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
The search for linguistically coherent accents: unsupervised clustering of diphthong variation in Southeast England
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
A speaker of Cockney, Estuary English, Essex, MLE, SSBE or RP? Demarcating distinct accents from patterns of language variation and change in South East England
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Language Variation and Change in the South of England, Ipswich, United Kingdom, 22/4/2022
Language attitudes towards speech stimuli and geographic locations in South East England: Britain’s hierarchy of accents continues to disadvantage the working class and/or ethnic minority speakers
The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 11 (ICLaVE11), Vienna, Austria, 12/4/2022
What counts as an accent? Unsupervised clustering of diphthong variation in South East England
The 2022 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP2022), York, United Kingdom, 5/4/2022
I vs. /aI/
Word-specific phenomena in the realization of vowel categories: methodological and theoretical perspectives workshop at LabPhon 17, 1/10/2021
Patterns of dialect levelling in South East England: the role of social factors in a geographic identification task
UK Language Variation and Change 13 (UKLVC13), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 9/9/2021
Individuals vs. community and vowels vs. vowel systems: the case of Cockney diphthong shift reversal in Essex
UK Language Variation and Change 13 (UKLVC13), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 8/9/2021
The perceived hierarchy of accents in South East England: disambiguating socio-demographic and geographic factors
The Sixth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE6), Joensuu, Finland, 4/6/2021
Class-based, linguistic distinctions in Southeast England: the role of technology in aggregating perceptual dialectology data
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48 (NWAV48) conference, United States, 11/10/2019
The PRICE-MOUTH crossover in the “Cockney diaspora”
9th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2019), Melbourne, Australia, 6/8/2019
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Sociolinguistics (LG218)
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Sociolinguistic Perception (LG374)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree type: Master of Research
Awarded date: 5/10/2022
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Cole, A. and Strycharczuk, P., (2023). The search for linguistically coherent accents: Unsupervised clustering of diphthong variation in Southeast England. English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English. 95 (1), 129-129
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 (4)
Cole, A., Crowdsourced Participants’ Accuracy at Identifying the Social Class of Speakers from South East England
Cole, A. and Strycharczuk, P., (2023). Evaluating the role of self-description in demarcating accents
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
2023
Training on Accent Bias for LinkedIn North America Employees
LinkedIn Technology UK Ltd
Accentism and Linguistic Variation Impact Leave
University of Essex (QR Impact Fund)
2022
Accent Bias for LinkedIn staff
LinkedIn Technology UK Ltd
Contact
Academic support hours:
Mondays 10am-12pm
