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Kirk Hazen
Professor Director, WV Dialect Project Ph.D., Linguistics, 1997 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office: 137 Colson Hall Tel: 293-9721 Fax: 293-5380 Email: Kirk.Hazen@mail.wvu.edu |
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Specializations:
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Language Variation and Change
Kirk Hazen is the linguist in the Department. He directs the West Virginia Dialect Project has investigated bidialectalism (funded through NSF grant BCS-9982647), English in Appalachia (funded through NSF grant BCS-0743489), 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. He is currently Section Editor for the Language and Linguistics Compass http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/linguistics/ He is also co-chair of LSA’s Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee http://lsadc.org/
Kirk is the author of Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South and coauthor (with Walt Wolfram & Natalie Schilling-Estes) of Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks. Among other publications, he has authored articles and chapters on language variation for Language, The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, The Journal of English Linguistics, Sociolinguistic variation and Language Variation and Change.