Linguistics 232: Foundations of Sociocultural Linguistics
Fall 2008
 Professor Mary Bucholtz
 bucholtz@linguistics.ucsb.edu

 Office hours: T 3:30-4:20, W 2:00-2:50
Office: 3509 South Hall 
Phone: (805) 893-5415 
Fax: (805) 893-7769 

SYLLABUS

NOTE: Due to the NWAV and AAA conferences, two class meetings will be cancelled and will be made up during finals week.

Introduction
Thursday, Sept. 25

Introduction to the course

Discussion: What is sociocultural linguistics?

Week 1: From Social and Cultural to Sociocultural
Tuesday, Sept. 30 and Thursday, Oct. 2

Bucholtz and Hall, "All of the Above: New Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics"

Duranti, "Language as Culture in U.S. Anthropology: Three Paradigms" (also read the commentaries as well as Duranti's response)

Hymes, "The Scope of Sociolinguistics"

Tuesday: Reading response 1 due

Tuesday: Submit title of book selected for review for approval

Thursday: Data session 1

Week 2: Indexicality and Stance
Tuesday, Oct. 7 and Thursday, Oct. 9

Ochs, "Indexicality and Socialization"

Heritage and Raymond, "The Terms of Agreement: Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction"

Kiesling, "Variation, Stance and Style: Word-Final - er, High Rising Tone and Ethnicity in Australian English"

Tuesday: Reading response 2 due

Thursday: Data session 2

Friday: LISO, Sandy Thompson and Barbara Fox, "Responses to WH-Questions in English Conversation" (1:30-3:30, 2536 Phelps)

Week 3: Style and Register
Tuesday, Oct. 14 and Thursday, Oct. 16

Eckert, "The Meaning of Style"

Irvine, "Style as Distinctiveness: The Culture and Ideology of Linguistic Differentiation"

Agha, "Voice, Footing, Enregisterment"

Benor, " 'We're Going to Sound So FFB!': Stages in BTs' Acquisition of Orthodox Speech"

Tuesday: Reading response 3 due

Tuesday: Special guest, Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College)

Thursday: Data session 3

Thursday: Colloquium, Sarah Bunin Benor, "Ethnolinguistic Repertoires" (3:30-5:00, 1430 South Hall)

Week 4: Identity
Tuesday, Oct. 21 and Thursday, Oct. 23

Bucholtz and Hall, "Identity and Interaction: A Sociocultural Linguistic Approach"

Silverstein, "The Whens and Wheres—As Well as Hows—of Ethnolinguistic Recognition"

Trudgill, "Colonial Dialect Contact in the History of European Languages: On the Irrelevance of Identity to New-Dialect Formation" (also read the six short responses by Mufwene, Tuten, Coupland, Schneider, Bauer, and Holmes & Kerswill as well as Trudgill's reply)

Tuesday: Reading response 4 due

Thursday: Data session 4

Friday: LISO, Language and Gender Day, Mary Bucholtz, Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli, "Succeeding in Science: Interaction and Identity among High-Achieving Female Science Majors," and Christy Bird, "Women Can't Tell Jokes: Ideology in Interaction" (1:30-3:30, 2536 Phelps)

Week 5: Intertextualities and Heteroglossias
Tuesday, Oct. 28 and Thursday, Oct. 30

Briggs & Bauman, "Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power"

Woolard, "Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism"

Coupland, "Dialect Stylization in Radio Talk"

Tuesday: Reading response 5 due

Thursday: Data session 5

Thursday: Colloquium, Xose Henrique Monteagudo, "The Sociolinguistic Position of Galician" (3:30-5:00, 1430 South Hall)

Week 6: Language Ideologies
Tuesday, Nov. 4 and Thursday, Nov. 6

Irvine and Gal, "Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation"

Woolard, "Why Dat Now?: Linguistic-Anthropological Contributions to the Explanation of Sociolinguistic Icons and Change"

Johnstone et al., "Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of 'Pittsburghese' "

Tuesday: Reading response 6 due

Tuesday: DATA ANALYSIS 1 DUE

NO CLASS THURSDAY (NWAV)

Week 7: Language Ideologies (continued)
Tuesday, Nov. 11 and Thursday, Nov. 13

NO CLASS TUESDAY (VETERANS DAY)

Thursday: Data session 6

Friday: LISO, Shimako Iwasaki (UCLA), "Collaborative Construction of Talk in Japanese Conversation" (1:30-3:30, 2536 Phelps)

Week 8: Language as Capital and Commodity
Tuesday, Nov. 18 and Thursday, Nov. 20

Rampton, "Hegemony, Social Class, and Stylisation"

Gaudio, "Coffeetalk: Starbucks(TM) and the Commercialization of Casual Conversation"

Bourdieu, "The Economics of Linguistic Exchanges"

Tuesday: Reading response 7 due

NO CLASS THURSDAY (AAA)

Week 9: Language as Capital and Commodity (continued)
Tuesday, Nov. 25 and Thursday, Nov. 27

Tuesday: Data session 7

NO CLASS THURSDAY (THANKSGIVING)

Week 10: Theorizing Interaction
Tuesday, Dec. 2 and Thursday, Dec. 4

Schegloff, "Whose Text? Whose Context?"

Billig and Schegloff, "Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis: An Exchange"

Kitzinger, "Developing Feminist Conversation Analysis: A Response to Wowk"

Tuesday: Reading response 8 due

Thursday: Data session 8

Thursday: Dissertation Colloquium, Salome Gutierrez and Annette Harrison (3:30-5:00, 1430 South Hall)

Friday: Annette Harrison dissertation defense (1:30-3:30, 3519 South Hall)

Week 11: Discourse and the Critique of Power
Tuesday, Dec. 9 and Thursday, Dec. 11

Slembrouck, "Explanation, Interpretation and Critique in the Analysis of Discourse"

Hill, "Covert Racist Discourse: Metaphors, Mocking, and the Racialization of Historically Spanish-Speaking Populations in the United States"

Goodwin, "Professional Vision"

Tuesday: Reading response 9 due

Thursday: Data session 9

Friday: BOOK REVIEW AND DATA ANALYSIS 2 due by 4 p.m. in my mailbox at the Linguistics Department office (3607 South Hall)

 
 

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