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Allan Bell is Professor of Language & Communication and the Director of the Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication at Auckland University of Technology. He holds a PhD from the University of Auckland and for many years led a dual career combining academic research with journalism and communications consultancy. He has held research appointments at several overseas and New Zealand universities. Allan has made field-defining contributions over the past 30 years in several areas of language and communication. He is known for his theory of style, Audience Design, and for pioneering work on media language and discourse, and on New Zealand English. His other research interests include discourse analysis of biblical texts, social and linguistic aspects of the Internet, stylization in mass communication, language and identity, sociolinguistic and communication theory, science communication, and multilingualism in New Zealand.

Allan has published many papers in leading academic journals and edited collections, and has authored or co-edited five books: New Zealand Ways of Speaking English (ed., with Janet Holmes, 1990), The Language of News Media (1991), Approaches to Media Discourse (ed., with Peter Garrett, 1998), New Zealand English (ed. with Koenraad Kuiper, 2000) and Languages of New Zealand (ed., with Ray Harlow & Donna Starks, 2005). He is co-founder and Editor of the international Journal of Sociolinguistics. He has led several major research projects funded by NZ public agencies, including projects on language style, Pasifika languages in New Zealand, and television violence in New Zealand. He is Director of the World Internet Project New Zealand and is co-founder and editor of the international quarterly Journal of Sociolinguistics.

Allan also supervises PhD and Masters students, teaches Sociolinguistics at postgraduate level, heads up research projects and is a member of the national PBRF Social Science & Other Cultural/Social Studies panel.

Areas for Supervision:

Allan supervises PhD and Masters students in a range of research areas:

• Language in society

• Sociolinguistics

• Applied linguistics

• Multilingualism

• NZ English

• Languages of New Zealand

• Language style

• Language and identity

• Discourse analysis

• Media

• Media language and discourse

• Communication

• Internet

• Science communication

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