Staff Profile
Dr Heike Pichler
Senior Lecturer in Variationist Sociolinguistics
- Email: heike.pichler@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3519
- Fax: +44 (0)191 208 8708
- Personal Website: http://heikepichler.weebly.com/
- Address: School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Percy Building (Room 2.05A)
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
UK
I am a variationist linguist specialising in discourse-pragmatic and morpho-syntactic variation and change.
Internal roles
Head of English Language and Linguistics.
Previous internal roles: 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 member (2012-15); Schools liaison officer (2012-13).
External roles
editorial board member of Ampersand (2017-)
editorial board member Te Reo (2018-)
Previous external roles: member of the ESRC Peer Review College (2015-19); member of the Northern Bridge studentship committee (2018); founding Chair of the Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change steering committee (2012-2018); Committee member Linguistics Association of Great Britain (membership secretary) (2010-2015); External PhD thesis examiner (UCD, Ireland) (2016); member of the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnerships Peer Review College (2016); Editor of Ampersand (sociolinguistics & pragmatics) (2014-16)
Recent leadership training
2014-15: Faculty Futures (Newcastle University)
2012-13: Principal Investigator (Newcastle University)
My research interests include:
- language variation & change (specifically discourse-pragmatic & morpho-syntactic variation & change)
- language contact
- language variation and mental health
- old-age language variation and change
- comparative sociolinguistics
- narrative analysis
See further: https://heikepichler.weebly.com/research.html
- Pichler H, Cheshire J. Discourse-pragmatic variation in England. In: Fox,S, ed. Languages in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Submitted.
- Pichler H. Epilogue: future directions in discourse-pragmatic variation and change research. In: Peterson, L; Hiltunen, T; Kern, J, ed. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change. Theory, Innovations, Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. In Press.
- Pichler H. Tagging monologic narratives of personal experience: utterance-final tags and the construction of adolescent masculinity. 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. Grammaticalization and language contact in a discourse-pragmatic change in progress: innit in London English. Language in Society 2021, 50(5), 723-761.
- Levey S, Pichler H. Revisiting transatlantic relatives: evidence from British and Canadian English. In: Methods in Dialectology. 2020, Tachikawa, Japan: Peter Lang.
- Hesson AM, Pichler H. Breaking Down Barriers in Pediatric Mental Health Consultations: Understanding Patients’ Use of I DON’T KNOW. Health Communication 2018, 33(7), 867-876.
- Pichler H, Wagner SE, Hesson A. Old‐age language variation and change: Confronting variationist ageism. Language and Linguistics Compass 2018, 12(6), e12281.
- Pichler H, Hesson A. Discourse-pragmatic variation across situations, varieties, ages: I DON'T KNOW in sociolinguistic and medical interviews. Language & Communication 2016, 49, 1-18.
- Pichler H, ed. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Hesson A, Pichler H. Interpreting "I don't know" use by persons living with dementia in Mini-Mental State Examinations. Patient Education and Counseling 2016, 99(9), 1534-1541.
- Pichler H. Introduction: discourse-pragmatic variation and change. In: Pichler, H, ed. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp.1-17.
- Pichler H. Uncovering discourse-pragmatic innovations: innit in Multicultural London English. 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, Truswell R, VandePoel K, VanOlmen D, Watson K. Editorial. Ampersand 2015, 2, 70-71.
- Pichler H. Analysing Variation in English by Warren Maguire & April McMahon (eds.) [Book review]. Journal of English Linguistics 2013, 41(2), 204-207.
- Pichler H. The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
- Pichler H, Levey S. In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: general extenders in northeast England. English Language and Linguistics 2011, 15(3), 441-471.
- Pichler H. Methods in discourse variation analysis: Reflections on the way forward. Journal of Sociolinguistics 2010, 14(5), 581-608.
- Pichler H, Levey S. Variability in the co-occurrence of discourse features. Language Studies Working Papers 2010, 2, 17-27.
- Pichler H. The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared. Intercultural Pragmatics 2009, 6(4), 561-596.
- Pichler H. Form-function relations in discourse: the case of I DON'T KNOW. Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics 2007, 13, 174-187.