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Sept 23 |
- Course Overview & Introductions
- Voices of NC
(Log in as 'Guest' and watch it again!)
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- Slang Dictionary [due Sept 30]
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Sept 25 |
- Dialects & Standards
- Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 1, p. 1-46
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Sept 30 |
- Levels of Dialect
- (Sept 30, Oct 2)
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- Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 3, p. 114-164
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- Slang Dictionary collected
- Dialect Research Assignment [due Oct 14]
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Oct 2 |
- Rickford, John (1985) Ethnicity as a Sociolinguistic Boundary. American Speech 60(2): 99-125.
- Zimmer, Benjamin, Jane Solomon & Charles E. Carson (2014) Among the New Words. American Speech 89(2): 190-207.
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3 |
Oct 7 |
- Sociohistorical Context & Dialect Diffusion
- (Oct 7, Oct 9)
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- Josef Fruehwald on Slate: 'What's wrong with "America's ugliest accent"'
- Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 4, p. 167-200
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Oct 9 |
- Johnstone, Barbara (2013) The history of Yinz and the outlook for Pittsburghese, from Speaking Pittsburghese: The story of a dialect (Chapter 9).
- Van Herk, Gerard (2008) Fear of black phonology: The Northern Cities Shift as linguistic White flight. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 14(2):157-160.
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4 |
Oct 14 |
- U.S. Regional Dialects
- (Oct 14, Oct 16)
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- Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 5, through section 5.3 only, p. 203-220
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- Dialect Research collected
- Map Task [Part 1 due Oct 21; Part 2 due Oct 24]
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Oct 16 |
- Reading sign-up list here.
- Inland North: Eckert, Penelope. 1989. The whole woman: Sex and gender differences in variation. Language Variation and Change 1: 245-267.
- Midlands: Thomas, Erik. 1989. Vowel changes in Columbus, Ohio. Journal of English Linguistics 22: 205-212.
- Bigham, Douglas S. 2010. Correlation of the low-back vowel merger and TRAP-retraction. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15(2): 21-31.
- Southeast: Dodsworth, Robin & Mary Kohn. 2012. Urban rejection of the vernacular: The SVS undone. Language Variation and Change 24: 221-245.
- Northeast: Ash, Sharon. 2002. The distribution of a phonemic split in the Mid-Atlantic region: Yet more on short a. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 8(3): 1-15.
- Becker, Kara & Amy Wing-mei Wong. 2010. The short-a system of New York City English: An update. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15(2): 11-20.
- West: Podesva, Robert J., Annette D'Onofrio, Janneke Van Hofwegen & Seung Kyung Kim. Submitted. The California Vowel Shift and fractal recursivity in an inland, non-urban community. Language Variation and Change.
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Oct 21 |
- Perceptual dialectology
- Guest lecture from Thor Sawin (Oct 21)
- (Oct 21, Oct 23)
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- Map Task Part 1 collected Tues, Oct 21, in class
- Map Task Part 2 collected Fri, Oct 24, 5:00 PM
- Japanese-American Interview Assignment [Observations due Oct 28; Write-Up due Nov 4.]
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Oct 23 |
- Preston, Dennis (1998). "They speak really bad English down South and in New York City." L. Bauer, P. Trudgill (Eds.), Language myths, London: Penguin. pp. 139-149
- Bucholtz, Mary, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards and Rosalva Vargas (2007) Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California. Journal of English Linguistics 35(4):325-352.
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Oct 28 |
- Ethnicity: What is an ethnic dialect?
- Chicano/Latino English
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- Becker, Kara. (unpublished ms.) Ethnolect, dialect, and linguistic repertoire in New York City.
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- Japanese American Observations collected
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Oct 30 |
- Thomas, Erik R. & Janneke Van Hofwegen (under contract). Consonantal Variables Correlated with Ethnicity. In Mexican American English: Substrate influence and the birth of an ethnolect. Edited by Erik R. Thomas. Cambridge University Press.
- Eckert (2008) Where do ethnolects stop?International Journal of Bilingualism 12(1&2):25-42.
- (Skim) Thomas, Erik R. (2014). Language contact and the birth of an ethnolect. Colloquium presented at Memorial University of Newfoundland. February.
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7 |
Nov 4 |
- Asian-American English
- Ethnicity: What is an ethnic dialect? (continued)
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- Lo, Adrienne & Angela Reyes. Language, identity and relationality in Asian Pacific America: An introduction. Pragmatics 14(2/3):115-125.
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- Japanese American Write-ups collected
- Attention paid to speech assignment [Recordings due Nov 11; Write-up due Nov 18.]
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Nov 6 |
- Chun, Elaine. 2001. The constructions of White, Black and Korean American identities through African American Vernacular English. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11(1):52-64.
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Nov 11 |
- Style and Intra-speaker Variation
- Nov 11, Nov 13
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- Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 10
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- Attention paid to speech recordings collected in class Nov 11
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Nov 13 |
- Schilling-Estes, Natalie (1998) 'Self-consious' speech: The performance register in Ocracoke English. Language in Society 27(1):53-85.
- Podesva, Robert J. (2007) Three sources of stylistic meaning. Texas Linguistics Form (Proceedings of the Symposium About Language and Society) 51:134-143.
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9 |
Nov 18 |
- Social Class
- Nov 18, Nov 20
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- Labov, William (1972) The social stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores, from Sociolinguistic Patterns (Chapter 2).
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- Attention paid to speech write-ups due by beginning of class Nov 18
- Final Paper Requirements [due Dec 10, by 10pm]
- Web Perception Experiment [due Dec 4]
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Nov 20 |
- Mallinson, Christine and Becky Childs (2007) Communities of practice in sociolinguistic description: Analyzing language and identity practices among Black women in Appalachia. Gender and Language 1: 173-206.
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Thanksgiving |
Nov 25 & Nov 27 |
- No Class - Thanksgiving Break
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10 |
Dec 2 |
- Applications of Dialect Research
- Guest lecture from Mike Metz
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- Paris, Django (2012) Culturally sustaining pedagogy: A needed change in stance, terminology, and practice. Educational Researcher 41: 93-97.
- Young, Vershawn Ashanti, Rusty Barrett, Y'Shanda Young-Rivera & Kim Brian Lovejoy (2014) Chapter 3: Be Yourself Somewhere Else. Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code Switching and African American Literacy 33-51.
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- Web Perception Experiment due by beginning of class, Dec 4
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Dec 4 |
- Sociolinguistic Perception
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- Niedzielski, Nancy (1999) The effect of social information on the perception of sociolinguistic variables. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18(1): 62-85.
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