Dr Amanda Cole
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Email
amanda.cole@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873754
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Location
4.123, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Mondays 10am-12pm
Profile
Biography
I work in the field of sociolinguistics. My research interests include language variation and change, language attitudes and ideologies, perceptual dialectology, and social meaning. My work focusses specifically on the accents spoken in South East England. For instance, I have researched the influence of the Cockney accent in Essex. I have also worked on accent bias in South East England and how this relates to social factors such as social class and gender. I am also interested in policy and media engagement in relation to language in society. I am open to supervising students in the fields of sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language attitudes and ideologies, sociophonetics.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Language Attitudes
Sociolinguistics
Language Variation and Change
Sociophonetics
Conferences and presentations
Accent the Positive: An investigation into children's implicit attitudes towards different regional accents
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50 (NWAV50) conference, Stanford, United States, 15/10/2022
Exploring the role of face-to-face and online interactions in rates of accent change for university students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Language Variation and Change in the South of England, Univesity of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK, 22/4/2022
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Sociolinguistics (LG218)
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English Language in the media (LG222)
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English Around the World (LG355)
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Professional Development for Research Students (LG595)
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History and Variation of English (LG653)
Previous supervision
Degree type: Master of Research
Awarded date: 5/10/2022
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Cole, A., The search for linguistically coherent accents: Unsupervised clustering of diphthong variation in Southeast England. English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English
Cole, A. and Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I., (2022). Haagse Harry, a Dutch chav from The Hague? The enregisterment of similar social personas in different speech communities. International Journal of Language and Culture. 9 (1), 72-96
Cole, A., (2022). Cockney moved East: the dialect of the first generation of East Londoners raised in Essex. Dialectologia et Geolinguistica. 30 (1), 91-114
Cole, A. and Evans, BG., (2021). Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora: The role of place, gender, and identity. Language in Society. Online (5), 641-665
Cole, A., (2021). Disambiguating language attitudes held towards socio-demographic groups and geographic areas in South East England. Journal of Linguistic Geography. 9 (1), 13-27
Cole, A. and Strycharczuk, P., (2021). Dialect levelling and Cockney diphthong shift reversal in South East England: the case of the Debden Estate. English Language and Linguistics. 26 (4), 621-643
Cole, A., (2020). Co-variation and social meaning: the implicational relationship between (H) and (ING) in Debden, Essex. Language Variation and Change. 32 (3), 349-371
Conferences (3)
Cole, A., Crowdsourced Participants’ Accuracy at Identifying the Social Class of Speakers from South East England
Cole, A. and Strycharczuk, P., (2019). The PRICE-MOUTH crossover in the "Cockney diaspora"
Thesis dissertation (1)
Cole, A., (2021). Language and identity in the Cockney Diaspora: A sociophonetic and variationist study
Grants and funding
2022
Accent Bias for LinkedIn staff
LinkedIn Technology UK Ltd
Contact
Academic support hours:
Mondays 10am-12pm