Louis Strange

I'm a  sociolinguist, currently working as Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, having gained my PhD from Queen Mary (University of London).

 

My PhD research was in the field of linguistic landscapes. Specifically, it focused on the recent (and ongoing) debates surrounding the legalisation of abortion in Ireland, and how issues of gender and national identity surface in signage commenting on or advocating for or against liberalisation of abortion laws.

 

I'm also interested in (critical) discourse analysis, multimodality, language and identity, language and political economy, and (language) ideology.

 

At the moment, I'm working on projects (1) investigating (discriminatory) attitudes towards female football commentators, combining critical discourse analytic and experimental approaches, mapping sociolinguistic variation in Irish English with the Speak for Yersel project at Glasgow, and (3) how political economic theories can be applied to different forms of language in their various material manifestations and contexts, both online and offline. Having published research on Irish and its links with national identity, I have a particular interest in language in the Irish context and am now looking at the under-explored connections between Irish English and question of Irishness.