Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (The University of Sheffield)
Research Interests
My research interests span philosophy, linguistics, data science, and digital humanities. In all these fields, I seek insight into sign use, understood broadly, and how it fits in to our picture of the wider world.
My current primary research interest is in sociophonetics, where I investigate the dynamics of vowel spaces over time and within conversations and the early onset of vernacular reorganisation using large-scale corpus analysis.
- Sociolinguistics
- Corpus analysis
- History of philosophy (esp. Charles Peirce)
- Philosophy of signs
Recent Publications
- Black JW. (2023) Creating specialized corpora from digitized historical newspaper archives: An iterative bootstrapping approach. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38(2): 779-797. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac079.
- Wilson Black J., Brand J., Hay J. and Clark L. (2023) Using principal component analysis to explore co-variation of vowels. Language and Linguistics Compass 17(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12479.
- Legg C. and Black J. (2022) What is Intelligence For? A Peircean Pragmatist Response to the Knowing-How, Knowing-That Debate. Erkenntnis 87(5): 2265-2284. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00301-9.
- Black J. (2017) Peirce's Conception of Metaphysics. Sheffield. University of Sheffield.
- Black J. (2016) Peirce. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24(6): 1223-1227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2016.1149448.
