Mo Gordon
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M.S. Gordon
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2125
- m.s.gordon@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8214-6959
Mo Gordon is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Linguistics.
More information about Mo Gordon
PhD candidates
Fields of Interest
- History of English
- English historical sociolinguistics
- Early-and Late Modern English
- Language- and dialect contact
- Dialect formation
- Language variation and change
- Language attitudes
Research
My research interests lie within the field of historical sociolinguistics. I’m particularly interested in how and why supra-local (written) varieties emerged in Early/Late Modern English urban settings and have carried out studies with regard to the supralocalisation of morpho-syntactical and orthographic features. In addition, my aim is to investigate the Anglicization of Scots across various social layers of Scotland in the Late Modern English period. As part of this I look at how pre-and proscriptive notions interact with language usage in correspondence.
CV
Sept. 2019-present
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University, the Netherlands
Sept. 2018-Sept. 2020
Lecturer in English language, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL OTS), Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Sept. 2017-Sept. 2018
Lecturer in English Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at University College Roosevelt, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Feb. 2017-July 2017
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2013-2017; PhD Emerging Standards
Urbanisation and the Development of Standard English, c.1400-1700 at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL OTS), Utrecht University.
Thesis: The Urban Vernacular of Late Medieval and Renaissance Bristol (Supervisors: Prof. Peter Schrijver and Prof. Anita Auer)
2011-2012
M.A. Language, Mind and Society, Utrecht University
Thesis: “Making the Best Use of Bad Data”- Phonological Variation and Historical Sociolinguistics (Supervisors: Prof. Anita Auer & Dr. Hans van de Velde) Specialism: (Socio)linguistics, Language Policy, Corpus linguistics (internship)
2008-2011
B.A. English Language and Culture, Utrecht University
Thesis: Robert Burns as a Naive Genius: The Choices of an Eighteenth-Century Scots Writer in a Standard English World (Supervisor: Prof. Anita Auer) Specialism: Old and Middle English, Historical linguistics, Dialectology, history of English, language contact, translation studies
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Engels
- Caon L. Gordon M.S. Porck M.H. (Ed.) (2024), Unlocking the History of English : Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory no. 364. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Caon L., Gordon M. & Porck T. (2024), Introduction: Unlocking the history of English. In: Caon L., Gordon M.S. & Porck T. (Eds.), Unlocking the history of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory no. 364. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-7.
- Auer A. & Gordon M.S. (2024), Weaving strands together: Towards assembling Norwich’s historical urban vernacular. In: Hendriks J. & Page R.B (Eds.), Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 164-187.
- Gordon M.S., Oudesluijs T. & Auer A. (2022), Supralocalisation processes in early modern English urban vernaculars: new manuscript evidence from Bristol, Coventry and York, International Journal of English Studies (IJES) 20(2): 47-66.
- Oudesluijs T., Gordon M.S. & Auer A. (2022), Urbanisation, supralocalisation and the development of periphrastic DO in early modern England, Journal of Historical Syntax 6: 1-25 (16).
- Gordon M.S. (2020), The North-South Divide of Thorn and : : A Critical Examination. In: Wrigth L. (Ed.), The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain, c. 1300-1600.: Walter de Gruyter. 1991-214.
- Gordon M.S. (2017), The Urban Vernacular of Late Medieval and Renaissance Bristol. LOT dissertation series no. 476. Amsterdam: LOT.
- Auer A.,Gordon M.S. & Olson M (2016), English Urban Vernaculars 1400-1700: Digitizing Text from Manuscript. In: López-Couso M.J., Méndez-Naya B., Nüöez-PertejoP. & Palacios-Martinez I.M. (Eds.), Corpus Linguistics on the Move: Exploring and Understanding English through Corpora. Leiden & Boston: Brill/Rodopi. 21-40.
- Auer A, Laitinen M. & Fairman T. (2014), Challenges, Solutions and Prospects in Creating an Electronic Corpus of Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750‐1835). In: Vandelanotte L., DavidseK., Gentens C. & Kemps D. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics: : Developing and Exploiting Corpora. Amsterdam: Rodpi. 187-212.