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Biography

Current affiliations:
Senior Lecturer, Dept Language & Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2018-).

Past academic posts:
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK (2014-2018).
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & Wales Institute of Research, Data & Methods (2015-2018).
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Turku, Finland (2013-2014).
Lecturer, Department of English, Åbo Akademi University, Finland (2012-2013).
Honorary Research Fellow, College of Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK (2009-2015).

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Employment (7)

University of Jyväskylä: Jyväskylä, FI

2021-04-23 to present | Docent (Centre for Applied Language Studies)
Employment
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Dr. Dave Sayers

University of Jyväskylä: Jyväskylä, FI

2018-08-01 to present | Senior Lecturer (Department of Language & Communication Studies)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dr. Dave Sayers

Cardiff University School of Social Sciences: Cardiff, Cardiff, GB

2015-10 to 2018-08-31 | Honorary Research Fellow (School of Social Sciences)
Employment
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Sheffield Hallam University: Sheffield, Sheffield, GB

2014-01-20 to 2018-08-31 | Senior Lecturer (Department of Humanities)
Employment
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Swansea University: Swansea, Swansea, GB

2009-03-12 to 2015-02 | Honorary Research Fellow (College of Arts & Humanities)
Employment
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Dr. Dave Sayers

University of Turku: Turku, FI

2013-08-01 to 2014-01-01 | Lecturer (Department of English)
Employment
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Åbo Akademi University: Turku, FI

2012-08-01 to 2013-07-31 | Lecturer (Department of English)
Employment
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Jyväskylä: Jyvaskyla, FI

2021-04-21 to present | Docent (Centre for Applied Language Studies)
Qualification
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Dr. Dave Sayers

University of Essex: Colchester, Essex, GB

2005-10-01 to 2008-10-01 | PhD Sociology of Language (Sociology & Linguistics (co-supervised))
Education
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Funding (2)

CA19102 Language In The Human-Machine Era

2020-10 to 2024-10 | Award
COST (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19102/
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Reversing Babel: Declining linguistic diversity and the flawed attempts to protect it

2005-10 to 2008-10 | Award
Economic and Social Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://repository.essex.ac.uk/38580
GRANT_NUMBER:

PTA-030-2005-00968
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Works (18)

Doughnut language policy: how to promote Welsh without the unintended consequences

Languages, Society & Policy
2025-01-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Dr. Dave Sayers
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Is it ok for linguists to hate new words?

Language on the Move
2024-05-15 | Interactive resource | Conceptualization
Contributors: Dr. Dave Sayers
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Cornish and Manx

2024-01-01 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1017/9781108769617.021
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Contributors: Davies-Deacon Merryn; Sayers Dave
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University of Jyväskylä

Is it ok for linguists to hate new words?

Language on the Move
2024-01-01 | Journal article
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Contributors: Sayers Dave
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University of Jyväskylä

Language Policy and Planning in Britain and Ireland

2024-01-01 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1017/9781108769617.034
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Contributors: Sayers Dave; Henderson Leanne
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University of Jyväskylä

Using language to help people, or using people to help language? A capabilities framework of language policy

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
2024-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12463
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Contributors: Sayers Dave
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University of Jyväskylä
grade
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A simple hack to ChatGPT-proof assignments using Google Drive

THE Campus
2023-01-01 | Other
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Contributors: Sayers Dave
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University of Jyväskylä

Protecting endangered languages feels right, but does it really help people?

The Conversation
2023-01-01 | Newspaper article
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Contributors: Sayers Dave
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University of Jyväskylä

The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A forecast of new and emerging language technologies

2021-05-18 | Report
DOI: 10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1
Contributors: Dave Sayers; Rui Sousa-Silva; Sviatlana Höhn; Lule Ahmedi; Kais Allkivi-Metsoja; Dimitra Anastasiou; Štefan Beňuš; Lynne Bowker; Eliot Bytyçi; Alejandro Catala et al.
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(Re) defining linguistic diversity: What is being protected in European language policy?

SKY Journal of Linguistics
2017 | Journal article
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Speeding up or reaching out? Efficiency and unmet need as policy priorities in Wales.

Journal of Language and Politics
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.15005.say
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Dr. Dave Sayers
grade
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Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact

Routledge
2016 | Edited book
ISBN: 9780415748520
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Dr. Dave Sayers
grade
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Where we're going, we don't need roads: The past, present and future of impact

Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact
2016 | Book chapter
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Phoenix from the Ashes: Reconstructed Cornish in relation to Einar Haugen's four-step model of language standardisation

Sociolinguistica: International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/soci-2015-0004
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Model answers: A rejoinder to the responses to the mediated innovation model.

Journal of Sociolinguistics
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/josl.2014.18.issue-2
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Dr. Dave Sayers
grade
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Standardising Cornish: The politics of a new minority language

Language Problems & Language Planning
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/lplp.36.2.01say
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Cross-disciplinary insights on regional dialect levelling

Interfaces in Language
2010 | Book chapter
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Dr. Dave Sayers

Reversing Babel: Declining linguistic diversity and the flawed attempt to protect it

University of Essex
2009 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors:
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Dr. Dave Sayers
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