Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity

About

Anita Auer is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a historical (socio)linguist with a special interest in diachronic and synchronic aspects of language variation and change. Her current research focuses on alternative histories of the English language (e.g. the role of historical urban vernaculars in standardisation processes; the language of the labouring poor in Late Modern England) as well as language maintenance and shift amongst Swiss heritage speakers in North America.

Jennifer Thorburn is Maître d’enseignement et de recherche in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne. She is a variationist sociolinguist who works primarily on language in Indigenous communities and regional varieties of English. Her current projects focus on attitudes to language and computer-mediated communication.