Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Pia Pichler

Magistra of Philosophy (English and Italian), Salzburg University, Austria, 1995; PhD, Roehampton University, London, 2003. Visiting Lecturer, Roehampton University, 1999-2003; Lecturer Middlesex University, 2003-2004; at Goldsmiths since 2004.

Teaching

I convene the MA Sociocultural Linguistics and teach on the core courses and two option modules of this MA; I also teach and convene our BA options ‘Varieties of English’ and  ‘Language and Gender’.

Areas of supervision

I currently supervise a PhD on pauses and silences in conflict talk, a PhD on politeness in Libyan Arabic, and a PhD on the discursive constructions of religious identities in the talk of Muslim converts. I will consider applications for PhDs on a range of discourse analytic and sociolinguistic topics, especially language and gender, language and ethnicity and other aspects of linguistic identity.

Grants & awards

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leave Scheme (2007) for project 'A comparative analysis of discourse practices and subject positions in girl talk'.
• Talking Young Femininities shortlisted for International Gender And Language Association (IGALA) Book Prize 2010.

Professional activities

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Gender and Language; The Open Applied Linguistics Journal

Guest reviewer for various Journals including Text & Talk; Discourse Studies

Member of British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL); International Gender and Language Association (IGALA); BAAL special interest groups on linguistic ethnography and on gender and language.

Research interests

My research interests include discourse and conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, language and gender/identity, feminist linguistics. I am particularly interested in the discursive construction of identities in spontaneous talk and in interview data. My comparative study of the talk of British adolescent girls from a range of socio-cultural backgrounds focuses on the interplay of language/discourse, gender, ethnicity and social class in situated interaction of adolescent friendship groups.

Selected publications

Books: 

• Language and Gender. A Reader. Second Edition. Co-edited with Jennifer Coates (Blackwell 2011).

• Language, Society and Power. Third Edition. With Annabelle Mooney, Jean Peccei, Suzanne LaBelle, Eva Eppler, Anthea Irwin, Sian Preece and Satori Soden (Routledge 2011). 

• The Language, Society and Power Reader. Co-edited with Annabelle Mooney, Jean Peccei, Suzanne LaBelle, Eva Eppler, Anthea Irwin and Satori Soden (Routledge 2011).

• Talking Young Femininities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); shortlisted for IGALA Book Prize 2010.

• Gender and Spoken Interaction. Co-edited with Eva Eppler (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). 

Articles and chapters:

• 'Hybrid or in between cultures: traditions of marriage in a group of British Bangladeshi girls' in Coates and Pichler (eds.) Langauge and Gender. A Reader. Second edition. (Blackwell, 2011)
• ‘Language and Gender’ with Siân Preece in Annabelle Mooney et al. Language, Society and Power, third edition (Routledge, 2011).
• 'All I've gotta do is wank on about some bollocky poem': cool and socially aware positions in the talk of London private school girls' in Pichler and Eppler (eds.) Gender and Spoken Interaction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 87-114.
• 'Gender, ethnicity and religion in spontaneous talk and ethnographic-style interviews: balancing perspectives of researcher and researched' in Sunderland et al. (eds.) Gender and Language: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
• 'Talking Traditions of Marriage: Negotiating Young British Bangladeshi Femininities', Women's Studies International Forum (2007)
• 'Multifunctional teasing as a resource for identity construction in the talk of British Bangladeshi girls', Journal of Sociolinguistics 10/2 (2006), pp 226-250.
• '"This sex thing is such a big issue now": Sex talk and identities in three groups of adolescent girls' in Kyratzis and Sauntson (eds.) Sexual Identities and Desires across Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
• 'The construction of bicultural femininities in the talk of British Bangladeshi girls'  in Cotterill and Ife (eds.) Language across Boundaries (Baal and Continuum, 2001)