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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Kallen, Jeffrey Leo | |
| Main Department | CLCS | |
| College Title | Associate Professor & Head of Department | |
| jkallen@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1495 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/jkallen | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) - President | 1989-1992 |
| Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) - Executive Board | 1981-1992; 2001 to date |
| Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) - Editorial Board | 1985-1999; 2001-2011 |
| Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) - Editor, Teanga: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics | 2001-2011 |
| Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT), responsible for the accreditation (with respect to specialist English language proficiency) of speech and language therapy graduates from non-English speaking countries | 2000 to date |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Linguistic Society of America | ||
| North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers | ||
| American Dialect Society | ||
| Anthropological Association of Ireland | ||
| Forum for the Languages of Scotland and Ulster | ||
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| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Fellow of Trinity College | Elected 2002 |
| Description of Research Interests |
| MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH: LANGUAGE IN IRELAND (especially Hiberno-English, but considering also Irish and Ulster Scots, in structural, dialectal, sociolinguistic, and historical perspectives) LINGUISTICS (especially sociolinguistics; dialectology; bilingualism; phonology; historical linguistics; language acquisition; general linguistics; comparative syntax) ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION (with a focus on discourse analysis, NARRATIVE, AND SEMIOTICS) ETHNIC STUDIES (particularly the relationships among language, expressive culture, and ethnicity). MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: INTERNATIONAL CORPUS OF ENGLISH (ICE) PROJECT, INITIATED AT THE SURVEY OF ENGLISH USAGE by Professor Sidney Greenbaum, University College London. Two projects in progress: (1) to analyse and make available the ICE-Ireland corpus of approximately 1 million words of standard Irish English (spoken and written) compiled according to ICE protocols for national corpora, (2) prosodic and pragmatic annotation of the spoken ICE-Ireland corpus. Analysis of data and provision of electronic resources in progress. CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE OF SOCIAL DIALECTS IN A CHANGING EUROPE, research network sponsored by the European Science Foundation, directed by Professor Frans Hinskens (Leipzig) and Professor Peter Auer (Freiburg). As a member of the international steering committee, I was responsible for planning and participation in the network's international symposia, publications, and graduate-level summer school in Málaga (1998). Details of relevant publications given below; activities continue through the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE). LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN BRITTANY, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES, research project funded by the Commission of the European Union and directed by Dr. Janig Stephens, University of Wales Institute. As director of the Irish component, I was responsible for arranging collection, transcription, and analysis of Irish-language data. The Irish project provided co-sponsorship of a special session on the acquisition of the Celtic languages at the 3rd Celtic Linguistics Conference, held in University College Dublin (2000), proceedings of which were published in the Journal of Celtic Language Learning. FUTURE PLANS: Together with colleagues from around the world, I have recently begun research on the LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE, i.e., the use of languages in visible, public spaces where questions of ethnolinguistic vitality, language policy, and linguistic representation come to the fore. I recently participated in an international symposium on the subject, and further plans are in train for presentations in 2006 and beyond. The ICE-Ireland project entails a commitment to publication of a book in the ICE handbook series on sociolinguistic issues in the standard English of Ireland, in addition to other related papers and presentations. I also seek to maintain a varied programme of publication and public presentation across the range of subject areas indicated above. |
| Research Interests | |||
| HIBERNO-ENGLISH |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Integrating Prosody, Pragmatics and Syntax in a Corpus-based Linguistic Description of Irish Standard English |
| Summary | £193,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) to employ research assistants and support the work of a project entitled 'Integrating Prosody, Pragmatics and Syntax in a Corpus-based Linguistic Description of Irish Standard English'. (Administered jointly with Dr. John Kirk, Queen's University Belfast.) |
| Funding Agency | Arts and Humanities Research Board |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2003 |
| Date to | 2005 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Sociolinguistics of Standardisation of English in Ireland |
| Summary | £164,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) to employ research assistants and support the work of a project entitled 'Sociolinguistics of Standardisation of English in Ireland'. Includes compilation of the International Corpus of English for Ireland (ICE-Ireland). (Administered jointly with Dr. John Kirk, Queen's University Belfast.) |
| Funding Agency | Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2001 |
| Date to | 2003 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | |
| Summary | IR£600 awarded |
| Funding Agency | Royal Irish Academy and British Council Social Sciences Committee |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | ICE-Ireland project |
| Date from | 1999 |
| Date to | 1999 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Irish component of the research project on Language Acquisition in Preschool Children in Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales |
| Summary | IR£20,000 from the Commission of the European Union towards the Irish component of the research project on Language Acquisition in Preschool Children in Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. (Local share of approx. £100,000 administered by Dr. Janig Stephens, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, principal investigator.) |
| Funding Agency | Commission of the European Union |
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| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1994 |
| Date to | 1997 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | |
| Summary | IR£250 from the Visiting Professorships & Fellowships Fund, Trinity College Dublin to support visit of Dr. Paul Kerswill, British partner in the European Science Foundation network on the Convergence and Divergence of Social Dialects in a Changing Europe. |
| Funding Agency | Visiting Professorships & Fellowships Fund, Trinity College Dublin |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1997 |
| Date to | 1997 |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Varieties of English: English in Ireland in, editor(s)Alexander Bergs, Laurel J. Brinton , English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook, vol. 2, Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2012, pp1961 - 1976, [Jeffrey L. Kallen] | |
| Tourism and representation in the Irish linguistic landscape. in, editor(s)Elana Shohamy and Durk Gorter , Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery, London, Routledge, 2009, pp270 - 283, [Jeffrey L. Kallen] | |
| ICE-Ireland: Local Variations on Global Standards in, editor(s)Joan C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan, and Herman L. Moisl , Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora. Vol. 1: Synchronic Databases., London, Palgrave, 2007, pp121 - 162, [Jeffrey L. Kallen and John M. Kirk] | |
| Assessing Celticity in a corpus of Irish Standard English in, editor(s)Hildegard L. C. Tristram , The Celtic Languages in Contact, Potsdam, Potsdam University Press, 2007, pp270 - 298, [John M. Kirk and Jeffrey L. Kallen] Url |
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| Jeffrey L. Kallen (ed.), Focus on Ireland, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 1997, 260pp | |
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