Professor Nik Coupland - BA (Oxon.) B.Ling (Manchester) MA (Reading) PhD (Wales)
Overview
Position:
Professor (Established Chair)
Email:
Coupland@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74243
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74242
Extension: 74243
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU.
Research Group
Centre for Language and Communication Research
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, including sociolinguistic theory, the sociolinguistics of Wales, language and globalisation, speech style and social identity, intergenerational talk, the social meaning of numbers.
Selected Publications
Coupland, N. (2007) Style: Language Variation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
Coupland, N. and A. Jaworksi (eds.) (2009) The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. (eds.) (2009) Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge. (Six volumes.)
Coupland, N. (ed.) (2010) Handbook of Language and Globalization.Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Winner of British Association for Applied Linguistics book prize, 2010.
Kristiansen, T. and N. Coupland (eds.) (2011) Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Oslo: Novus.
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Publications
Forthcoming and recent publications
Coupland, N. (2007) Style: Language Variation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
Coupland, N. and A. Jaworksi (eds.) (2009) The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. (eds.) (2009) Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge. (Six volumes.)
Coupland, N. (ed.) (2010) Handbook of Language and Globalization.Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Winner of British Association for Applied Linguistics book prize, 2010.
Kristiansen, T. and N. Coupland (eds.) (2011) Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Oslo: Novus.
Coupland, N. (2009) The mediated performance of vernaculars. Journal of English Linguistics 37, 3: 284-300.
Coupland, N. (2009) Dialect style, social class and metacultural performance: The pantomime Dame. In N. Coupland and A. Jaworski (eds.) The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.311-325.
Coupland, N. (2010) Welsh linguistic landscapes ‘from above’ and ‘from below’. In A. Jaworski and C. Thurlow (eds.) Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum. Pp.77-101.
Coupland, N. (2010) Language, ideology, media and social change. In K. Junod and D. Maillat (eds) Performing the Self. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature.) pp.127-151.
Coupland, N. (2010) The authentic speaker and the speech community. In Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watts (eds.) Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 99-112.
Nikolas C. and P. Garrett (2010) Linguistic landscapes, discursive frames and metacultural performance: The case of Welsh Patagonia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 205: 7-36.
Coupland, N. (2011) How frequent are numbers? Language and Communication 31, 1: 27-37.
Coupland, N. (2011) The sociolinguistics of style. In Rajend Mesthrie (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Pp.138-156.
Coupland, N. (in press) Bilingualism on display: The framing of Welsh and English in Welsh public spaces. Language in Society.
Coupland, N. (in press) Voice, place and genre in popular music performance. Journal of Sociolinguistics.
Coupland, N. (in press) Welsh tea: The centering and decentering of Wales and the Welsh language. In Sari Pietikäinen and Helen Kelly-Holmes (eds.) Multilingualism and the Periphery. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Research
Professor Nikolas Coupland is an elected member of the Academy of Social Sciences and Research Director of the Centre for Language and Communication Research. He was founding editor, with Allan Bell, of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, published by Blackwell. With Adam Jaworski he edits the Oxford University Press book series, Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics.
He has published more than 15 books and 150 articles and chapters on wide-ranging aspects of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and human communication. He was formerly a Fulbright Scholar and has held visiting positions at the University of California, Macquarie University, Victoria University of Wellington, and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).
He directed a 4-year, ESRC-funded research programme on 'Communication and the Elderly' (with Howard Giles) and a six-year programme, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on ‘Language and Global Communication’ (with Theo van Leeuwen and other Cardiff colleagues). He has served as a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board and assessed PhD studentship applications for ESRC.
Biography
Professor Nikolas Coupland was founding editor, with Allan Bell, of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, published by Blackwell. With Adam Jaworski he edits the Oxford University Press book series, Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics.
Nik Coupland was formerly a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney.
He is an elected member of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS).
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Copenhagen University in November 2011 in recognition of distinguished career service to Sociolinguistics.