I am a student at the University of Sheffield and I am trying to find out how language differs from person to person. Since I need to collect data from more than seventy speakers, I am looking for volunteers who would like to participate in my project (age 11-39). If you and your family were born and live in South Yorkshire and British English is your native and primary language you are the person I am looking for.

If you volunteer, I will ask you to take part in one tape-recorded interview. It would be a conversation between you and me, during which I will be ask a few questions designed to find out how people use certain words. The interview would last 20- 30 minutes.

When I complete this project, the results will greatly contribute to our understanding of social aspects of language used in South Yorkshire.

If you would like to take part in this research or if you know about anybody who could be interested in helping me with this project please leave your phone number or e-mail at the bottom of this sheet and I will contact you soon.

Please remember that all the information collected will be kept confidential. This research has ethical approval and the broadcast letter is approved by the research supervisor.


Looking forward to hearing from you :)

Justyna A. Blazowska

e-mail: j.blazowska@shef.ac.uk tel. 0114 2220220

I am a student at the University of Sheffield and I am trying to find out how language differs from person to person. Since I need to collect data from more than seventy speakers, I am looking for volunteers who would like to participate in my project (age 11-39). If you and your family were born and live in South Yorkshire and British English is your native and primary language you are the person I am looking for.

If you volunteer, I will ask you to take part in one tape-recorded interview. It would be a conversation between you and me, during which I will be ask a few questions designed to find out how people use certain words. The interview would last 20- 30 minutes.

When I complete this project, the results will greatly contribute to our understanding of social aspects of language used in South Yorkshire.

If you would like to take part in this research or if you know about anybody who could be interested in helping me with this project please leave your phone number or e-mail at the bottom of this sheet and I will contact you soon.

Please remember that all the information collected will be kept confidential. This research has ethical approval and the broadcast letter is approved by the research supervisor.


Looking forward to hearing from you :)

Justyna A. Blazowska

e-mail: j.blazowska@shef.ac.uk tel. 0114 2220220sorry junab im over the age limit,but why would you want to understand the social aspect of south yorkshires language ? im intrigued ...........

sorry junab im over the age limit,but why would you want to understand the social aspect of south yorkshires language ? im intrigued ...........


I am looking at linguisic innovation and diffusion and those are usually motivated by various social variables. Hope that it answers your question:cool:

Is there anybody that would be interested in helping in South Yorkshire language research? :help:

well, sorry if this sounds negative but its quite alot to ask someone to go out of their way for a protracted meeting on lynguistics. people are busy doing nothing these days. how about offering a carrot?