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.

Xueying Thesis Defense

Please join us for Xueying Wang’s MALTT thesis defense:
 
“Reading Comprehension Impedes Word Recognition: A Tongue Twister Task by Modulating Attentional Control”.
 
The defense will take place:
 
Friday, 19 November 2021, 2:00-4:00 pm.
 
Xueying will be presenting via Zoom at:  https://uky.zoom.us/j/85828081219 .  Use the following passcode for entry:  423890 .
 
Per current Graduate School regulations, the committee will be participating in-person.
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Zoom

Thesis Defense

“A Corpus Study of the Development of the Adjective Phrase in French Children.” Contact Katia Davis for Zoom link. 

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Grad Reading Group

Mayeux, O. Under review. ‘On unstructured variation in pidgins and creoles.’ To appear in: Yoshi Asahi, Alexandra D'Arcy and Paul Kerswill (Eds.), Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge.

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Zoom

LACLS Symposium Talk

Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Contestation within Puerto Rican Indigenous Linguistic and Cultural Reclamation Movements

This talk explores the historical and interactional challenges involved in claiming membership in, what for many Puerto Ricans, is an impossible affiliation. I focus on Taíno/Boricua activism to identify a critical space from which to analyze ethnoracial ideologies of Puerto Ricanness, issues of class and education, Puerto Rican nationalisms and colonialisms, as well as important questions regarding narrative, historical memory, and belonging. I consider how these factors impact the projects of language reclamation engaged in by Puerto Rican Taíno/Boricua people.

 

About Dr. Sherina Feliciano-Santos

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Cornerstone Theater
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