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Personal profile
Research Focus
Emma is a Research Fellow in Language Policy in the School of Arts, English and Languages, working on the AHRC Modern Languages Leadership Fellowship Language Policy Project ‘Foreign, indigenous and community languages in the devolved regions of the UK: policy and practice for growth.’
Research Interests
Emma's research interests are sociolinguistics, language policy, language ideologies and attitudes. Previous research has mostly focused on the French language.
Particulars
Emma completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham and has previously worked at the University of Cambridge, the University of Birmingham and Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Qualifications in home languages: opportunities, barriers and policy implications
Humphries, E., Carruthers, J. & Henderson, L., 02 Apr 2024, (Early online date) In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The hidden face of public language policy: a case study from the UK
Humphries, E. & Ayres-Bennett, W., 2024, In: Current Issues in Language Planning. 24, 5, p. 508-533Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: the case of France and Quebec
Walsh, O. & Humphries, E., 05 May 2023, The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism. Beal, J. C., Lukač, M. & Straaijer, R. (eds.). Routledge, 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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#JeSuisCirconflexe: The French spelling reform of 1990 and 2016 reactions
Humphries, E., 24 Jan 2019, In: Journal of French Language Studies. 29, 3, p. 305 - 321Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus)
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British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Annual Conference
Turkan, S. (Chair), O'Boyle, A. (Member of the organising committee), Engman, M. (Member of the organising committee), Ortega, Y. (Member of the organising committee), McAuley, D. (Member of the organising committee), Davies-Deacon, M. (Member of the organising committee), Humphries, E. (Member of the organising committee), Lugea, J. (Member of the organising committee), Chong, S. W. (Member of the organising committee), Linse, C. (Member of the organising committee) & Bhatt, I. (Member of the organising committee)
01 Sept 2022 → 03 Sept 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Questions, hesitations and comments: Attitudes to ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ language use in a 19th-century language advice publication
Humphries, E. (Contributor)
23 Aug 2021 → 27 Aug 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Blog post on Strictly Language
Humphries, E. (Contributor)
03 May 2021Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Judging the French language: The metaphor edition
Humphries, E. (Invited speaker)
01 Nov 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Dead or Online: Dealing with sparse ethnographic data in historical and diachronic corpora
Humphries, E. (Contributor) & Cotgrove, L. (Contributor)
01 Apr 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation