Ren, Jialiang Justin (ongoing)
Alvares, Antonia (ongoing)
McKnight, Jocelyn (ongoing)
Deng, Wenxiyuan (ongoing)
Chen, Changhe (2026)
Adjong, Darius (2025)
Bisilki, Abraham Kwesi (2022)
Cheung, Ching-Yat Lewis (2022)
Grunberg, Cynthia (2022)
Josafath-Eduards, Lenie (2022)
Schneider, Luise (2021)
Atiku, Alkali Abubakar (2018)
Perangin Angin, Dalan (2018)
Yang, Yang (2016)
Berends, Jan Willem (2016)
Jia, Fanlu (2016)
Kwok, Pui-yan Veronica (2016)
Wu, Mengqi (2014)
Examines social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization from an African perspective.
Addresses the impact of globalization, colonization, nation-statism, and bottom-up processes on linguistic diversity.
Introduces students to the art and science of collecting and analysing real-life language data during experiential learning trips.
Explores the relationship between language and society, covering topics such as language variation, gender, language attitudes and ideologies.
Examines linguistic and social aspects of language contact and change, including, code-switching, language shift and creolization in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Uses first-hand field data, online media, and databases to explore the structure, genealogy, and sociopolitical dynamics of creoles like Nigerian Pidgin, Jamaican, and Sranan.
Surveys Africa's linguistic diversity, the structure and functions of languages like Kiswahili and West African Pidgin, and the role of African and colonial languages in government, education and media.
Explores links between language structures and cognitive processes covering concepts like frequency, saliency, iconicity, transparency, and the grammaticalization of spatial relations.
Addresses multilingualism in speakers and societies, covering theoretical approaches and case studies of linguistic and cultural diversity and their reflection in language structures.