Hester Groot
PhD candidate
- Name
- H.E. Groot
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2125
- h.e.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4130-2027
Hester Groot is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. She is a historical sociolinguist, focusing on the language of the poor in Late Modern Scotland. Her research specifically looks at pauper letters, written by the poor to request relief from local authorities across Scotland. As part of this research, she is working on the compilation and digitisation of the Corpus of Scottish Pauper Letters, covering the period of 1750-1910.
More information about Hester Groot
Fields of interest
- Language from below
- Historical sociolinguistics
- Historical pragmatics
- Prescriptivism
- Standardisation
- Formulaic language
- English historical linguistics
Research
My research specifically looks at pauper letters, written by the poor to request relief from local authorities across Scotland. As part of this research, I am working on the compilation and digitisation of the Corpus of Scottish Pauper Letters, covering the period of 1750-1910.
Curriculum vitae
| 2023 - present | PhD candidate, Leiden University |
| 2020-2022 | Research MA Linguistics, Leiden University, cum laude |
| 2017 - 2022 | BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Utrecht, summa cum laude |
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL PhD
- Groot H.E. (2024), Developing a standard in lower-class Scottish writing: pauper petitions as a source for nineteenth-century lower-class Scottish language, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 10(1): 127-155.
- Groot H.E. (2024), Review of: Schiegg M. & Huber J. (2023), Intra-writer variation in historical sociolinguistics. Historical Sociolinguistics no. 5. Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 10(2): 321-326.
- Groot H.E., Krogull A. & Rutten G.J. (2023), Lespakket: merci voor je brief: taalcontact in ouder Nederlands (Het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT)). [other].