Robert Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 166056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1415-517X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dancing with capitalism: Employability and the pursuit of impact in linguistics curricula
This article examines how linguistics instructors can invoke the concept of impact in preparing students for a career, arguing that this way of thinking underscores the value of identifying and articulating transferable skills in engaging with community to pursue meaningful challenges. Drawing on initiatives in the UK and US, the authors present models of embedding partnership building, applied projects, and reflective practices into teaching, fr…
Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media
Public distrust in government, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professions, and medical science and technology has been consistently linked with vaccine rejection. Policymakers, therefore, want to better understand links between distrust of institutions and vaccine refusal. This paper reports on a case study of posts (tweets) to the social media platform Twitter (now X) collected as part of the TRAC:COVID (Trust and Communication: A Coronavi…
Becoming Bame: Social identities and racialised terminology in the UK
This article examines the politics of racialised terminology through the first sociolinguistic, cultural analysis of the acronym BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) in the UK. Using a mixed methods approach, we present an analysis of how this collective term of ethnic difference is used across parliamentary discourse, news articles, and social media spaces, identifying a rise in the term since 2014, but also evidence of a decline since 2022, …
Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse
Robert McColl Miller, A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland
Language and Masculinities: History, Development, and Future
In the past two decades, the field of language and masculinities studies has become an established part of language, gender, and sexuality research, growing in response to concerns about the limited criticality directed toward men and masculinities in sociolinguistics. In doing so, the field has added to the conceptual and theoretical tool kit of sociolinguistics, furthering both our understanding of the linguistic strategies used by men in a var…
Socialism Sucks
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism-while drinking a lot of beer
Gender Politics and Discourses of #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption on Twitter
This article presents the findings of a corpus linguistic analysis of the hashtags #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption, three lexical blends which have recently found widespread use across a variety of online media platforms. Focusing on the social media and microblogging site Twitter, we analyze a corpus of over 20,000 tweets containing these hashtags to examine how discourses of gender politics and gender relations are represented …
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads
Compared to other subfields of linguistics, sociolinguistics has been relatively outward-facing since its inception. Yet few can accuse sociolinguistics of being particularly meddlesome in the political process; nor has the discipline as a whole been overwhelmingly preoccupied with improving people's lives. Peter Trudgill's 1984 edited volume Applied Sociolinguistics, which showcased a range of sociolinguistic research with applications beyond ac…
Sociolinguistic Research: Application and impact
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Not getting a word in edgeways? Language, gender, and identity in a British comedy panel show
When Private Reporting Is More Positive Than Public Reporting: Pluralistic Ignorance Towards Atheists
Across three studies, we assessed the impact of perceived social norms on attitudes and positive behavioral intentions towards atheists and religious believers. Reported attitudes, reported acceptability of expressing positive and negative attitudes, and reported positive behavioral intentions disproportionately favored religious believers over atheists. However, participants reported a higher likelihood of engaging in positive behaviors towards …
Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers’ choices
In what can only be described as a burgeoning marketplace, introductory sociolinguistic textbooks have been hitting the book shelves with increasing regularity over the past 10 years, making the jo
Does immigration impact institutions
Don’t even [θ/f/h]ink aboot it’: An ethnographic investigation of social meaning, social identity and (θ) variation in Glasgow
As a relatively new phenomenon in the phonology of Scottish English, TH-fronting has surprised sociolinguists by its rapid spread in the urban heartlands of Scotland. While attempts have been made to understand and model the influence of lexical effects, media effects and frequency effects, far less understood is the role of social identity. Using data collected as part of an ethnographic study of a high school in the south side of Glasgow, Scotl…
The construction of ‘tough’ masculinity
Drawing on narrative data collected during a three-year ethnography of a Scottish high school, this article examines the construction of working-class adolescent masculinities. More specifically, the analysis focuses on how adolescent male speakers negotiate, reject and align themselves with the hegemonically dominant ideology of ‘tough’ masculinity, the role socially low-risk discourses of ‘tough’ masculinity play in interaction, and how speaker…
Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males 1
This article presents the results of an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic investigation of Glaswegian Vernacular and examines the intersection between language and identity using data collected from a group of working‐class adolescent males, over the course of three years, from a high school in the south side of Glasgow, Scotland, called Banister Academy. Through the fine‐grained acoustic analysis of the phonetic variable cat (equivalent …
Planned policy transfer: The impact of the German model on Chinese vocational education
In the realm of reconfiguring Chinese vocational education and training (VET) the country is collaborating with Germany which provides guidance and support for the development of a dual system in China. The article outlines the circumstances that need to be considered in such a policy transfer and possible scenarios for the development of a modern VET system. The VET systems in both countries are explained and compared before the authors examine …
German Representations of Canada and Canadian Soldiers: Karl Bröger's Bunker 17 , Wolfgang Borchert's 'Billbrook' and Rainer Kunad's Bill Brook
Very little research has been done on how Germans viewed their Canadian opponents in the First and Second World Wars. This article examines how Canadian government propaganda influenced twentieth-century German perceptions of Canada and how these images were perpetuated in German war fiction. Although Canada is hardly a major focal point in German literature, at least two writers, Karl Bröger and Wolfgang Borchert, present a mythical portrait of …
Joachim von Ribbentrop in Canada, 1910–1914: A Note
the opinion of John L. Heineman, Joachim von cRibbentrop's interest for historians lies not in his impractical theories but rather in his successful struggle for power.'1 The remark points to both Ribbentrop's remarkable ascent in the Nazi hierarchy from newly minted party member in 1932 to foreign minister in 1938 and his incompetence and lack of substance. As a diplomat with no formal training in diplomacy or knowledge of international relation…
Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism
Carnivalism in Postwar Austrian- And German-Jewish Literature – Edgar Hilsenrath, Irene Dische, and Doron Rabinovici
EEG Gamma Coherence and Other Correlates of Subjective Reports During Ayahuasca Experiences
The current study examined QEEG power and coherence of ayahuasca experiences with two experienced participants in a Brazilian jungle setting. An exploratory case series design was adopted for naturalistic field research. EEGs recorded during visual imagery was compared to eyes-closed baselines. The most important findings were increases in global EEG coherence in the 36-44 Hz and 50-64 Hz frequency bands for both subjects. Widely distributed cort…
The concept and measurement of economic freedom
Risky Business: Prospect Theory and Politics
Prospect theory suggests that individuals' orientations toward risk affect people's behavior. This essay considers political implications, exploring the extent to which people's views about risk influence status quo orientations, political participation, and political involvement. Data from a student sample are used to test these expected relationships
Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males 1
This article presents the results of an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic investigation of Glaswegian Vernacular and examines the intersection between language and identity using data collected from a group of working‐class adolescent males, over the course of three years, from a high school in the south side of Glasgow, Scotland, called Banister Academy. Through the fine‐grained acoustic analysis of the phonetic variable cat (equivalent …
The construction of ‘tough’ masculinity
Drawing on narrative data collected during a three-year ethnography of a Scottish high school, this article examines the construction of working-class adolescent masculinities. More specifically, the analysis focuses on how adolescent male speakers negotiate, reject and align themselves with the hegemonically dominant ideology of ‘tough’ masculinity, the role socially low-risk discourses of ‘tough’ masculinity play in interaction, and how speaker…
Risky Business: Prospect Theory and Politics
Prospect theory suggests that individuals' orientations toward risk affect people's behavior. This essay considers political implications, exploring the extent to which people's views about risk influence status quo orientations, political participation, and political involvement. Data from a student sample are used to test these expected relationships
Language and Masculinities: History, Development, and Future
In the past two decades, the field of language and masculinities studies has become an established part of language, gender, and sexuality research, growing in response to concerns about the limited criticality directed toward men and masculinities in sociolinguistics. In doing so, the field has added to the conceptual and theoretical tool kit of sociolinguistics, furthering both our understanding of the linguistic strategies used by men in a var…
Does immigration impact institutions
Gender Politics and Discourses of #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption on Twitter
This article presents the findings of a corpus linguistic analysis of the hashtags #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption, three lexical blends which have recently found widespread use across a variety of online media platforms. Focusing on the social media and microblogging site Twitter, we analyze a corpus of over 20,000 tweets containing these hashtags to examine how discourses of gender politics and gender relations are represented …
Don’t even [θ/f/h]ink aboot it’: An ethnographic investigation of social meaning, social identity and (θ) variation in Glasgow
As a relatively new phenomenon in the phonology of Scottish English, TH-fronting has surprised sociolinguists by its rapid spread in the urban heartlands of Scotland. While attempts have been made to understand and model the influence of lexical effects, media effects and frequency effects, far less understood is the role of social identity. Using data collected as part of an ethnographic study of a high school in the south side of Glasgow, Scotl…
Planned policy transfer: The impact of the German model on Chinese vocational education
In the realm of reconfiguring Chinese vocational education and training (VET) the country is collaborating with Germany which provides guidance and support for the development of a dual system in China. The article outlines the circumstances that need to be considered in such a policy transfer and possible scenarios for the development of a modern VET system. The VET systems in both countries are explained and compared before the authors examine …
Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse
Not getting a word in edgeways? Language, gender, and identity in a British comedy panel show
Interspecies vocal communication between a baboon and a macaque
Risky Business: Prospect Theory and Politics
Prospect theory suggests that individuals' orientations toward risk affect people's behavior. This essay considers political implications, exploring the extent to which people's views about risk influence status quo orientations, political participation, and political involvement. Data from a student sample are used to test these expected relationships
The concept and measurement of economic freedom
EEG Gamma Coherence and Other Correlates of Subjective Reports During Ayahuasca Experiences
The current study examined QEEG power and coherence of ayahuasca experiences with two experienced participants in a Brazilian jungle setting. An exploratory case series design was adopted for naturalistic field research. EEGs recorded during visual imagery was compared to eyes-closed baselines. The most important findings were increases in global EEG coherence in the 36-44 Hz and 50-64 Hz frequency bands for both subjects. Widely distributed cort…
German Representations of Canada and Canadian Soldiers: Karl Bröger's Bunker 17 , Wolfgang Borchert's 'Billbrook' and Rainer Kunad's Bill Brook
Very little research has been done on how Germans viewed their Canadian opponents in the First and Second World Wars. This article examines how Canadian government propaganda influenced twentieth-century German perceptions of Canada and how these images were perpetuated in German war fiction. Although Canada is hardly a major focal point in German literature, at least two writers, Karl Bröger and Wolfgang Borchert, present a mythical portrait of …
Joachim von Ribbentrop in Canada, 1910–1914: A Note
the opinion of John L. Heineman, Joachim von cRibbentrop's interest for historians lies not in his impractical theories but rather in his successful struggle for power.'1 The remark points to both Ribbentrop's remarkable ascent in the Nazi hierarchy from newly minted party member in 1932 to foreign minister in 1938 and his incompetence and lack of substance. As a diplomat with no formal training in diplomacy or knowledge of international relation…
Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism
Carnivalism in Postwar Austrian- And German-Jewish Literature – Edgar Hilsenrath, Irene Dische, and Doron Rabinovici
Planned policy transfer: The impact of the German model on Chinese vocational education
In the realm of reconfiguring Chinese vocational education and training (VET) the country is collaborating with Germany which provides guidance and support for the development of a dual system in China. The article outlines the circumstances that need to be considered in such a policy transfer and possible scenarios for the development of a modern VET system. The VET systems in both countries are explained and compared before the authors examine …
Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males 1
This article presents the results of an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic investigation of Glaswegian Vernacular and examines the intersection between language and identity using data collected from a group of working‐class adolescent males, over the course of three years, from a high school in the south side of Glasgow, Scotland, called Banister Academy. Through the fine‐grained acoustic analysis of the phonetic variable cat (equivalent …
The construction of ‘tough’ masculinity
Drawing on narrative data collected during a three-year ethnography of a Scottish high school, this article examines the construction of working-class adolescent masculinities. More specifically, the analysis focuses on how adolescent male speakers negotiate, reject and align themselves with the hegemonically dominant ideology of ‘tough’ masculinity, the role socially low-risk discourses of ‘tough’ masculinity play in interaction, and how speaker…
Don’t even [θ/f/h]ink aboot it’: An ethnographic investigation of social meaning, social identity and (θ) variation in Glasgow
As a relatively new phenomenon in the phonology of Scottish English, TH-fronting has surprised sociolinguists by its rapid spread in the urban heartlands of Scotland. While attempts have been made to understand and model the influence of lexical effects, media effects and frequency effects, far less understood is the role of social identity. Using data collected as part of an ethnographic study of a high school in the south side of Glasgow, Scotl…
Does immigration impact institutions
Not getting a word in edgeways? Language, gender, and identity in a British comedy panel show
When Private Reporting Is More Positive Than Public Reporting: Pluralistic Ignorance Towards Atheists
Across three studies, we assessed the impact of perceived social norms on attitudes and positive behavioral intentions towards atheists and religious believers. Reported attitudes, reported acceptability of expressing positive and negative attitudes, and reported positive behavioral intentions disproportionately favored religious believers over atheists. However, participants reported a higher likelihood of engaging in positive behaviors towards …
Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers’ choices
In what can only be described as a burgeoning marketplace, introductory sociolinguistic textbooks have been hitting the book shelves with increasing regularity over the past 10 years, making the jo
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads
Compared to other subfields of linguistics, sociolinguistics has been relatively outward-facing since its inception. Yet few can accuse sociolinguistics of being particularly meddlesome in the political process; nor has the discipline as a whole been overwhelmingly preoccupied with improving people's lives. Peter Trudgill's 1984 edited volume Applied Sociolinguistics, which showcased a range of sociolinguistic research with applications beyond ac…
Sociolinguistic Research: Application and impact
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields.
Socialism Sucks
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism-while drinking a lot of beer
Gender Politics and Discourses of #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption on Twitter
This article presents the findings of a corpus linguistic analysis of the hashtags #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption, three lexical blends which have recently found widespread use across a variety of online media platforms. Focusing on the social media and microblogging site Twitter, we analyze a corpus of over 20,000 tweets containing these hashtags to examine how discourses of gender politics and gender relations are represented …
Language and Masculinities: History, Development, and Future
In the past two decades, the field of language and masculinities studies has become an established part of language, gender, and sexuality research, growing in response to concerns about the limited criticality directed toward men and masculinities in sociolinguistics. In doing so, the field has added to the conceptual and theoretical tool kit of sociolinguistics, furthering both our understanding of the linguistic strategies used by men in a var…
Robert McColl Miller, A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland
Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse
Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media
Public distrust in government, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professions, and medical science and technology has been consistently linked with vaccine rejection. Policymakers, therefore, want to better understand links between distrust of institutions and vaccine refusal. This paper reports on a case study of posts (tweets) to the social media platform Twitter (now X) collected as part of the TRAC:COVID (Trust and Communication: A Coronavi…
Becoming Bame: Social identities and racialised terminology in the UK
This article examines the politics of racialised terminology through the first sociolinguistic, cultural analysis of the acronym BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) in the UK. Using a mixed methods approach, we present an analysis of how this collective term of ethnic difference is used across parliamentary discourse, news articles, and social media spaces, identifying a rise in the term since 2014, but also evidence of a decline since 2022, …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works)