Katherine Rose Geenberg
"He collected her gestures because destiny hides in the trivial, and to extract the vast from the little is a gift, like perfect pitch." ~Alice Fulton
I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University.
As a sociolinguist, I believe identity is created in the shared space between speaker and listener.
My research examines speech production (in ethnographic and experimental contexts) and speech perception.
My dissertation, entitled "What it means to be NorCal Country: Variation and marginalization in rural California," is an ethnographic study of local ways of being and talking "country" in one mountainous, sparsely-populated California county. The dissertation explores how these "country" styles are constructed in opposition to liberal, urban, coastal California(ns). I also analyze the language and lifestyles of the county's Nor-Rel-Muk Indians, who are marginalized by the locally-dominant white culture, though many residents claim some Native American heritage.
Some of my other recent research has focused on the rich possibilities for phonetic symbolism in English and Arabic speech styles, as well as on issues of language, gender and sexuality in non-urban areas.
katerose (at) stanford (dot) edu
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Katherine Rose Geenberg
Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
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