Ann Lesley Milroy, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan

Ann Lesley Milroy

Professor and Chair

Department of Linguistics

University of Michigan

Selected Awards, Honors, Distinctions
Selected Publications
Selected Professional Activities
Contact Information

Selected Awards, Honors, Distinctions

2001	Hans Kurath Collegiate Chair of Linguistics, University of Michigan
2000	Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, England
2000	2000 National Endowment for the Humanities: Fellowship for University Teachers
1997	Dean’s Faculty Award for Teaching and Research, University of Michigan
1992	Erskine Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand
1992	Senior Simon Research Fellow, University of Manchester

Selected Publications

Books

Milroy, L. and M. Gordon. 2003 Sociolinguistics: method and interpretation. Oxford: Blackwell
Milroy J. and L. Milroy, 1999 Authority in Language: investigating standard English (3rd ed). London: Routledge.
Milroy, L. 2000 Japanese translation of Observing and analysing natural language. (Oxford: Blackwell)
Milroy, L. and P. Muysken, 1995 One speaker, two languages: cross-disciplinary perspectives on codeswitching. Cambridge UP (sponsored by European Science Foundation)
Milroy, L. 1987 (2nd ed) Language and social networks. Oxford: Blackwell
Milroy, L. 1987 Observing and analysing natural language. Oxford: Blackwell
Lesser, R. and L. Milroy, 1993 Linguistics and aphasia: psycholinguistic and pragmatic aspects of intervention. London: Longman.
Milroy, J and L. Milroy, 1993 Real English; the grammar of English dialects in the British Isles. London: Longman

Book Chapters

Milroy, L. In press. The social categories of race and class: language ideology and sociolinguistics. To appear in Coupland, N, Sarangi, S. and Candlin, C. (eds.) Sociolinguistics and social theory (Longman), pp. 235-60
Milroy, L. 2001. Social networks. In Chambers, J., Trudgill, P. and Schilling-Estes, N. (eds) Handbook of Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 549-72.
Milroy, L. 2001. Style, register and sociolinguistic analysis. To appear in Language, context and the relational self: retheorising dialect style in sociolinguistics. Edited by Eckert, P. and Rickford, J. Cambridge UP. Pp. 268-78
Milroy, L. 2000. Bridging the micro-macro gap: social change, social networks and bilingual repertoires. To appear in Klatter-Folmer, Jetske & Piet Van Avermaet (eds.) (2001), Theories on maintenance and loss of minority languages. Towards a more integrated explanatory framework, pp 39-64. Waxmann Verlag: Münster and New York:
Milroy, L. 2000. Redes sociales y enfoque lingüístico (Social networks and linguistic focussing). In Yolanda Lastra (ed) Estudios de sociolingüística. Universitad Nacional Autónoma de México: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas.
Watt D.J. L., and L. Milroy. 1999 Patterns of variation and change in three Tyneside vowels: is this dialect levelling? In P. Foulkes and G.J. Docherty (eds) Urban voices, pp. 25-46. London: Arnold
Milroy, L., J. Milroy, G. Docherty, P. Foulkes, & D. Walshaw 1999. Contemporary English: evidence from Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby. Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa, 8, 35-46. Departamento de Filologia Inglesa de la Universidad de Murcia
Milroy, L. 1999. Histories of nations and versions of the Standard Language Ideology in Britain and the United States. In A. R. Bex and R. Watts (eds) Standard English: the widening debate, pp. 173-206. London: Routledge
Lesser, R. and L. Milroy, 1998. Pragmatics and aphasia. In Asa Kasher, ed. Pragmatics: critical concepts. Vol VI, 217-29. London: Routledge
Milroy, L. 1998 Bad grammar is slovenly. In Language Myths, Ed. Peter Trudgill and Lawrence Bauer, pp. 94-102. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Milroy J. and L. Milroy, 1997. Exploring the social constraints on language change. In Language and its ecology: essays in memory of Einar Haugen. ed. Stig Eliasson and Ernst Hakon Jahr. pp 75-104. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Journal Articles

Milroy,L. (ed) Journal of Sociolinguistics theme issue: Investigating Change and Variation through Dialect Contact.
Milroy, L. in press. Mobility, contact and language change: working with contemporary speech communities. To appear in Journal of Sociolinguistics (see above).
Milroy, L. 2000. Social network analysis and language change: introduction. European Journal of English Studies special issue: Social networks and the history of English, 4 (3) 217-223
Milroy, L.. Two nations divided by the same language (and different language ideologies). In Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 9 (1). 1-34
Shin, S. and L. Milroy 2000 Conversational Code-switching among Korean-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 4 (3) 351-83
Shin, S. and L. Milroy 1999. Bilingual language acquisition by Korean schoolchildren in New York City. In Bilingualism: language and Cognition, 2 (2): 147-67
Milroy L. and Dennis R. Preston, 1999. Introduction to Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 18,1. 3-8. (Special issue: Attitudes, Perception and Linguistic Features. Guest editors: Lesley Milroy and Dennis R. Preston.)
Milroy, L., 1998. Negotiating meaning with the least (collaborative) effort. In Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (Linguistic form and social action) 13, 190-206
Milroy, J., L. Milroy, G Docherty, P. Foulkes and D. Walshaw, 1997. Descriptive adequacy in phonology: a variationist perspective. Journal of Linguistics. 33, 1-36
Li Wei and L. Milroy. 1995 Coversational codeswitching in a Chinese community in Britain: a sequential analysis. Journal of Pragmatics 23, 281-99
Milroy. J, L. Milroy, S. Hartley, David Walshaw, 1994. Glottal stops and Tyneside glottalization; competing patterns of variation and change in British English. In Language Variation and Change, 327-57
Milroy, J. and L Milroy, 1993. Mechanisms of change in urban dialects: the role of class, social network and gender. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3,1. 57-78.
Milroy, L, and L. Perkins, 1992. Repair strategies in aphasic discourse: towards a collaborative model. In Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 6.1&2, 27-40
Moffatt, S. and L. Milroy, 1992. Panjabi/English language alternation in the classroom in the early school years. Multilingua, 11:4, 355-84.
Milroy, L. and James Milroy , 1992. Social network and social class: towards an integrated sociolinguistic model. Language in Society, 21:1, 1-26
Milroy, J. and L. Milroy, 1985. Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation. Journal of Linguistics 21, 339-84

Selected Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member of the following journals:

Journal of Linguistics
Language in Society
Journal of Sociolinguistics
International Journal of Bilingualism
Bilingualism (Netherlands)

Editorial board member of Oxford University Press Linguistics text books series

Member of British Government Research Assessment Panel (1992; 1996)

Contact Information

Lesley Milroy

Department of Linguistics

University of Michigan

4080 Frieze Building

105 S. State Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285

Phone: (734) 764-0353

Fax: (734) 936-3406

Email: amilroy@umich.edu