Dr Jonathan Kasstan, Lecturer in French and Linguistics (University of Westminster)

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Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles: Nagy, N., Kasstan, J. R. & C. Dunoyer (under review). ‘A citizen sociolinguistics model for electronically mediating language revitalization’.; Kasstan, J. R. (2022). ‘A variationist analysis of the subjunctive in a sociolinguistic corpus of spoken Francoprovençal’, Revue des linguistes de l'Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense 84(1): 1-23.(https://doi.org/10.4000/linx.8722). [PDF].; Chong, A. and J. R. Kasstan (2022). ‘Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz)’, Journal of the International Phonetic Association. FirstView (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100322000147). [PDF].; Rodríguez-Ordóñe, I., Kasstan, J. R. and B. O'Rourke (2022). ‘Responding to sociolinguistic change: New speakers and variationist sociolinguistics’, International Journal of Bilingualism, OnlineFirst. (https://doi.org/10.1117/13670069221110381). [PDF].; Meyerhoff, M., Abtahian Ravindranath, M., Gafter, R. J., Horesh, U., Kasstan, J. R., Keegan, P. and J. King (2021)[2020]. ‘Styles, standards, and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics’, Language Ecology, 4(1):1-16 [PDF].; Kasstan, J. R. (2021)[2020]. ‘Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages’, Language Ecology, 4(1):73-94 [PDF].; Sheehan, M., Corr, A., Havinga, A., Kasstan, J. R. and N. Schifano (2021). ‘Rethinking the UK languages curriculum: arguments for the inclusion of linguistics’, Modern Languages Open, 1:1-24. (https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.368). [PDF].; Amos, J., Kasstan, J. R. and W. Johnson (2020). ‘Reconsidering the variable context: A phonological argument for (t) and (d) deletion’, English Today, 36(3): 6-13. [PDF].; Kasstan, J. R. (2019). ‘Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment’, Language in Society, 48(5): 685-720. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000472). [PDF].; Hall, D. J., Kasstan, J. R. and D. Hornsby (2019). ‘Beyond obsolescence: A twenty-first century research agenda for the langues régionales’, Journal of French Language Studies, 29(2): 155-168 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926951900019X). [PDF].; Kasstan, J. R., Auer A. and J. Salmons (2018). ‘Heritage-language speakers: Theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige’, International Journal of Bilingualism, 22(4): 387-394 (https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006918762151).; Kasstan, J. R. (2018). ‘Exploring contested authenticity among speakers of a contested language: The case of ‘Francoprovençal’’, Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, 39(5): 382-393 (https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2018.1429451).; Kasstan, J. R. and Nagy, N. (2018). ‘Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 249: 1-9. (https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0050).; Zulato, A., Kasstan, J. R. and Nagy, N. (2018). ‘An overview of Francoprovençal vitality in Europe and North America’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 249: 11-29. (https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0038).; Kasstan, J. R. and Müller, D. (2018). ‘(l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 249: 99-118. (https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0039).; Kasstan, J. R. (2017). ‘New speakers: Challenges and opportunities for variationist sociolinguistics’, Language & Linguistics Compass, 11(8): e12249. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12249). [PDF].; Kasstan, J. R. (2017). ‘Francoprovençal’, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0157).; Pooley, T. and Kasstan, J. R. (2016). ‘Les variétés régionales non-méridionales de France: nivellement; dédialectalisation; supralocalisation’, Sociolinguistica, 30 (1): 175-198. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2016-0010). [PDF].; Kasstan, J. R. (2015). ‘Illustrations of the IPA: Lyonnais (Francoprovençal)’, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 45 (3): 340-355. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100315000250). [PDF].; Hawkey J. W. and Kasstan J. R. (2015). ‘Regional and minority languages in France: Policies of homogenization or a move towards heterogeneity? A case study on Francoprovençal’, The French Review, 89 (2): 110-125. [PDF].
Journal issues guest edited: Rodríguez-Ordóñe, I., Kasstan, J. R. and B. O'Rourke (2022). ‘Speakerness in multilingual contexts and sociolinguistic theory’, International Journal of Bilingualism, FirstView.; Horesh, U., Kasstan, J. R. and M. Meyerhoff (2021)[2020]. ‘Styles, standards, and meaning in lesser-studied languages’, Language Ecology, 4(1).; Kasstan, J. R., Hall, D J. and D. Hornsby (2019). ‘Langues régionales: Models and methods’, Journal of French Language Studies, 29(2).; Kasstan, J. R., Auer A. and J. Salmons (2018). ‘Heritage-language speakers: theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige’, International Journal of Bilingualism, 22(4).; Kasstan, J. R. and Nagy, N. (2018). ‘Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 249.
Peer-reviewed book chapters: Kasstan, J. R. and I. Rodríguez-Ordóñez (in press). New speakers and their heritage languages. In: P. Kerswill, A. D’Arcy and A. Yoshiyuki (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics. Abingdon: Routledge.; Kasstan, J. R. and J. Swainston (in press). ‘Linguistics in practice: Levelling-up the modern-languages curriculum through Linguistics in the classroom’. In: A. Corr and A. Pineda (eds.), Theoretical Linguistics in the Pre-University classroom. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch6.; Ravindranath Abtahian, M. and J. R. Kasstan. (2020). Language contact and sociolinguistic variation. In: R. Hickey (ed.), The Handbook of Language Contact. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, Ch11.; Kasstan, J. R. (2019). On new speakers and language revitalisation: Arpitan and community (re)formation. In: M. Harrison & A. Joubert (eds.), French Language Policies and the Revitalisation of Regional Languages in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 149-170. ISBN: 978-3-319-95938-2, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95939-9).; Kasstan, J. R. (2016). Denomination and the ‘problem’ of Francoprovençal. In: J. M. Éloy (ed.), Le nom des langues IV. Le nom des langues romanes. Leuven: Peeters, 73-92. ISBN: 978-90-429-3235-7.
Non-peer-reviewed book chapters: Kasstan, J. R. (2022). Une analyse variationniste de la palatalisation des latérales en francoprovençal. In: Dorothée Aquino-Weber and Maguelone Sauzet (eds), La Suisse romande et ses patois. Autour de la place et du devenir des langues francoprovençale et oïlique. Neuchâtel: Alphil-Presses universtaires suisses (collection Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande). ISBN : 978-2-88930-390-8. [PDF].
Policy, dialogues: Kasstan, J. R., Pearson, G. & V. Brooks. (2023). ‘Rethinking Research Ethics in the Humanities: Principles and Recommendations’. AHRC-funded Research Report. https://doi.org/10.34737/w36yq. [PDF].; Corr, A., Kasstan, J. R. & M. Sheehan. (2019). ‘A place for linguistics in Key Stage 5 Modern Foreign Languages’. Published jointly in Languages, Society & Policy and Impact Issues of Chartered College of Teaching. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40156. [PDF].
Book reviews: Kasstan, J. R. (2017). Review of W. V. Davies and E. Ziegler (eds.) ‘Language Planning and Microlinguistics: From Policy to Interaction and Vice Versa’, Language Policy, 16 (4): 481-483. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-017-9447-1).; Kasstan, J. R. (2016). Review of M. C. Jones and D. C. Hornsby (eds.) ‘Language and Social Structure in Urban France’, Journal of French Language Studies, 26(2): 209-211. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095926951500054X).; Kasstan, J. R. (2015). Review of M. Hüning, U. Vogl and O. Moliner (eds.) ‘Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History. Multilingualism and Diversity Management’, Language Policy, 14 (3): 301-303. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10993-014-9315-1).; Kasstan, J. R. (2013). Review of J. Milroy and L. Milroy ‘Authority in Language. Investigating Standard English, 4th Edition’, Language in Society, 42 (5): 601-2. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404513000791).; Kasstan, J. R. (2013). Review of K. J. Kragh ‘Le remplacement de l‘imparfait du subjonctif par le présent du subjonctif considéré dans une perspective de grammaticalisation’, Journal of French Language Studies, 23 (3): 456-7. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269513000264).
Public engagement: Kasstan, J. R., Sheehan, M., Swainston, J. and C. Robinson (2021). ‘A French linguistics co-creation project’. In: A. De Medeiros and D. Kelly (eds.), Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (Language Acts and Worldmaking). London: John Murray Press, pp. 90-106.; Kasstan, J. R. (2014). ‘Quelle orthographe pour les patois?’ (pdf), Revue L'Ami du Patois, 158: 23-28.; Kasstan J. R. (2013). ‘Un anglais sur le sol des patoisants’ (pdf), Revue L'Ami du Patois, 154: 32-33.
Dissertations: Kasstan, J. R. (2015). Variation and change in Francoprovençal: A study of an emerging linguistic norm. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Department of English Language and Linguistics. University of Kent.; Kasstan, J. R. (2010). Language obsolescence in the Lyonnais area. Unpublished M.Phil Thesis. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. University of Cambridge.