Nathaniel Dziura
School of English
Research Student
- Profile
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I am in the fourth year of my PhD, exploring how attuned Polish-born speakers are to the different functions of morphosyntactic variants in British English, taking into account speakers' levels of involvement in British culture and their memberships to different social/cultural groups (eg. the LGBTQ+ community). I have experience with both experimental and qualitative methodologies, and I particularly enjoy data processing and visualisation.
- Qualifications
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- MA: English Language and Linguistics, The University of Sheffield - 2019
- BA: English Language and Linguistics, The University of Sheffield - 2017
- Research interests
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- Sociolinguistics
- Morphosyntax
- Language acquisition
- Acculturation
- Multilingualism
- Research group
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Supervisors:
- Dr Emma Moore
- Dr Robyn Orfitelli
- Grants
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- White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities PhD Studentship - 2018-2022
- John Roach Scholarship (Sheffield Postgraduate Scholarship) - 2017
- Teaching activities
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- Project supervisor: DLL Foundation Level ACE0349 Extended Projects - SPR 2021
- Graduate teaching assistant: ELL221 Syntax - AUT 2019
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Centre for Linguistic Research Research Admin Assistant - June 2022
- Cross-Linguistic Emotion Perception Internship with Speech Graphics, as part of WRoCAH Researcher Employability Project - 2021
- Co-organiser of ShefLing Postgraduate Conference - 2019
- Co-manager of Centre for Linguistic Research social media channels - 2019-present
- Head organiser of HaCKS Student Led Forum (Historical and Contemporary Knowledgebase in Sociolinguistics) - 2018-2019
- Research assistant at Queen Mary University on the ''Perspective and the Self in Natural Language (PERSNAL)" project - 2017-2018
- Senior student ambassador (School of English) & UKRecruitment student ambassador - 2015-present
- Peer reviewer for Language Variation and Change, and Journal of Languages, Texts and Society
- Presentations
- Dziura (2021) ‘Morphosyntactic variation and identity in LGBTQ+ Polish-born speakers of British-English’, Poster at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 49, University of Texas at Austin
- Dziura (2021) ‘Variation and acculturation: Language and identity in LGBTQ+ Polish migrants to England’, UCL SSEES Polish Studies Research Group annual conference: Polish Migration in the age of ‘staying at home’, University College London
- Dziura, Vriesendorp, & Liu (2021) '“How to use the experiment builder GORILLA for linguistic research": Gorilla Behavioural Science Software showcase', LingLunch, University of Sheffield
- Dziura (2019) '“Language Is Flexible but People Are Not”: Being Non-Binary in Polish vs English’, Poster at International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 10, Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden
- Dziura (2019) ‘Variation and Acculturation: Morphosyntax and Queer Polish Speakers of British English’, Lavender Languages and Linguistics (LavLang) 26, University of Gothenburg
- Dziura (2019) ‘Morphosyntactic Variation in the L2 English of LGBTQ+ Polish Migrants in the UK’, Copenhagen Winterschool in Sociolinguistics 3, University of Copenhagen
- Dziura (2017) ‘‘Genderlect’ in a Spectrum: Language Used by Non-Binary People, Women, and Men’, Poster at Postgraduate Academic Researchers in Linguistics at York (PARLAY), University of York