I teach courses on sociolinguistics (particularly on language and migration, transnationalism and globalisation, and language policy) both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Many of these courses focus on the Spanish-speaking world, in particular Spanish in the US, and migrants in Mexico.
Postgraduate supervision
I welcome proposals for doctoral research in a wide range of sociolinguistics areas, particularly, but not uniquely, on Spanish topics. My particular interests include:
- Language and migration / diasporas / transnationalism
- Language ideologies
- Language policy
- Language and globalisation / global languages
- The discourse of returning migrants
- Language and popular music
- Language and Mexican migration
Current and recent supervised thesis:
Maria Carmen Ramirez Juliá: Language ideologies in Oaxaca [January 2020]. Mexican Ministry of Education
Daniel Morales: Latinos in London [December 2018]. CONACyt
Anna Augustyniak: Language, migration in the Basque Country [May 2017]. Humanities Archival scholarship
Dick Vigers: Minimalising loss in 'dead' and 'dying' languages: the last speaker and other strategies [completed 2006]
Alicia Pozo-Gutiérrez: Associationism in Spanish migrants to Southern England in the 1960s and 70s [completed 2004]
Amanda Hilmarsson-Dunn: ‘The implications of Global English on Icelandic Language Policy’ [completed May 2008] Darren Paffey: ‘Language, discourse and ideology: the Real Academia Española and the standardisation of Spanish’ [completed April 2009]
Michael Hornsby: ‘What future for minority languages? The case of Breton’ [completed June 2009]
Dina De Sousa: ‘‘Jineterismo in Havana: Narrating the Daily Struggles of Afro-Cuban Jineteras’ [completed December 2009]
Susana Sabín-Fernández: ‘The “Niños Vascos”: Memory and memorialisation of the Basque refugee children of the Spanish Civil War in the UK’ [completed May 2011]
Linda Cadier: ‘The impact of translocality on the linguistic and cultural practices of migrant communities: the case of medical interpreters in Southampton’ (completed April 2013)
Lisa Carroll-Davis: ‘Constructing a Nation: Evaluating the Discursive Creation of National Community under the Revolutionary FSLN Government (1979-1990) [completed 2012]
Esteban Devis: ‘Sense of belonging and visibility of the Colombian-Lebanese in Bogotá’ (completed April 2014)
Mark Muirden: ‘A Critical Evaluation of Linguistic Minorities from a Postmodern Perspective: the case of Welsh’ (completed July 2011)
Anna Papanicolau: ‘Culturalism and imaginative geographies: the case of US tourism to Mexico’ (completed August 2012) Ted Way: ‘Talking Torture: The Public Commodification of Personal Trauma’ [completed 2013]
Alfredo Escandón: Language Contact along Borders: linguistic diversity in Tijuana, Mexico.
Francisco Daniel Morales: Identity Construction of Latin American Immigrants living in London
Elizabeth Torrico-Avila: Discursive construction of the English Language Policy implemented in Chile (2003-2010)