Biography


Nick is a sociolinguist by background and has conducted research predominantly in the area of sports discourse and language in the workplace. Originally from Scotland, where he attended the University of Edinburgh, he has worked in universities in the UK, New Zealand and Australia before coming to the University of Limerick.
Nick carried out his doctoral research in New Zealand, as part of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project, where he conducted a year long ethnography of a rugby team and analysed how leadership communication is negotiated and how new leaders forge their skills through a process of situated learning. This project has led to multiple publications on topics such as address terms, pronoun usage and leadership emergence.
Following on from this, Nick has also worked on language and communication research with other sports organisations, such as Street Football Wales, a charity that works towards fostering social inclusion for homeless people through sports participation.

Nick has taught sociolinguistics and discourse analysis in various universities and is the co-author with Janet Holmes of the popular sociolinguistics textbook, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics.

Research Interests

Nick's research interest include:
  • socio-pragmatics
  • situated learning
  • leadership discourse
  • language use in sport
  • linguistic ethnography
  • taboo language
  • (im)politeness
  • gender and language
  • language in the workplace
  • language variation and change
  • discourse and social inclusion

Professional Activities

Employment

  • 2021 University of Limerick - Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
  • 2016 Macquarie University - Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
  • 2012 University of Manchester - Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
  • 2012 Cardiff University - Lecturer in English Language and Communication

Award

  • 2014 - Fellow

Education

  • 2012 Victoria University of Wellington - PhD
  • 2007 University of Edinburgh - MSc by Research
  • 2003 University of Edinburgh - MA (Hons)

Association

  • member, British Association for Applied Linguistics
  • member, Australian Linguistic Society

Committee

  • AHSS Research Ethics Committee,

Peer Reviewed Journals

2023

Swearing as a Leadership Tool: The sociopragmatics of swearing in New Zealand English

Wilson, Nick; Wedlock, Joshua (2023) Swearing as a Leadership Tool: The sociopragmatics of swearing in New Zealand English. English World-Wide

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2022

Analysing team sports discourse: From interaction to identity

Wilson, Nick (2022) Analysing team sports discourse: From interaction to identity. Te Reo :1-14

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2021

Speaker-Independent Visual Speech Recognition with the Inception V3 Model

Timothy Israel Santos;Andrew Abel;Nick Wilson;Yan Xu; (2021) Speaker-Independent Visual Speech Recognition with the Inception V3 Model. 2021 Ieee Spoken Language Technology Workshop (Slt)

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2018

The Portable Locker Room: Language, Space, and Place in Rugby Pre-match Interaction

Nick Wilson; (2018) The Portable Locker Room: Language, Space, and Place in Rugby Pre-match Interaction. Communication & Sport :547-569

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2013

Interaction without walls: Analysing leadership discourse through dramaturgy and participation

Nick Wilson (2013) Interaction without walls: Analysing leadership discourse through dramaturgy and participation. Journal Of Sociolinguistics :180-199

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2010

Bros, boys and guys

Nick Wilson (2010) Bros, boys and guys. New Zealand English Journal :33-54

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2009

The Discourse of deputies

Nick Wilson (2009) The Discourse of deputies. Te Reo :73-98

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Books

2022

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Janet Holmes & Nick Wilson (2022) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Abingdon : Routledge

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2019

Academic success

Jean Brick, Nick Wilson, Deanna Wong & Maria Herke (2019) Academic success. London : Macmillan

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2017

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Janet Holmes & Nick Wilson (2017) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Abingdon : Routledge

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Book Chapters

2019

When 'we' means 'you': The social meaning of English pseudo-inclusive personal pronouns

Nick Wilson (2019) When 'we' means 'you': The social meaning of English pseudo-inclusive personal pronouns. Amsterdam : John Benjamins The social dynamics of pronominal systems :35-56

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2018

Linguistic ethnography

Nick Wilson (2018) Linguistic ethnography. London : Routledge The Routledge handbook of language in the workplace :40-50

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2017

Adapting self for private and public audiences

Kieran File; Nick Wilson; (2017) Adapting self for private and public audiences. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Identity struggles :317-333

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2017

Developing Distributed Leadership: Leadership Emergence in a Sporting Context

Nick Wilson (2017) Developing Distributed Leadership: Leadership Emergence in a Sporting Context. Singapore : Springer Challenging leadership stereotypes through discourse: Power, management and gender. :147-170

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Book Reviews

2018

Book Review: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine, & Jon Jureidini (eds.), The discourse of sport: Analyses from social linguistics. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 240. Hb. £110.

Nick Wilson; (2018) Book Review: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine, & Jon Jureidini (eds.), The discourse of sport: Analyses from social linguistics. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 240. Hb. £110..

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2018

Book review: Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates

Nick Wilson (2018) Book review: Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates.

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2013

Leadership, discourse, and ethnicity

Nick Wilson (2013) Leadership, discourse, and ethnicity.

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Other Publications

2018

Book Review: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine, & Jon Jureidini (eds.), The discourse of sport: Analyses from social linguistics. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 240. Hb. £110.

Nick Wilson; (2018) Book Review: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine, & Jon Jureidini (eds.), The discourse of sport: Analyses from social linguistics. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 240. Hb. £110..

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2018

Book review: Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates

Nick Wilson (2018) Book review: Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates.

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2013

Leadership, discourse, and ethnicity

Nick Wilson (2013) Leadership, discourse, and ethnicity.

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