Professor Nikolas Coupland
BA (Oxon.) B.Ling (Manchester) MA (Reading) PhD (Wales)
Emeritus Professor
Overview
Professor Nikolas Coupland is an elected member of the Academy of Social Sciences.
For many years he was Research Director of the Centre for Language and Communication Research. He is now Research Professor at Cardiff, and holds a part-time chair appointment at the University of Copenhagen, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for career services to Sociolinguistics.
He is also Distinguished Professor Sociolinguistics at University of Technology Sydney.
Publication
2014
- Coupland, B. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2014. The authenticating discourses of mining heritage tourism in Cornwall and Wales. Journal of Sociolinguistics 18(4), pp. 495-517. (10.1111/josl.12081)
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2014. Language change, social change, sociolinguistic change: a meta-commentary. Journal of Sociolinguistics 18(2), pp. 277-286. (10.1111/josl.12077)
2012
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2012. Bilingualism on display: The framing of Welsh and English in Welsh public spaces. Language in Society 41(1), pp. 1-27. (10.1017/S0047404511000893)
2011
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. Voice, place and genre in popular song performance. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(5), pp. 573-602. (10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00514.x)
- Kristiansen, T. and Coupland, N. J. R. eds. 2011. Standard languages and language standards in a changing Europe. Oslo: Novus Press.
- Garrett, P. D., Selleck, C. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. English in England and Wales: Multiple ideologies. In: Coupland, N. and Kristiansen, T. eds. Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe Vol. 1. Oslo: Novus, pp. 47-56.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Kristiansen, T. 2011. SLICE: Critical perspectives on language (de)standardisation. In: Kristiansen, T. and Coupland, N. eds. Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Oslo: Novus, pp. 11-35.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. The sociolinguistics of style. In: Mesthrie, R. ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 138-156.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. Preface. In: Backhaus, P. ed. Communication in elderly care:cross-cultural perspectives. London: Continuum, pp. vii-xii.
- Coupland, N. 2011. How frequent are numbers?. Language and Communication 31(1), pp. 27-37. (10.1016/j.langcom.2010.09.001)
2010
- Coupland, N. and Garrett, P. D. 2010. Linguistic Landscapes, Discursive Frames and Metacultural Performance: The Case of Welsh Patagonia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 205, pp. 7-36. (10.1515/IJSL.2010.037)
- Coupland, N. 2010. Language, ideology, media and social change. In: Junod, K. and Maillat, D. eds. Performing the Self. Spell : Swiss papers in English language and literature Vol. 24. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 127-151.
- Coupland, N. 2010. 'Other' representation. In: Jaspers, J., Ostman, J. and Verschueren, J. eds. Society and Language Use. Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights Vol. 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 241-260.
- Coupland, N. 2010. Accommodation theory. In: Jaspers, J., Ostman, J. and Verschueren, J. eds. Society and Language Use. Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights Vol. 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 21-27.
- Coupland, N. J. R. ed. 2010. Handbook of language and globalization. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Coupland, N. 2010. Introduction: sociolinguistics in the global era. In: Coupland, N. ed. Handbook of Language and Globalization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1-27.
- Coupland, N. 2010. The authentic speaker and the speech community. In: Llamas, C. and Watts, D. eds. Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 99-112.
- Coupland, N. 2010. Welsh linguistic landscapes 'from above' and 'from below'. In: Jaworski, A. and Thurlow, C. eds. Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. Advances in sociolinguistics London: Continuum, pp. 77-101.
2009
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Aldridge-Waddon, M. 2009. Preface [Editorial]. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 195, pp. 1. (10.1515/IJSL.2009.001)
- Garrett, P. D., Bishop, H. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Diasporic ethnolinguistic subjectivities: Patagonia, North America, and Wales. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009(195), pp. 173-199. (10.1515/IJSL.2009.010)
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 1. The sociolinguistics of language variation and change. London and New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 6. Theoretical perspectives in sociolinguistics. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 5. The sociolinguistics of culture. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 4. The sociolinguistics of multilingualism. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 3. Interactional sociolinguistics. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 2. Subjective and ideological processes in sociolinguistics. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Aldridge, M. 2009. A critical approach to the revitalisation of Welsh : introduction. International journal of the sociology of language 195(2009), pp. 5 -13.
- Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. The new sociolinguistics reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics. Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge.
- Coupland, J. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Attributing stance in discourses of body shape and weight loss. In: Jaffe, A. M. ed. Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 227-49.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Dialect style, social class and metacultural performance: the pantomime dame. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 311-325.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Sociolinguistics theory and social theory. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics., Vol. 6. London: Routledge
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Dialects, standards and social change. In: Maegaard, M. et al. eds. Language Attitudes, Standardization and Language Change: Festschrift for Tore Kristiansen. Oslo: Novus, pp. 27-50.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. The mediated performance of vernaculars. Journal of English Linguistics 37(3), pp. 284-300.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Aldridge, M. 2009. Introduction: A critical approach to the revitalization of Welsh. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 195, pp. 5-13.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Bishop, H. 2009. Ideologised values for British accents. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics., Vol. 2. London: Routledge, pp. 18-43.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. 2009. Introduction: a critical history of sociolinguistics. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics., Vol. 1. London: Routledge, pp. 1-52.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. 2009. Sociolinguistics: social worlds through language. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-21.
2008
- Jaworski, A. and Coupland, N. eds. 2008. The discourse reader. London: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2008. Sociolinguistics : a reader and coursebook. Modern Linguistics Series. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2008. The delicate constitution of identity in face-to-face accommodation: a response to Trudgill. Language in Society 37(2), pp. 267-270. (10.1017/S0047404508080329)
2007
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2007. Style: language variation and identity. Key Topics in Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2007. Aneurin Bevan, class wars and the styling of political antagonism. In: Peter, A. ed. Social Identity and Communicative Styles: An Alternative Approach to Variability in Language. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 215-247.
2006
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H., Evans, B. and Garrett, P. D. 2006. Imagining Wales and the Welsh language: Ethnolinguistic subjectivities and demographic flow. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 25(4), pp. 351-376. (10.1177/0261927X06292803)
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H. and Garrett, P. D. 2006. One Wales? Reassessing diversity in Welsh ethnolinguistic identification. Contemporary Wales 18(1), pp. 1-27.
2005
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Bishop, H. 2005. Globalisation and the visualisation of Wales and Welsh America: Y Drych, 1948-2001. Ethnicities 5(4), pp. 530-564. (10.1177/1468796805058104)
- Bishop, H., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. 2005. Globalisation, advertising and language choice: Shifting values for Welsh and Welshness in Y Drych, 1851–2001. Multilingua 24(4), pp. 343-378. (10.1515/mult.2005.24.4.343)
- Coupland, N., Garrett, P. D. and Bishop, H. 2005. Wales underground: Discursive frames and authenticities in Welsh mining heritage tourism events. In: Jaworski, A. and Pritchard, A. eds. Discourse, communication and tourism. Clevedon: Channel View Publications, pp. 199-222.
- Kristiansen, T., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. eds. 2005. Subjective processes in language variation and change [Guest editorial of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia]. Reitzel.
- Bishop, H., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. 2005. Conceptual accent evaluation: thirty years of accent prejudice in the UK. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 37(1), pp. 131-154. (10.1080/03740463.2005.10416087)
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H., Williams, A., Evans, B. and Garrett, P. D. 2005. Affiliation, engagement, language use and vitality: secondary school students' subjective orientations to Welsh and Welshness. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 8(1), pp. 1-24. (10.1080/jBEB.v8.i1.pg1)
- Coupland, N., Garrett, P. D. and Williams, A. 2005. Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation. In: Thornborrow, J. and Coates, J. eds. The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Studies in Narrative Vol. 6. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 67-88.
- Kristiansen, T., Garrett, P. D. and Coupland, N. 2005. Introducing sujectivities in language variation and change. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 37(1), pp. 9-35. (10.1080/03740463.2005.10416081)
2004
- Jaworski, A., Galasinski, D. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2004. Metalanguage: social and ideological perspectives. Language, power, and social process Vol. 11. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Williams, A. 2004. Adolescents' lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobs. In: Jaworski, A., Coupland, N. J. R. and Galasinski, D. eds. Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives. Language, Power and Social Process Vol. 11. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 193-226., (10.1515/9783110907377.193)
2003
- Garrett, P. D., Williams, A. M. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2003. Investigating language attitudes: social meanings of dialect, ethnicity and performance. University of Wales Press - Writers of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Bishop, H., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. 2003. 'Blood is thicker than the water that separates us!' Dimensions and qualities of Welsh identity in the North American diaspora. North American Journal of Welsh Studies 3, pp. 37-52.
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H. and Garrett, P. D. 2003. Home truths: globalisation and the iconising of Welsh in a Welsh American newspaper. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 24(3), pp. 153-177. (10.1080/01434630308666495)
2001
- Coupland, N. J. R., Candlin, C. and Sarangi, S. eds. 2001. Sociolinguistics and social theory. Pearson Education.
- Coupland, J. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2001. Roles, responsibilities and alignments: multi-party talk in geriatric care. In: Mary, L. H. and Jon, N. eds. Aging, Communication and Health: Linking Research and Practice for Successful Aging. Routledge Communication Series Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 125-160.
1999
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Williams, A. 1999. Evaluating dialect in discourse: teachers' and teenagers' responses to young English speakers in Wales. Language in Society 28(3), pp. 321-354.
- Coupland, N. J. R., Williams, A. and Garrett, P. D. 1999. "Welshness" and "Englishness" as attitudinal dimensions of English language varieties in Wales. In: Preston, D. R. ed. Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology., Vol. 1. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 333-343., (10.1075/z.hpd1.28cou)
- Williams, A., Garrett, P. D. and Coupland, N. J. R. 1999. Dialect recognition. In: Preston, D. R. ed. Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology., Vol. 1. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 345-358., (10.1075/z.hpd1.29wil)
1998
- Peate, M. R., Coupland, N. and Garrett, P. D. 1998. Teaching Welsh and English in Wales. In: Tulasiewicz, W. and Adams, A. eds. Teaching the mother tongue in a multilingual Europe. Cassell Education London: Continuum, pp. 87-101.
1996
- Williams, A., Garrett, P. D. and Coupland, N. J. R. 1996. Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes: Teachers’ perceptions of variation in Welsh English. Multilingua 15(2), pp. 171-197. (10.1515/mult.1996.15.2.171)
1995
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Williams, A. 1995. ‘City harsh’ and ‘the Welsh version of RP’: Some ways in which teachers view dialects of Welsh English. Language Awareness 4(2), pp. 99-107. (10.1080/09658416.1995.9959872)
1994
- Coupland, N. J. R., Williams, A. and Garrett, P. D. 1994. The social meanings of Welsh English: Teachers’ stereotyped judgements. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 15(6), pp. 471-489. (10.1080/01434632.1994.9994585)
1991
- Coupland, N. J. R., Coupland, J. and Howard, G. 1991. Language, society and the elderly: discourse, identity and ageing. Oxford: Blackwell.
1989
- Garrett, P. D., Giles, H. and Coupland, N. 1989. The contexts of language learning: Extending the intergroup model of second language acquisition. In: Ting-Toomey, S. and Korzenny, F. eds. Language, Communication, and Culture: Current Directions. International and Intercultural Communication Annual Vol. 13. London: SAGE, pp. 201-221.
1988
- Giles, H., Garrett, P. and Coupland, N. 1988. Language acquisition in the Basque country: invoking and extending the intergroup model. Presented at: Congress of the Basque Language 1987, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, 31 August - 4 September 1987Euskara Biltzarra - Congreso de la Lengua Vasca. Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco pp. 297-310.
- Coupland, N. 1988. Dialect in use : sociolinguistic variation in Cardiff English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Articles
- Coupland, B. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2014. The authenticating discourses of mining heritage tourism in Cornwall and Wales. Journal of Sociolinguistics 18(4), pp. 495-517. (10.1111/josl.12081)
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2014. Language change, social change, sociolinguistic change: a meta-commentary. Journal of Sociolinguistics 18(2), pp. 277-286. (10.1111/josl.12077)
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2012. Bilingualism on display: The framing of Welsh and English in Welsh public spaces. Language in Society 41(1), pp. 1-27. (10.1017/S0047404511000893)
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. Voice, place and genre in popular song performance. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(5), pp. 573-602. (10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00514.x)
- Coupland, N. 2011. How frequent are numbers?. Language and Communication 31(1), pp. 27-37. (10.1016/j.langcom.2010.09.001)
- Coupland, N. and Garrett, P. D. 2010. Linguistic Landscapes, Discursive Frames and Metacultural Performance: The Case of Welsh Patagonia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 205, pp. 7-36. (10.1515/IJSL.2010.037)
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Aldridge-Waddon, M. 2009. Preface [Editorial]. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 195, pp. 1. (10.1515/IJSL.2009.001)
- Garrett, P. D., Bishop, H. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Diasporic ethnolinguistic subjectivities: Patagonia, North America, and Wales. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009(195), pp. 173-199. (10.1515/IJSL.2009.010)
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Aldridge, M. 2009. A critical approach to the revitalisation of Welsh : introduction. International journal of the sociology of language 195(2009), pp. 5 -13.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. The mediated performance of vernaculars. Journal of English Linguistics 37(3), pp. 284-300.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Aldridge, M. 2009. Introduction: A critical approach to the revitalization of Welsh. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 195, pp. 5-13.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2008. The delicate constitution of identity in face-to-face accommodation: a response to Trudgill. Language in Society 37(2), pp. 267-270. (10.1017/S0047404508080329)
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H., Evans, B. and Garrett, P. D. 2006. Imagining Wales and the Welsh language: Ethnolinguistic subjectivities and demographic flow. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 25(4), pp. 351-376. (10.1177/0261927X06292803)
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H. and Garrett, P. D. 2006. One Wales? Reassessing diversity in Welsh ethnolinguistic identification. Contemporary Wales 18(1), pp. 1-27.
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Bishop, H. 2005. Globalisation and the visualisation of Wales and Welsh America: Y Drych, 1948-2001. Ethnicities 5(4), pp. 530-564. (10.1177/1468796805058104)
- Bishop, H., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. 2005. Globalisation, advertising and language choice: Shifting values for Welsh and Welshness in Y Drych, 1851–2001. Multilingua 24(4), pp. 343-378. (10.1515/mult.2005.24.4.343)
- Bishop, H., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. 2005. Conceptual accent evaluation: thirty years of accent prejudice in the UK. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 37(1), pp. 131-154. (10.1080/03740463.2005.10416087)
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H., Williams, A., Evans, B. and Garrett, P. D. 2005. Affiliation, engagement, language use and vitality: secondary school students' subjective orientations to Welsh and Welshness. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 8(1), pp. 1-24. (10.1080/jBEB.v8.i1.pg1)
- Kristiansen, T., Garrett, P. D. and Coupland, N. 2005. Introducing sujectivities in language variation and change. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 37(1), pp. 9-35. (10.1080/03740463.2005.10416081)
- Bishop, H., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. 2003. 'Blood is thicker than the water that separates us!' Dimensions and qualities of Welsh identity in the North American diaspora. North American Journal of Welsh Studies 3, pp. 37-52.
- Coupland, N. J. R., Bishop, H. and Garrett, P. D. 2003. Home truths: globalisation and the iconising of Welsh in a Welsh American newspaper. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 24(3), pp. 153-177. (10.1080/01434630308666495)
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Williams, A. 1999. Evaluating dialect in discourse: teachers' and teenagers' responses to young English speakers in Wales. Language in Society 28(3), pp. 321-354.
- Williams, A., Garrett, P. D. and Coupland, N. J. R. 1996. Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes: Teachers’ perceptions of variation in Welsh English. Multilingua 15(2), pp. 171-197. (10.1515/mult.1996.15.2.171)
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Williams, A. 1995. ‘City harsh’ and ‘the Welsh version of RP’: Some ways in which teachers view dialects of Welsh English. Language Awareness 4(2), pp. 99-107. (10.1080/09658416.1995.9959872)
- Coupland, N. J. R., Williams, A. and Garrett, P. D. 1994. The social meanings of Welsh English: Teachers’ stereotyped judgements. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 15(6), pp. 471-489. (10.1080/01434632.1994.9994585)
Book sections
- Garrett, P. D., Selleck, C. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. English in England and Wales: Multiple ideologies. In: Coupland, N. and Kristiansen, T. eds. Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe Vol. 1. Oslo: Novus, pp. 47-56.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Kristiansen, T. 2011. SLICE: Critical perspectives on language (de)standardisation. In: Kristiansen, T. and Coupland, N. eds. Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Oslo: Novus, pp. 11-35.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. The sociolinguistics of style. In: Mesthrie, R. ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 138-156.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2011. Preface. In: Backhaus, P. ed. Communication in elderly care:cross-cultural perspectives. London: Continuum, pp. vii-xii.
- Coupland, N. 2010. Language, ideology, media and social change. In: Junod, K. and Maillat, D. eds. Performing the Self. Spell : Swiss papers in English language and literature Vol. 24. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 127-151.
- Coupland, N. 2010. 'Other' representation. In: Jaspers, J., Ostman, J. and Verschueren, J. eds. Society and Language Use. Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights Vol. 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 241-260.
- Coupland, N. 2010. Accommodation theory. In: Jaspers, J., Ostman, J. and Verschueren, J. eds. Society and Language Use. Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights Vol. 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 21-27.
- Coupland, N. 2010. Introduction: sociolinguistics in the global era. In: Coupland, N. ed. Handbook of Language and Globalization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1-27.
- Coupland, N. 2010. The authentic speaker and the speech community. In: Llamas, C. and Watts, D. eds. Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 99-112.
- Coupland, N. 2010. Welsh linguistic landscapes 'from above' and 'from below'. In: Jaworski, A. and Thurlow, C. eds. Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. Advances in sociolinguistics London: Continuum, pp. 77-101.
- Coupland, J. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Attributing stance in discourses of body shape and weight loss. In: Jaffe, A. M. ed. Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 227-49.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Dialect style, social class and metacultural performance: the pantomime dame. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 311-325.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Sociolinguistics theory and social theory. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics., Vol. 6. London: Routledge
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2009. Dialects, standards and social change. In: Maegaard, M. et al. eds. Language Attitudes, Standardization and Language Change: Festschrift for Tore Kristiansen. Oslo: Novus, pp. 27-50.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Bishop, H. 2009. Ideologised values for British accents. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics., Vol. 2. London: Routledge, pp. 18-43.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. 2009. Introduction: a critical history of sociolinguistics. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics., Vol. 1. London: Routledge, pp. 1-52.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. 2009. Sociolinguistics: social worlds through language. In: Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-21.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2007. Aneurin Bevan, class wars and the styling of political antagonism. In: Peter, A. ed. Social Identity and Communicative Styles: An Alternative Approach to Variability in Language. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 215-247.
- Coupland, N., Garrett, P. D. and Bishop, H. 2005. Wales underground: Discursive frames and authenticities in Welsh mining heritage tourism events. In: Jaworski, A. and Pritchard, A. eds. Discourse, communication and tourism. Clevedon: Channel View Publications, pp. 199-222.
- Coupland, N., Garrett, P. D. and Williams, A. 2005. Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation. In: Thornborrow, J. and Coates, J. eds. The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Studies in Narrative Vol. 6. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 67-88.
- Garrett, P. D., Coupland, N. J. R. and Williams, A. 2004. Adolescents' lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobs. In: Jaworski, A., Coupland, N. J. R. and Galasinski, D. eds. Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives. Language, Power and Social Process Vol. 11. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 193-226., (10.1515/9783110907377.193)
- Coupland, J. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2001. Roles, responsibilities and alignments: multi-party talk in geriatric care. In: Mary, L. H. and Jon, N. eds. Aging, Communication and Health: Linking Research and Practice for Successful Aging. Routledge Communication Series Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 125-160.
- Coupland, N. J. R., Williams, A. and Garrett, P. D. 1999. "Welshness" and "Englishness" as attitudinal dimensions of English language varieties in Wales. In: Preston, D. R. ed. Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology., Vol. 1. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 333-343., (10.1075/z.hpd1.28cou)
- Williams, A., Garrett, P. D. and Coupland, N. J. R. 1999. Dialect recognition. In: Preston, D. R. ed. Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology., Vol. 1. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 345-358., (10.1075/z.hpd1.29wil)
- Peate, M. R., Coupland, N. and Garrett, P. D. 1998. Teaching Welsh and English in Wales. In: Tulasiewicz, W. and Adams, A. eds. Teaching the mother tongue in a multilingual Europe. Cassell Education London: Continuum, pp. 87-101.
- Garrett, P. D., Giles, H. and Coupland, N. 1989. The contexts of language learning: Extending the intergroup model of second language acquisition. In: Ting-Toomey, S. and Korzenny, F. eds. Language, Communication, and Culture: Current Directions. International and Intercultural Communication Annual Vol. 13. London: SAGE, pp. 201-221.
Books
- Kristiansen, T. and Coupland, N. J. R. eds. 2011. Standard languages and language standards in a changing Europe. Oslo: Novus Press.
- Coupland, N. J. R. ed. 2010. Handbook of language and globalization. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 1. The sociolinguistics of language variation and change. London and New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 6. Theoretical perspectives in sociolinguistics. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 5. The sociolinguistics of culture. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 4. The sociolinguistics of multilingualism. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 3. Interactional sociolinguistics. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. J. R. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics Volume 2. Subjective and ideological processes in sociolinguistics. London; New York: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. The new sociolinguistics reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2009. Sociolinguistics. Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge.
- Jaworski, A. and Coupland, N. eds. 2008. The discourse reader. London: Routledge.
- Coupland, N. and Jaworski, A. eds. 2008. Sociolinguistics : a reader and coursebook. Modern Linguistics Series. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- Coupland, N. J. R. 2007. Style: language variation and identity. Key Topics in Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kristiansen, T., Coupland, N. J. R. and Garrett, P. D. eds. 2005. Subjective processes in language variation and change [Guest editorial of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia]. Reitzel.
- Jaworski, A., Galasinski, D. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2004. Metalanguage: social and ideological perspectives. Language, power, and social process Vol. 11. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Garrett, P. D., Williams, A. M. and Coupland, N. J. R. 2003. Investigating language attitudes: social meanings of dialect, ethnicity and performance. University of Wales Press - Writers of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Coupland, N. J. R., Candlin, C. and Sarangi, S. eds. 2001. Sociolinguistics and social theory. Pearson Education.
- Coupland, N. J. R., Coupland, J. and Howard, G. 1991. Language, society and the elderly: discourse, identity and ageing. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Coupland, N. 1988. Dialect in use : sociolinguistic variation in Cardiff English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Conferences
- Giles, H., Garrett, P. and Coupland, N. 1988. Language acquisition in the Basque country: invoking and extending the intergroup model. Presented at: Congress of the Basque Language 1987, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, 31 August - 4 September 1987Euskara Biltzarra - Congreso de la Lengua Vasca. Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco pp. 297-310.
Research
Nik Coupland is currently involved in two collaborative international research projects.
Peripheral Multilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Contestation and Innovation in Multilingual Minority Language Sites
The project is conducting comparative situated ethnographies of minority language sites in four 'peripheral' European spaces: Sámiland (Lappland), Ireland, Wales, Corsica. It is funded by The Finnish Academy.
Principal Investigator: Professor Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Strand Directors: Sari Pietikäinen (Sámi); Nikolas Coupland (Welsh); Helen Kelly-Holmes (Irish); Alexandra Jaffe (Corsican)
Key theoretical concepts: periphery-centre dynamics and discourses; language and place/ territoriality; globalisation and location of language practices; language revitalisation outside of governmental/ institutional language planning and policy processes.
See http://www.peripheralmultilingualism.fi/
Standard Language in Contemporary Europe ('SLICE')
A consortium of (currently) 12 European countries investigating the different histories of language standardisation in different contexts, and contemporary moves away from/ revisions of linguistic normativity, both in general spoken usage and in media contexts. Administered through the University of Copenhagen's LANCHART Centre ('Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Language Change in Real Time' - http://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/).
Key theoretical concepts: standard language ideologies; standardisation and various modes of 'de-standardisation' (vernacularisation, demoticisation, informalisation); relationships between ideologies and practices; social change and linguistic change.
Two principal empirical strands: (i) Quantitative, experimental studies of 'language attitudes' (coordinated by Tore Kristiansen); (ii) Qualitative/ critical studies of media discourse (coordinated by Nikolas Coupland).
Work in progress is reported in the following book: Kristiansen, T. and N. Coupland (eds.) (2011) Standard Language in Contemporary Europe. Oslo: Novus.
Research interests
- Sociolinguistics
- sociolinguistic theory
- the sociolinguistics of Wales
- language and globalisation
- speech style and social identity
- intergenerational talk
- the social meaning of numbers
Please note that Professor Coupland is no longer accepting new PhD students. If you are interested in applying for a PhD, and would like advice on potential supervisors, please contact the Postgraduate Office - encap-pg@cardiff.ac.uk
Biography
Professor Coupland was founding editor, with Allan Bell, of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, published by Blackwell. With Adam Jaworski he edits the Oxford University Press book series, Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics.
He has published more than 20 books and 170 articles and chapters on wide-ranging aspects of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and human communication. He was formerly a Fulbright Scholar and has held visiting positions at the University of California, Macquarie University, Victoria University of Wellington, and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).
He directed a 4-year, ESRC-funded research programme on 'Communication and the Elderly' (with Howard Giles) and a six-year programme, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on 'Language and Global Communication' (with Theo van Leeuwen and other Cardiff colleagues). He has served as a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board and assessed PhD studentship applications for ESRC.