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| 1 |
Jan 7 |
- Introduction
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| Jan 9 |
- Language as Ideological: Standardness
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- Labov, William (1972) The logic of nonstandard English. (p. 201-230, rest of article is recommended but optional)
- Bourdieu, Pierre (1991) The production and reproduction of legitimate language. (p. 43-65)
- Recommended: Lippi-Green, Rosina (2012) The standard language myth.
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| 2 |
Jan 14 |
- Foundations of Sociolinguistics
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- Heller, Monica & McElhinny, Bonnie (2017) On the origins of 'Sociolinguistics': Democracy, development and emancipation.
- Labov, William (1963) The social motivation of a sound change.
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- Squib #1: Linguistic Legitimacy
[Due by beginning of class Thursday 1/16]
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| Jan 16 |
- The Sociolinguistic Variable
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- Lavandera, Beatriz (1978) Where does the sociolinguistic variable stop?
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| 3 |
Jan 21 |
- Speech communities & networks
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- Patrick, Peter (2002) The speech community.
- Milroy, Lesley & Llamas, Carmen (2013) Social networks.
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| Jan 23 |
- Communities of practice
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- Eckert, Penelope & McConnell-Ginet, Sally (1992) Communities of practice: where language, gender, and power all live.
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| 4 |
Jan 28 |
- Class
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- Bourdieu, Pierre (1977) The economics of linguistic exchanges.
- Dodsworth, Robin (2009) Modeling socioeconomic class in variationist sociolinguistics.
- Recommended: Labov, William (1972) Ch. 4: The reflection of social processes in linguistic structures.
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- Squib #2: New Dataset and Methods
[Due by beginning of class Thursday 1/30]
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| Jan 30 |
- Ethnicity
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- Fought, Carmen (2006) Language and the construction of ethnic identity.
- King, Sharese (2020) From African American Vernacular English to African American Language: Rethinking Race and Language in the Study of African Americans' Speech.
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| 5 |
Feb 4 |
- Gender
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- Eckert, Penelope (1989) The whole woman.
- Zimman, Lal (2017) Gender as stylistic bricolage: Transmasculine voices and the
relationship between fundamental frequency and /s/.
- Recommended: McElhinny, Bonnie (2003) Theorizing gender in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.
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| Feb 6 |
- Age
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- Wagner, Suzanne (2012) Age-grading in sociolinguistic theory.
- Coupland, Nikolas (2001) Age in social and sociolinguistic theory.
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| 6 |
Feb 11 |
- Intra-speaker variation
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- Labov, William (1972) The isolation of contextual styles.
- Rickford, John & McNair-Knox, Faye (1994) Addressee- and Topic-Influenced Style Shift: A Quantitative Study.
- Recommended: Bell, Allan 1984. Style as audience design.
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- Squib #3: Language, power and inequality
[Due by beginning of class Thursday 2/13]
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| Feb 13 |
- Identity & Agency
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- Bucholtz, Mary & Hall, Kira (2005) Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach.
- Recommended: Ahearn, Laura (2001) Language and agency.
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| 7 |
Feb 18 |
- Indexicality
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- Ochs, Elinor (1992) Indexing gender.
- Eckert, Penelope (2008) Variation and the indexical field.
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- Final paper abstract
[Due by 5 p.m. Friday 2/21]
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| Feb 20 |
- Style & Social Meaning
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- Irvine, Judith (2001) Style as distinctiveness.
- Podesva, Robert J. (2007) Phonation type as a stylistic variable: The use of falsetto in constructing a persona.
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| 8 |
Feb 25 |
- Enregisterment
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- Agha, Asif (2003) The social life of cultural value.
- Johnstone, Barbara, Jennifer Andrus & Andrew E. Danielson (2006) The enregisterment of 'Pittsburghese'.
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| Feb 27 |
- Multi-modality
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- Goodwin, Marjorie Harness & Alim, H. Samy (2010) Whatever (neck roll, eye roll, teeth suck): The situated coproduction of social categories and identities through stancetaking and transmodal stylization.
- Calder, Jeremy (2019) The fierceness of fronted /s/: Linguistic rhematization through visual transformation.
- Recommended: Pratt, Teresa. (2019) Embodying "tech": Articulatory setting, phonetic variation, and social meaning.
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| 9 |
Mar 3 |
- Sociolinguistic change
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- Sharma, Devyani (2011) Style repertoire and social change in British Asian English.
- Zhang, Qing (2005) A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity.
- Recommended: Labov, William (1972) Ch. 7: On the Mechanism of Linguistic Change.
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- Squib #4: Revisiting macro-social categories
[Due by beginning of class Thursday 3/5]
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| Mar 5 |
- Language ideologies and power
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- Rosa, Jonathan & Flores, Nelson (2017) Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective.
- Recommended: Woolard, Kathryn A. & Schieffelin, Bambi B. (1994) Language ideology.
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| 10 |
Mar 10/12 |
- Reading Week - No Class
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- Final Paper [due Monday March 16, 11:59 p.m.]
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