Miriam Meyerhoff Explained

Miriam Meyerhoff
Discipline:Sociolinguistics
Alma Mater:University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Title:'Be i no Gat' : constraints on null subjects in Bislama
Thesis Url:http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/franklin/record.html?id=FRANKLIN_2206276
Thesis Year:1997
Doctoral Advisor:Gillian Sankoff
Relatives:Mary Cresswell (mother)
Hans Meyerhoff (father)
Max Cresswell (step-father)

Miriam Meyerhoff, (born 1964) is a New Zealand sociolinguist and academic. In 2020, she was appointed a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. In 2024 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[1]

Early life and family

Meyerhoff was born in 1964,[2] the daughter of poet Mary Cresswell and philosopher . Her father died in a car accident the following year,[3] and her mother married logician Max Cresswell in 1970.[4] The family subsequently moved to New Zealand.[5]

Academic career

Meyerhoff completed a Master of Arts degree at Victoria University of Wellington,[6] and, in 1997, a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.[7] Her PhD supervisor was Gillian Sankoff.

Meyerhoff has held faculty positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Auckland, and Victoria University of Wellington. In 2020, Meyerhoff was appointed a senior research fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford.[8] [9] [10]

Meyerhoff's research examines the sociolinguistic constraints on variation, principally in communities characterised by language or dialect contact.[11] Much of her work since her dissertation has been on Creoles, as their (typical) lack of standardisation leads to variation and change at all levels of linguistic structure.

She is the author of a well-regarded introductory textbook on sociolinguistics (Meyerhoff 2018).

Meyerhoff has spoken to media on linguistic issues, including: whether New Zealand speech is affected by migration patterns and diversity;[12] [13] the use of the word eh in New Zealand English;[14] and the impact of digital technology on communication.[15]

Honours

In 2017, Meyerhoff was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.[16] In 2020, was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[17] In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[18]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024. 2024-07-20 . British Academy . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Meyerhoff, Miriam . Library of Congress . 6 January 2022.
  3. Web site: Hans Meyerhoff, philosophy: Los Angeles . Online Archive of California . 6 January 2022.
  4. Web site: Mary M Meyerhoff in the California, U.S., marriage index, 1960–1985 . Ancestry.com Operations . 2007 . 6 January 2022 . subscription.
  5. Web site: 17 November 2017 . Professor Miriam Meyerhoff made fellow of the Royal Society . 6 January 2022 . Victoria University of Wellington.
  6. Web site: List of all Fellows with surnames M–O . Royal Society Te Apārangi . 6 January 2022.
  7. Web site: Doctoral Alumni Department of Linguistics . 2022-03-15 . www.ling.upenn.edu.
  8. Web site: Miriam Meyerhoff - All Souls College. ox.ac.uk. 2021-05-10.
  9. Web site: Professor Miriam Meyerhoff - The University of Auckland . Arts.auckland.ac.nz . 2014-07-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812052332/http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/ourstaff-3/meet-our-staff/professor-miriam-meyerhoff.html . 12 August 2014 . dmy-all .
  10. News: Donovan . Emile . The Detail: Behind New Zealand's distinctive accent . 6 January 2022 . Stuff.co.nz . 11 June 2021.
  11. Web site: Miriam Meyerhoff . 2022-03-15 . scholar.google.com.
  12. News: Lynch . Keith . The New Zealand accent explained . 6 January 2022 . Stuff.co.nz . 25 May 2021.
  13. News: Wilson . Libby . NZ vowels on the move: where's our Kiwi accent going? . 6 January 2022 . Stuff.co.nz . 30 December 2018.
  14. News: MacManus . Joel . Why do New Zealanders say 'eh' so much? . 6 January 2022 . Stuff.co.nz . 29 June 2019.
  15. News: Keogh . Brittany . Using emojis at work helps colleagues see you as warmer, friendlier, says study . 6 January 2022 . Stuff.co.nz . 17 July 2019.
  16. Web site: M-O . 2024-03-25 . Royal Society Te Apārangi.
  17. Web site: Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year . 11 March 2022.
  18. Web site: The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024 . thebritishacademy.ac.uk . The British Academy . 24 July 2024 . 18 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240724115250/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-in-2024/ . 24 July 2024.
  19. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49681248 WorldCat book entry
  20. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77000297 WorldCat book entry

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