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Overview

Jenny Cheshire is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on areas within Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Language and Linguistics. The subfields covered by Cheshire's work include Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory, and Communication.

The main topics addressed in their research incorporate Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Multilingual Education and Policy, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity, and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation.

Jenny Cheshire has published several recent papers across various academic venues, including:

  • "English negation from an interactional perspective" (2022) in Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage
  • "Still Changing: Semantic Innovation and Change in Multicultural London English" (2024) in Journal of English Linguistics
  • "Multicultural London English and New-Dialect Formation" (2023) in Roczniki Humanistyczne
  • "Direct evidentiality in the grammar of English: must have in a London dialect" (2025) in English Language and Linguistics

Their publications appear most frequently in the following venues:

  • English Language and Linguistics
  • Journal of English Linguistics
  • Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage
  • Roczniki Humanistyczne
  • Transactions of the Philological Society

Collaborations have been established with several coauthors, including Zoë Adams, David A. Hall, Rosamund Oxbury, Matthew Hunt, and Heike Pichler. Cheshire has coauthored multiple papers with Zoë Adams and David A. Hall, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English

    Jenny Cheshire;Paul Kerswill;Susan Fox;Eivind Torgersen

  • English around the world : sociolinguistic perspectives

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Variation in an English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Study

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Discourse variation, grammaticalisation and stuff like that

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: Linguistic innovation in London

    Jenny Cheshire;Sue Fox;Paul Kerswill;Eivind Nessa Torgersen

  • English as a cultural symbol: The case of advertisements in French‐speaking Switzerland

    Jenny Cheshire;Lise‐Marie Moser

  • Linguistic Variation and Social Function

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Syntactic variation, the linguistic variable, and sociolinguistic theory

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Sex and Gender in Variationist Research

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Was/were variation: A perspective from London

    Jenny Cheshire;Susan Fox

  • Syntactic variation and beyond: Gender and social class variation in the use of discourse-new markers1

    Jenny Cheshire

  • SPOKEN STANDARD ENGLISH

    Jenny Cheshire

  • The telling or the tale? Narratives and gender in adolescent friendship networks

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Parallel patterns? A comparison of monolingual speech and bilingual codeswitching discourse

    Penelope Gardner-Chloros;Reeva Charles;Reeva Charles;Jenny Cheshire

  • Urban British Dialect Grammar: The Question of Dialect Levelling

    Jenny Cheshire;Viv K. Edwards;Pamela Whittle

  • Dialect and Education: Some European Perspectives

    Jenny Cheshire

  • That jacksprat: An interactional perspective on English that ☆

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Phonology, grammar, and discourse in dialect convergence

    Jenny Cheshire;Paul Kerswill;Ann Williams

  • Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun

    Jenny Cheshire

  • Negation in the history of English

    Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade;Gunnel Tottie;Wim van der Wurff;Frits Beukema

  • Taming the Vernacular: From dialect to written standard language

    Jenny Cheshire;Dieter Stein

  • Variation in an English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Study

    Timothy C. Frazer;Jenny Cheshire

  • Gender and discourse

    Jenny Cheshire;Peter Trudgill

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Kerswill
Paul Kerswill University of York
Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill University of Fribourg
Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University
Kendall A. King
Kendall A. King University of Minnesota
Liliane Haegeman
Liliane Haegeman Ghent University
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Douglas W. Maynard
Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles

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