Miriam Meyerhoff

Miriam Meyerhoff (born May 30, 1964 ) is a New Zealand linguist . She teaches as Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand. Her research focus is sociolinguistics .

Life

Miriam Meyerhoff completed her master's degree in linguistics at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1985 , where she also completed a one-year diploma course in English as a Second Language in 1990 . She obtained her doctorate in 1997 with her dissertation Be I no gat: constraints on null subjects in Bislama at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Gillian Sankoff , William Labov , Terry Crowley and Howard Giles .

From 1997 to 2000 she worked at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and in 2001 moved to the University of Edinburgh , where she first worked as a lecturer, later as a lecturer and from 2006 as a professor of sociolinguistics. In Edinburgh she founded the research group Language in Context , in which both employees and domestic and foreign students deal with language-related issues. Together with her doctoral students, she organized the Summer School of Sociolinguistics in 2009 and 2010 . She has also worked as a visiting professor at Michigan State University , the University of Colorado and the University of Agder and as a seminar leader at the University of the South Pacific , the University of Western Australia and elementary and secondary schools in Great Britain and New Zealand.

In July 2010 she moved to Auckland and taught at the University of Auckland . She currently lives in Wellington and teaches at Victoria University of Wellington , where she a. a. doing research on the Nkep-speaking community of Hog Harbor , Vanuatu .

research

Miriam Meyerhoff conducts research in the field of sociolinguistics. Her research interests include:

• Language varieties and language change
• Relationship between gender and language
• Pidgin and Creole languages (including above all Bislama and other Creole languages ​​from the Pacific region as well as the Creole languages ​​spoken in Bequia in St. Vincent and the Grenadines )
• the varieties of English (especially the English spoken in New Zealand)
• Use of language in social networks
• Perception and attitude in relation to language use and speaker.

From 2010 to 2013 Meyerhoff worked on a project on the language variation and language change of the N'kep language spoken by a small community in Hog Harbor on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. This research project was funded by the Endangered Languages ​​Project research group and consisted of describing the use of language in Hog Harbor with regard to the sociolinguistic perspective of language variation. The N'kep language is by the strong influences of the Bislama and the English language erosion ( language attrition threatened). Miriam Meyerhoff worked on the islands of Espiritu Santo and Malo during her doctoral phase from 1994 to 1995 and has been returning to Vanuatu regularly since then.

She is also working on some ongoing corpus studies on language contact and creolization . These include a project on Bequia Creole, spoken in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on which she is working with James Walker '' from York University in Toronto , Canada , and a project on language acquisition for young immigrants in Edinburgh and London , on which she is working with Erik Schleef '' from the University of Manchester , England.

Together with Umberto Anslado from the University of Hong Kong, she is the editor of the Creole Language Library (CLL) .

Publications

• The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality. . Wiley-Blackwell , Hoboken 2014, ISBN 978-0-470-65642-6 (2nd edition).
• Bequia Talk: St Vincent and the Grenadines. . Battlebridge Publications , Westminster 2013, ISBN 978-1-903292-22-8 .
• The Handbook of Language and Gender. . Blackwell Publishing , Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-631-22502-7 (6th edition).
• Introducing Sociolinguistics. . Routledge , New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-135-28443-5 (2nd edition).
• The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader. . Routledge , London / NY 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-46957-9 .
• Social Lives in Language: The sociolinguistics of multilingual speech communities, celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff. . John Benjamin , Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2008, ISBN 978-90-272-1863-6 .
• Constraints on null subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu): social and linguistic factors. . Australian National University , Canberra 2000, ISBN 978-0-85883-522-1 .
• Be I no gat: constraints on null subjects in Bislama. . University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia 1997 (dissertation).

Web links

• Literature by and about Miriam Meyerhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professor Miriam Meyerhoff - Biography . The University of Auckland,accessed June 17, 2014. 
• Professor Miriam Meyerhoff - Biography . Victoria University of Wellington - School of Linguistic and Applied Language Studies,accessed June 17, 2014. 
• Miriam Meyerhoff . John Benjamin Publishing Company,accessed June 17, 2014(Publications List). 
• Professor Miriam Meyerhof - Linguistics . (Youtube Video)YouTube, October 1, 2012,accessed on June 17, 2014(Published by the Faculty of Arts at Auckland, duration of the contribution 3:30 min). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal details of Miriam Meyerhoff in the directory of the Library of Congress - Retrieved June 13, 2014.
2. ↑ Information on Miriam Meyerhoff's dissertation - accessed on June 13, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Information on Miriam Meyerhoff in the University of Auckland staff directory - Retrieved June 13, 2014.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Information on Miriam Meyerhoff in the staff directory of the Victoria University of Wellington - Retrieved June 13, 2014.
5. ↑ Information on Hog ​​Harbor . www.touristlink.com, accessed June 13, 2014.