Jeffrey L. Kallen

Associate Professor in Linguistics and Phonetics and
Head of Discipline

Research Interests

My main area of research concerns the English language in Ireland (Irish English or Hiberno-English). I have approached the topic from different perspectives, involving the history of the English language, language contact, relationships between English and Irish, and the position of Irish English within the family of world Englishes. This work has also taken me into corpus linguistics, as a co-director of the International Corpus of English (ICE) project for Ireland, and into areas such as language policy and planning with respect to Irish.  More recently, I have become involved in research on the use of visible language in public places, which is now generally known as the Linguistic Landscape. My interests here have touched on language policy as well as the semiotics of visual communication. More widely, I maintain interests in discourse analysis, dialectology, language variation and change, and syntactic theory.

Selected Publications

• (2012). Jeffrey L. Kallen. English in Ireland. In Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook, ed. Alexander Bergs and Laurel Brinton. HSK vol. 34.2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• (2011). John M. Kirk, Jeffrey L. Kallen, Orla Lowry, Anne Rooney, and Margaret Mannion. International Corpus of English: Ireland Component. The ICE-Ireland Corpus. Version 1.2.2. [Version 1 published 2006.] CD-ROM. Belfast: Queen's University Belfast and Dublin: Trinity College Dublin.
• (2011). John M. Kirk, Jeffrey L. Kallen, Orla Lowry, Anne Rooney, and Margaret Mannion. The SPICE-Ireland Corpus: Systems of pragmatic annotation for the spoken component of ICE-Ireland. Version 1.2.2. CD-ROM. Belfast: Queen's University Belfast and Dublin: Trinity College Dublin.
• (2011). John M. Kirk and Jeffrey L. Kallen. The cultural context of ICE-Ireland. In Researching the Languages of Ireland, ed. Raymond Hickey, pp. 269-290. Studia Celtica Upsaliensia 8. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet.
• (2010). Jeffrey L. Kallen and Esther Ní Dhonnacha. Language and inter-language in urban Irish and Japanese linguistic landscapes. In Linguistic Landscape in the City, ed. Elana Shohamy, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, and Monica Barni, pp. 19-36. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
• (2010). Jeffrey L. Kallen. Changing landscapes: language, space and policy in the Dublin linguistic landscape. In Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space, ed. Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow, pp. 41-58. London: Continuum.
• (2007) Jeffrey L. Kallen and John M. Kirk. ICE-Ireland: local variations on global standards’. In Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Vol. 1: Synchronic Databases, ed. J.C. Beal, K.P. Corrigan, and H. Moisl, pp. 121-162. London: Palgrave.
• (2005) Jeffrey L. Kallen. 'Politeness in Ireland: '… In Ireland, it's done without being said'. In Politeness in Europe, ed. Leo Hickey and Miranda Stewart, pp. 130-144. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• (2005) Jeffrey L. Kallen. Internal and external factors in phonological convergence: the case of English /t/ lenition. In Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages, ed. Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens, and Paul Kerswill, pp. 51-80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2002/2003) Jeffrey L. Kallen. Bilingualism, language disability, and linguistic human rights. Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies 12/13: 147-172.
• (2002) Jeffrey L. Kallen. L'idée de nation: le timbre-post grec (1924-1982). In Sémiologie et Herméneutique du timbre-poste, ed. David Scott (= Protée 30/2), pp. 73-84.
  
  

Teaching/Supervision

I teach courses in Sociolinguistics, the history and globalisation of English, bilingualism and language acquisition, and English syntax. I have supervised research in a wide of topics related to language variation, the sociology of language in Ireland, politeness theory and other aspects of discourse analysis, regional and minority languages, language acquisition, and so on.

Jeffrey L. Kallen on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Centre for Language and Communication Studies
Room 3139 Arts Building
Trinity College
Dublin 2.

Telephone: +353 1 896 1495
Fax: +353 1 896 2941
Email: jkallen@tcd.ie