Books

2008, Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Continuum.

2007, Bengali-English in East London: A Study in Urban Multilingualism. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers.


Journal articles

2010, ' "Lithuanian migrants send crime rocketing": Representation of 'new' migrants in regional print media'. Media, Culture and Society 32(6): 1021-1030

2010, 'Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Language Use amongst Eastern European Migrants in East Anglia'. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 31(3), 287-300.


Chapters in books and conference proceedings

2010, 'Quantitative methods: Concepts, frameworks and issues.' Research Methods in Linguistics, ed. by L. Litosseliti. London: Continuum.

In preparation. 'Towards a Bengali-English? Evidence from East London.' World Englishes, ed. by T. Hopkins et al. London: Continuum. Expected date of publication: 2012.

2007, 'Revisiting the Critical Period: Age of Onset of Length of Exposure?' BUCLD 31 - Proceedings of the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. by Heather Caunt-Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake and I-hao Woo. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2005, 'Intra-Family Language Shift? Sylheti and English in East London.' Language, Attitudes and Education in Multilingual Cities, ed. by E. Witte et al. Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie Van Belgie Voor Wetenschappen En Kunsten.


Conference papers (selected)

Second language proficiency and identity construction: evidence from personal narratives. 17th Sociolinguistic Symposium, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 3-5 April 2008.

'And all the time Bengali speaking': Evaluating the emergence of Benglish. LABG Annual meeting, 30 September-2 October 2006, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Deliberate dissociation or lack of opportunity? A cross-disciplinary approach to language use in the Bangladeshi diaspora. 41st Linguistic Colloquium, University of Mannheim, 4-7 October 2006.


Reviews

2010 (in prep.), 'Review of Macaylay, R.K.S. (2009), Quantitative Methods in Sociolinguistics.' Journal of Sociolinguistics.

2006, 'Review of Erben, J. (2006), Einführung in die deutsche Wortbildungslehre. 5th ed. GFL-Journal 2006(2).

2004, 'Review of Karin Aijmer and Britta Olinder (eds., 2003) Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference on English Studies.' Moderna Sprak, autumn 2004 issue.

Invited talks and lectures

Representing migration in the local press: a corpus-based approach. Universita di Cagliari, Italy, May 2009.

The Other Side of Brick Lane? Second Language Proficiency, Linguistic Vitality and Identity Construction in the London Bangladeshi Community. Cambridge University, February 2008.

Identity in Banglatown: qualitative and quantitative considerations. Queen Mary University London, December 2007. Also: University of Sussex, January 2008.

Ethnolinguistic Vitality in the Bangladeshi Community in East London. University of Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2007.

Speaking English in Banglatown: Language Use and language choice of Bangladeshis in East London. CRONEM, University of Surrey, October 2004.

Other Scholarly Activity

Editorial Board member, The Linguistics Journal.

Invited workshop convenor, Teaching statistics to linguistics students. University of Leeds. Sponsored by LLAS ? Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre. January 2009.