Irish Studies in Asia (ISA)

Professor Karen P. Corrigan
Newcastle University, UK
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Karen Corrigan is currently Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Newcastle University where she acts as Director of Research in Linguistics. Her monographs include Irish English, Volume 1: Northern Ireland (2010) and Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes: Newcomers Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation in Northern Ireland (2020). The latter evolved from UK government funding for projects exploring language, migration and identity in Northern Ireland from synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Corrigan has also co-edited the three volumes in Palgrave-Macmillan’s Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora series (2007) (volumes 1 and 2); (2016) (volume 3). They arose from government funding for corpus creation projects focusing particularly on the dialects of North East England between 2000-2012. They also generated the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English for academics/Higher Education and the Talk of the Toon aimed particularly at schools and the general public.