Svenja Adolphs

Svenja Adolphs is a British linguist whose research involves analysis of corpus data including sources of multimodal material such as the Nottingham Multimodal Corpus (NMMC) to examine communication in new forms of digital records. Using visual mark-up systems, her work allows a better understanding of the nature of natural language use. She is a co-founder (along with Paul Crawford and Ronald Carter) of the Health Language Research Group at the University of Nottingham, bringing together academics and clinicians to advance the work of applied linguistics in health care settings.[1]

Biography

Adolphs earned her PhD in 2001 from the University of Nottingham.[2] She is currently a Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Nottingham. At Nottingham she has served as Head of English Language and Applied Linguistics, Deputy Head of School, and Chair of the Faculty of Arts Impact Strategy Group and Chair of the Creative Industries Task Force.

From 2004-2007 she was a member of the executive committee[3] of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, and represented BAAL in the Network of European Applied Linguists and the International Association for Applied Linguistics.

Adolphs is the co-investigator on a grant that looked at adolescent language use in discussing health issues in the online forums of the Teenage Health Freak website.[4]

She is the member of a number of academic journal editorial boards, including those for Corpora,[5] The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics,[6] and the ELR Journal.[7]

Starting in 2014 she has been a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC),[8] a position which is appointed by the Minister for Universities and Science and which is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the AHRC, including its key objectives and targets.

Selected publications

S. Adolphs. 2008. Corpus and context: Investigating pragmatic functions in spoken discourse. John Benjamins.

S Adolphs. 2006. Introducing electronic text analysis: A practical guide for language and literary studies. Routledge.

S. Adolphs, B. Brown, R. Carter, P. Crawford, and O. Sahota. 2004. “Applying corpus linguistics in a health care context,” Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice.

N. Schmitt, Z. Dornyei, S. Adolphs, and V. Durow. 2004. “Knowledge and acquisition of formulaic sequences,” Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, Processing, and Use. John Benjamins.

S. Adolphs and N. Schmitt. 2003. “Lexical coverage of spoken discourse,” Applied Linguistics.

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to COMET Society". Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "British Library EThOS". Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ "BAAL Executive Committee" (PDF). Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Gateway to Research". Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Editorial Board--Edinburgh University Press". Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ "John Benjamins Publishing Company". Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ "ELR Journal--Editorial Board". Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Governance Structure". Arts and Humanities Research Council. Retrieved January 2, 2016.

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