Research

Curriculum Vitae (last updated June 23, 2023)

Publications

Books

Edited Volumes

  1. Decolonizing Linguistics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (with Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson)
  2. Inclusion in Linguistics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (with Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson)
  3. Feeling It: Language, Race, and Affect in Latina/o Youth Learning, Routledge, 2018 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  4. Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, original text by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, edited by Mary Bucholtz, revised and expanded edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
  5. Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999 (with A. C. Liang and Laurel Sutton)
  6. Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995 (with Kira Hall)
  7. Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1995 (with A. C. Liang, Laurel Sutton, and Caitlin Hines)
  8. Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1992 (with Kira Hall and Birch Moonwomon)

Edited Special Issues

  1. "Public Transcripts: Entextualization and Linguistic Representation in Institutional Contexts," special issue of Text and Talk 29(5), 2009 (with Joseph Sung-Yul Park)
  2. "Youth Language at the Intersection: From Migration to Globalization," special issue of Pragmatics 19(1), 2009 (with Elena Skapoulli)
  3. "Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Strengthening the Connections," special issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12(4), 2008 (with Kira Hall)
  4. "Discourses of Whiteness," special issue of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1), 2001 (with Sara Trechter)

Journal Articles

  1. "Researcher Positionality in Linguistics: Lessons from Undergraduate Experiences in Community-Centered Collaborative Research," Language and Linguistics Compass 17(4): e12495, 2023 (with Eric W. Campbell, Teresa Cevallos, Veronica Cruz, Alexia Z. Fawcett, Bethany Guerrero, Katie Lydon, Inî G. Mendoza, Simon L. Peters, and Griselda Reyes Basurto)
  2. "Community-Centered Collaboration in Applied Linguistics," Applied Linguistics 42(6): 1153-1161 (correction)
  3. “Personal Protective Equipment against Anti-Blackness: Communicability and Contagion in the Academy,” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 31(2): 287-292 (with Jamie Thomas)
  4. “The Displacement of Race in Language and Gender Studies,” Gender and Language 15(3): 414-422 (with deandre miles-hercules)
  5. “Getting Dressed as a Social Activity: The Interactional Competence of an Autistic Teenager who Doesn’t Use Speech,” Research on Children and Social Interaction 5(2): 237-270 (with Erika Prado)
  6. "Attracting Black Students to Linguistics Through a Black-Centered Introduction to Linguistics Course,” Language, 97(1): e12-38, 2021 (with Kendra Calhoun, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Jazmine Exford, and Brittney Johnson)
  7. “Toward Racial Justice in Linguistics: Interdisciplinary Insights into Theorizing Race in the Discipline and Diversifying the Discipline,” Language 96(4): e200-e235, 2020 (with Anne Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson)
  8. "From Theory to Action: Working Collectively Toward a More Antiracist Linguistics,” Language 96(4): e309-e319, 2020 (with Anne Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson)
  9. “ 'Oh, I don't even know how to say this in Spanish': The  Linguistic Representation of Latinxs  in Jane the  Virgin,” Spanish in Context, 17(3): 489-512, 2020 (with Victoria Melgarejo)
  10. “ 'Respecta mi idioma': Latinx Youth Enacting Affective Agency,” Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 19(2): 79-94, 2020 (with Juan Sebastián Ferrada and Meghan Corella)
  11. “The Public Life of White Affects,” Journal of Sociolinguistics, 23(5): 485-504, 2019
  12. “White Affects and Sociolinguistic Activism,” Language in Society 47(3): 350-354, 2018
  13. “ ‘How My Hair Look?’: Linguistic Authenticity and Racialized Gender and Sexuality on The Wire,” Journal of Language and Sexuality 6(1): 1-29, 2017 (with Qiuana Lopez)
  14. “Team Collaboration and Educational Partnership in Sociocultural Linguistics,” American Speech, 90(2): 230-245, 2015 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  15. “Sociolinguistic Justice in the Schools: Student Researchers as Linguistic Experts,” Language and Linguistics Compass, 8(4): 144-157, 2014 (with Audrey Lopez, Allina Mojarro, Elena Skapoulli,  Chris VanderStouwe, and Shawn Warner-Garcia)
  16. “Epilogue: Facing Identity,” Journal of Politeness Research 9(1): 121-130, 2013 (with Kira Hall)
  17. “Itineraries of Identity in Undergraduate Science,” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 43(2): 157-172, 2012 (with Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, and Elena Skapoulli)
  18. “Performing Blackness, Forming Whiteness: Linguistic Minstrelsy in Hollywood Film,” Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(5): 680-706, 2011 (with Qiuana Lopez)
  19. “Race and the Re-Embodied Voice in Hollywood Film,” Language and Communication 31(3): 255-265, 2011
  20. “Entextualized Humor in the Formation of Scientist Identities among U.S. Undergraduates,” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 42(3): 177-192, 2011 (with Elena Skapoulli, Brendan Barnwell, and Jung-Eun Janie Lee)
  21. “ ‘It’s Different for Guys’: Gendered Narratives of Racial Conflict among White California Youth,” Discourse and Society 22(4): 385-402, 2011
  22. “In the Profession: Peer Review in Academic Publishing,” Journal of English Linguistics 38(1): 88-93, 2010
  23. “Captured on Tape: Professional Hearing and Competing Entextualizations in the Criminal Justice System,” Text and Talk 29(5): 501-522, 2009
  24. “Introduction: Public Transcripts: Entextualization and Linguistic Representation in Institutional Contexts,” Text and Talk 29(5): 483-500, 2009 (with Joseph Sung-Yul Park)
  25. "Introduction: Youth Language at the Intersection: From Migration to Globalization," Pragmatics 19(1): 1-16, 2009 (with Elena Skapoulli)
  26. "All of the Above: New Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics," Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(4): 401-431, 2008 (with Kira Hall)
  27. "Finding Identity: Theory and Data," Multilingua 27(1-2): 151-163, 2008 (with Kira Hall)
  28. "The Normative North and the Stigmatized South: Ideology and Methodology in the Perceptual Dialectology of California," Journal of English Linguistics 36(1): 62-87, 2008 (with Nancy Bermudez, Lisa Edwards, Victor Fung, and Rosalva Vargas)
  29. "Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California," Journal of English Linguistics 35(4): 325-352, 2007 (with Nancy Bermudez, Lisa Edwards, Victor Fung, and Rosalva Vargas)
  30. "Variation in Transcription," Discourse Studies 9(6): 784-808, 2007 (discussion focus article)
  31. "Reply: Variability in Transcribers," Discourse Studies 9(6), 837-842, 2007 (response to commentaries)
  32. "Identity and Interaction: A Sociocultural Linguistic Approach," Discourse Studies, 7(4-5): 585-614, 2005 (with Kira Hall)
  33. "Styles and Stereotypes: The Linguistic Negotiation of Identity among Laotian American Youth," Pragmatics 14(2-3): 127-147, 2004
  34. "Theorizing Identity in Language and Sexuality Research," Language in Society 33(4): 501-547, 2004 (with Kira Hall)
  35. "Sociolinguistic Nostalgia and the Authentication of Identity," Journal of Sociolinguistics 7(3): 398-416, 2003
  36. "Youth and Cultural Practice," Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 525-552, 2002
  37. "White Noise: Bringing Language into Whiteness Studies," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11(1): 3-21, 2001 (with Sara Trechter)
  38. "The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1): 84-100, 2001
  39. "Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse Analysis," Critique of Anthropology 21(2): 168-183, 2001
  40. "Language and Youth Culture," American Speech 75(3): 61-63, 2000, special anniversary issue
  41. "The Politics of Transcription," Journal of Pragmatics 32(10): 1439-1465, 2000
  42. "Gender," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1-2): 80-83, special issue: Lexicon for the New Millennium, ed. Alessandro Duranti, 1999
  43. "You da Man: Narrating the Racial Other in the Linguistic Production of White Masculinity," Journal of Sociolinguistics 3(4): 443-460, 1999
  44. " 'Why Be Normal?': Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls," Language in Society 28(2): 203-223, 1999

Contributions to Edited Volumes

  1. “The Transformative Power of Heritage Languages in Youth-Centered Classrooms,” in Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady (ed.), Integrating Home and Heritage Languages in Schools: Pedagogy and Promise, NCTE/Routledge, forthcoming (with Jin Sook Lee and Dolores Inés Casillas)
  2. “School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society: Growing Pains in Creating Dialogic Learning Opportunities,” in Amanda Kibler, Guadalupe Valdés, and Aída Walqui (eds.), Reconceptualizing the Role of Critical Dialogue in American Classrooms, Routledge, pp. 52-77, 2021 (with Jin Sook Lee, Valerie Meier, Samantha Harris, and Dolores Inés Casillas)
  3. “Sociolinguists Trying to Make a Difference: Race, Research, and Linguistic Activism,” in Renée Blake and Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Work of John Rickford, Routledge, pp. 242-250, 2020
  4. “Resisting Racism and Neoliberalism in Critical Language Research and Activism with Racialized Youth,” in Arshad Imtiaz Ali and Teresa L. McCarty (eds.), Critical Youth Research in Education: Methodologies of Praxis and Care, Routledge, pp. 21-39, 2020 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  5. “Language in the Social World,” in Carol Genetti, ed., How Languages Work, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 257-284, 2019 (with Lal Zimman)
  6. “California Latinx Youth as Agents of Sociolinguistic Justice,” in Netta Avineri, Laura R. Graham, Eric J. Johnson, Robin Riner, and Jonathan D. Rosa (eds.), Language and Social Justice in Practice, Routledge, 2019, pp. 166-175 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  7. “You Feel Me?: Language and Youth Affective Agency in a Racializing World,” in Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee (eds.), Feeling It: Language, Race, and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-26 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  8. “After Affects,” in Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee (eds.), Feeling It: Language, Race, and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning, Routledge, 2018, pp. 255-268 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  9. "Why Bodies Matter,"  in Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Shalini Shankar (eds.), Language and Materiality: Ethnographical and Theoretical Explorations, Cambridge University Press, pp. 260-264, 2017. Longer unpublished version: "Why Bodies Matter: Discourse and Materiality after Mass Murder"
  10. "Language and Culture as Sustenance," in Django Paris and H. Samy Alim (eds.), Cultural Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Educational Justice in a Changing World, Teachers College Press, pp. 43-59, 2017 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  11. “Not in Our Stars, but in Our Selves,” in Laurel A. Sutton (ed.), Context Counts: Papers on Language, Gender, and Power, by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, Oxford University Press, pp. 81-83, 2017
  12. "On Being Called Out of One's Name: Indexical Bleaching as a Technique of Deracialization,"  in H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, and Arnetha F. Ball (eds.), Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race, Oxford University Press, pp. 273-289, 2016
  13. "Embodied Sociolinguistics," in Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates, Cambridge University Press, pp. 173-197, 2016 (with Kira Hall)
  14. “Beyond Empowerment: Accompaniment and Sociolinguistic Justice in a Youth Research Program,” in Robert Lawson and Dave Sayers (eds.), Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact, Routledge, pp. 25-44, 2016 (with Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee)
  15. “Language Socialization across Learning Spaces,” in Numa Markee (ed.), Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 (with Jin Sook Lee)
  16. “The Elements of Style,” in Ahmar Mahboob, Dwi Noverini Djenar, and Ken Cruickshank (eds.), Language and Identity across Modes of Communication, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 27-60, 2015
  17. “Teaching Students the SKILLS of Linguistic Research” (vignette), in Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson, We Do Language: Understanding English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom, New York: Teachers College Press, pp. 113-115, 2014
  18. “The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research,” in Susan Ehrlich,  Miriam Meyerhoff, and Janet Holmes (eds.), Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, 2nd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 23-47, 2014
  19. "Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture," In Leila Monaghan, Jane E. Goodman, and Jennifer Meta Robinson (eds.), Interpersonal Communication: An Ethnographic Approach, 2nd ed., Blackwell, pp. 274-297, 2012 (reprint of Bucholtz 2006)
  20. “Linguistic Anthropology,” in Jason Miller and Oona Schmid (eds.), How to Get Published: A Guide for Anthropology Students and Young Professionals, American Anthropological Association, pp. 95-102, 2011
  21. "From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang," in Alexandra Jaffe (ed.), Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives, Oxford University Press, pp. 146-170, 2009
  22. "Shop Talk: Branding, Consumption, and Gender in American Middle-Class Youth Interaction," in Bonnie McElhinny (ed.), Words, Worlds, and Material Girls: Language, Gender, Globalized Economy, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 371-402, 2007
  23. "Sociolinguistics and Political Economy," in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Elsevier, pp. 493-495, 2006
  24. "Gender, Sexuality, and Language," in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Elsevier, pp. 756-758, 2006 (with Kira Hall)
  25. "Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture," In Jane Goodman and Leila Monaghan (eds.), Interpersonal Communication: An Ethnographic Approach, Blackwell, pp. 243-267, 2006 (see 2012 reprint version; reference above)
  26. "Editor's Introduction," in Mary Bucholtz (ed.), Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, original text by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, revised and expanded edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 3-14, 2004
  27. "Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context," in Mary Bucholtz (ed.), Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, original text by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, revised and expanded edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 121-128, 2004
  28. "Language, Gender, and Sexuality," in Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford (eds.), Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, pp. 410-429, 2004
  29. "Language and Identity," in Alessandro Duranti (ed.), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Blackwell, 2003, pp. 369-394 (with Kira Hall)
  30. "Theories of Discourse as Theories of Gender: Discourse Analysis in Language and Gender Studies," in Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), The Handbook of Language and Gender, Blackwell, pp. 43-68, 2003
  31. "Geek Feminism," in Sarah Benor, Mary Rose, Devyani Sharma, Julie Sweetland, and Qing Zhang (eds.), Gendered Practices in Language, CSLI, pp. 277-307, 2002
  32. "'Thanks for Stopping By': Gender and Virtual Community in American Shop-By-Television Discourse," in Maggie Andrews and Mary Talbot (eds.), "All the World and Her Husband": Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture, Cassell, 2000, pp. 192-209
  33. "Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies," in Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel Sutton (eds.), Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 3-24
  34. "Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel," in Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel Sutton (eds.), Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 348-368
  35. "Black Feminist Theory and African American Women's Linguistic Practice," in Victoria Bergvall, Janet Bing, and Alice Freed (eds.), Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice, Longman, 1996, pp. 267-290
  36. "Introduction: Twenty Years after Language and Woman's Place," in Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995, pp. 1-24 (with Kira Hall)
  37. "From Mulatta to Mestiza: Language and the Reshaping of Ethnic Identity," in Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995, pp. 351-374
  38. "Language in Evidence: The Pragmatics of Translation in the Judicial Process," in Marshall Morris (ed.), Translation in the Law, John Benjamins, 1995, pp. 115-129

Proceedings Papers

  1. “Gender Ideologies and the Interactional Construction of Whiteness in Youth Narratives of Race,” in Minna Palander-Collin, Hartmut Lenk, Minna Nevala, Päivi Sihvonan, and Marjo Vesalainen, eds., Constructing Identity in Interpersonal Communication. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 81, 2010, pp. 159-175 (see 2011 article version; reference above)
  2. "Indexing Gender and Youth Style through Slang," in Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, Sonja Entzenberg, and Maria Ohlsson, eds., Språk och kön i nutida och historiskt perspektiv: Studier presenterade vid den sjätte nodiska konferensen om språk och kön Uppsala den 6-7 oktober 2006 ( Language and Gender in Present-Day and Historical Perspective: Studies Presented at the Sixth Nordic Conference on Language and Gender, Uppsala, October 6-7 2006 ), University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2007, pp. 11-32 (see 2009 chapter version; reference above)
  3. "From 'Sex Differences' to Gender Variation in Sociolinguistics," in Papers from NWAV 30 (University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 8.2), University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics, 2002, pp. 33-45
  4. "Play, Identity, and Linguistic Representation in the Performance of Accent," in Kate Henning, Nicole Netherton, and Leighton Peterson, eds., Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium about Language and Society--Austin, University of Texas Department of Linguistics, 2002, pp. 227-251
  5. "Geek the Girl: Language, Femininity, and Female Nerds," in Natasha Warner, Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes, Monica Oliver, Suzanne Wertheim, and Melinda Chen (eds.), Gender and Belief Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1998, pp. 119-131
  6. "The Powers That Buy: Women's Agency and the Discourse of the Shopping Channel," in Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, Laurel Sutton, and Caitlin Hines (eds.), Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1994, pp. 50-61 (see 1999 chapter version; reference above)
  7. "Language in Evidence: The Pragmatics of Translation in the Courtroom," in Robin Queen and Rusty Barrett, eds., Proceedings of the First Symposium about Language and Society--Austin, University of Texas Department of Linguistics, 1993, pp. 32-41 (see 1995 chapter version; reference above)
  8. "The Mixed Discourse Genre as a Social Resource for Participants," Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1993, pp. 40-51

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