Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY): "Rethinking Speech Communities"

Event Type

Conference/Workshop

Sponsor

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; The Center for Advanced Study; The Center for Global Studies; The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; The European Union Center, through support from the US Department of Education’s Title VI NRC Program; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH); Second Language and Teacher Education Program (SLATE); Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program; the departments of: African American Studies; Anthropology; Communications; French and Italian; Linguistics; Sociology; Spanish & Portuguese

Location

4th Floor, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

Date

Feb 27, 2020   All Day

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Originating Calendar

School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar

Schedule of Events

0830-0900: Registration, Illini Union, Room 404

0850-0900: Opening Remarks – Professor James Yoon, Illini Union, Room 407

0900-1000: Morning Plenary: Dr. Kim Potowski, University of Illinois, Chicago: “Linguistic Erasures and Brownface: Span(gl)ish in Mainstream Television” Session Chair: Britni Moore

1000-1010: Coffee Break

1010-1300: Individual Presentation Session 1: Session Chair: Allison Casar

1010-1040: Robin Turner, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: “Legitimization of Community Membership in Multilingual Political Campaigning”

1045-1115: Scott Kunkel, Indiana University Bloomington: “Attitudes & Language Awareness in a second dialect of French”

1120-1150: Asmaa Taha, University of Mississippi: “The Functions and Uses of the Discourse Marker Bita:ʕ in Cairene Arabic”

1155-1225: Brenton Watts, University of Kentucky: “‘The Man, the Moth, the Legend’: Queer Appalachian Mothman Discourse for Transgression, Identification and Radicalization”

1230-1330: Lunch (light lunch provided)

1330-1430 (1:30-2:30): Afternoon Plenary: Dr. Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto, Scarborough: “Policing Language Loyalty: Ideologies of Gender and Style-Shifting in a Virtual Community of Practice”  Session Chair: Wafa Abdulla

1430-1440 (2:30-2:40): Coffee Break

1440-1715 (2:40-5:15): Individual Presentation Session 2: Session Chair: TBD

1440-1510 (2:40-3:10): Shannon McKeown, Wayne State University: “Fake News, Crooked Hillary, and Bad People: A Linguistic Analysis of Donald Trump’s Twitter Insults

1515-1545 (3:15-3:45): Amelia Stecker, Northwestern University: “Variation in Evaluations of Gendered Voices: Individual speakers condition the variant frequency effect”

1550-1620 (3:50-4:20): Neal Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Writing Conferences in First-Year Composition as a Site of Emerging Identity Roles for Graduate Teaching Assistants”

1625-1640 (4:25-4:40): Jamie Benheim, Northwestern University: “Regional features and the Jewish ethnolinguistic repertoire in Chicago”

1645-1715 (4:45-5:15): Maria Heath, University of Minnesota: “Lazy or Monotone?: The orthography of speech communities"

1715-1725 (5:15-5:25): Coffee Break

1725-1825 (5:25-6:25): Evening Plenary: Dr. Jenny Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Who counts and who is doing the counting?: ‘Expectation’ and ‘anomaly’ in Native American language use” Session Chair: Taraneh Sanei

1825-1830 (6:25-6:30): Closing remarks – given by Professor Rakesh Bhatt