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Dr Jenny Amos

Lecturer in Linguistics

Phone
+44 (0)1473 338813
Email
jennifer.amos@uos.ac.uk
School/Directorate
School of Business, Arts, Social Sciences and Technology
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Jenny Amos is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Suffolk. Her early work focussed heavily on the socio-phonological interpretation and modelling of spoken accent features, and was awarded her PhD by the University of Essex in 2010.

Jenny’s more recent work spans areas such as applied linguistics, education, and literary linguistics, where she focusses on dialectal representations within texts. This has led to recently published work relating to the status of the English and Modern Foreign Languages with the current GCSE curriculum, as well as presentations exploring dialect writing in short stories by MR James and Rudyard Kipling. Jenny is also currently pursuing research which aims to evidence the development of communicative strategies through group activities such as table top role playing games (TTRPGs).

Alongside her university-based duties, Jenny has served as a Meetings Secretary for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain since 2021, and is an active member of the Committee for Linguistics in Education, representing the English Association and the Common English Forum. Through this work, Jenny serves as Co-chair of the Committee for Linguistics in Education’s working group on the Department for Education’s Curriculum and Assessment Review.

Dr Amos has a wide range of Teaching and Learning experience including, but not limited to:

  • Theoretical and Laboratory phonology
  • Language Variation and Change
  • The interaction of Dialects in Literature and Film
  • Conversational Structure
  • Language Acquisition and Development
  • Language Disorders
  • Education and Pedagogical practice and research

Publications

Selected publications (see ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0730-9740 for full listing)

Eppler, E. D., Amos, J., & Magne, V. (2025). CAR and the new dialogues about language education. The Language Learning Journal, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2025.2558983

Amos, J. (2024) Insular varieties of English in Britain: Mersea Island. In: Language in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK., pp. 249-257. ISBN 9781108477321

Amos,J., Kasstan, J,. and Johnson, W. (2020) Reconsidering (t, d)-deletion as a single variable in English; English Today 36:6-13

Jansen, S. and Amos, J. (2020) English in the South of England – an introduction; Special Edition of English Today (36)

Amos, J. (2013) Life on the Edge: A sociophonological analysis of diphthong variation and change; Essex Research Reports 62:2, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (UK)

Amos, J. (2010) A Sociophonological Analysis of Mersea Island English: An investigation of the diphthongs (au), (ai) and (oi). Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Essex (UK). Available at: https://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1208_amos_1.pdf

Recent Academic Conference Presentations

2025

A corpus-informed investigation of Irish dialect in Rudyard Kipling’s “Three Musketeers” stories, Presented with David Oakey at Corpus Linguistics 2025, Aston University.

An Investigation of Irish Dialect Representation in Rudyard Kipling’s “Three Musketeers” stories, Presented with David Oakey at the Poetics and Linguistics Association conference, Aston University

“I seen it wive at me”: an exploration of dialect representations in MR James’ Suffolk characters, Presented at Romancing the Gothic 2025 Online Conference – ‘A Warning to the Curious’

2024

OF MAIDS AND MASTERS: an exploration of dialect features employed by MR James in the short story ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, My lad’, Presented at the MR James Symposium, University of Suffolk

2023

New progressions of an old variable: investigating possible consonant mergers in an Island variety, Poster Presentation at UKLVC 14, University of Edinburgh

  • Meetings Secretary for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LABG) since 2021
  • Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE), since 2023
  • Associate of the Higher Education Academy since 2009