Awards & Achievements
Distinguished University Professor
2000-2001 Recipient - Shana Poplack
A linguistics professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics, Shana Poplack is the foremost proponent of linguistic variation theory in Canada. Her work, characterized by the collection and scientific analysis of large corpora of natural speech data, is housed at one of the most dynamic and productive sociolinguistics laboratories in the world, which she founded and has directed since 1982. Shana Poplack was named Professor of the year at the Faculty of Arts in 1999. Professor Poplack is the assistant editor of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics and Linguistic Variation and Change. Her research on French in the Ottawa-Hull region and on afro-Canadian English in Nova Scotia has interested the Canadian press and electronic media.