Jenny Cheshire

Jenny Cheshire is a British sociolinguist and professor at Queen Mary, University of London.^[1] Her research interests include language variation and change, especially grammatical and discourse variation, spoken English syntax and narrative analysis. She has written widely on these topics for various publications.

She is most known for her work on grammatical variation in adolescent speech. Among her publications, she has written over 6 academic books, and about 80 articles in international research journals and edited collections. Her books include:

Works

• Variation in an English dialect: a sociolinguistic study. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• (ed.) English around the world: sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• (ed. with Dieter Stein) Taming the vernacular: from dialect to written standard language. London ; New York : Longman, 1997.
• (ed. with David Britain) Social dialectology: in honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2003.

University textbooks

• (with David Graddol and Joan Swann) Describing language. 2nd ed, Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1994.
• (ed. with Peter Trudgill) The sociolinguistics reader. London ; New York : Arnold ;1998-

References

1. "Jenny Cheshire, Linguistics". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 7 September 2014.

External links

• Web site
• Works by or about Jenny Cheshire in libraries (WorldCat catalog)