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This is a seminar-style course for graduate students and advanced undergraduates with a strong background in sociolinguistics. Through readings, discussions, weekly response papers, and short presentations, we will explore the development of major themes and questions in the field of sociolinguistics.

This course will introduce students to ethnographic methods as they have been used in sociolinguistics and adjacent fields (e.g., linguistic anthropology). Students will collectively design a small study, collect data, and begin to analyze this data using a number of methods such as: participant observation; fieldnotes; semi-structured interviews; and grounded theory. Students will also individually develop a larger study by writing a grant proposal that incorporates the methodologies we cover in this course. While this course is taught through a sociolinguistic lens, anyone interested in learning more about ethnographic methods can join.

Sociolinguistic survey methods, conducting interviews, equipment and procedures for making recordings, self recordings, managing data. Topics do not include ethnographic methods. Field assignments required.

Language, as a cultural resource for shaping our identities, is central to the concepts of race and ethnicity. This seminar explores the linguistic construction of race and ethnicity across a wide variety of contexts and communities. We begin with an examination of the concepts of race and ethnicity and what it means to be "doing race," both as scholarship and as part of our everyday lives. Throughout the course, we will take a comparative perspective and highlight how different racial/ethnic formations (Asian, Black, Latino, Native American, White, etc.) participate in similar, yet different, ways of drawing racial and ethnic distinctions. The seminar will draw heavily on scholarship in (linguistic) anthropology, sociolinguistics and education. We will explore how we talk and don't talk about race, how we both position ourselves and are positioned by others, how the way we talk can have real consequences on the trajectory of our lives, and how, despite this, we all participate in maintaining racial and ethnic hierarchies and inequality more generally, particularly in schools.

This methods seminar focuses on developing ethnographic strategies for representing race, ethnicity, and language in writing without reproducing the stereotypes surrounding these categories and practices. In addition to reading various ethnographies, students conduct their own ethnographic research to test out the authors' contrasting approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. The goal is for students to develop a rich ethnographic toolkit that will allow them to effectively represent the (re)production and (trans)formation of racial, ethnic, and linguistic phenomena.

"Sociolinguistics in the Chinese Diaspora" is a graduate seminar that explores the intersection of language, culture, and identity among Chinese communities spread across different parts of the world, with a specific emphasis on the North American Diaspora. The course covers a range of topics, including bilingualism, code-switching, language variation, and language ideologies within the Chinese diaspora. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 1, LINGUIST 150, LINGUIST 105/205A, or permission of instructor

(Formerly EDUC 487 and CSRE 387). This seminar gives students an overview of scholarly communication in education in areas related to the BAD Lab. In the first half, we focus on publication including: publishing journal articles and books. We also examine multimedia communication, including: giving research talks, job talks, and interviews. In the second half of the course, we focus on reviewing, editing, and the politics and economics of publishing in education and related areas.

This course explores linguistic structure in the contexts of everyday social interaction. Through readings and hands-on data analysis, students will learn to address the following big questions: How are everyday social interactions structured, and why is this structure typically invisible to us? How do social goals, relationships, and identities influence the linguistic structure of interactions?

This course focuses on the concept of style in sociolinguistics. We will survey a variety of classic approaches to stylistic analysis, examine more recent takes on these approaches, and become familiar with modern debates about style. Students will be expected to write either a proposal for or short report on an original research project over the course of the term. Prerequisites: LINGUIST 250, 258, 255F, 257, or 234.