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March 28 |
- De-mythologizing Language and Accent
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- Prescriptivism in Media examples (response #1)
[Due Wednesday 9 a.m. 3/30]
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| March 30 |
- Lippi-Green, Rosina (2012). The standard language myth. English with an Accent, Second Edition. p.55-65
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| 2 |
April 4 |
- Studying Linguistic Variation and Change
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- Fischer, John L. (1958) Social influences on the choice of a linguistic variant.
- Kiesling, Scott. (2004) Dude. American Speech
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- Reading Response #2
[Due Sunday 5 p.m. 4/3]
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| April 6 |
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April 11 |
- Large-scale Patterns
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- Gumperz, John J. (1968) The speech community. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
- Labov, William. (1972) The reflection of social processes in linguistic structures. Sociolinguistic Patterns.
- Trudgill, Peter. (1972) Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich. Language in Society1(2).
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- Reading Response #3
[Due Sunday 5 p.m. 4/10]
- Variation Survey Data Collection
[Due Wednesday 4/13: Enter results in Google Doc by beginning of class, bring hard copies to class]
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| April 13 |
- Quantitative Data Analysis Workshop
- (Bring your laptops to class!)
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April 18 |
- Local Identities and Communities of Practice
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- Eckert, Penelope & Sally McConnell-Ginet. (1992) Communities of Practice: Where language, gender, and power all live. Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz and Birch Moonwomon (eds.)Locating Power, Proceedings of Berkeley Women and Language Conference Vol. 1.
- Rickford, John. (1986) The need for new approaches to social class analysis in sociolinguistics. Language & Communication 6(3): 215-221.
- Bucholtz, Mary. (1999) 'Why be normal?' Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls. Language in Society 28: 203-223.
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- Reading Response #4
[Due Sunday 5 p.m. 4/17]
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| April 20 |
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April 25 |
- Stylistic Practice and Social Meaning
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- Podesva, Robert J. (2007) Three sources of stylistic meaning. Texas Linguistics Forum (Proceedings of the Symposium About Language and Society) 51:134-143.
- Mendoza-Denton, Norma. (1996) Muy macha: Gender and ideology in gang discourse about makeup. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 61(1): 47-63.
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- Quantitative Analysis Project
[Due by beginning of class Monday 4/25]
- Reading Response #5
[Due Tuesday 5 p.m. 4/26]
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| April 27 |
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May 2 |
- Historical Context and Social Change
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- Gal, Susan. (1978) Peasant men can't get wives. Language in Society 7(1): 1-16.
- Zhang, Qing. (2005) A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity. Language in Society, 34(3): 431-466.
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- Reading Response #6
[Due Sunday 5 p.m. 5/1]
- Style project description and data links e-mailed to Annette
[Due Friday 5 p.m. 5/6]
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| May 4 |
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May 9 |
- Listener Perceptions and Awareness
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- Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn. 2007. Accent, (ING), and the social logic of listener perceptions. American Speech 82(1): 32-64.
- Koops, Christian, Elizabeth Gentry & Andrew Pantos. 2008. The effect of perceived age on the perception of PIN and PEN vowels in Houston, Texas. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. 14.
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- Reading Response #7
[Due Sunday 5 p.m. 5/8]
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| May 11 |
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May 16 |
- Style Case Studies
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- Style project presentations in class Monday and Wednesday
- One-paragraph final paper topic e-mailed to Annette
[Due Friday 5 p.m. 5/20]
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| May 18 |
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May 23 |
- High Performance and Parody
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- Style Project
[Due by beginning of class Monday 5/23]
- Reading Response #8
[Due Tuesday 5 p.m. 5/24]
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| May 25 |
- Appropriation and Linguistic Subordination
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- Hill, Jane H. 1998. Language, race and white public space. American Anthropologist.
- Eberhardt, Maeve & Kara Freeman. 2015. 'First things first, I'm the realest': Linguistic appropriation, white privilege, and the hip-hop persona of Iggy Azalea. Journal of Sociolinguistics 19(3): 303-327.
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May 30 |
- Memorial Day - No Class
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- Final Paper [due Monday June 6, by 11:59pm]
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| June 1 |
- Reflections and Applications
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