Staff profiles
Dr Chris Montgomery
BA (Hons), PhD
Phone 0114 225 4473
E-mail
c.montgomery@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
My research interests are primarily in the field of perceptual dialectology, and specifically the methodological approaches to the study of non-linguists' perceptions. My research has focussed on locations in the north of England and southern Scotland, and has discussed the role of (real and imagined) borders in perception.
My research is not restricted to perceptual dialectology and I am also interested in the wider field of folk linguistics and language attitudes, that is to say, how linguistically naive informants respond to language, and the reasons behind these responses.
My research has investigated ways of integrating techniques used in the field of Geographical Science with those used in the study of language variation and perception, with a particular focus on the possibilities offered by GIS technologies.
I am also generally interested in sociolinguistic and dialectological methodologies, lexical erosion and language variation and change.
Research outputs since 2001
Hope, J. and Montgomery, C. (2011, forthcoming) 'Changing attitudes and ideologies' In: Nevalainen, T and Traugott, E. C. (eds.) Rethinking Approaches to the History of English: Socio-Cultural Processes. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Montgomery, C. (ed.) (2010, forthcoming) Sheffield Words Today, Sheffield: NATCECT occasional publications.
Beal, J. and Montgomery, C. (2010, forthcoming) 'Perceptions of language variation'. In: McMahon, A. and Maguire, W. (eds.) Analysing Variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Montgomery, C. (2010, forthcoming) 'Mapping language perceptions'. In: R. Kehrein (ed.), Handbook of Language Mapping. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Montgomery, C. (2010, forthcoming) 'Mapping the perceptions of non-linguists in Northern England'. In: Stoeckle, P, Streck, T., Schwarz, C. and Hansen, S. (eds.) Dialectological and folk dialectological concepts of space - current methods and perspectives in sociolinguistic research on dialect change. Freiburg: FRIAS
Montgomery, C. (2007) 'Perceptions of Liverpool English'. In: Grey, C. and Grant, A. (eds.), Liverpool English. Liverpool: Open House Press.
