John E. Joseph (BA MA PhD, FRSA, Corresponding Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters)
Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3497
- Email: john.joseph@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Department of Linguistics and English Language
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH8 9AD
UK - City
- Dugald Stewart Bldg, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, Rm 2.08
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Qualifications
BA (Hons) MA PhD The University of Michigan
Responsibilities & affiliations
Offices in Professional Organisations
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Comité d'organisation, Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure (2009-present; Président, 2019-2025)
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Member of the Executive Committee of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas (1997-present)
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Comité de Direction, Société d’Histoire et d’Épistémolgie des Sciences du Langage, (2020-present)
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Past President, North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences
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Ordinary Member of the Council of the Philological Society (1998-2003)
Undergraduate teaching
Honours course taught in 2024-25 :
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Semiotics (in collaboration with Dr Gabrielle Hodge, Semester 1)
In 2025-26 I will teach the Honours course History of Linguistics
Postgraduate teaching
MSc courses taught in 2024-25 :
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Issues in Applied Linguistics (Semester 1)
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Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (Semester 2)
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Semiotics (in collaboration with Dr Gabrielle Hodge, Semester 1)
In 2025-26 I will teach the MSc courses Issues in Applied Linguistics (Semester 1), Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (Semester 2) and History of Linguistics (Semester 2)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Ying-Ying Chiu
- Joseph Wells
- Madeleine Ferris
Research summary
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Saussure (published 11 July 2025)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-handbook-of-saussure-9781350379787/
I am currently pursuing research on what I am terming schizolinguistics and schizosemiotics, focusing on a number of works including Karl Tuczek’s Analyse einer Katatonikersprache (1921) and Louis Wolfson’s Le Schizo et les langues (1970).