SYLLABUS
Week 1: Ethical Responsibility in Ethnographic Research
Monday, September 28 and Wednesday, September 30
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Cameron et al. 1993, "Ethics, Advocacy and Empowerment"
Goldstein 2001, "Researching Women's Language Practices in Multilingual Workplaces"
Thorne 1980, " 'You Still Takin' Notes?' "
LSA 2009, "Ethics Statement"
EF 20, 23
Wednesday: Reading response 1 due
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Week 2: Fieldnotes as Cultural and Linguistic Data
Monday, October 5 and Wednesday, October 7
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Sanjek 1990, "A Vocabulary for Fieldnotes"
Gaudio 2001, "White Men Do It Too"
Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw 1995, "In the Field"
EF 3
Monday: Reading response 2 due
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Week 3: Researcher Subjectivity
Monday, October 12 and Wednesday, October 14
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Satterlund and Mallinson 2006, "Practical Realities and Emotions in Field Research"
Jacobs-Huey 2002, "The Natives Are Gazing and Talking Back"
Alim 2004, "How the Other Half Speaks"
EF 9 and Part II (read any chapter(s) of interest to you)
Monday: Reading response 3 due
Wednesday: Data set 1 due (Fieldnotes)
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Week 4: Space and Semiotics
Monday, October 19 and Wednesday, October 21
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Eckert 1989, "Symbols of Category Membership"
Besnier 2004, "Consumption and Cosmopolitanism"
Duranti 1994, "Hierarchies in the Making"
EF 24, 28
Monday: Reading response 4 due
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Week 5: Looking at Language
Monday, October 26 and Wednesday, October 28
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Hymes [1972] 1986, "Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life"
Rymes 1996, "Naming as Social Practice"
Lee 2009, "Negotiating Ethnic Labels in a California Junior High School"
Labov 1972, "Some Principles of Linguistic Methodology"
EF 34
Monday: Reading response 5 due
Wednesday, Data set 2 due (Space and setting)
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Week 6: Interviews as Culture and Interaction
Monday, November 2 and Wednesday, November
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Briggs, Learning How to Ask
Briggs 2007, "Anthropology, Interviewing, and Communicability in Contemporary Society"
Hak 2003, "Interviewer Laughter as an Unspecified Request for Clarification"
EF 26
Monday: Reading response 6 due
Thursday, November 5, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Linguistics/Identity Studies talk, Kathryn Woolard
(Recommended: Woolard 1997 as preparation for the talk)
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Week 7: Transcription as Representation
Monday, November 9
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Bucholtz 2007, "Variation in Transcription" "
Parker 1995, "Text, Lines, and Videotape: The Ideology of Genre and the Transcription of Traditional Native American Oral Narrative as Poetry"
Haviland 1996, "Text from Talk in Tzotzil"
Riley 2009, "Who Made the Soup?: Socializing the Researcher and Shaping Her Data"
Monday: Reading response 7 due
NO CLASS WEDNESDAY (VETERANS DAY)
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Week 8: Video and Visual Ethnography
Monday, November 16 and Wednesday, November 18
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Duranti 1997, "Appendix: Practical Tips on Recording Interaction"
DuFon 2002, "Video Recording in Ethnographic SLA Research"
Goodwin 1998, "Games of Stance"
Lomax and Casey, "Recording Social Life"
Monday: Data set 3 due (Ethnographic interview), Reading response 8 due
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Week 9: Research Performances and Positionings
Monday, November 23
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Schilling-Estes 1998, "Investigating 'Self-Conscious' Speech"
Oropeza-Escobar 2007, "Discourse, Authority, and Mediation in an Ethnographic Encounter in Eastern Mexico"
Wertheim 2009, "Who's Using Who?: The Fieldworker as Documenter and Tool of Language Revalorization"
Slembrouck (2004), "Reflexivity and the Research Interview"
Monday: Reading response 9 due
WEDNESDAY: NO CLASS (THANKSGIVING EVE)
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Week 10:
Scholarly Representations of Selves and Others
Monday, November 30 |
Mendoza-Denton 2008, "La Migra"
Canagarajah 1996, "From Critical Research Practice to Critical Research Reporting"
TBA
EF 30, 34 and Part IV (read any chapter(s) of interest to you)
Monday: Reading response 10 due
WEDNESDAY: NO CLASS (AAA)
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Finals Week: Student Presentations
Monday, December 7
and Wednesday, December 9 |
Monday: Data set 4 due (Video interaction) in my mailbox (3607 South Hall)
Preliminary analysis due at 5 p.m. Friday, December 11, via email (Word .doc format only)
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