Paul Kerswill, FBA, is a sociolinguist and emeritus professor at the University of York. After completing his undergraduate degree and doctorate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was a research assistant from 1985 to 1986 at the University of Cambridge, before working as a lecturer at the University of Reading until his appointment in 2004 as a professor at Lancaster University. He became a professor in the department of language and linguistic science at the University of York in 2012.
Work
Kerswill has written several papers and done lectures, including a TED talk, on the subject of Multicultural London English, a sociolect spoken in London.
Honours In July 2017, Kerswill was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Selected works (Co-edited with Peter Auer and Frans Hinskens) Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European languages (Cambridge University Press, 2005). (Co-edited with Ruth Wodak and Barbara Johnstone) The SAGE handbook of Sociolinguistics (London: Sage Publishing, 2010).
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