LGSA Reading Group
"Enregistering Internet Language" by Lauren Squires.
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Location:
Zoom
CKLiC Info Session
The Linguistics Graduate Student Association (LGSA) will be hosting an information + brainstorm session for graduate and undergraduate students who wish to participate in CKLiC 2022. Grad students will be available to answer questions about the conference, exchange feedback on proposals, and help brainstorm presentation ideas.
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Location:
WTY Library Room 5-60
Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Erica Britt
Dr. Erica Britt, Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Flint, will give the annual UK Department of Linguistics Martin Luther King Day talk.
This talk provides a description of the Vehicle City Voices (VCV) project, an oral history and linguistic survey of Flint, Michigan, and illustrates the role of the oral history interview as a critical site for the production of the individual and collective identities of Flint residents. Through this presentation we will explore the discursive tools that oral-history interview participants use to construct and contest mass-mediated representations of their community. In particular, given a media landscape that frequently circulates chronotopic representations (Bakhtin 1981; Agha 2007) that position Flint as a certain kind of city (i.e "apocalyptic" and in decline) populated by a certain type of person (i.e. dangerous and impoverished) at a certain moment in time (i.e. in its current deindustrializing/post-industrial period), the residents in this study respond by using reported speech and reported thought to challenge and revise these representations while at the same time amplifying the voices of those who are actively working to construct images of a dynamic, living city that transcends its negative reputation.
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Location:
Zoom
Event Series:
Linguistics Professor’s Knowledge of Language Helps Improve Exams for Family Doctors
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Sometimes it’s a question of context – or, in this case, the context of questions.
Jennifer Cramer, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences, specializes in sociolinguistics – the study of how social factors, including race, gender and class, affect language. She’s studied differences in language in Southern regions of the United States in particular.