From steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu Fri Jan 6 15:33:16 2023 From: steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu (Steele, Ariana) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 20:33:16 +0000 Subject: [Somean] Sociolinguistic Meaning (SoMean) discussion group - SP23 Message-ID: Hey everyone, Spring semester, SoMean will be meeting at the same time as usual, Fridays from 11-12:30pm ET, and it will again be primarily virtual (with an in-person option (see below)). If you are interested in being a part of SoMean this semester, please make sure to attend our first meeting in one week, on Friday, January 13, where we will plan our meetings for the semester. For those attending, please consider 1) a discussion topic and/or presentation you'd like to practice and 2) which SoMean slot(s) you would like. If you are unable to attend our first meeting, please email Ariana and/or Katie with your topic and requested date. Zoom link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/94792211951?pwd=MDVMZnpEdUVCS1dVbDN4cTU5L3pGdz09 In person location: Oxley 122 Please note, again, that, since Kathryn is still on sabbatical, SoMean is not credit-bearing this semester, so students' participation this semester will not offer you any credits. Hope to see you all there! All the best, Ariana Ariana Steele (they/them) PhD Student Department of Linguistics Ohio State University Academic Website -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu Fri Jan 13 11:30:21 2023 From: steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu (Steele, Ariana) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:30:21 +0000 Subject: [Somean] SoMean schedule - open dates! Message-ID: Hello SoMeanies, Here is the schedule for this semester's SoMean SoFar! If you weren't able to attend today's meeting and still want to present and/or discuss something, check out the highlighted dates below for available sessions and shoot me an email if you'd like to take one. Date Presenter Topic 20-Jan Katie Elaine Chun paper - Ironic blackness as masculine cool: Asian American language and authenticity on YouTube 27-Jan 3-Feb Ariana /s/ as subversive discussion 10-Feb 17-Feb Anna "Native speaker" discussion 24-Feb 3-Mar Johanna Audiovisual perceptual experiment 10-Mar 17-Mar spring break 24-Mar Jory TBD (can be 1/2) 7-Apr Katie QP2 dry run (can be 1/2) 14-Apr Kojo TBD 21-Apr Additional session ideas that were floated around were: 1. LSA rundown from attendees 2. Discussion of paper(s) by folks on the shortlist for the department's Indigenous languages hire (ahead of their job talks) If anyone is likewise interested in these, please let me know! All the best, Ariana Ariana Steele (they/them) PhD Student Department of Linguistics Ohio State University Academic Website -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conner.280 at buckeyemail.osu.edu Tue Jan 17 10:43:04 2023 From: conner.280 at buckeyemail.osu.edu (Conner, Katie) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:43:04 +0000 Subject: [Somean] Fw: Colloquium this Friday In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Relevant colloquium taking place this Friday! (And sorry for spamming everyone this morning.....) There should? be a zoom link forthcoming as well. Cheers, Katie She/Hers ________________________________ From: Ling-grads on behalf of Ruan, Junyu via Lingosu via Ling-grads Sent: Monday, January 16, 2023 10:40 PM To: lingosu at lists.osu.edu Subject: [Ling-grads] [Lingosu] Colloquium this Friday Hello Everyone! Here is the information for the next Linguistics Colloquium on January 20, 2023. Speaker: Elaine Chun (University of South Carolina) Title: The Indexical Decoding of Racist Language Date: January 20, 2023, 3:55PM - 5:15PM Place: Oxley 103 Abstract: This talk explores the activity of indexically decoding racist language, or the authoritative classification of language as ?racist? in kind. Performed by both professional and everyday linguists alike, this metalinguistic act involves identifying a particular linguistic form (e.g., a word or phrase) that may not be widely recognized as ?racist? (cf. McIntosh 2022) and making publicly salient its indexical link to a ?racist? social type. In other words, the activity, which is typically contextualized as an anti-racist act, involves facilitating the public enregisterment of ?racist language.? Such practices are common in both scholarly and public settings, for example, when scholars identify mock language forms (e.g., no problemo) or microaggressions (e.g., Where are you from?) as ?covertly racist? (Hill 2008; Sue et al. 2007) as well as when everyday experts critique racializing appropriations (e.g., blaccents) (CNN 2022) and etymologies (e.g., grandfathered in) (The University of Arizona Library 2021). I specifically discuss two related dilemmas that linguists encounter in these anti-racist acts of indexical decoding. First, scholars generally rationalize their decodings in terms of a ?critical theory? of racism (Hill 2008), noting how the racism of the linguistic forms are grounded in the racist ideologies that they reproduce (e.g., racist stereotypes), which shape and are shaped by everyday norms and institutional policies. However, the authoritative decontextualization of specific linguistic forms by experts inevitably invites their recontextualization in everyday anti-racist activities that presuppose a ?folk theory? of racism (Hill 2008), namely by attending centrally to the morality of individuals: individuals who utter these forms become hearable as having committed an immoral act, and individuals who hear them are understood to be immorally harmed. A second dilemma is that the harm?s acuteness may be shaped by the very public enregisterment of the form as racist, given how its use can signal interpersonal disrespect. As such, while acts of indexical decoding are ostensibly acts of linguistic description, they partially reshape their indexical value as well as imply a prescriptive force. Despite these dilemmas, I will suggest that such indexical decodings may still serve useful cultural functions, including inviting reflexive attention to the everyday presence of racializing ideologies. References CNN. 2022. ?Awkwafina and the Use of a ?Blaccent?: What It Is, and Why It?s Wrong.? CNN, February 8, 2022. Hill, Jane H. 2008. The Everyday Language of White Racism. Wiley-Blackwell. McIntosh, Janet. 2022. ?The Sinister Signs of QAnon: Interpretive Agency and Paranoid Truths in Alt-Right Oracles.? Anthropology Today 38 (1): 8?12. Sue, Derald Wing, Christina M. Capodilupo, Gina C. Torino, Jennifer M. Bucceri, Aisha M. B. Holder, Kevin L. Nadal, and Marta Esquilin. 2007. ?Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice.? American Psychologist 62 (4): 271?86. The University of Arizona Library. 2021. ?Antiracist Language Guide.? https://lib.arizona.edu/employees/anti-racist-guide. Please don't hesitate to pass this along to other departments or scholars you know who might be interested! We are looking forward to seeing everyone there. Cheers, The Speakers' Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here are the slots currently available for half-hour meetings. 9am 9:30am 10am 1:30pm 2pm 2:30pm 3pm I'm additionally looking for anyone who might have interest in having Friday evening dinner with Dr. Chun (3-4 folks). Please reach out to me if you are interested in taking part in any of these meetings/meals ASAP so we can get the schedule made and set in stone! ? Cheers, Katie [The Ohio State University] Katie Conner, M.A. PhD Student | Dept of Linguistics Vice President | Council of Graduate Students The Ohio State University 2088 Ohio Union 1739 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210 614 688 3645 Office conner.280 at osu.edu / https://linguistics.osu.edu/people/conner.280 Pronouns: she/hers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conner.280 at buckeyemail.osu.edu Tue Jan 17 11:06:23 2023 From: conner.280 at buckeyemail.osu.edu (Conner, Katie) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:06:23 +0000 Subject: [Somean] Elaine Chun Reading for Friday! Message-ID: Hey there SoMeanies! This week I'll be leading discussion on Elaine Chun's 2013 paper "Ironic blackness as masculine cool: Asian American language and authenticity on YouTube". (It's attached!) Also, tentatively, Dr. Chun will be joining us for this discussion. Looking forward to seeing everyone in person or at the usual zoom link Friday 11-12:30. ? Cheers, Katie [The Ohio State University] Katie Conner, M.A. PhD Student | Dept of Linguistics Vice President | Council of Graduate Students The Ohio State University 2088 Ohio Union 1739 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210 614 688 3645 Office conner.280 at osu.edu / https://linguistics.osu.edu/people/conner.280 Pronouns: she/hers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Chun_2013.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 190293 bytes Desc: Chun_2013.pdf URL: From campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu Thu Jan 19 13:03:24 2023 From: campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu (Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:03:24 +0000 Subject: [Somean] FW: Talk: inguistic Landscape In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: Buckeyelangnet on behalf of Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen via Buckeyelangnet Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 12:55 PM To: Buckeyelangnet at lists.osu.edu Subject: [Buckeyelangnet] Talk: inguistic Landscape Dear BLN community: Please note the following upcoming talk organized by my department (Germanic Languages and Literatures). Best, Carmen Developing multiliteracies in the linguistic landscape Hiram H. Maxim (Emory University) [A bald person in a white shirt Description automatically generated with medium confidence] January 25, 2023 4:00 ? 5:30pm 185 Mendenhall Lab main campus Within the burgeoning field of Linguistic Landscape Studies, there has been growing interest in using the linguistic landscape as a resource for language and literacy education (e.g., Malinowski, Maxim, & Dubreil, 2020). The underlying premise behind this pedagogical approach is that the visible texts of a particular place are ideologically charged and can thus serve as a telling window into the relations between different language communities and the politics of societal multilingualism. To demonstrate the pedagogical possibilities in the linguistic landscape, this presentation reports on three different projects undertaken with undergraduate students to examine the visible and audible texts of local spaces. Two of the projects took place as part of a summer study abroad program in Vienna, Austria and explored, respectively, the commercial role of graffiti and the manifestation of multilingualism in public spaces. The third project focused on multilingual Atlanta, Georgia. Central to each of these projects was an instructional framework that consisted of the four multiliteracies pedagogical principles, Experiencing, Conceptualizing, Analyzing, Applying (Cope & Kalantzis, 2015). Results from each project indicate possibilities for developing students? linguistic, metalinguistic, methodological, intercultural, and affective awareness and abilities. Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2015). The things you do to know: An introduction to the pedagogy of multiliteracies. In B. Cope & M. Kalantzis (Eds.), Pedagogy of multiliteracies: Learning by design (pp. 1?36). Palgrave Macmillan. Malinowski, D., Maxim, H. H., & Dubreil, S. (Eds.). (2020). Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape: Mobilizing Pedagogy in Public Space. Springer International Publishing. [The Ohio State University] Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm Professor Director of Undergraduate German Language Instruction Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 438 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd, Columbus, OH 43210 6142926985 Office taleghani-nikazm.1 at osu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001[53].png Type: image/png Size: 3607 bytes Desc: image001[53].png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 64541 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu Wed Jan 25 11:17:12 2023 From: steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu (Steele, Ariana) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:17:12 +0000 Subject: [Somean] No SoMean this week! Message-ID: Hello folks - There will be no SoMean this week, but we will meet next week at the usual time on Friday 2/3. Details on next week's meeting will be sent in the coming days. Best, Ariana Ariana Steele (they/them) PhD Student Department of Linguistics Ohio State University Academic Website -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu Mon Jan 30 17:46:35 2023 From: steele.870 at buckeyemail.osu.edu (Steele, Ariana) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:46:35 +0000 Subject: [Somean] SoMean reading this week Message-ID: Hello all, This week we will be discussing the role of subversiveness in the social meaning of /s/. Please read the attached article (cited below) in preparation for our discussion. Calder, J., & King, S. (2022). Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 26, 604? 623. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12584 See you this Friday, 11-12:30 CST Zoom link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/94792211951?pwd=MDVMZnpEdUVCS1dVbDN4cTU5L3pGdz09 In person location: Oxley 122 Best, Ariana Ariana Steele (they/them) PhD Student Department of Linguistics Ohio State University Academic Website -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Journal of Sociolinguistics - 2022 - Calder - Whose gendered voices matter Race and gender in the articulation of s in.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 790713 bytes Desc: Journal of Sociolinguistics - 2022 - Calder - Whose gendered voices matter Race and gender in the articulation of s in.pdf URL: