Kirsten Lawson is currently an English Language Research Assistant at the Department of Pharmacy and Health and Nutritional Sciences of the University of Calabria and an Adjunct Professor of English at the Department of Literatures, Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bergamo. She holds a a PhD in Linguistic, Literary and intercultural Studies in European and Extra-European Perspectives from the State University of Milan. Her doctoral research project examined a corpus of Great War letters written by semiliterate Scottish soldiers. Her current research interests include Critical Discourse Analysis, adopting a Discourse Historical Approach and Sociolinguistics, supported by the methodological tools from the field of corpus linguistics. Her recent publications include: “To see oursels as others see us”: Scottish National Identity in Great War Trench Letters. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (forthcoming); “Just a few lines to let you know”: Formulaic language and personalization strategies in Great War trench letters written by semi-literate Scottish soldiers, Lingue e Linguaggi (2019); “Expressive Trilingual Code-switching: Emotional Lexical Preferences in Trench Letters, RiPLA (2018); “Letters from Somewhere in France: Reconstructing Knowledge of Life in the Trenches through Letters from the Front”, In M. Dossena (ed.), The Sharing of Knowledge in the Long 19th Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016); Scots: A poor variation of English or a language in its own right?’ In D. Britain, & S. Guzzo (eds.), Languaging Diversity Variationist Approaches, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016); Speaking the Same Language: Italian University Student Perceptions of Native and Non-Native English Speaking Teachers, In A. F. Plastina (ed.), Challenging Language Barriers in the Public Service: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Aracne (2016); Scots: a language or a dialect? Attitudes to Scots in Pre-Referendum Scotland in HJEAS International Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (2015); The Legal Gap in the Social Practice of Scots: Resolution or Violation? in G. Tessuto & R. Salvi (eds.), Language and Law in Social Practice, Mantova: Universitas Studiorum (2015); Scots: A poor variation of English or a language in its own right? Perceptions in Scotland Prior to the Referendum on Independence, ALPPI – Annual of Language & Politics and Politics of Identity (2014).
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