Dr Winifred V. Davies
Reader
Contact
Email: wid@aber.ac.uk
Office: E10, Hugh Owen Building
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622557
Personal Web Site:http://users.aber.ac.uk/wid/
Profile
Member of committee of International Association for Germanic Studies and on advisory board for Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Dr. Davies has also been appointed a member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC.
Teaching Areas
German language, German and general sociolinguistics, German phonetics, German Language of Economics.
Research
German sociolinguistics, especially processes of standardisation and attitudes towards non-standard varieties of German.
At present she is working with colleagues in Switzerland and Luxembourg on a project investigating the level of acceptance of the pluricentric model among teachers of German in Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. See: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/eurolangs/research/current-research/teachers-as-norm-authorities/
Staff Links
University and College Union
British Association of Applied Linguistics
Association of German Studies
Internationale Gesellschaft für die Dialektologie des Deutschen
Women in German Studies
International Association for Germanic Studies
Forum for Germanic Language Studies