Italians' in England (Francesco Goglia (Exeter))

2025-03-14 15:00: Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age (Adrian Leemann (Bern))

2025-03-21 11:00: Language policy as practice: Advancing the empirical turn in language policy research (Florence Bonacina-Pugh (Edinburgh))

2025-05-09 15:00: Language Ideologies in Education: Insights from Galicia (Nicola Bermingham (Liverpool))

2025-05-16 15:00: How can historical linguistics matter to speakers today, and why are streetnames important? (Laura Wright (Cambridge))

2025-10-23 16:00: A speaker of Cockney, Estuary English, Essex, MLE, SSBE or RP? Identifying separable accents from patterns of language variation and change in South East England (Amanda Cole (Cambridge))

2025-10-30 15:00: Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age (Adrian Leemann (Bern))

2025-11-20 14:00: Rate of change in London English: Continual change or punctuated equilibria? (Devyani Sharma (Oxford))

2025-11-27 10:00: Exploring constructed languages: A sociolinguistic approach (Bettina Beinhoff (Cambridge/ARU))