Valerie Youssef
Valerie Youssef works in the Linguistics Section of the Department of Liberal Arts, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Originally from the UK, she has lived and worked in Trinidad for more than thirty years. She specialises in sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and discourse analysis, with a keen interest also in descriptive linguistics. Her most particular concern is to produce socially relevant linguistics that analyses discourse in the support of those who may be disempowered by the socio-political system.
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