Claire Cowie
Senior Lecturer
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: claire.cowie@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 1.11a, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Undergraduate teaching
LEL2c English in Time and Space (pre-honours).
Global Englishes (Honours)
Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland (Honours)
Postgraduate teaching
Global Englishes (MSc)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Claire Cowie is a sociolinguist with a special interest in the effects of contact between English and other languages in India. For the past twenty years, together with students and colleagues she has worked on code-switching with English, English accents and dialects, in real life contexts in India, as well as in fiction, film, television and other media. She is part of a research community which explores the use of Scots and Scottish English in Edinburgh. She particularly enjoys supervising dissertations on diverse media in South and South-east Asia including Bollywood, K-pop and K-drama.
Current PhD students supervised
Pichet Prakaianurat
Komalwan Jocuns
Past PhD students supervised
Research summary
Claire Cowie is a sociolinguist with a special interest in the effects of contact between English and other languages in India. For the past twenty years, together with students and colleagues she has worked on code-switching with English, English accents and dialects, in real life contexts in India, as well as in fiction, film, television and other media. She is part of a research community which explores the use of Scots and Scottish English in Edinburgh. She particularly enjoys supervising dissertations on diverse media in South and South-east Asia including Bollywood, K-pop and K-drama.