Professor
Graduate Program Director
lise [dot] winer [at] mcgill [dot] ca (E-mail)
Phone: 514-398-5946
Room 413, Education Building
Areas of interest
- Second language methodology
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and literature
- Caribbean English Creoles
- Lexicography
Description of research/teaching activities
My graduate and undergraduate teaching focus on classroom methodology and curriculum development for second language learning and teaching. My research projects address teacher education/development; language use in Montreal hip-hop (with Mela Sarkar); and historical sociolinguistics, language, education, literature, music and lexicography in the Caribbean.
Recent Publications
Books
Winer, L. (2009) Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago. Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 1039 pp. (R)
Winer, L. (2007) Badjohns, bhaaji & banknote blue: Essays on the social history of language in Trinidad and Tobago. St. Augustine, Trinidad: University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Studies, 449 pp. (R)
Book Chapters
Winer, L. (2010) Historical naming strategies for fauna in Trinidad & Tobago English/ Creole. In J. Considine (Ed.), Webs of words: New studies in historical lexicology. (pp. 112-140) Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Winer, L. & Buzelin, H. (2008). Literary representations of creole languages: Cross-linguistic perspectives from the Caribbean. In J. V. Singler & S. Kouwenberg (Eds.) Handbook of pidgin and creole linguistics (pp. 637-665) Oxford: Blackwell.
Sarkar, M., Winer, L., & Low, B. (2007). “Pour connecter avec les Peeps”: Québéquicité and the Quebec Hip-Hop community. In M. Mantero (Ed.) Perspectives on language studies: Identity, culture and discourse in educational contexts (pp. 351-372). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Journal Articles
Low, B., Sarkar, M. & Winer, L. (2008). “Ch’us mon propre Bescherelle”: Challenges from the Hip-Hop nation to the Quebec nation. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 13(1), 1-24.
Winer, L. (2007). No ESL in English schools: Language policy in Quebec and implications for TESL teacher education. TESOL Quarterly, 41(3), 489-508.
Other selected publications/presentations
Winer, L. (Ed.) (2006). Rupert Gray, a tale in black and white by Stephen N. Cobham (1907). Reprint in Caribbean Heritage Series, 3. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
Sarkar, M. & Winer, L. (2006). Multilingual code-switching in Quebec rap: Poetry, pragmatics, and performativity. International Journal of Multilingualism, 3(3). 173-192.
Winer, L. (2006). Current approaches to teaching English to Caribbean-background students in the Caribbean and North America. In S. Nero (ed.), Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 105-118
Winer, L. (2005). Indic lexicon in the English/Creole of Trinidad. New West Indian Guide 79 (1&2). 7-30.
Winer, L. (1999). Comprehension and resonance: English Creole texts and English readers. In J.R. Rickford & S. Romaine (eds.), Creole genesis, attitudes and discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene S. Sato (pp. 391-406). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.