I am a Lecturer in Linguistics and a member of both the Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics and the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies. I am particularly interested in sociolinguistic approaches to identity, multilingualism, ideologies and linguistic practices of young people.
My current research focuses on the following areas:
W. Ayres-Bennett, J. Bellamy (2021). The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization (eds). Cambridge University Press.
J. Bellamy (2012). Language Attitudes in England and Austria A Sociolinguistic Investigation Into Perceptions of High and Low-prestige Varieties in Manchester and Vienna. Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh.
J. Bellamy (2018). Book review: Prescription and tradition: establishing standards across time and space (multilingual matters 165). Language & History. 61(3), pp.132-134.
W. Ayres-Bennett, J. Bellamy (2021). Introduction. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization. Cambridge University Press, pp.1-24.
K. Horner, J. Bellamy (2018). Ich wollte gerne mal Englisch: Language in education policy and social inequality in globalising Luxembourg. In: Dannerer, M. and P. Mauser (eds) Formen der Mehrsprachigkeit: Sprachen und Varietäten in sekundären und tertiären Bildungskontexten/Forms of Multilingualism: Languages and Varieties in Secondary and Tertiary Education. Stauffenburg Verlag,
J. Bellamy (2016). Discussing Ruhrdeutsch: Attitudes towards Spoken German in the Ruhr Region. In: Rutten, G. and K. Horner (eds). Metalinguistic Perspectives on Germanic Languages: European Case Studies from Past to Present. Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers,
K. Horner, J. Bellamy (2016). Beyond the micro-macro interface in language and identity research. In: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity. Routledge, pp.320-334.