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Details for Mr Tim Shortis
| Personal details | |
| Name | Mr Tim Shortis |
| Job title | Research Associate |
| Department | School of Modern Languages University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | MA(Oxon) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | language & new media digital representation of text archives from libraries & museums for school learning teaching of domains & methods from applied linguistics & social semiotics at school level texts practices & discourses relating to spelling in sms text messaging |
| Areas of expertise | I am a Visiting Research Associate working with Julie Blake and Dr Nils Langer on a study of Bristolian dialect and the spoken language of young people in the area. The project builds upon a questionnaire survey of Bristolian and youth sociolect - or the language of young people- conducted by 16-19 year old students at St Brendan’s sixth form college in the 1990s. Our project has three dimensions: an exploratory sociolinguistic study of aspects of Bristolian dialect and other varieties especially as they are used by young people in Bristol; the design of educational materials for working with spoken language in educational settings, especially in the context of the study of spoken language becoming a mandatory component in GCSE English; a scoping study of the opportunities for the study of historical variation and change in Bristolian dialect from the evidence of a selection of written archives and related sources. |