Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
About the presenter
Erez Levon (he/him) is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Society at the University of Bern. His work uses quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methods to examine how people produce and perceive socially meaningful patterns of variation in language. He is particularly interested in how variation signals group membership and in the relationship between language and broader structures of social inequality. He examines these issues primarily as they relate to gender, sexuality, social class and national belonging, and he has conducted field research on these topics in Israel/Palestine, South Africa, the US, & the UK.
