SYLLABUS

NOTE: All reading assignments and reading responses should be completed before the first class meeting each week.

Week 1: Introduction Tuesday, Jan. 6 and Thursday, Jan. 8

Required Kiesling, "Dude" Recommended Agha introduction, 1 Thursday: Reading response 1 and data exercise 1 due Friday, 1:30-3:30 p.m., 2536 Phelps, LISO, Tanya Stivers (Max Planck Institute)

Week 2: Style Tuesday, Jan. 13 and Thursday, Jan. 15

Required Coupland 1-4 Recommended Agha 2, Bucholtz 1-2 Tuesday: Reading response 2 and data exercise 2 due Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m., 1430 South Hall, Linguistics Colloquium, Sandy Thompson Friday, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 3814 Ellison: Identity Research Focus Group

Week 3: Style, continued Tuesday, Jan. 20 and Thursday, Jan. 22

Required Coupland 6-7 Recommended Agha 3, Bucholtz 3 Tuesday: Reading response 3 and data exercise 3 due

Week 4: Interactional Indexicalities Tuesday, Jan. 27 and Thursday, Jan. 29

Required Ochs 1993, "Constructing Social Identity" Mendoza-Denton 1999, "Turn-Initial No" Recommended Agha 4, Bucholtz 4 Tuesday: Reading response 4 and data exercise 4 due Data presentation 1

Week 5: The Indexical Field Tuesday, Feb. 3 and Thursday, Feb. 5

Required Required: Eckert 2008, "Variation and the Indexical Field" Labov 1963, "The Social Motivation of a Sound Change" Recommended Agha 5, Bucholtz 5-6 Tuesday: Reading response 5 and data exercise 5 due Data presentation 2

Week 6: Orders of Indexicality Tuesday, Feb. 10 and Thursday, Feb. 12

Required Blommaert 2007, "Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis" Silverstein 2003, "Indexical Order and the Dialectics of Sociolinguistic Life" Recommended Johnstone et al. 2006, Bucholtz 7 Tuesday: Reading response 6 and data exercise 6 due Data presentation 3

Week 7: Indexical Power Tuesday, Feb. 17 and Thursday, Feb. 19

Required Barrett, "Language Ideology and Racial Inequality" Roth-Gordon, "Youth, Slang, and Pragmatic Expressions" Recommended Cashman, "Accomplishing Marginalization in Bilingual Interaction," Bucholtz 8 Tuesday: Reading response 7 and data exercise 7 due Data presentation 4

Week 8: Language Choice as Social Positioning Monday, May 19 and Wednesday, May 21

Required Gumperz, "Conversational Code Switching" Rampton, "Language Crossing and the Redefinition of Reality" Recommended Chen, "Positioning and Repositioning," or Greer, "Accomplishing Difference in Bilingual Interaction," Bucholtz 9 Tuesday: Reading response 8 and data exercise 8 due Data presentation 5 Thursday, 3:30-5:00, 6020 HSSB, Ben Rampton (Kings College London) Friday, CLIC Symposium on Race and Ethnicity in Language, Interaction, and Culture, UCLA

Week 9: Final Wrap-Up Tuesday, March 3 and Thursday, March 5

Required Alim, You Know My Steez Recommended Bucholtz 10-11 Wednesday: Reading response 9 and data exercise 9 due Data presentation 6 Friday, 1:30-3:30 p.m., 2536 Phelps, LISO, Lea Harper

Week 10: Student Presentations Tuesday, March 10 and Thursday, March 12

FINAL PAPER DUE by Thursday, March 14, by 4 p.m. in my mailbox at the Linguistics Department office (3607 South Hall)

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