Dr. Susan Fox

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Susan Fox is an Associate Researcher in the Department of English at the University of Bern. Her research primarily focuses on sociolinguistics, examining language variation and change, particularly in urban multicultural contexts. She has a keen interest in multiethnolects and the impact of immigration on dialect change, analyzing how adolescents' speech reflects linguistic variation from a variationist perspective. Fox's academic contributions include multiple journal articles and book chapters that explore topics such as social salience in sociolinguistic monitoring, the emergence of new dialects, and pragmatic markers in London English. Her teaching includes courses on discourse-pragmatic variation and the global aspects of English. Fox has led projects funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, which aim to disseminate findings on linguistic innovations in multicultural environments to educators and students. She is a prominent figure in examining how social factors influence language practices in diverse urban settings.

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