Chris Ryder

Chris is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, where he also undertook his PhD, MRes and BA studies. He has previously worked on a number of projects on behalf of multinational companies, examining the role of language in the marketing and communication of specific products to the public. His research interests include forensic linguistics, phonetics and phonology, corpus linguistics, derivational morphology, artificial languages and humour.