Jocelyn McKnight

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Jocelyn McKnight is an undergraduate student currently pursuing a BA, majoring in English Language Arts, with a French minor at the University of Lethbridge. Her honour’s thesis is focused on semantic changes in war and violence vocabulary in Tok Pisin, a mixed English and Indigenous language in Papua New Guinea. Jocelyn is involved in the Visionary Cross Project, works as an undergraduate TA in the Linguistics and Modern Language Department, and serves as an instructional designer for online secondary schooling in Alberta. Her academic interests revolve around Old English philology, linguistics related to endangered Languages, and Digital Humanities.