Nik Coupland

Nikolas Coupland is Professor and Chair at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. He is editor, with Allan Bell, of the Journal of Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Publishers). His research ison sociolinguistic issues in ageing and the lifespan; on language style and stylisation; and on the sociolinguistics of Wales and Welsh English.

Centre's website: www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/encap/sections/lac/

Address

Centre for Language & Communication Research,
Cardiff University,
PO Box 94,
Colum Drive,
CARDIFF CF1 3XB
Tel: 01222 876041
E-mail: coupland@cardiff.ac.uk

Relevant Publications:

Coupland. N. and Jaworski, A. (eds.) (1997) Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. London: Macmillan.

Coupland, N. and Coupland, J. (1997) Bodies, beaches and burntimes: 'Environmentalism' and its discursive competitors. Discourse and Society 8, 1, pp.7-25.

Jaworski, A. and Coupland, N. (eds.) (1999) The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge.

Coupland, J. and Coupland, N. (1999) Selling control: Ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure. In Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter (eds.) Communication, Risk and the Environment. London: UCL Press.

Coupland, N. and Coupland, J. (in press) Language, ageing and ageism: A social action perspective. In P. Robinson and H. Giles (eds.) Handbook of Language and Social Psychology (2nd Edition). London: Wiley.

Coupland, N. (in press, 2000) 'Other' representation. In Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Ostman, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen (1999) Handbook of Pragmatics Instalment 1999 Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Coupland, N., Sarangi, S. and Candlin, C. (eds.) (forthcoming, 2000) Sociolinguistics and Social Theory. London: Pearson Education. (Proceedings of the third Cardiff Round Table in Language and Communication.)

Coupland, N. Age in sociolinguistic and social theory. (In the above.)

Jaworski, A., Coupland, N. and Galasinski, D. (eds.) (forthcoming, 2000) The Sociolinguistics of Metalanguage. (Proceedings of the fourth Cardiff Roundtable in Language and Communication.)

Coupland, N. Stylised deception. (In the above)