Presentations

2022

Using sociolinguistic interviews and verbatim theatre to foster inclusive and age-friendly communities. British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference 2022, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK (with Steve Gilroy).
EPIC: Exposing and Preventing Effects of the Invisible Curriculum. Learning and Teaching Conference, Newcastle University, UK (with Christine Cuskley, Johannes Heim & Rebecca Woods).
Stative possessives in later life: we (have) (got) more evidence from Tyneside. CLARe 5, University of Anchorage, Alaska (with Cara Walker).
Researching discourse-pragmatic features: design and execution. Invited paper at the International Conference on Research Skills for Research Impetus, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Performing older Tyneside voices: using research-based drama to de-marginalize older adults' voices. Newcastle Medical Humanities network, Newcastle University, UK.

2021

Orthographic variation reflects constituency variation, am I right or amirite? DiPVaC 5, University of Melbourne, Australia (with Marisa Brook).
Predictors of discourse-pragmatic variation in later life, you know. DiPVaC 5, Univeristy of Melbourne, Australia.
Exploring discourse-pragmatic variation in computer-mediated communication, <amirite>. Plenary presentation at the International Conference for the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania.
Predictors of sociolinguistic variation in later life. UKLVC 13, University of Glasgow, UK (with Rebecca Thorpe).

2020

The challenges of testing contact hypotheses in discourse-pragmatic change. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Observing the course of discourse-pragmatic change in synchronic data. Sociolinguistics Series, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands.

2019

Talking with & about older adults. Workshop for volunteer carers, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
The interaction of internal and external factors in a discourse-pragmatic change. University of Potsdam, Germany.
Sex, drugs and utterance-final tags in adolescent narratives of personal experience. UKLVC 12, London, UK.
‘This is what happened, right?’: sex differences in narrative tagging. LVC research group, University of Toronto, Canada.
Category change in thetical grammar, innit. Linguistics & English Language research seminar series, University of Manchester, UK.

2018

Using corpora to probe shared grammatical constraints: evidence from restrictive relativization. ICAME 39, Tampere, Finland (with Stephen Levey).
From complexity to uniformity, via (contact-induced) grammaticalization: tracing the evolution of the London question tag ‘system’. Plenary presentation at DiPVaC 4, Helsinki, Finland.
Fuzzy categories and category boundaries, innit. Plenary presentation at DiscourseNet 20, Budapest, Hungary.
PG buddies: supporting transitions and building communities. Education for Life, Newcastle University, UK (with Joey Jenkins, Jasmine Warburton & Kaleigh Woolford).

Talking about my favourite word, innit, at DiPVaC 4, Helsinki, May 2018 (photo courtesy of Kashif Malik).

2017

A cross-varietal perspective on variation and change in restrictive relativization: evidence from Britain and Canada. UKLVC 11, Cardiff, UK (with Stephen Levey).
Revisiting transatlantic relatives: evidence from British and Canadian English. Methods XVI, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan (with Stephen Levey).
Because vigorous grammaticalization, innit: the new tag question 'system' of MLE. University of Edinburgh, UK (with Eivind Torgersen).

2016

Social and cognitive effects on old-age language use. Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK.
The multiple variables of innit: achieving full accountability in discourse-pragmatic variation and change research. DiPVaC 3, University of Ottawa, Canada.

2015

The language of dementia: applying sociolinguistic methods to issues in assessing and treating cognitive impairment. Workshop given at ICCH 13, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (with A. Hesson).
The devil is in the detail: interpreting I don't know in Mini Mental State Exams. ICCH 13, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (with A. Hesson). [This presentation was short-listed (out of 600+ submissions) for the Best Paper Award and was commissioned for publication in Patient, Education and Counseling 99(9).]
Innit and its variable contexts: re-defining the variable (context) for full accountability. Panel on 'Pragmatic variation and pragmatic variables' (organised by K. Schneider & A. Jucker), IPrA 14, Antwerp, Belgium.

2014

Novel impact pathways in variationist linguistics: learning for and from specific societal contexts. Panel organised for NWAV 43, Chicago, Illinois, USA (with A. Hesson).
Discourse-pragmatic variation in healthcare settings: form-function correlations in the use of I DON’T KNOW. NWAV 43, Chicago, Illinois (with A. Hesson).
Innit and its variable contexts: discourse-pragmatic innovations in Multicultural London English. Michigan State University, Michigan, USA..
Uncovering hidden stories: interpretation of I DON'T KNOW as an interactional strategy in pediatric mental health consultations. AACH Research & Teaching Forum 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA (with A. Hesson).
Quantitative discourse variation analysis. Invited workshop given at the Doctoral programme Studies in Language and Society, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Exploring novel impact pathways in variationist research: discourse variation in health-care settings. Workshop given at DiPVaC 2, Newcastle University, UK (with A. Hesson).
Unstable peripheries, innit? Functional & syntactic changes in the London question tag system. DiPVaC 2, Newcastle University, UK.

with Jenny Cheshire at DiPVaC 2, Newcastle upon Tyne, April 2014 (photo courtesy of Claire Childs)

2013

Discourse function and clause periphery, innit? Panel on 'The pragmatic role of elements at the right periphery' (organised by L. Degand & E. Traugott), IPrA 13, New Delhi, India.
Question tags in contemporary London English: variation and innovation. Panel on 'The role of identity in discourse-pragmatic variation and change' (organised by K. Beeching), i-mean 3, University of West of England, UK (with E. Torgersen).

with Elizabeth Traugott and Liesbeth Degand during IPrA 14, New Delhi, September 2013

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ICAME 33

Discourse-pragmatic variation & change: implications for linguistic theory. Plenary presentation, CLP 20, University of Manchester, UK.
Formulaic collocations: interfacing variationist sociolinguistics and grammaticalization theory. Institute for Language & Communication, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Formulaic collocations and linguistic structure. Lingforum, Ghent University, Belgium.
Collocations in linguistic variation & change: negative periphrastic do and its environs. Centre for Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Salford, UK.
Discourse variation & linguistic theory: overcoming the obstacles. Applied Linguistics Circle, University of Reading, UK.

Tracking grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: general extenders in north-east England. Language Variation and Linguistic Theory, University of Lancaster, UK (with S. Levey).
Discourse variation analysis: challenges for the future. Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies, University of Manchester, UK.
A variationist perspective on the grammaticalization of general extenders in north-east England. Langwidge Sandwidge, University of Manchester, UK (with S. Levey).
Discourse variation analysis: challenges for the future. Linguistics Lunch, University of Oxford, UK.
Discourse variation analysis: what it is and why it matters. University of Edinburgh, UK.
‘I mean, just like the words we combine and that’: variability in discourse collocations. ICAME 31, University of Giessen, Germany (with S. Levey).

[last up-dated:14 July 2022]