Changes in Code-Switching Patterns among Hindi-English Bilinguals in Northern India

This study investigates changes in code-switching (CS) patterns among Hindi-English bilinguals in Northern India. There is a dearth of studies of naturalistic Hindi-English CS, which this study attempts to address. By recording a group of three older speakers and one of three younger speakers, the study identifies generational differences in CS behaviour. Echoing Si’s (2010) results, it finds younger speakers using more English overall, preferring to alternate between fully English or fully Hindi clauses, while older speakers insert English items into Hindi clauses more often. Finally, the paper investigates how CS reflects and aids speakers’ (linguistic) identity construction in modern India

Negotiating violence: public discourses about political violence in Interwar Britain and German

This thesis analyses public discourses about political violence in interwar Britain and Germany. Much of the existing work on political violence in the aftermath of the First World War has focused on the defeated countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A comparative study on Germany and Great Britain, however, has not previously been undertaken and therefore presents a novel and ambitious addition to the field. The study’s approach is based on the assumption that analysing inherently public discourses, primarily press and parliamentary language, can provide insights into both nations’ identity construction, both domestically and internationally. A series of case studies from the early and late interwar period has been chosen for this purpose. In examining the discourses exhibited in reaction to these case studies, the thesis will find that the language used publicly to discuss political violence in both countries referenced a series of common themes which aided in constructing the desired national narratives and identities. In the aftermath of the experience of extreme violence during the First World War, in particular, these themes revolved around notions of civilisation, justice, law and order, and, especially in the case of the young Weimar Republic, the desire to establish membership in the international community of civilised, democratic nations. Additionally, race, class, nation, gender, and political conviction were recurring rhetorical frameworks, along which public discourses sought to categorise victims and perpetrators of violence, legitimising certain acts of political violence while delegitimising others. While the thesis presents these thematic similarities, crucial differences in the nature, intensity, and contexts of German and British public discourses on political violence were obvious, pointing towards both countries’ divergent paths. The thesis’ undisputed conceptual vanishing point is the rise of Nazism in Germany. Thus, by comparing German interwar discourses on political violence to British ones, the thesis retraces important watershed moments at which language contributed to shifting the boundaries of acceptable uses of violence in the name of politics. Furthermore, by its comparative approach, the thesis actively seeks to Europeanise British history more than it traditionally has been; similarly, by consciously including case studies from the colonial sphere, it seeks to integrate British and imperial histories more meaningfully

Imagining the city in lockdown: Place in the COVID-19 self-recordings of the Lothian Diary Project

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a profound change to the organization of space and time in our daily lives. In this paper we analyze the self-recorded audio/video diaries made by residents of Edinburgh and the Lothian counties during the first national lockdown. We identify three ways in which diarists describe a shift in place-time, or “chronotope”, in lockdown. We argue that the act of making a diary for an audience of the future prompts diarists to contrast different chronotopes, and each of these orientations illuminates the differential impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns across the community

The Lothian Diary Project - Sep 2022

The Lothian Diary Project consists of 195 audio/video recordings collected between May 2020 and July 2021 from residents of Edinburgh and the Lothian counties in Scotland. The diaries comprise self-recorded monologues or semi-structured interviews in which participants discuss their experiences during different stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recordings were uploaded to an online survey that also collected consent, demographic information, and opinion regarding Covid-related policies. This archive contains all Lothian Diaries with maximum sharing consent (internet, TV, radio etc.) submitted to The Lothian Diary Project after 4 October 2020. There are 44 diaries submitted by participants who agree for their names to be made public (in folder 'Name_Public') and 42 by participants who would like to remain anonymous (in folder 'Anon_Public'). Some recordings were submitted in several parts. All diaries are identified by a unique participant ID (number). Diaries are stored in WAV format (audio) or MP4 format (video) and time-aligned transcriptions are stored in tab-delimited plain text files. All transcriptions were auto-generated and have been hand-corrected

The Lothian Diary Project - Oct 2020

The ongoing Lothian Diary Project consists of 125+ audio/video recordings collected since May 2020 from residents of Edinburgh and the Lothian counties in Scotland. The diaries comprise self-recorded monologues or semi-structured interviews in which participants discuss their experiences during different stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recordings were uploaded to an online survey that also collected consent, demographic information, and opinion regarding Covid-related policies. This archive contains all fully transcribed Lothian Diaries with maximum sharing consent (internet, TV, radio etc.) submitted to The Lothian Diary Project prior to 4 October 2020. There are 24 diaries submitted by participants who agree for their names to be made public (in folder 'Name_Public') and 21 by participants who would like to remain anonymous (in folder 'Anon_Public'). All diaries are identified by a unique participant ID (number). Diaries are stored in WAV format (audio) or MP4 format (video) and time-aligned transcriptions are stored in tab-delimited plain text files. All transcriptions were auto-generated and have been hand-corrected.Hall-Lew, Lauren; Cowie, Claire; McNulty, Stephen; Markl, Nina; Liu, Sarah; Lai, Catherine; Llewellyn, Clare; Fang, Nini; Elliott Slosarova, Zuzana; Klingler, Anita. (2021). The Lothian Diary Project - Oct 2020, 2020 [Dataset]. University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/3009

Lothian Diaries Dataset 1 (May-September 2020)

This archive contains all fully transcribed Lothian Diaries with maximum sharing consent (internet, TV, radio etc.) submitted to The Lothian Diary Project prior to 30 September 2020, along with accompanying survey data. There are 24 diaries submitted by participants who agree for their names to be made public (in folder 'Name_Public') and 21 by participants who would like to remain anonymous (in folder 'Anon_Public'). All diaries are identified by a unique participant ID consisting of the first 3/4 characters of the postcode (e.g. EH14), the speaker's gender (F/M) and their year of birth. Diaries are stored in either WAV format (audio) or MP4 format (video), depending on participant preference. Time-aligned transcriptions of both types of files are stored in tab-delimited plain text files. All transcriptions were auto-generated and have been hand-corrected. Demographic information and survey responses can be found in Lothian_Diaries_Participants_30092020.xlsx A copy of the Qualtrics survey, including questions for obtaining consent of use, can be found in Lothian_Diaries_Main_Survey_30062020.pdf A description of data collection and data processing methods can be found in Lothian_Diaries_Data_Collection_Processing.pdfHall-Lew, Lauren; Cowie, Claire; Lai, Catherine; Liu, Shan-Jan Sarah; Markl, Nina; McNulty, Stephen; Alex, Bea; Llewellyn, Clare; Fang, Nini; Elliott, Zuzana; Klinger, Anita. (2021). Lothian Diaries Dataset 1 (May-September 2020) [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language. DataVault. 10.7488/7a22cc4b-87ec-4df3-a549-3b347fd4bca5