Claire Cowie
Biographic Data
| ID | 241401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Cowie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowie |
| SIGNATURE | COWIE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9268-358X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jackson Pind, Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School
In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an official apology for residential schools -doing so in the Canadian House of Commons alongside fellow members of Parliament, Indigenous leaders, and Survivors of one of Canada's most notorious colonial policies.While this apology, as well as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), are often understood as standing in for all colonial schooling experiences, both were in fact focused on status …
Decoding Bollywood: Why Hindi–English code-switching and standard English outrank Indian English
Bollywood films, the highly commercial films by Indian producers for Indian audiences, have always been Hindi-dominant, and despite the increased incorporation of English over time, the speech of urban elite main characters remains Hindi matrix. This is at odds with the code-switching patterns of urban elites in other Indian media, such as chat shows, and spoken conversation, where switching among such speakers is often English dominant. Young ur…
The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous–Settler Relations . Shirley N. Hager and Mawopiyane
Indigenous Diffuse Support and Descriptive Representation in the Canadian House of Commons
Do Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada display lower levels of diffuse support than non-Indigenous settlers? Given settler colonial relations (both historic and contemporary) and Indigenous peoples' own political thought, we can expect that Indigenous peoples would have even lower perceptions of state legitimacy than non-Indigenous peoples. However, there are conflicting expectations regarding whether the descriptive representation of Indige…
Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect
Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearin…
Interview with Rajend Mesthrie
English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaningPapers from the XXth Icehl
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of English historical linguistics. Chapters showcase traditional as well as novel methodologies in historical linguistics (the latter made…
English Historical Linguistics: Change in Structure and Meaning. Papers from the XXth Icehl
The Lothian Diary Project: Sociolinguistic methods during the Covid-19 lockdown
The Lothian Diary Project is an interdisciplinary effort to collect self-recorded audio or video diaries of people’s experiences of COVID-19 in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. In this paper we describe how the project emerged from a desire to support community members. The diaries have been disseminated through public events, a website, an oral history project, and engagement with policymakers. The data collection method encouraged the participat…
Conflicts between World Englishes: Online metalinguistic discourse about Singapore Colloquial English
Negative attitudes of non-Singaporeans towards Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) are often used to support the “Speak Good English Movement” in Singapore. This article examines spontaneous metalinguistic discourse about SCE in an online Facebook group where Taiwanese migrants in Singapore gather for mutual support. Based on the idea that metalinguistic discourse is mediated through the social relation between interlocutors, this study reveals ho…
Phonetic convergence towards American English by Indian agents in international service encounters
In outsourced voice-based services (call centres are a typical example), an agent providing a service is likely to accommodate their speech to that of the customer. In services outsourced to India, as in other postcolonial settings, the customer accent typically does not have a place in that agent’s repertoire. This presents an opportunity to test whether exposure to the customer accent through telephone work promotes phonetic convergence, and/or…
Authenticity versus autonomy: The synthesis of World Englishes as a discipline
World Englishes, like other topics covered in the Routledge Introduction to Applied Linguistics series (ELT, Classroom Discourse, Corpus Linguistics), is increasingly a feature of the curriculum of Applied Linguistics and TESOL programmes. Philip Seargeant's book is aimed at master's-level students who are teachers in training or language professionals returning to study, and final year undergraduates. The first part of the book is what you would…
The accents of outsourcing: The meanings of "neutral" in the Indian call centre industry
This is an ethnographic study of an agency which handles "accent training" for major call centres in Bangalore, South India. It investigates (1) the requirements of call centres in terms of accent training, (2) agency staff's interpretation of these requirements, and (3) trainees' response to the expectations of the agency and their future employer. Call centres which may have initially demanded accents as close to the L1 variety as possible now …
Grammaticalization and the snowball effect
The accents of outsourcing: The meanings of "neutral" in the Indian call centre industry
This is an ethnographic study of an agency which handles "accent training" for major call centres in Bangalore, South India. It investigates (1) the requirements of call centres in terms of accent training, (2) agency staff's interpretation of these requirements, and (3) trainees' response to the expectations of the agency and their future employer. Call centres which may have initially demanded accents as close to the L1 variety as possible now …
Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect
Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearin…
Indigenous Diffuse Support and Descriptive Representation in the Canadian House of Commons
Do Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada display lower levels of diffuse support than non-Indigenous settlers? Given settler colonial relations (both historic and contemporary) and Indigenous peoples' own political thought, we can expect that Indigenous peoples would have even lower perceptions of state legitimacy than non-Indigenous peoples. However, there are conflicting expectations regarding whether the descriptive representation of Indige…
Conflicts between World Englishes: Online metalinguistic discourse about Singapore Colloquial English
Negative attitudes of non-Singaporeans towards Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) are often used to support the “Speak Good English Movement” in Singapore. This article examines spontaneous metalinguistic discourse about SCE in an online Facebook group where Taiwanese migrants in Singapore gather for mutual support. Based on the idea that metalinguistic discourse is mediated through the social relation between interlocutors, this study reveals ho…
Phonetic convergence towards American English by Indian agents in international service encounters
In outsourced voice-based services (call centres are a typical example), an agent providing a service is likely to accommodate their speech to that of the customer. In services outsourced to India, as in other postcolonial settings, the customer accent typically does not have a place in that agent’s repertoire. This presents an opportunity to test whether exposure to the customer accent through telephone work promotes phonetic convergence, and/or…
Grammaticalization and the snowball effect
Grammaticalization and the snowball effect
The accents of outsourcing: The meanings of "neutral" in the Indian call centre industry
This is an ethnographic study of an agency which handles "accent training" for major call centres in Bangalore, South India. It investigates (1) the requirements of call centres in terms of accent training, (2) agency staff's interpretation of these requirements, and (3) trainees' response to the expectations of the agency and their future employer. Call centres which may have initially demanded accents as close to the L1 variety as possible now …
Authenticity versus autonomy: The synthesis of World Englishes as a discipline
World Englishes, like other topics covered in the Routledge Introduction to Applied Linguistics series (ELT, Classroom Discourse, Corpus Linguistics), is increasingly a feature of the curriculum of Applied Linguistics and TESOL programmes. Philip Seargeant's book is aimed at master's-level students who are teachers in training or language professionals returning to study, and final year undergraduates. The first part of the book is what you would…
Phonetic convergence towards American English by Indian agents in international service encounters
In outsourced voice-based services (call centres are a typical example), an agent providing a service is likely to accommodate their speech to that of the customer. In services outsourced to India, as in other postcolonial settings, the customer accent typically does not have a place in that agent’s repertoire. This presents an opportunity to test whether exposure to the customer accent through telephone work promotes phonetic convergence, and/or…
Conflicts between World Englishes: Online metalinguistic discourse about Singapore Colloquial English
Negative attitudes of non-Singaporeans towards Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) are often used to support the “Speak Good English Movement” in Singapore. This article examines spontaneous metalinguistic discourse about SCE in an online Facebook group where Taiwanese migrants in Singapore gather for mutual support. Based on the idea that metalinguistic discourse is mediated through the social relation between interlocutors, this study reveals ho…
English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaningPapers from the XXth Icehl
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of English historical linguistics. Chapters showcase traditional as well as novel methodologies in historical linguistics (the latter made…
English Historical Linguistics: Change in Structure and Meaning. Papers from the XXth Icehl
The Lothian Diary Project: Sociolinguistic methods during the Covid-19 lockdown
The Lothian Diary Project is an interdisciplinary effort to collect self-recorded audio or video diaries of people’s experiences of COVID-19 in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. In this paper we describe how the project emerged from a desire to support community members. The diaries have been disseminated through public events, a website, an oral history project, and engagement with policymakers. The data collection method encouraged the participat…
Interview with Rajend Mesthrie
Decoding Bollywood: Why Hindi–English code-switching and standard English outrank Indian English
Bollywood films, the highly commercial films by Indian producers for Indian audiences, have always been Hindi-dominant, and despite the increased incorporation of English over time, the speech of urban elite main characters remains Hindi matrix. This is at odds with the code-switching patterns of urban elites in other Indian media, such as chat shows, and spoken conversation, where switching among such speakers is often English dominant. Young ur…
The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous–Settler Relations . Shirley N. Hager and Mawopiyane
Indigenous Diffuse Support and Descriptive Representation in the Canadian House of Commons
Do Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada display lower levels of diffuse support than non-Indigenous settlers? Given settler colonial relations (both historic and contemporary) and Indigenous peoples' own political thought, we can expect that Indigenous peoples would have even lower perceptions of state legitimacy than non-Indigenous peoples. However, there are conflicting expectations regarding whether the descriptive representation of Indige…
Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect
Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearin…
Jackson Pind, Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School
In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an official apology for residential schools -doing so in the Canadian House of Commons alongside fellow members of Parliament, Indigenous leaders, and Survivors of one of Canada's most notorious colonial policies.While this apology, as well as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), are often understood as standing in for all colonial schooling experiences, both were in fact focused on status …
Linguistics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)