ASSIGNMENTS AND MATERIALS

Note: All materials on this page are password-protected. Access is limited to current class members only. The password is available in the course materials distributed on the first day of class. If you misplaced the materials, you can download a copy below; however, you will need to have the course username and password. You can also request the username and password by emailing me.

General Information

• Syllabus
• Requirements
• Readings
• Student information form

Assignments

• Data Set 1 (Fieldnotes): Due Wednesday, Oct. 14
• Data Set 2 (Space and setting): Due Wednesday, Oct. 28
• Data Set 3 (Ethnographic interview): Due Monday, November 16
• Data Set 4 (Video interaction): Due Friday, Dec. 4
• Data presentation: Due Monday, Dec. 7 or Wednesday, Dec. 9
• Preliminary analysis: Due Friday, Dec. 11

Human Subjects materials

• Human Subjects protocol
• Human Subjects consent form (in Word format)

Handouts

• HO1: Finding a fieldsite
• HO2: Entering the field
• HO3: Getting in and getting to know people
• HO4: Advocacy and empowerment in sociocultural linguistic research
• HO5: Participant-observation
• HO6: Taking fieldnotes
• HO7: Taking linguistic fieldnotes
• HO8: Documenting settings and symbols
• HO9: Hymes and Labov compared
• HO10: Thinking about the interview process
• HO11: Indexing and coding data
• HO12: Transcription as representation
• HO13: Using video equipment
• HO14: Transcribing embodied action
• HO15: Scholarly writing as representation

Exercises

• EX1: Ethical dilemmas in the field
• EX2: Parameters of difference in the research relationship
• EX3: Hymes's SPEAKING grid
• EX4: Eliciting language, finding language
• EX5: Interviews as interaction
• EX6: Research performances
• EX7: Issues of representation in ethnographic writing

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