Dr Wendy Anderson
- Reader (English Language and Linguistics)
- Dean of Learning and Teaching (Arts College Senior Management)
telephone: 01413304596
email: Wendy.Anderson@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Research interests
- Metaphor
- Semantics
- Corpus linguistics
- Collocation and phraseology
- English, Scottish English and Scots
- Modern Romance languages
- Translation theory and methodology
Biography
I have held a research and teaching position in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow since 2009. From 2004-2008, I was Research Associate for the Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS) and, briefly, Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) projects, which created large online corpora of texts in Scottish English and varieties of Scots. Before moving to Glasgow, I was a Teaching Fellow in French at the University of St Andrews, where I also completed my PhD in French linguistics.
I am Director of the Scottish Corpora projects, and on the Advisory Board of the Historical Thesaurus of English.
I am an elected member of the University Senate and Council of Senate.
I am currently an Associate Editor for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and a Subject Editor (Linguistics) for Forum for Modern Language Studies.
My ORCID ID is orcid.org/0000-0003-3188-4876.
Projects
Projects which I run or am associated with include:
Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus (Twitter @MappingMetaphor)
Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech
Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing
Grants
January 2012 - March 2015: Principal Investigator, Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus (AHRC grant AH/I02266X/1)
April 2015 - June 2016: Principal Investigator, Metaphor in the Curriculum (AHRC grant AH/M00936X/1)
Supervision
I currently supervise PhD and MPhil students mainly in the areas of corpus linguistics, semantics, metaphor, lexicography and genre analysis. Please contact me if you would like to discuss a proposal for postgraduate study within my areas of specialism.
Teaching
I teach on several Honours courses in the English Language and Linguistics subject area: Semantics and Pragmatics, Contemporary Issues in Semantics, Theories of Grammar, and Culture and English Language Teaching. In some years, I also teach the 'Meaning and Mind' and 'Children and Language' components of the Level 1 English Language and Linguistics course.
Additional Information
I am Dean of Learning and Teaching in the College of Arts.
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Publications
2017
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2017) Exploring English with Online Corpora: An Introduction [2nd ed.]. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire. ISBN 9781137438126
Vanhoutte, E., Anderson, W. , Galina, I. and Gooding, P. (2017) Digital Humanities 2015: Global Digital Humanities [Guest Editors]. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(S1),
Anderson, W. (2017) Metaphor Across Time and Conceptual Space by James J. Mischler III. Metaphor and Symbol, 32(1), pp. 55-56. (doi:10.1080/10926488.2017.1272921) [Book Review]
Anderson, W. (2017) Metaphor and diachronic variation. In: Semino, E. and Demjén, Z. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 9781138775367
2016
Anderson, W. and Hough, C. (2016) Engaging users of Scottish online language resources. In: Corrigan, K. P. and Mearns, A. (eds.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Databases for Public Engagement. Palgrave, pp. 69-97. ISBN 9781137386441 (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-38645-8_3)
Anderson, W. , Bramwell, E. and Hough, C. (Eds.) (2016) Mapping English Metaphor through Time. Series: Oxford linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198744573
Anderson, W. (2016) Waves of excitement, waves of metaphor. In: Anderson, W., Bramwell, E. and Hough, C. (eds.) Mapping English Metaphor through Time. Oxford University Press, pp. 115-136. ISBN 9780198744573
2015
Anderson, W., Hough, C., Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of Old English. [Website]
Anderson, W., Hough, C., Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of English. [Website]
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2015) 'What do we chat about when we chat about culture?' The discourse of online intercultural exchanges. In: Tcherepashenets, N. (ed.) Globalizing On-line: Telecollaboration, Internationalization, and Social Justice. Series: Telecollaboration in Education (4). Peter Lang: Bern, pp. 177-200. ISBN 9783034315203
2014
Anderson, W., Aitken, B. and Hamilton, R. (2014) A digital metaphor map for English [poster]. In: DH2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 Jul 2014,
Anderson, W., Biggam, C. P., Hough, C. and Kay, C. (Eds.) (2014) Colour Studies: A Broad Spectrum. John Benjamins: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027212191
Alexander, M. and Anderson, W. (2014) "Civilization arranged in chronological strata": a digital approach to the English semantic space. In: Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 Jul 2014,
Anderson, W. and Bramwell, E. (2014) Of anoraks and oysters: metaphors of social communication in the historical thesaurus. In: British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2013, Edinburgh, UK, 5-7 Sept 2013, pp. 41-52.
Anderson, W. and Bramwell, E. (2014) A metaphorical spectrum: surveying colour terms in English. In: Anderson, W., Biggam, C. P., Hough, C. and Kay, C. (eds.) Colour Studies: A Broad Spectrum. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, pp. 140-152. ISBN 9789027212191 (doi:10.1075/z.191)
2013
Anderson, W. (2013) "But that's dialect, isn't it?" Exploring geographical variation in the SCOTS corpus. In: Bamford, J., Cavalieri, S. and Diani, G. (eds.) Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789027210388
Anderson, W. (Ed.) (2013) Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies. Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042037182
Anderson, W. (2013) 'Snippets of memory': metaphor in the SCOTS corpus. In: Anderson, W. (ed.) Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies. Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature (19). Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 215-236. ISBN 9789042037182
2012
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2012) Shaping intercultural competence? Creating a virtual space for the development of intercultural communicative competence. In: Sharifian, F. and Jamarani, M. (eds.) Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era. Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication. Routledge: New York, NYC, USA, pp. 99-115. ISBN 9780415808897
Anderson, W. (2012) Evidence for sound-change from Scottish corpora. In: Nevalainen, T. and Traugott, E.C. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press: New York, N.Y., pp. 169-172. ISBN 9780199922765
2011
Anderson, W. (2011) Red herrings in a sea of data: exploring colour terms with the SCOTS corpus. In: Biggam, C., Hough, C., Kay, C. and Simmons, D. (eds.) New Directions in Colour Studies. John Benjamins, pp. 59-71. ISBN 9789027211880
Corbett, J. and Anderson, W. (2011) Using it or losing it? Scots and younger speakers. In: Kirk, J.M. and Ó Baoill, D.P. (eds.) Sustaining Minority Language Communities: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland. Series: Belfast studies in language, culture, and politics (20). Cló Ollscoil na Banríona: Belfast, UK, pp. 225-237. ISBN 9780853899761
2010
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2010) Teaching English as a friendly language: lessons from the SCOTS corpus. ELT Journal, 64(4), pp. 414-423. (doi:10.1093/elt/ccp085)
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2010) Editorial. Language and Intercultural Communication, 10(1), pp. 1-2. (doi:10.1080/14708470903560465)
Austin, K. and Anderson, W. (2010) Faith, friendship and learning: intercultural communication in the Republic of Letters. Language and Intercultural Communication, 10(1), pp. 17-31. (doi:10.1080/14708470903215177)
2009
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J.B. (2009) Exploring English with Online Corpora: An Introduction [1st ed.]. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230551404
Anderson, W., Bann, J. and Beavan, D. (2009) Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW). In: Corpus Linguistics 2009, Liverpool, 20-23 July 2009,
2008
Anderson, W. (2008) Teaching and learning guide for 'corpus linguistics in the UK: resources for sociolinguistic research'. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3(1), pp. 509-516. (doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00106.x)
Anderson, W. (2008) Corpus linguistics in the UK: resources for sociolinguistic research. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2(2), pp. 352-371. (doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00057.x)
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J.B. (2008) The Scottish corpus of texts and speech - a user's guide. Scottish Language, 27, pp. 19-41.
2007
Anderson, W. (2007) The SCOTS Corpus: a resource for language contact study. In: Ureland, P.S., Lodge, A. and Pugh, S. (eds.) Language contact and minority languages in Europe. Series: Studies in Eurolinguistics, 5. Logos Verlag. ISBN 9783832516444
Corbett, J., Smith, J., Anderson, W., Bann, J., Beavan, D. and Anderson, J. (2007) CMSW (Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing). Other. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
2006
Anderson, W. (2006) "Absolutely, totally, filled to the brim with the Famous Grouse": intensifying adverbs in the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. English Today, 22(3), pp. 10-16. (doi:10.1017/S0266078406003038)
Anderson, W. (2006) The phraseology of administrative French: a corpus-based study. Series: Language and computers: studies in practical linguistics, 57. Rodopi. ISBN 9789042020221
2005
Anderson, W. and Beavan, D. (2005) Internet delivery of time-synchronised multimedia: the SCOTS projects. In: Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham, 14-17 July 2005,
2002
Anderson, W. (2002) Contemporary Francophone identity as reflected in the collocational differences within a corpus of French administrative texts. In: Contemporary Francophone Identities: An International Post Graduate Conference, Glasgow, UK, 19-20 Oct 2001,
Articles
Vanhoutte, E., Anderson, W. , Galina, I. and Gooding, P. (2017) Digital Humanities 2015: Global Digital Humanities [Guest Editors]. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(S1),
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2010) Teaching English as a friendly language: lessons from the SCOTS corpus. ELT Journal, 64(4), pp. 414-423. (doi:10.1093/elt/ccp085)
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2010) Editorial. Language and Intercultural Communication, 10(1), pp. 1-2. (doi:10.1080/14708470903560465)
Austin, K. and Anderson, W. (2010) Faith, friendship and learning: intercultural communication in the Republic of Letters. Language and Intercultural Communication, 10(1), pp. 17-31. (doi:10.1080/14708470903215177)
Anderson, W. (2008) Teaching and learning guide for 'corpus linguistics in the UK: resources for sociolinguistic research'. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3(1), pp. 509-516. (doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00106.x)
Anderson, W. (2008) Corpus linguistics in the UK: resources for sociolinguistic research. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2(2), pp. 352-371. (doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00057.x)
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J.B. (2008) The Scottish corpus of texts and speech - a user's guide. Scottish Language, 27, pp. 19-41.
Anderson, W. (2006) "Absolutely, totally, filled to the brim with the Famous Grouse": intensifying adverbs in the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. English Today, 22(3), pp. 10-16. (doi:10.1017/S0266078406003038)
Books
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2017) Exploring English with Online Corpora: An Introduction [2nd ed.]. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire. ISBN 9781137438126
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J.B. (2009) Exploring English with Online Corpora: An Introduction [1st ed.]. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230551404
Anderson, W. (2006) The phraseology of administrative French: a corpus-based study. Series: Language and computers: studies in practical linguistics, 57. Rodopi. ISBN 9789042020221
Book Sections
Anderson, W. (2017) Metaphor and diachronic variation. In: Semino, E. and Demjén, Z. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 9781138775367
Anderson, W. and Hough, C. (2016) Engaging users of Scottish online language resources. In: Corrigan, K. P. and Mearns, A. (eds.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Databases for Public Engagement. Palgrave, pp. 69-97. ISBN 9781137386441 (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-38645-8_3)
Anderson, W. (2016) Waves of excitement, waves of metaphor. In: Anderson, W., Bramwell, E. and Hough, C. (eds.) Mapping English Metaphor through Time. Oxford University Press, pp. 115-136. ISBN 9780198744573
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2015) 'What do we chat about when we chat about culture?' The discourse of online intercultural exchanges. In: Tcherepashenets, N. (ed.) Globalizing On-line: Telecollaboration, Internationalization, and Social Justice. Series: Telecollaboration in Education (4). Peter Lang: Bern, pp. 177-200. ISBN 9783034315203
Anderson, W. and Bramwell, E. (2014) A metaphorical spectrum: surveying colour terms in English. In: Anderson, W., Biggam, C. P., Hough, C. and Kay, C. (eds.) Colour Studies: A Broad Spectrum. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, pp. 140-152. ISBN 9789027212191 (doi:10.1075/z.191)
Anderson, W. (2013) "But that's dialect, isn't it?" Exploring geographical variation in the SCOTS corpus. In: Bamford, J., Cavalieri, S. and Diani, G. (eds.) Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789027210388
Anderson, W. (2013) 'Snippets of memory': metaphor in the SCOTS corpus. In: Anderson, W. (ed.) Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies. Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature (19). Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 215-236. ISBN 9789042037182
Anderson, W. and Corbett, J. (2012) Shaping intercultural competence? Creating a virtual space for the development of intercultural communicative competence. In: Sharifian, F. and Jamarani, M. (eds.) Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era. Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication. Routledge: New York, NYC, USA, pp. 99-115. ISBN 9780415808897
Anderson, W. (2012) Evidence for sound-change from Scottish corpora. In: Nevalainen, T. and Traugott, E.C. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press: New York, N.Y., pp. 169-172. ISBN 9780199922765
Anderson, W. (2011) Red herrings in a sea of data: exploring colour terms with the SCOTS corpus. In: Biggam, C., Hough, C., Kay, C. and Simmons, D. (eds.) New Directions in Colour Studies. John Benjamins, pp. 59-71. ISBN 9789027211880
Corbett, J. and Anderson, W. (2011) Using it or losing it? Scots and younger speakers. In: Kirk, J.M. and Ó Baoill, D.P. (eds.) Sustaining Minority Language Communities: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland. Series: Belfast studies in language, culture, and politics (20). Cló Ollscoil na Banríona: Belfast, UK, pp. 225-237. ISBN 9780853899761
Anderson, W. (2007) The SCOTS Corpus: a resource for language contact study. In: Ureland, P.S., Lodge, A. and Pugh, S. (eds.) Language contact and minority languages in Europe. Series: Studies in Eurolinguistics, 5. Logos Verlag. ISBN 9783832516444
Book Reviews
Anderson, W. (2017) Metaphor Across Time and Conceptual Space by James J. Mischler III. Metaphor and Symbol, 32(1), pp. 55-56. (doi:10.1080/10926488.2017.1272921) [Book Review]
Edited Books
Anderson, W. , Bramwell, E. and Hough, C. (Eds.) (2016) Mapping English Metaphor through Time. Series: Oxford linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198744573
Anderson, W., Biggam, C. P., Hough, C. and Kay, C. (Eds.) (2014) Colour Studies: A Broad Spectrum. John Benjamins: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027212191
Anderson, W. (Ed.) (2013) Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies. Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042037182
Research Reports or Papers
Corbett, J., Smith, J., Anderson, W., Bann, J., Beavan, D. and Anderson, J. (2007) CMSW (Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing). Other. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Conference Proceedings
Anderson, W., Aitken, B. and Hamilton, R. (2014) A digital metaphor map for English [poster]. In: DH2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 Jul 2014,
Alexander, M. and Anderson, W. (2014) "Civilization arranged in chronological strata": a digital approach to the English semantic space. In: Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 Jul 2014,
Anderson, W. and Bramwell, E. (2014) Of anoraks and oysters: metaphors of social communication in the historical thesaurus. In: British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2013, Edinburgh, UK, 5-7 Sept 2013, pp. 41-52.
Anderson, W., Bann, J. and Beavan, D. (2009) Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW). In: Corpus Linguistics 2009, Liverpool, 20-23 July 2009,
Anderson, W. and Beavan, D. (2005) Internet delivery of time-synchronised multimedia: the SCOTS projects. In: Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham, 14-17 July 2005,
Anderson, W. (2002) Contemporary Francophone identity as reflected in the collocational differences within a corpus of French administrative texts. In: Contemporary Francophone Identities: An International Post Graduate Conference, Glasgow, UK, 19-20 Oct 2001,
Website
Anderson, W., Hough, C., Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of Old English. [Website]
Anderson, W., Hough, C., Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of English. [Website]
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