Sarah Van Eyndhoven
PhD Linguistics & English Language
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: S1890120@.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 4 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
AMC scholar researching written Scots in political correspondence at the turn of the 18th century.
Personal website: https://svaney22.github.io/
CV
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Qualifications
BA Hons (First Class) in History and Linguistics
- 2012-2015: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
MA in Linguistics (with Distinction)
- 2017-2018: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Dissertation title: `An Eye for an Aye': Linguistic and Political Backlash and Conformity in Eighteenth-Century Scots
PhD (current) in Linguistics and English Language
- 2019-present: University of Edinburgh
- Working project title: Ideology and Identity in the use of written Scots during the Union of 1707
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Co-organiser of Language in Context seminar series (2019-present) (https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language/research/talks-and-reading-groups/language-in-context-seminars)
- Member of the organising committee for the 2nd annual Scots@Ed Conference 2020
Undergraduate teaching
2018-19
Tutor:
- Linguistics and English Language 2C: English in Time and Space
2019-20
Tutor:
- Linguistics and English Language 1A
- Linguistics and English Language 2C: English in Time and Space
2020-21
- Linguistics and English Language 1A
- Linguistics and English Language 2C: English in Time and Space
- PPLS Skills Centre Tutor
Postgraduate teaching
2020-21
- Historical Linguistics (LASC10021)
- PPLS Skills Centre Tutor
Research summary
Historical sociolinguistics, Scots, diachronic variation and change, enregisterment and indexicality
Current research interests
My current research is focussed on the use of written Scots during the Union debates of 1689-1707 and how questions of identity, ideology and nationhood may have influenced authors' use of Scots, at a time when written Scots had all but disappeared from most genres. This involves collecting and digitising the correspondence of key players in the Union debates, and tagging instances of Scots orthography and lexis, to investigate the factors influencing any variation observed.Knowledge exchange
My interests have also included Middle Scots and studies in language contact and colonial varieties (especially New Zealand English).
Affiliated research centres
Current project grants
PhD Studentship: McIntosh-Patterson Doctoral Studentship (Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics)
- Dr Lauren Hall-Lew
- Dr Rhona Alcorn
- Dr Alasdair Raffe