Lesley Milroy

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Lesley Milroy is affiliated with the following schools: University of Essex, University of York, University of Michigan

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Linguistics

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#507

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According to Wikipedia, Ann Lesley Milroy is a sociolinguist, and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan. Her work in sociolinguistics focuses on urban and rural dialectology, language ideology and standard. Education and Career Milroy earned her PhD at Queens University Belfast in 1979. She studied and began her work in sociolinguistics in the UK. Milroy held a position at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1983-1994. She moved to the United States in 1994, where she worked as a professor and the chair of the department of linguistics at the University of Michigan until she retired in 2004. She has since done some sociolinguistic teaching and lecturing at Oxford University.

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Lesley Milroy's Published Works

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Language and social networks (1980) (1631)
Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation (1985) (717)
One Speaker, Two Languages: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching (1995) (587)
Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation (2003) (493)
Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model (1992) (400)
Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and Standardisation (1991) (396)
Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English (1985) (380)
Observing and Analysing Natural Language (1987) (308)
Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method (1991) (187)
Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles (1993) (171)
Glottal stops and Tyneside glottalization: Competing patterns of variation and change in British English (1994) (166)
A social network approach to code-switching: the example of a bilingual community in Britain (1995) (144)
Conversational code-switching in a Chinese community in Britain: a sequential analysis (1995) (143)
Introduction: Mobility, contact and language change - Working with contemporary speech communities (2002) (133)
One speaker, two languages (1998) (132)
Linguistics and Aphasia: Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Intervention (1993) (132)
Repair strategies in aphasic discourse; towards a collaborative model. (1992) (127)
Descriptive adequacy in phonology: a variationist perspective (1997) (122)
Local and Supra-Local Change in British English - The Case of Glottalisation (1994) (113)
One speaker, two languages: Introduction: code-switching and bilingualism research (1995) (103)
Vernacular language loyalty and social network (1980) (99)
Britain and the United States: Two Nations Divided by the Same Language (and Different Language Ideologies) (2000) (95)
Conversational codeswitching among Korean-English bilingual children (2000) (88)
Mechanisms of change in urban dialects: the role of class, social network and gender (1993) (83)
STANDARD ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES (2002) (82)
A two‐step sociolinguistic analysis of code‐switching and language choice: the example of a bilingual Chinese community in Britain (1992) (78)
Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes (2007) (52)
Bilingual language acquisition by Korean schoolchildren in New York City (1999) (41)
SOCIAL NETWORK AND LINGUISTIC FOCUSING (1986) (41)
Language and group identity (1982) (32)
A social network approach to code-switching (1995) (31)
Network Structure and Linguistic Change (1997) (26)
What a performance! Some problems with the competence‐performance distinction (1985) (25)
Varieties and Variation (2017) (25)
Non-standard English and dialect levelling (2014) (22)
Discourse Patterns and Fieldwork Strategies in Urban Settings (1991) (22)
An essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova’s “Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]” (2004) (20)
Social Network Analysis and Language Change: Introduction (2000) (16)
PHONOLOGYCAL VARIATION AND CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH: EVIDENCE FROM NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AND DERBY (1999) (16)
Alison Henry, Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect variation and Parameter setting . (Oxford studies in comparative syntax.), Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 148. Pb $24.95. (1996) (16)
Sharing the communicative burden: A conversation-analytic account of aphasic/non-aphasic interaction (1997) (16)
A Social Network Perspective on Code-Switching and Language Choice: The Example of the Tyneside Chinese Community (1992) (13)
Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change: Fitting the pieces of the puzzle together (2003) (13)
Panjabi/English language alternation in the early school years (1992) (12)
Phonological Variation and Change in Contemporary English: Evidence from Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby = Variación y cambio fonológico en inglés contemporáneo: Evidencias desde Newcastle upon Tyne y Derby (1999) (10)
The social categories of race and class: Language ideology and sociolinguistics (2014) (9)
Exploring the social constraints on language change (1997) (8)
Phonological analysis and speech disorders: a comment. (1985) (8)
Sociolinguistics: Models and Methods (2008) (6)
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation: Conversation, spoken language, and social identity (2002) (5)
Chapter 22. Social Networks (2008) (4)
Gender as a Speaker Variable: The Interesting Case of the Glottalised Stops in Tyneside. (1988) (4)
Beyond Phonology: Analyzing and Interpreting Higher Level Variation (2008) (4)
Style‐Shifting and Code‐Switching (2008) (3)
A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice: the example of a bilingual Chinese community in Britain (2020) (3)
Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change (2003) (2)
Linguistic Networks in Belfast@@@Language and Social Networks (1982) (2)
Social and Regional Accommodation to the Northern Cities Chain Shift (2000) (2)
Social Relationships and Social Practices (2008) (2)
Interpreting the role of extralinguistic variables in linguistic variation and change (1994) (1)
22 Social Networks (2001) (1)
Standard English and the complaint tradition (2012) (1)
Introduction (1999) (1)
Language Variation and the Social World: Issues in Analysis and Interpretation (2008) (1)
Jenny Cheshire. Variation in an English dialect . (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 37.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 142. (1984) (1)
CONVERSATIONAL AND PHONOLOGICAL FACTORS GOVERNING THE 'FINAL RELEASE RL'LE' IN TYNESIDE ENGLISH (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (1993) (0)
Professional appointments: The ‘design team’ (1999) (0)
Locating and Selecting Subjects (2008) (0)
Colour and other factors (1999) (0)
The human factor (1999) (0)
The legacy and appearance of hospital buildings (1999) (0)
Language varieties and situations (1988) (0)
Psycholinguistic models: lexical processing (2014) (0)
Landscape, gardens and the space between the buildings (1999) (0)
Comprar Language and Social Networks | Lesley Milroy | 9780631153146 | Wiley (2008) (0)
Principles of interior renovation: The role of the interior designer (1999) (0)
Historical and Ideological Dimensions of Grammatical Variation and Change (2020) (0)
C. D. Heath, The pronunciation of English in Cannock, Staffordshire . (Publications of the Philological Society, XXIX). Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. Pp. 141. (1981) (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
3. Varieties and Variation (2008) (0)
Functional categories and projections in agrammaticism: profiling the developing grammar of a young English-speaking aphasic (1993) (0)
Arts and decoration: From high art to humble memorabilia (1999) (0)
Interior features: From floors to furniture (1999) (0)
Departmental components of the average hospital: From reception to chapels (1999) (0)
William Labov (ed.), Locating language in time and space . (Quantitative Analyses of Linguistic Structure 1, W. Labov & D. Sankoff series editors.) New York: Academic Press, 1980, Pp. xx + 271. (1983) (0)
Investigating Phonological Variation (2008) (0)

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