Biography
Alison Wray is Emeritus Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales, and a former member of the Centre for Language and Communication Research. Her research spans formulaic language, psycholinguistics, and communication in dementia care. She is best known to Hodder Arnold readers as a principal author of Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language, the long-running undergraduate workbook (developed with collaborators across editions) that teaches topic choice, ethics, data collection, and write-up for first independent linguistic research projects.
Published writings & editorial work
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Authored / principal writer
- Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language
First published 1998 · Arnold / Hodder Education
Author
Alison Wray, Kate Trott and Aileen Bloomer's guide for undergraduates designing independent linguistic research — topic choice, ethics, corpora, transcription and write-up (ISBN 0340652101).