Jenny Cheshire

Professor Jenny Cheshire

Jenny Cheshire is a British sociolinguist and professor at Queen Mary University of London.^[1] Her research interests include language variation and change, especially grammatical and discourse variation, spoken English syntax and narrative analysis. She has written widely on these topics for various publications.

Cheshire earned her BA at the London School of Economics and her PhD at the University of Reading. She was a lecturer and senior lecturer at Birkbeck College London from 1983–91, then a professor of English linguistics at the University of Fribourg and the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland from 1991-96. She is currently a professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London.^[2]

She is most known for her work on grammatical variation in adolescent speech, and her work on Multicultural London English. Among her publications, she has written over 6 academic books, and about 80 articles in international research journals and edited collections.

Cheshire was elected as Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2011.^[3]

Works

• Variation in an English dialect: a sociolinguistic study. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• (ed.) English around the world: sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• (ed. with Dieter Stein) Taming the vernacular: from dialect to written standard language. London ; New York : Longman, 1997.
• (ed. with David Britain) Social dialectology: in honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2003.

University textbooks

• (with David Graddol and Joan Swann) Describing language. 2nd ed, Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1994.
• (ed. with Peter Trudgill) The sociolinguistics reader. London ; New York : Arnold ;1998-

References

External links

• Web site
• Works by or about Jenny Cheshire in libraries (WorldCat catalog)