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How we study language variationProduction team

By Joan Swann (The Open University)

28 July 2005

An ever-changing language, pulsing and reforming all over the planet - how do you keep up with that? Joan Swann explains how we track changes...  Read more : How we study language variation

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Swann, Joan (2012). Everyday creativity in English. In: Allington, Daniel and Mayor, Barbara eds. Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 179–208.

Swann, Joan (2012). Creative interpretations: discourse analysis and literary reading. In: Jones, Rodney ed. Discourse and Creativity. Pearson Education, pp. 53–71.

Seargeant, Philip and Swann, Joan eds. (2011). English in the World: History, Diversity, Change. Worlds of English. Abingdon: Routledge.

Allington, Daniel and Swann, Joan (2011). The mediation of response: a critical approach to individual and group reading practices. In: Crone, Rosalind and Towheed, Shafquat eds. The History of Reading, Vol. 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 80–96.

Swann, Joan; Pope, Rob and Carter, Ronald eds. (2011). Creativity in Language and Literature: the state of the art. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Swann, Joan (2011). How reading groups talk about books: a study of literary reception. In: Swann, Joan; Pope, Rob and Carter, Ronald eds. Creativity in Language and Literature: the state of the art. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 217–230.

Pope, Rob and Swann, Joan (2011). Introduction: creativity, language,literature. In: Swann, Joan; Pope, Rob and Carter, Ronald eds. Creativity in Language and Literature: the state of the art. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 217–230.

Swann, Joan (2010). Global Englishes. In: Gupta, S. and Katsarka, M. eds. English Studies on This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings. Plovdiv: Plovdiv University Press.

Swann, Joan (2010). Transcribing spoken interaction. In: Hunston, Susan and Oakey, David eds. Introducing applied linguistics: Concepts and skills. London: Routledge, pp. 163–176.

Swann, Joan (2009). Stories in performance. In: Maybin, Janet and Watson, Nicola eds. Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Joan Swann is director of the Centre for Language and Communications at The Open University, where she has designed and produced a range of open learning materials on the English language, language variation and diversity, children's cultural worlds and everyday creativity in language. Her main research interests are in sociolinguistics, particularly interactional sociolinguistics, language and gender and language and creativity.

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