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?
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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
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Week 2: Indexicality and Stance
Tuesday, Oct. 7 and Thursday, Oct. 9 |
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Week 6: Language Ideologies
Tuesday, Nov. 4 and Thursday, Nov. 6
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Week 9: Language as Capital and Commodity (continued)
Tuesday, Nov. 25 and Thursday, Nov. 27 |
Tuesday: Data session 7
NO CLASS THURSDAY (THANKSGIVING)
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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)
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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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