[Somean] Winter course: Seminar on sociolinguistic indexicality

[Kathryn Campbell-Kibler]

Seminar on sociolinguistic indexicality
Linguistics 861
MW 1:30-3:18

Approaches to sociolinguistic variation that privilege social meaning use 
as a key construct the indexical relationship, through which linguistic 
forms index, or point to, social structures like identities, stances and 
speech acts.  This course will explore the sociolinguistic indexical 
relationship from a range of perspectives, drawing on work in 
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, psycholinguistics and social 
cognition. We will engage with the question of how indexical relationships 
are formed and/or changed over time, how they are used and received in 
interaction and what cognitive processes allow individuals to learn, 
produce and comprehend indexically meaningful forms.