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Contributing to Goffman with the Open Access Fund

Contributing to Goffman with the Open Access Fund

The Open Access Team have recently announced the publication of another work funded by the Essex’s institutional Open Access Fund. The latest publication, a chapter by Dr Rebecca Clift, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics, contributes to a major new essay collection from Routledge.

Sean Andersson

29 January 2024

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Meet our new Executive Dean for Social Sciences

Communications Office

23 January 2024

Podcast

Louder Than Words: You can say that again

Louder Than Words: You can say that again

Amanda Cole and Ella Jeffries from the Department of Language and Linguistics talk to Jules Pretty about  sociolinguistics: the loss and gain of language and dialect, language variation; influence of Cockney on Essex; accent bias – class and gender; right or wrong or plain different.

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries, Professor Jules Pretty

16 November 2023

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Educating the next generation

Scholarship recipient Lin Wei talks about her Masters in Interpreting and Translation and how she hopes to inspire the next generation of children.

Alumni team, Philanthropy

11 May 2023

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The cockney dialect is not dead its just called Essex now

The cockney dialect is not dead its just called Essex now

The cockney dialect is not dead its just called Essex now

Dr Amanda Cole

27 February 2023

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Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Dr Amanda Cole

15 September 2022

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Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality

Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality

Writing for The Conversation Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries and Professor Peter Patrick explain how accent prejudice and linguicism is a reframing of prejudice towards low-status groups who, simply, speak differently

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries, Professor Peter Patrick

11 March 2022

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Essex Love Stories: Cristina and Jack

Essex Love Stories: Cristina and Jack

Stories of the graduates who left Essex with more than just a degree

Alumni team

08 February 2022

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Essex Love Stories: Iolanda and James

Essex Love Stories: Iolanda and James

Stories of our graduates who left Essex with more than just a degree

Alumni team

04 February 2022

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Haemorrhaging: why some words are so easy to mispronounce (and why that could be a good thing)

Haemorrhaging: why some words are so easy to mispronounce (and why that could be a good thing)

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Connor Youngberg, Dr Faith Chiu

31 January 2022

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