Gabrielle Hodge
Senior Lecturer in Sign Language Linguistics
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: gabrielle.hodge@ed.ac.uk
- Web: gabriellehodge.com
Address
- Street
-
Room 2.15, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
I am a deaf researcher specialising in semiotics and sociolinguistics research relating to deaf people, Deaf communities, sign languages and multimodal communication. I teach sign language linguistics across various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Qualifications
PhD Linguistics, Macquarie University (2014)
BA (Hons) Linguistics, La Trobe University (2008)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Chair of the University BSL Plan Implementation Group 2024-2030
EDI Representative for the Department of Linguistics & English Language
Undergraduate teaching
Language and Social Justice (Course Organiser)
LEL1B (Lecturer)
Third-Year Projects (Supervisor)
Hons Dissertations (Supervisor)
Postgraduate teaching
Sociolinguistics (Lecturer)
Semiotics (Lecturer)
Language Variation and Change (Lecturer)
Introduction to Multimodality (Lecturer)
MSc Dissertations (Supervisor)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am available to supervise topics related to deaf communities and sign languages, and embodied sociolinguistics and semiotics more generally. I particularly welcome proposals from minoritised students, especially deaf and deafblind students. Please note that I do not supervise projects on EFL/ESL/TEFL/TESOL.
Current PhD students supervised
Ley Bergeron (PhD)
Past PhD students supervised
Hessa Aldehailan (MSc)
Ailibai Yahefu (MSc)
Chuqiao Li (MSc)
Research summary
I specialise in sociolinguistics research relating to deaf people, sign languages and multimodal communication, drawing on a wide range of theory and methods from corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, translation studies, linguistic typology and semiotics.