LINGUIST 255L: Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Multiracial Identity in Variation Studies
This course confronts the challenge of investigating linguistic variation among multiracial speakers. Hands-on individual and collaborative projects using the voices of California corpus. Prerequisite: Linguistics 258 or equivalent, no exceptions.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 255N: Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Intertextuality
This seminar-style course surveys foundational work on intertextuality from a variety of fields, as well as modern applications within sociolinguistics. Throughout the quarter, students will apply this theoretical background on intertextuality to independent projects that analyze how the links between texts and conversations shape meaning within discourse.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Hilton, K. (PI)
LINGUIST 256: Language, Gender, and Sexuality
The role of language in constructing gender and sexuality. Historical overview of major theoretical perspectives and debates (difference vs. dominance, identity vs. desire) and discussion of new directions (affect, embodiment, figures of personhood, experimental approaches). Previous coursework in sociolinguistics recommended. Prerequisites: LING 250 and 110 or the equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
LINGUIST 257: Sociophonetics (LINGUIST 157)
The study of phonetic aspects of sociolinguistic variation and the social significance of phonetic variation. Acoustic analysis of vowels, consonants, prosody, and voice quality. Hands-on work on collaborative research project. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways credit. Prerequisite: 105, 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2025
| Units: 1-4
LINGUIST 257L: Interactional Phonetics Research Lab
Sociophonetic, discourse-analytic, and computational approaches to social interaction. Meetings consist of presentations of research, discussions of readings, and collaborative research project work. Prerequisites:
Linguist 250,
Linguist 258, or
Linguist 258A
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 units total)
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 258: Analysis of Variation
The quantitative study of linguistic variability in time, space, and society emphasizing social constraints in variation. Hands-on work with variable data.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Sims, N. (PI)
LINGUIST 258A: Variation and Social Meaning
The social meaning of linguistic variation. Approaches to investigating social meaning, encoding meaning across different levels of language, the structure of meaning and theories of indexicality, the role of meaning in language change.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 259A: Introduction to Contact Linguistics
Language contact occurs when the speakers of two or more languages or varieties come interact with each other. In this introduction to Contact Linguistics, you will learn some of the structural outcomes of contact as they relate to the communities and individuals coming into contact. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor only.
Last offered: Winter 2024
| Units: 4
LINGUIST 259L: CVC Research Lab
Regular meetings of the Contact, Variation, and Change Research Lab. Meetings consist of presentations of research, discussions of readings, and collaborative research project work.
Last offered: Spring 2024
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 units total)
LINGUIST 267: Theory and Method in Linguistic Anthropology (ANTHRO 457A, CSRE 267, EDUC 457)
This course introduces students to central concepts and approaches in linguistic anthropology, with a specific focus on the role of educational institutions, processes, and ideologies in shaping language use and vice versa. Students will learn practical skills for conducting linguistic anthropological fieldwork, including strategies for recording, editing, transcribing, analyzing, and archiving multimodal discourse data. The overarching goal is for students to gain a theoretical and methodological toolkit for examining and understanding how semiotic processes structure and transform sociocultural life.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Rosa, J. (PI)