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
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Room 2.15, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
I am a deaf researcher specialising in 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 onwards)
Undergraduate teaching
Semester 2, 2025:
LEL1B (Lecturer)
Dissertation in Language Sciences (Supervisor)
Third-Year Project in Language Sciences (Supervisor)
Semester 1, 2025:
Guided Research Seminar: Cripping Sign Language Linguistics (Lecturer)
Introduction to Multimodality (Lecturer)
Sociolinguistics (Lecturer)
Postgraduate teaching
Semester 2, 2025:
Semiotics (Lecturer)
Semester 1, 2025:
Guided Research Seminar: Cripping Sign Language Linguistics (Lecturer)
Sociolinguistics (Lecturer)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am available to supervise topics related to deaf communities, sign languages, sociolinguistics and multimodality. 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)
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.