Paul Baker is a British professor and linguist at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus-assisted discourse studies and language and identity. He is known for his research on the language of Polari. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts.
- Occupation
- linguist, philologist
- Born
- May 23, 1972, 1972
- Website
- https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about-us/people/paul-baker