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• Professional: LSA Summer Institute - University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. USA 2001
• MA: Master of Arts in TESOL
  School for International Training (SIT),
• MEd: Master of Arts in Language Literacy & Sociocultural Studies – Bilingualism and Bilingual Education Specialization
  The University of New Mexico,
• PhD: Ph.D. in Linguistics
  The University of New Mexico,
• BA: Bachelor of Arts
  University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Classes / modules taught at ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É:

QXL 1111 Describing Language

QXL 1116 Introduction to Semantics & Pragmatics.

QXL 1117 Introduction to Syntax & Morphology

QXL 2202 Meaning & Mind

QXL 2222 History of English

QXL 3341 UG Dissertation

QXL 3347 Language Change (for undergraduates)

QXL 3363 Language Culture & Power (for undergraduates)

QXL 3377 Corpus Linguistics Theory & Practice (for undergraduates)

QXL 4411 Foundations of Linguistics I

QXL 4431 Foundations of Linguistics II

QXL 4447 Language Change for post graduate taught students)

QXL 4463 Language Culture & Power (for post graduate taught students)

QXL 4477 Corpus Linguistics Theory & Practice for post graduate taught students

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Master’s Thesis Supervised at ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É:

2020 ÌýÌýÌýÌý Monther Mohammad Alluhaidah. ‘A CDA Analysis of Al Jazeera’s Online Coverage of the War in Yemen Pre and Post KSA’s Qatar Crisi²õ’.

2020 ÌýÌýÌýÌý Constance Croguennec. ‘‘Life is a journey’: How do transgender and gender non-conforming people conceptualize and describe the development of their gender identity?

2020 ÌýÌýÌýÌý Susan Bod. ‘Culture in ELT in Kuwait: teachers’ perspectives.

2020 ÌýÌýÌýÌý Malak Ibrahim Al Zamanan. ‘Parental attitudes towards their children's participation in English language education immersion programmes in Saudi Arabia’

2019ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Luis Felipe García Montaño Ìý‘Le he escrito hace un hora, a corpus-based descriptive analysis of the use of the ‘Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto’ in domains of the ‘Pretérito Perfecto Simple’ in spoken and written Latin American Spanish’.

2019 ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Elliott Aboagye ‘A sociolinguistic and Critical Discourse Analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s portrayal of the African American experience’

2019 ÌýÌýÌýÌý Owen Middlemas ‘Using Coxhead and Hirsch’s (2007) Science specific word list to predict academic success in the Sciences at GCSE level: A Case study’

2019 ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Abdullah Azib Alghamdi ‘Major lexical changes within the Bilad Ghamd region of Saudi Arabia’

2018 ÌýÌýÌýÌýAlaw Mon Griffiths. ‘Cross cultural, cross linguistic study into the perception of the term Feminist in Wales’.

2018ÌýÌýÌýÌý Ashwaq A Alsulami. ‘A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of Arabizi in social media among Saudi Arabians’

2018ÌýÌýÌýÌý Taghreed Al ThiayabatÌý ‘Investigating Saudi versus Jordanian undergraduate English Language Studies students’ spelling errors

2017ÌýÌýÌýÌý Justin Thompson. ‘A corpus-based analysis of negative responsives in the speech of Welsh speaking adults’.

2017ÌýÌýÌýÌý Llinos Gough ‘What does it mean to be gay in UK media? A diachronic corpus-based investigation into the representation of sexual orientation in British newspapers’.

2016ÌýÌýÌýÌý Hernando Andrés Jiménez Rocha. ‘Spanish First Person Singular Subject Pronoun Usage in Spoken Castilian Spanish: A Morphosyntactic and Pragmatic Approach’.

2015 ÌýÌýÌýÌýOsama Sultan S AlruwailiÌýÌý ‘Using Discourse Analysis on the Language of the Terrorist Group ISIS as a means of identifying the ideology beneath the rhetoric’.

2015ÌýÌýÌýÌý Alaa Alahmadi ‘Exploring Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Saudi undergraduate EFL students at King Abdulaziz University and its relationship to their vocabulary size’.

2015 ÌýÌýÌýÌýJavier Morras Cortes ‘Chilean Cultural models and figurative meaning extension’.

2014ÌýÌýÌýÌý Harry Bradford ‘Identifying linguistic trends in suicide notes over a 50 year period: a diachronic corpus based approach’.

2014ÌýÌýÌýÌý Qianwen ChengÌýÌýÌý ‘A Construction Grammar Approach to the Family of Chinese caused-Motion Construction²õ’.

2014ÌýÌýÌý Farissa Ahmad Fisol. ‘Using Style Markers for Authorship Identification’.

2014ÌýÌýÌý Gareth Monk ‘A corpus linguistic authorship analysis of the Eddie Gilfoyle case’

2013ÌýÌýÌý Alexander CornfordÌýÌý ‘The Language of Food Advertising: How is food represented in advertising and how does it affect choice?’

2012ÌýÌýÌý Abtesam Alshallam ‘Negation errors in Arabic learners of English’.

2012 ÌýÌýÌýÌýThomas Beakes ‘Examining the impact Ideology in discourse’

2012ÌýÌýÌýÌý Hannah Coustick ‘Bias in media/discourse with respect to gender and education’

2012ÌýÌýÌýÌý Jonathan Hughes Ìý‘Discourse analysis and public opinion’

Current PhD Student Supervision – as 1^st Supervisor

Mr Atheer Abdulhadi Ras Aljubouri.Ìý ‘Representation of Iraqis in Hollywood Films in pre and post US led intervention in Iraq:Ìý A Critical Discourse Study’.

Ms. Shailaja Bakshi. ‘Examining Lexico-Grammatical Argument Structure Patterns in Native and Non-Native Varieties of South Asian English:Ìý A Corpus Based Analysis of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English.

Mr Osama Sultan S Alruwaili. ‘Understanding ISIS’s Ideology, Goals & Propaganda techniques: A Critical Discourse Analysis of ISIS Recruitment Techniques and Tactics Targeting British Muslim Youth’.Ìý

As 2^nd supervisor:

Mr Alaa Othman A Alahmadi.Ìý 'Exploring the effect of lexical inferencing and lexical translation on Saudi undergraduate EFL students’ vocabulary retention'.

Ms Maram Alamri. ‘Exploring the encoding of motion in verbs in English by L1 Arabic-speaking learners of English’.

Mr Alessandro Arioli.Ìý ‘"Mutual intelligibility among Gallo-Italic, Occitan, Franco-Provençal and Tuscan geolects as a heuristic addressing issues in the classification of Romance languages".

I have a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I also hold two Masters degrees; an MA (MPhil) in Language Literacy & Sociocultural Studies with a Bilingualism and Bilingual Education Specialization, also from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Arts in TESOL from the SIT Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, VT. Finally, I have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin – Madison where I majored in 3 subjects: International Relations, Political Science, and History

In addition to my academic degrees I also completed a 3-year post-doc with Professor Hubert Cuyckens, as a member of the Functional Linguistics Leuven (FLL) Research Unit, in the Department of Linguistics at KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.Ìý Our research was conducted as part of a larger ÌýGrammaticalization and (Inter) Subjectification) GRAMIS project Ìýwhich was funded by the Belgian national research programme.Ìý

My research interests and expertise are in the field of language variation, use and change in both monolingual and bilingual contexts.Ìý I approach language and cognition from a usage-based / functionally oriented perspective and I utilize qualitative, corpus-based, quantitative and ethnographicÌý methodologies in my research.Ìý

As a corpus-linguist I study language variation, use and change, primarily within the domains of syntax, semantics and epistemic expression, in both synchronic and diachronic contexts. ÌýÌýI also work in the field of bilingualism and multilingualism where I specialize in bilingual and multilingual identity construction, (re) construction, and concomitant issues related to identity, voice, power, representation and performativity.Ìý I am also part of an interdisciplinary collaboration with Public Health Wales – Cardiff where I am researching healthcare delivery, communication and outcomes for the Deaf community in Wales and conducting the first comprehensive research on and survey of the use, linguistic features and geographical distribution of Welsh dialect(s) of British Sign Language. ÌýÌýFinally, I also use (CDA)Ìý Critical Discourse Analyses and Multimodal methodologies to investigate issues of power, inequality, racism, sexism Ìýand the impact of linguistic and cultural hegemony, in the domains of political discourse, journalism, social media, EFL methodology, etc.Ìý

I am prepared (and have supervised) MA and PhD level qualitative, quantitative and ethnographically orientated research projects in the Ìýfollowing areas: using spoken and written corpora to explore synchronic and diachronic texts in terms of language variation, use and Ìýchange (in English as well as other languages), comparing and contrasting World Englishes,Ìý sociolinguistic variation, language contact and change, functional and descriptive approaches to grammar, polysemy, epistemicity, inter-subjectivity, conceptual metaphor & metonymy, multimodal analysis, and critical discourse analysis (CDA).Ìý I have also supervised projects that look at aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism with respect to the issue of bilingual and multilingual identity, identity construction and (reconstruction), performativity and research questions that have explored the interrelationships between language, culture, power, gender, and language use.Ìý Finally, I have also supervised projects that have looked at TEFL methodology, critical pedagogy, and linguistic imperialism and cultural hegemony on EFL students.

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2025

• Accepted/In press
  Shank, C., Foltz, A., Wilks, R. & Rhys-Jones, D. S., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Healthcare, Language and Inclusivity: Kondo Musolff Vilar-Lluch Zhou Editors. Routledge
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2022

• Published
  Foltz, A., Cuffin, H. & Shank, C., 30 Jun 2022, In: Information. 19, 22
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• Published
  Shank, C. & Foltz, A., 23 Oct 2020, In: Frontiers in Communication. 5, 572855.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Webb-Davies, P. & Shank, C., Mar 2020, In: Gwerddon. 30, p. 23-39
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• Published
  Foltz, A. & Shank, C., 28 Nov 2019, The Conversation.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
• Published
  Shank, C. & Foltz, A., Nov 2019, ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É. 50 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
• Published
  Shank, C. & Foltz, A., Nov 2019, ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
• Published
  Shank, C. & Plevoets, K., 7 May 2019, In: Research in Corpus Linguistics. 2018 (6), p. 83-112 30 p., 6.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Shank, C. & Foltz, A., Sept 2019.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

2018

• Published
  Shank, C. & Foltz, A., 26 Nov 2018, Public Health Wales, Cardiff. 36 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
• Published
  Shank, C., Foltz, A. & Alahmadi, A., 15 Dec 2018, In: Vocabulary Learning and Instruction. 7, 1, p. 14-34 21 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016