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
Nik Coupland’s books include:
The New Sociolinguistics Reader (2008, Palgrave, edited with Adam Jaworski)
Style, Variation and Identity (2007, Cambridge University Press)
The Discourse Reader (second edition 2006, Routledge, edited with Adam Jaworski)
Sociolinguistics and Metalanguage (2004, Mouton, edited with Adam Jaworski and Dariusz Galasiñski)
Investigating Language Attitudes (2003, University of Wales Press, with Peter Garrett and Angie Williams)
Language, Society and the Elderly (1991, Blackwell, with Justine Coupland and Howard Giles)
Publications
Forthcoming and recent publications
Coupland, Nikolas and Michelle Aldridge (eds., in press) Sociolinguistic and Subjective Aspects of Welsh in Wales and its Diaspora. Thematic Issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Coupland, Nikolas (forthcoming) Language, Identity and Performance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Wales. University of Wales Press.
Coupland, Nikolas (ed., forthcoming) The Handbook of Language and Globalisation. Blackwell.
Coupland, Nikolas (forthcoming) The authentic speaker and the speech community. In Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watts (eds.) Sociolinguistics and Identity. Edinburgh University Press.
Coupland, Nikolas (forthcoming) The sociolinguistics of style. In Rajend Mesthrie and Walt Wolfram (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press.
Coupland, Justine and Nikolas Coupland (in press) Attributing stance in discourses of body shape and weight loss. In A. Jaffe (ed.) Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
Coupland, Nikolas (in press) Welsh linguistic landscapes from above and below. In Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow (eds.) Semiotic Landscapes. Continuum.
Coupland, Nikolas (2007) Aneurin Bevan, class wars and the styling of political antagonism. In P. Auer (ed.) Style and Social Identities: Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 213-245.
Coupland, Nikolas and Hywel Bishop (2007) Ideologised values for British accents. Journal of Sociolinguistics 11, 1: 74-103.
Coupland, Nikolas (2006) The discursive framing of phonological acts of identity: Welshness through English. In Janina Brutt-Griffler and Catherine Evans Davies (eds.) English and Ethnicity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 19-48.
Coupland, Nikolas, Hywel Bishop, Betsy Evans and Peter Garrett (2006) Imagining Wales and the Welsh language: Ethnolinguistic subjectivities and demographic flow. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 25, 4: 351-376.
Coupland, Nikolas and Hywel Bishop (2006) Ideologising language and community in post-devolution Wales. In John Wilson and Karyn Stapleton (eds.) Devolution and Identity. Ashgate. Pp. 33-50.
Coupland, Nikolas and Virpi Ylänne (2006) Relational frames in weather talk. In A. Jaworski and N. Coupland (eds.) The Discourse Reader. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge. Pp. 349-61.
Coupland, Nikolas and Virpi Ylänne (2006) The sociolinguistics of ageing. In Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus J. Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. Volume 3. Pp. 2334-2340.
Coupland, Nikolas, Hywel Bishop and Peter Garrett (2006) One Wales? Reassessing diversity in Welsh ethnolinguistic identification. Contemporary Wales 18: 1-27.
Bishop, Hywel, Nikolas Coupland and Peter Garrett (2005) Globalisation, advertising and shifting values for Welsh and Welshness: The case of Y Drych. Multilingua 24, 4: 343-378.
Garrett, Peter, Nikolas Coupland and Hywel Bishop (2005) Globalisation and the visualisation of Wales and Welsh America: Y Drych, 1948-2001. Ethnicities 5, 4: 530-564.
Coupland, Nikolas, Peter Garrett and Angie Williams (2005) Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation: Teenage boys’ stories for their age-peers. In J. Thornborrow and J. Coates (eds.) Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 67-88.
Coupland, Nikolas, Peter Garrett and Hywel Bishop (2005) Wales underground: Discursive frames and authenticities in Welsh mining heritage tourism events. In Jaworski, A. and Pritchard, A. (eds.) Language, Communication and Tourism. Clevedon: Channel View Publications. Pp. 199-222.
Coupland, Nikolas (2005) Review of Raymond Williams (2003) Who Speaks for Wales? Cardiff: University of Wales Press, and of Charlotte Williams (ed.) (2003) Wales: A Tolerant Nation? Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 26, 1: 80-83.
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 is 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.