COURSE ASSIGNMENT & READING SCHEDULE

Week 1

• Wednesday, January 7
  Introduction: The Study of Language in Society
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapters 1 & 2 [26pp]
  


Wednesday, January 7: No Section


• Friday, January 9: Introduction, continued
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapters 1 & 2 [26pp]
  

Week 2

• Monday, January 12
  Variation & Language
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapters 1 & 2 [26pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapters 1 & 2 and American Tongues


• Wednesday, January 14
  Variation & Language, continued
  PRESENTED READING #1a: Purnell et al., “Sarah Palin’s Speech and Upper Midwestern English” (submitted for publication 12/2008)
  PRESENTED BY: _____Rachel Cristy_____
  


Wednesday, January 14: SECTION
Designing a Sociolinguistic Term Paper


• Friday, January 16
  Variation & Style
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 3 [27pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 3

Week 3

• Monday, January 19: NO CLASS, MLK Day


• Wednesday, January 21
  Variation & Style, continued
  PRESENTED READING #2a: Hay, Jannedy, & Mendoza-Denton, 1999 “Oprah and /ay/: Lexical Frequency, Referee Design, and Style”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Samantha Adriana Penabad_____
  PRESENTED READING #2b: Bucholtz 2001, “The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Marissa Rose Miller_____
  


Wednesday, January 21: No Section


• Friday, January 23
  Language Attitudes
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 4 [27pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 4

Week 4

• Monday, January 26
  Language Attitudes, continued
  PRESENTED READING #3a: Bucholtz et al., 2007, “Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Stephen Terence Brown_____
  PRESENTED READING #3b: Plichta & Preston, 2004, “The /ay/s have it: the perception of /ay/ as a North-South stereotype in US English”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Devon Lee Mobley-Ritter_____
  


• Wednesday, January 28
  Being Polite as a Variable in Speech
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 5 [21pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 5


Wednesday, January 28: SECTION
Going from ideas to research projects


• Friday, January 30
  Working with Variable Data
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapters 1, 2, 3
  

Week 5

• Monday, February 2
  Multilingualism & Language Choice
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 6 [25pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 6


• Wednesday, February 4
  Multilingualism & Language Choice, continued
  PRESENTED READING #4a: Eckert, 1980, “Diglossia: Separate and unequal”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Kayla Rae Carpenter_____
  PRESENTED READING #4b: Lo, 1999, “Codeswitching, speech community membership, and the construction of ethnic identity”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Diana Marie Garity_____
  DUE: Variation Analysis
  


Wednesday, February 4: No Section


• Friday, February 6
  Change in Real & Apparent Time
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 7 [28pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 7

Week 6

• Monday, February 9
  Change in Real & Apparent Time, continued
  PRESENTED READING #5a & 5b: Harrington, Palethorpe & Watson, 2000, “Does the Queen speak the Queen’s English?”
  PRESENTED READING #5b: Sankoff, 2006, "Age: Apparent time and real time"
  BOTH PRESENTED BY: _____Robert (Bodie) Woolf Manly_____
  


• Wednesday, February 11
  Social Class
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 8 [29pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 8


Wednesday, February 11: No Section


• Friday, February 13
  Social Class, continued
  PRESENTED READING #6a: Rickford, 1986, “The Need for New Approahes to Social Class Analysis in Sociolinguistics”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Richard Landy Jones Futrell_____
  PRESENTED READING #6b: Queen, 2004, “‘Du hast jar keene Ahnung’: African American English dubbed into German”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Jessica Barbara Wacker_____
  

Week 7

• Monday, February 16: NO CLASS (President’s Day)


• Wednesday, February 18
  Social Networks & Communities of Practice
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 9 [17pp]; Eckert, 1996, “Vowels And Nail Polish: The Emergence Of Linguistic Style In The Preadolescent Heterosexual Marketplace” [9pp]
  DUE: A (few) term paper idea(s)
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 9 & Eckert 1996


Wednesday, February 18: SECTION
Reactions to the variation analysis & preparation for beginning your term paper


• Friday, February 20
  Social Networks & Communities of Practice, continued
  PRESENTED READING #7a: Eckert & Wenger, 2005, “What is the role of power in sociolinguistic variation?”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Herwin Del Rosario Icasiano_____
  PRESENTED READING #7b: Evans, 2004, “The role of social network in the acquisition of local dialect norms by Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Clare Bennett_____
  

Week 8

• Monday, February 23
  Gender
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 10 [37pp]
  DUE: Term Paper Outline & Preliminary Bibliography
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 10


• Wednesday, February 25
  Gender, continued
  PRESENTED READING #8a: Ochs & Taylor, 1995, “The ‘father knows best’ dynamic in dinnertime conversations”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Marissa Rose Miller_____
  PRESENTED READING #8b: Talbot, 1992, “A synthetic sisterhood: False friends in a teenage magazine”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Jacqueline Jimenez_____
  


Wednesday, February 25: SECTION
TBA (Email Nola your suggestions for topics!)


• Friday, February 27
  Language Contact
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 11 [27pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Chapter 11

Week 9

• Monday, March 2


• Language Contact, continued
PRESENTED READING #9a: Gal, 1978, “Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in a bilingual community”
PRESENTED BY: _____Clare Bennett_____


• Summary & Recap: Studying Language in Society
  READING: Meyerhoff Chapter 12 [6pp]
  DUE: Online Discussion of Meyerhoff Chapter 12


• DUE: First Term Paper Draft



• Wednesday, March 4
  Applications: Education & Law
  PRESENTED READING #10a: Rickford & Rickford 2007, “Variation, Versatility and Contrastive Analysis in the Classroom”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Ashley Nicole McCullough_____
  PRESENTED READING #10b: Lippi-Green, 1994, “Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in the courts”
  PRESENTED BY: _____Samantha Adriana Penabad_____



Wednesday, March 4: No Section


• Friday, March 6
  Student Presentations of Term Projects
  1. Kayla Rae Carpenter
  2. Diana Marie Garity
  3. Clare Bennett
  4. Jessica Barbara Wacker
  

Week 10: Dead Week

• Monday, March 9
  Student Presentations of Term Projects
  5. Jacqueline Jimenez
  6. Herwin Del Rosario Icasiano
  7. Marissa Rose Miller
  8. Robert (Bodie) Woolf Manly
  


• Wednesday, March 11
  Student Presentations of Term Projects
  9. Devon Lee Mobley-Ritter
  10. Stephen Terence Brown
  11. Rachel Cristy
  12. Ashley Nicole McCullough
  


Wednesday, March 11: No section
Extra office hours in Nola's office!


• Friday, March 13
  Student Presentations of Term Projects
  13. Richard Landy Jones Futrell
  14. Samantha Adriana Penabad
  

Week 11: Finals Week

• Monday, March 16
  DUE: Final Term Papers due, by email, by 12:00 midnight