Auer Anita

Research

Research areas

Linguistique
Neuro-Linguistique
Linguistique historique
sociolinguistique
Langues en contact
Dialectologie
Linguistique corpus

Littérature, langue et histoire médiévale
Mystères
histoire textuelle
urbanisme médiéval

Projects

Autres projets

Aspasia Grant
2011 - 2015
grant-giving organisation: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Pays-Bas)
Applicant: Anita Auer
The money was used in order to carry out the following projects:
(a) "Emerging Standards: Urbanisation and the Development of Standard English, c.1400-1700". Details can be found on this website: http://www.emergingstandards.eu/
(b) Corpus project "Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor". Details can be found on this website: https://lalpcorpus.wordpress.com/

Utrecht Universtiy Board Appreciation Grant (ERC runner-up)
2012 - 2016
grant-giving organisation: Utrecht Universtiy (Pays-Bas)
Applicant: Anita Auer
The money was used in order to carry out the following projects:
(a) "Emerging Standards: Urbanisation and the Development of Standard English, c.1400-1700". Details can be found on this website: http://www.emergingstandards.eu/
(b) Corpus project "Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor". Details can be found on this website: https://lalpcorpus.wordpress.com/

Collaborations and networks

Avec les milieux professionnels

Mouton de Gruyter (publisher)
I am co-editing the international peer-reviewed "Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics" (with Gijsbert Rutten, José de Valle, Rik Vosters, Simon Pickl) , published by Mouton de Gruyter (Berlin, New York).

The Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics (JHSL) is a double-blind peer-reviewed forum for research into the social history of language. The journal contains original contributions (both linguistic and interdisciplinary) on aspects of language and society in the past including (but not limited to) the social embedding of language variation and change, issues of language contact and conflict, historical multilingualism, the social stratification of writing skills, the development of language norms and the impact of language ideologies.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsl
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Anita Auer is a (socio)historical linguist with a special interest in diachronic and synchronic aspects of language variation and change. She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research, particularly the correlation between language variation and change and socio-economic history, as well as textual history (in relation to corpus linguistics). Her current research focuses on (a) alternative histories of the English language, i.e. the role of historical urban vernaculars in standardisation processes; the language of the labouring poor in Late Modern England; (b) the historical development of English subjunctive constructions; and (c) language maintenance and shift amongst Swiss heritage speakers past and present in North America.