Pichet Prakaianurat

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

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Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
EH8 9AD

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Biography

Background

I am Pichet (Kong) Prakaianurat — พิเชฐ ประกายอนุรัตน์ — a PhD candidate in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Lauren Hall-Lew and Dr. Claire Cowie.

My research interests lie in  linguistic variation, social meanings, and identities. Drawing on variationist sociolinguistics and World Englishes, I explore how L2 Asian speakers of English — particularly Thai speakers — draw on linguistic resources to construct and negotiate identities and take social stances within contemporary sociolinguistic contexts shaped by the postcolonial global spread of English. More broadly, I am interested in how local linguistic practices emerge and come to acquire social significance in relation to global norms of English, and the insights these processes may offer into linguistic variation in Expanding-Circle Englishes.

I am also a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages at Kasetsart University, Thailand. I am a recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) 2024-2025 Award, through which I taught Thai language and culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

Outside academia, I enjoy good coffee, wandering around cities, and learning to cook, which I had never really done before moving abroad. I also love exploring new places and finding little things that make them feel like home.

Research summary

Publications:

  • Prakaianurat, P. (2025). Avoidance of the English Present Perfect by L1 Thai Learners. rEFLections, 32(3), 1820-1843.  
  • Prakaianurat, P., & Kangkun, P. (2024). Global or Local Identities? How Thai Learners in an English Program Project Themselves through L2 Pronunciation in ELF Encounters. LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 17(1), 333-368.  
  • Prakaianurat, P., & Kangkun, P. (2018). Language attitudes of Thai working adults toward native and non-native English varieties. Manusya: Journal of Humanities, 21(2), 92-111.

Current research interests

Sociophonetics, Language Attitudes and Identities, World Englishes

Conference details

  • Intonational Variation in Thai English: Prosody, Identities, and Implications for Language Teaching — The 7th International Conference on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (FLLT 2026), 3–4 July 2026, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Intonational Variation in Thai English: A Sociophonetic Perspective — Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference (LELPGC) 2026, 1–3 June 2026, Edinburgh, UK
  • Avoidance of the English Present Perfect by L1 Thai Learners —  AsiaTEFL 2025 International Conference, 10–13 July 2025, Hong Kong SAR
  • Global or Local Identities? How Thai Learners in an English Program Project Themselves Through L2 Pronunciation in ELF Encounters —The 2nd International Conference on Diversity and Inclusivity in English Language Education (DIELE 2024), 11–12 May 2024, Tokyo, Japan.

Organiser

Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference (LELPGC 2026) — Organising Committee and Coordinator of the Decolonising Linguistics Panel, University of Edinburgh, 1–3 June 2026

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