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Courses Taught
- Linguistics 73: African American Vernacular English
- Survey of the English vernacular spoken by African Americans in big city settings, and its relation to Creole English dialects spoken on the South Carolina Sea Islands ("Gullah"), in the Caribbean, and in W. Africa. The history of expressive uses of African American English (in soundin' and rappin'), and its educational implications. GER:3b, 4b (DR:3 or 9)
- Linguistics 97: Spring Seminar (Undergraduate Research)
- Introduction to research goals and methods in linguistics and related disciplines. Provides a forum for students to work on a small project that helps define a focus for their linguistic studies. Presentations, discussion, and final paper.
- Linguistics 150: Language in Society
- The study of language in society. Social dialects, class, ethnic, and gender differences in speech. Prestige and stigma associated with different ways of speaking. Stylistic variation; how speakers adapt their language to different audiences and different social contexts. For additional units, students have the option of a public service internship in an organization dealing with linguistic minorities or language-related issues (bilingual education or language rights) with additional section meeting weekly focusing on their field experience. (WIM) GER:3b (DR:9)
- Linguistics 162/262: English Transplanted, English
Transformed--Pidgins and Creoles
- Linguistics 250: Sociolinguistic Theory and Analysis
- Linguistics 251: Sociolinguistics and Pidgin Creole Studies
- Linguistics 255B: Topics in Sociolinguistics: Stylistic Variation
- Sociolinguistic approaches to the study of stylistic variation in language, concentrating on the work of Labov (attention paid to speech), Bell (audience design), Coupland (speaker design) and Finegan and Biber (register design). Papers from the 1996 Stanford Workshop on Style along with other recent and older work. Prerequisites: 150, 250 or 255A or consent of instructor.
- Linguistics 255C: Topics in Sociolinguistics: Study of AAVE and
other American dialects
- Advanced seminar for Linguistics undergraduates and graduate students focusing on recent research in the study of African American Vernacular English and other American dialects, as reported in journal articles and conference presentations. Possible topics: the creole hypothesis, new descriptions and formalizations of AAVE features (prepositions, negative inversions), and proposals for taking AAVE into account in educational reform. Research on other American dialects like Chicano English, Spanish, and Ockracoke English (North Carolina Outer Banks).
- Linguistics 286: Sociolinguistic Field Methods
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