Course Requirements: Students will write 6 2-3 page squibs over
the quarter. Each squib will be based on the material of one week, and
due on the Monday following that week. The purpose of the squib is to
have you reflect at length on some aspect of the material discussed in that
week, and to develop an idea. Squibs will be judged on the basis of
the originality, depth, and viability of the discussion. Each student
will be expected to present several readings in class as well.
Week 1 Introduction
Monday, Sept. 26 Theoretical and Methodological
introduction: What linguists have to do to make language sit
still. Taking a life-course perspective.
Wednesday, Sept. 28 Approaches to the study of linguistic variability.
Week 2 Childhood: The notion of the individual
speaker and the issue of intersubjectivity.
Monday, Oct. 3 How do infants and children emerge as
interactive participants?
Wednesday, Oct. 5 How do children deal with socially meaningful
variation as they learn to use language?
Week 3 Late Childhood and Preadolescence: The emergence of a
peer-based social order. Commodifying the self.
Monday, Oct. 10 The personal becomes political
FISCHER,
J.L. 1958. Social influences on the choice of a linguistic
variant. Word, 14.47-56.
TALBOT,
MARY. 1992. A synthetic sisterhood: False friends in a
teenage magazine. Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley
Women and Language Conference, ed. by Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz and
Birch Moonwomon, 573-80. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group.
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Wednesday, Oct. 12. Positioning the self in interaction.
GOODWIN,
MARJORIE HARNESS, GOODWIN, CHARLES and YAEGER-DROR,
MALCAH. 2002. Multi-modality in girls' game disputes. Journal of
pragmatics, 34.1621-49.
LABOV,
WILLIAM. 1972. Rules for ritual insults. Language in the inner
city, ed. by William Labov, 297-353. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press.
TETREAULT,
CHANTAL. 2003. What's in a name? Parental name-calling among
French adolescents of Algerian descent. Paper presented at SALSA 11,
Austin.
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Week 4: TBA
Monday, Oct. 17. NOTE UNUSUAL VENUE: 110-110 CASA
Colloquium. Speaker: Michael Silverstein.
Wednesday, Oct. 19 TBA
Week 5. Adolescence: Class, ethnicity, and the construction of
social categories.
Monday, Oct. 24. Social groups and networks
LABOV,
William. 1972. The linguistic consequences of being a lame. Language in
the Inner City, ed. by W. Labov. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press.
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Wednesday, Oct. 26 Social practice and categorization
Week 6 Adulthood: Class, power and
ideology
Monday, Oct. 31. Language, work, and social change
LABOV,
WILLIAM. 1963. The social motivation of a sound change. Word,
18.1-42.
GAL,
SUSAN. 1978. Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex
roles in a bilingual community. Language in Society, 7.1-16.
ZHANG,
QING. in press. A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological
variation and the construction of a new professional
identity. Language in society.
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Wednesday, Nov. 2. The linguistic market
Week 7 Stylistic practice, ideology, and issues
of authenticity
Monday, Nov. 7. Performativity
MILLER,
LAURA. 2004. "Those naughty teenage girls: Japanese Kogals, slang,
and media assessments". Journal of linguistic anthropology, 14.
BUCHOLTZ,
MARY. 1999. You da man: Narrating the racial other in the
production of white masculinity. Journal of sociolinguistics,
3.443-60.
MENDOZA-DENTON,
NORMA. 1996. 'Muy macha': Gender and ideology in gang-girls'
discourse about makeup. Ethnos 61:1-2, 47-63.
CAMERON,
DEBORAH. 1997. Performing gender identity: Young men's talk and
the construction of heterosexual masculinity. Language and
masculinity, ed. by Sally Johnson and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof,
47-64. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Wednesday, Nov. 9. Style and the meaning of variation
BELL, ALLAN. 1984. Style as audience design. Language in society
13. 135-204.
COUPLAND, NIKOLAS. 2001. Language,
situation, and the relational self: Theorizing dialect-style in
sociolinguistics. Style and sociolinguistic variation. ed. by Penelope
Eckert and John Rickford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 185-210.
IRVINE, JUDITH. 2001. "Style" as
distinctiveness: The culture and ideology of linguistic
differentiation. Style and sociolinguistic variation. ed. by Penelope
Eckert and John Rickford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 21-43.
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Week 8 Two guests discussing new methods and
issues in variation
Monday, November 14. Rob Podesva: Sociophonetic study of style
Wednesday, Nov. 16 Kathryn Campbell-Kibler: Listeners'
perceptions of variation
Week 9 Configurations: networks and speech
communities
Monday, Nov. 28 Geography, networks and the spread of
linguistic change
Wednesday, Nov. 30 The notion of the speech community.
RICKFORD, JOHN. 1986. The need for new
approaches to class analysis in sociolinguistics. Language and
communication, 6. 215-21.
PRATT, MARY LOUISE. 1988. Linguistic utopias. the linguistics of
writing: Arguments between language and literature, ed. by Nigel Fabb,
Derek Attridge, Alan Durant and Colin MacCabe, 48-66. New York:
Methuen.
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Week 10 Old age and the discursive construction
of identity
Monday, Dec. 5 Mary Rose: The ethnographic study of variation in a senior community.
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COUPLAND, NIKOLAS, JUSTINE COUPLAND AND
HOWARD GILES. 1991. Language, society and the
elderly. Chapter 1 and
Chapter 3
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Wednesday, Dec. 7 Wrap-up
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