Kirk Hazen
Professor
Director, WV Dialect Project
Ph.D., Linguistics
Office: 137 Colson Hall
Tel: 293-9721
Fax: 293-5380
Kirk.Hazen@mail.wvu.edu
Specializations:
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change
Professor Kirk Hazen is the linguist in the Department and directs the West Virginia Dialect Project. He has investigated bidialectalism (funded through NSF grant BCS-9982647), A Sociolinguistic Baseline for English in Appalachia (funded through NSF grant BCS-0743489), Phonetic Variation of English in Appalachia (funded through NSF grant BCS-1120156) language variation in the family, and English in North Carolina (Outer Banks and Warren County). The WVDP is also involved in public education about dialect variation and language change.
Recently he has published on sociolinguistics in the US (Sociolinguistics Around The World: A Handbook, 2010), coronal stop deletion (Language Variation and Change, 2011), demonstrative them (English World Wide, 2011), William Labov’s influence (The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics, 2011), (ING) variation (American Speech 83.2, 2008), the history of variationist language studies (Sociolinguistic Variation: Theory, Methods, and Applications, 2007), and variationist approaches to language and education (The Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Ed. Vol. 10, 2007).
