Staff Profile
Dr Heike Pichler
Reader in Sociolinguistics
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3519
- Personal Website:
- Address: School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Percy Building (Room 2.05A)
缅北禁地
缅北禁地 upon Tyne NE1 7RU
UK
I am a sociolinguist specialising in discourse-pragmatic and later-life language variation and change.
Internal roles
Director of Research (linguistics) (2025)
Member of the NUCoRE Ageing & Inequalities (2021-) (education lead)
Previous internal roles: Head of English Language and Linguistics (2020-2023); PG Director, taught programmes (SELLL) (2016-19); Chair of the PGT Board of Examiners (2016-19); Chair of the PG Board of Studies & PG Committee (2016-19); PGR Director (linguistics) (2013-15); Degree Programme Director IPhD in linguistics/English language (2013-15); Ethics convenor (SELLL) (2013-16); Visiting speaker co-ordinator (linguistics) (2013-14); CRiLLS executive board member (2012-15); Schools liaison officer (2012-13).
External roles
editorial board member Journal for Language and Aging Research (2022-)
editorial board member (2018-)
member of the Peer Review College (2015-)
Previous external roles: member of the Northern Bridge studentship committee (2018); founding Chair of the steering committee (2012-2018); Committee member (membership secretary) (2010-2015); member of the Peer Review College (2016); Editor of (sociolinguistics & pragmatics) (2014-16)
My research interests include:
- language variation & change (specifically discourse-pragmatic & morpho-syntactic variation & change)
- language variation and mental health
- later-life language
- narrative analysis
See further:
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Articles
- Pichler H. . Journal of English Linguistics 2025, 53(1), 93-104.
- Heim J, Cuskley C, Woods R, Barber J, Donnelly H, Hu R, Sharma A, Pichler H. . Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2024, 3(2), 30-55.
- Pichler H. . Journal of Language and Aging Research 2023, 1(1), 17-21.
- Pichler H. . Language in Society 2021, 50(5), 723-761.
- Pichler H, Wagner SE, Hesson A. . Language and Linguistics Compass 2018, 12(6), e12281.
- Hesson AM, Pichler H. . Health Communication 2018, 33(7), 867-876.
- Hesson A, Pichler H. . Patient Education and Counseling 2016, 99(9), 1534-1541.
- Pichler H, Hesson A. . Language & Communication 2016, 49, 1-18.
- Pichler H, Levey S. . English Language and Linguistics 2011, 15(3), 441-471.
- Pichler H. . Journal of Sociolinguistics 2010, 14(5), 581-608.
- Pichler H. . Intercultural Pragmatics 2009, 6(4), 561-596.
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Authored Book
- Pichler H. . Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
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Book Chapters
- Pichler H, Cheshire J. . In: Fox S, ed. Languages in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp.128-150.
- Pichler H. . In: Peterson L; Hiltunen T; Kern J, ed. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change : Theory, Innovations, Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp.293-300.
- Pichler H. . In: Beaman, K; Buchstaller, I; Fox, S; Walker, J, ed. Advancing Socio-Grammatical Variation and Change: Sociolinguistic Research in Honour of Jenny Cheshire. London: Routledge, 2021, pp.377-398.
- Pichler H. . In: Pichler, H, ed. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp.58-81.
- Pichler H. . In: Pichler, H, ed. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp.1-17.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
- Levey S, Pichler H. . In: Methods in Dialectology. 2020, Tachikawa, Japan: Peter Lang.
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Edited Book
- Pichler H, ed. . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Editorial
- Pichler H, Truswell R, VandePoel K, VanOlmen D, Watson K. . Ampersand 2015, 2, 70-71.
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Review
- Pichler H. . Journal of English Linguistics 2013, 41(2), 204-207.
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Working Papers
- Pichler H, Levey S. . Language Studies Working Papers 2010, 2, 17-27.
- Pichler H. Form-function relations in discourse: the case of I DON'T KNOW. 缅北禁地 Working Papers in Linguistics 2007, 13, 174-187.