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SUMMER SCHOOL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, GLASGOW 2011 INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES
SUMMER SCHOOL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, GLASGOW 2011
INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES
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Welcome to the Summer School of Sociolinguistics 3 at University of Glasgow! We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Glasgow this July. The following pack has been designed to help your preparations for the school and give you some pointers to help you find your way in Glasgow when you arrive. The University Campus, Halls and the Youth Hostel are all situated in Glasgow’s West End. It is easily reached from the city centre using the SPT Subway (either Hillhead or Kelvinbridge stops). Welcome drinks will be hosted from 7-‐9pm on Sunday 3rd July at Dram! Located at 232-‐246 Woodlands Road, shown as ‘A’ on the map below. This will give us all a chance to get to know each other before the school begins on Monday it will also be an opportunity to ask the organisers any questions you have.
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The seminars and workshops will take place in Room 204 of the Sir Alexander Stone Building at 16 University Gardens. This is shown as D5 on the map below (for a better resolution please see the attached campus map).
Days will start promptly with the plenary sessions at 9.30. Please see below for an overview of the week including the day and theme that you will be presenting in. We are really pleased to have so many speakers confirmed so we kindly ask you to make sure that your presentation is no longer then 15 minutes. This is to ensure that there is time for questions and all presenters get an equal opportunity to speak.
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Schedule There have been a number of minor changes in the schedule that was previously emailed out. Please read over the updated overview to check the day of your presentation. SSS III School Overview 9.30 – 10.30 10.30
11.00 11.00 – 1.00 1.00 – 2.00 2.00 – 3.00 3.00
3.30 3.30 – 4.30 Evening
Sunday Welcome drinks reception Dram! (7.00 – 9.00)
Monday Dr Devyani Sharma
Plenary: Ethnicity, Contact and Change
Workshop
Student presentations: G. Howley, E. Carrie, S. Kirkham
Student presentations L. Baxter, A. Szakay
Tuesday Dr Jane Stuart-‐Smith
Plenary: Language and the Media
Workshop
Student presentations: R. Stamp, H. West, N. Roberts
Student presentations S. Holmes, C. Smith-‐Christmas
Wednesday Dr Daniel Johnson
Plenary: Statistical Analysis of Speech Data
Workshop
Poster session J, Fereidoni, G, Reynolds, C, Zhao , C, Christiano
Careers session: Dr Rob Lawson
Thursday Dr Lauren Hall-‐Lew
Plenary: Sociophonetics and Indexicality
Workshop
Student presentations: D. Lamy, C. Nance, J. Lonergan
Student presentations A. Tseung, G. Leung
Friday Dr Erez Levon
Plenary: Perception and Identities in Interaction
Workshop
Student presentations: I. Dimova, J. Price, E. Osterhaus
Student presentations L. Fu, H. Koczogh
End of school dinner *
*Unfortunately students will have to cover the cost of their own end of school dinner. We will aim to keep this cost as low as possible (hopefully no more than £20).
Student presentations: Ethnicity, Contact and Change
Gerry Howley [email protected]
University of Salford, UK
The acquisition of the Manchester dialect by adolescent non-‐native speakers of English
Erin Carrie ec267@st-‐andrews.ac.uk St Andrews, UK Varieties of English what foreign learners believe, know and practise
Sam Kirkham [email protected] University of Sheffield, UK Ethnicity and stop realisation in Sheffield English
Laura Baxter [email protected] York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
National identity and sound change
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Anita Szakay [email protected] University of British Columbia / NZILBB, Canada
Cross language socio-‐indexicality
Levelling and Language Change
Rosemary Stamp [email protected] University College London, UK
Lexical variation and change in British Sign Language (BSL): evidence for dialect levelling
Nick Roberts [email protected]
Newcastle University, UK A Variationist Study of Future Temporal Reference in Hexagonal French
Helen Faye West [email protected] Lancaster University, UK
A town between two dialects: accent levelling, psycho-‐social orientation and identity in Merseyside, UK
Sophie Holmes [email protected] University of Glasgow, UK Dialect levelling and the spread of supralocal features
Cassie Smith-‐Christmas
University of Glasgow, UK Code-‐switching in Gaelic
Posters
Javid Fereidoni [email protected] Université Paris Ouest, France
A sociolinguistic study of multilingualism: Kurdish as an Iranian Language
Grace Reynolds [email protected] University of Virginia, USA
Monophthongisation of [ai] by rural Virginia store employees
Chunyao Zhao [email protected] University of Huddersfield, UK
A contrastive study of Chinese and British stereotypes in cross-‐cultural interaction
Caio César Christiano [email protected]
Université de Poitiers, France
Perceptions of European and Brazilian Portuguese speakers among French undergraduates
Sociophonetics and Indexicality
Delano Lamy [email protected] University of Florida, USA
A variationist account of plosives in a contact situation: Spanish and creole English in Panama City
Glenda-‐Alicia Leung [email protected] Albert-‐Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany
Approaching the acrolect: the expanding prestige of mesolectal phonetic variant [a] in Trinidadian English
Claire Nance [email protected]
University of Glasgow, UK Phonetic variation in Scottish Gaelic vowels
John Lonergan [email protected]
University College Dublin, Ireland
Dublin English: an acoustic study
Amelia Tseng [email protected]
Georgetown University, USA
TRAP vowel raising and backing: Lationos in the DC metropolitan area
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Perception and Identities in Interaction
Irena Dimova [email protected] Sofia University, Bulgaria Emotions in identity building: indexing socio-‐cultural meanings in interaction
Helga Koczogh [email protected] University of Debrecen, Hungary
"Well I don't think that's true" vs "that's bullshit": Gender differences in the use of disagreement strategies
Jean Price [email protected] Newcastle University, UK Endangered languages and the museum: an area of support, revitalisatioon and maintenance
Ellen Osterhaus [email protected] Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Gender branding identity construction and hygiene a sociolinguistic perspective
Lingyu Fu [email protected] Peking University, China
A study on the relationship between apologizing strategy and gender differences in Chinese college students
Readings and preparation There are a number of required and recommended readings for each day. The majority of these are available to download from our webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/englishlanguage/gulp/events/sociolinguisticssummerschool2011/ Below is an overview with specific instructions from the speakers. We realise that there is a great deal to get through, this is why the secondary readings are optional. Students are advised to use their own initiative on deciding which days/themes/readings they wish to explore and study in greater depth. Monday Ethnicity, Contact and Change led by Dr Devyani Sharma This workshop will examine the role of ethnicity in language change. Due to time limitations, we will restrict our attention to the impact of ethnic identity and inter-‐ethnic contact on dialect variation and change in English, and will focus on a few recent studies rather than a historical overview. The workshop will start with macro/variationist approaches and move towards micro/indexicality themes; this is broadly reflected in the ordering of the four assigned readings. We will discuss issues of theory and method using the assigned readings as well as material provided during the workshop (some of this additional material will be from the optional readings listed below).
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Required readings: Hoffman, Michol, and James Walker. 2010. Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English. Language Variation and Change 22: 37-‐67 Sharma, Devyani, and Lavanya Sankaran. Forthcoming. Cognitive and social forces in dialect shift: Gradual change in British Asian speech. Language Variation and Change. Fox, Sue, Arfaan Khan, Eivind Torgersen. Forthcoming. The emergence and diffusion of Multicultural English. In F. Kern and M. Setling (eds.) Ethnic Styles. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Eckert, Penny. 2008. Where do ethnolects stop? International Journal of Bilingualism 12: 25-‐42. Further readings (optional): Benor, Sarah. 2010. Ethnolinguistic repertoire: Shifting the analytic focus in language and ethnicity. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14 (2): 159-‐184. Cheshire, Jenny, Sue Fox, Paul Kerswill, and Eivind Torgersen. 2011. Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15 (2): 151-‐196. Fought, Carmen. 2002. Ethnicity. In J. Chambers, P. Trudgill, and N. Schilling-‐Estes (eds.) The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. Newman, Michael. 2010. Focusing, implicational scaling, and the dialect status of New York Latino English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14 (2): 207-‐240. Sharma, Devyani. Forthcoming (2010). Style repertoire and social change in British Asian English. In Journal of Sociolinguistics. Torgersen, E. Forthcoming. A perceptual study of ethnicity and geographical location in London and Birmingham. In P. Stoeckle, S. Hansen, T. Streck and C. Schwartz (eds.) Raumkonzepte. Freiburg: FRIAS.
Tuesday Language and the Media led by Dr Jane Stuart-‐Smith These fall into three groups, the first looks at different sociolinguistic perspectives on the potential impact of the media on language, the second concentrates on a specific variationist study into the influence of the media on phonological variation and change, which was carried out in Glasgow, and the third provides an opportunity to look at the idea of media impact from mass communications, media studies, and social psychology. 1. Perspectives on media influence on language Variationist viewpoint:
Chambers, J. (1998), ‘TV makes people sound the same’, in L. Bauer and P. Trudgill (eds), Language Myths, New York: Penguin, 123-‐31
Interactional sociolinguistic viewpoint: Androutsopoulos, J. (2001), ‘From the streets to the screens and back again: On the mediated diffusion of ethnolectal patterns in contemporary German’, Series A: General and Theoretical Papers, Essen: University of Essen
and ideology:
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Coupland, N. (2009), ‘Dialects, standards and social change’, In M. Maegaard, F. Gregersen, P. Quist and J. N. Jorgensen (eds), Language attitudes, standardization and language change, Novus Forlag: Oslo, 27-‐49 (especially pages 40-‐49)
2. The Glasgow media project Background:
Stuart-‐Smith, J., Timmins, C. and Tweedie, F. (2007), ‘”Talkin’ Jockney?”: Accent change in Glaswegian’, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 11, 221-‐61.
The project and short summary of its findings: Stuart-‐Smith, J. (forthcoming 2011), ‘English and the Media: Television’, in A. Berg and L. Brinton (eds), Handbuecher zu Sprach-‐ und Kommunikationswissenschaft: Historical Linguistics of English, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
3. Media influence in general Quantitative:
Bushman, B. and Huesmann, L. (2001), ‘Effects of televised violence on aggression’, in D. Singer and J. Singers (eds), Handbook of Children and the Media, Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 223-‐54
Qualitative: Philo, G. (1999), ‘Children and film/video/TV violence’, in G. Philo (ed.), Message received: Glasgow Media Group research 1993-‐1998, London: Longman
Social psychology and priming: Bargh, J. A., Chen, M., & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 230-‐244.
Wednesday Statistical Analysis of Speech Data led by Dr Daniel Johnson Below are recommended readings and lecture slides on three topics:
1. Graphing Cleveland, W.S. (1994) The Elements of Graphing Data, AT&T, USA
2. Regression
http://scc.stat.ucla.edu/page_attachments/0000/0188/reg_R_1_09S_slides.pdf http://scc.stat.ucla.edu/page_attachments/0000/0140/reg_2.pdf
3. Mixed models Johnson, D. (2009) Getting off the GoldVarb Standard: Introducing Rbrul for Mixed-‐Effects Variable Rule Analysis, Language and Linguistics Compass 3/1 (2009): 359–383
Johnson, D. (forthcoming) Progress in regression: why sociolinguistic data calls for mixed-‐effects models
Thursday Sociophonetics and Indexicality led by Dr Lauren Hall-‐Lew Required: 1. Eckert, Penelope. 2008. Variation and the indexical field. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 12(4): 453-‐476.
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2. Foulkes, Paul, James M. Scobbie, & Dominic Watt. 2010. Sociophonetics (Chapter 19). in William J. Hardcastle, John Laver, & Fiona Gibbon (eds.) Handbook of Phonetic Sciences (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. pp. 703-‐754
3. Johnstone, Barbara & Scott F. Kiesling. 2008. Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of /aw/-‐monophthongization in Pittsburgh. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12(1): 5-‐33.
4. Laver, John. 1968. Voice Quality and Indexical Information. International Journal of Language Communication Disorders, 3(1): 43-‐54.
5. Moore, Emma & Robert Podesva. 2009. Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions. Language in Society, 38: 447–485.
Recommended: Theoretical background papers:
1. Ochs, Elinor 1991. Indexing gender. In Alessandro Duranti & Charles Goodwin (eds). Rethinking Context. Cambridge: CUP. 335-‐358.
2. Silverstein, Michael. 2003. Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life. Language & Communication, 23: 193-‐229.
Recent useful commentaries & overviews:
1. Eckert, Penelope and Robert J. Podesva. 2011. Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Toward a Symbiosis of Sociolinguistics and Laboratory Phonology. American Speech, 86(1): 6-‐13.
2. Laver, John. 2003. Three semiotic layers of spoken communication. Journal of Phonetics, 31: 413-‐415. Munson, Benjamin. 2010. Levels of Phonological Abstraction and Knowledge of Socially Motivated Speech-‐Sound Variation: A Review, a Proposal, and a Commentary on the Papers by Clopper, Pierrehumbert, and Tamati; Drager; Foulkes; Mack; and Smith, Hall, and Munson. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 1: 157–177.
Friday Perception and Identities in Interaction led by Dr Erez Levon I’m using these readings to provide some background on theoretical issues that will underpin the plenary and the workshop (primarily in the areas of exemplar theory, intersectionality theory and implicit cognition theory). Required: 1) Foulkes, Paul (2010). Exploring social-‐indexical knowledge: A long past but a short history. Journal of Laboratory Phonology 1: 5-‐39.
2) Greenwald, Anthony & Mahzarin Banaji (1995). Implicit social cognition: Attitudes, self-‐esteem and stereotypes. Psychological Review 102: 4-‐27.
3) Levon, Erez (2011). Teasing apart to bring together: Gender and sexuality in variationist research. American Speech 86: 69-‐84.
4) McCall, Leslie (2005). The complexity of intersectionality. Signs 30: 1771-‐1800.
Recommended: 1) Drager, Katie (2010). Sociophonetic variation in speech perception. Language and Linguistic Compass 4: 473-‐80.
*This article provides a very general and accessible overview of sociophonetic perception research for those who may not have much experience with this area of research*
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2) Crenshaw, Kimberlé (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black Feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989: 139-‐68.
*This is the foundational text for intersectionality theory. It’s not necessary to read this in order to understand what the theory has become, but could be useful for those with an interest in the practical origins of the framework.*
3) Campbell-‐Kibler, Kathryn (2011). Intersecting variables and perceived sexual orientation in men. American Speech 86: 52-‐68
