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I'm convening a reading group on the topic of<span> </span><i>Ethnicity and linguistic variation.<span> </span></i>It'll meet weekly on Thursdays, 10:30 - 11:30 AM in the Socio Lab. Below is a short description of the reading group's goals, followed by some
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<b>Description</b></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">‘Ethnicity’ is a flexible social category that can encompass nationality, cultural heritage, religious affiliation,
clan and much more, as well as more traditional definitions, such as race. ‘Linguistic variation’ means probabilistic distribution of semantically- and/or functionally-equivalent linguistic variants from all modules of human grammar (e.g. phonetics, syntax,
lexicon), all language modalities (e.g. speech, text, gesture, sign) and to the extent possible, many different languages. This group will mainly take a quantitative variationist perspective on ethnolinguistic variation, but will intentionally incorporate
perspectives from more qualitative paradigms and from adjacent disciplines such as linguistic anthropology and sociology of language.</span></p>
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<li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Get a broad overview of how ‘ethnicity’ has been operationalized in social science and in sociolinguistics since the mid-20</span><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">th</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span> </span>century,
in the US and beyond.</span></font></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Be familiar with landmark studies of ethnicity in variationist sociolinguistics.</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Gain some exposure to the most recent sociolinguistic research on ethnolinguistic variation.</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Understand how sociolinguistic studies of ethnicity connect to broader social and political movements, especially with regard to social justice.</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Appreciate the intersectional nature of ethnicity i.e. how it is complicated by gender, social class and other social characteristics.</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Get a sense of how these papers link to each other, as well as to other scholarship that you know.</span></li></ul>
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<b>Expectations</b></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">Show up as often as you can, read everything (~1 paper/week) and participate verbally and/or in an online discussion. Optionally: Suggest a paper for us to read, and present a summary of it. </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">I'd like to keep the group small, so please only come if you're genuinely interested and committed.</span><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Thursday, Jan 16th, B-411 Wells Hall, 10:30 - 11:30 AM</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b>To do before the meeting (see D2L)</b></div>
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<li>Read the entries on<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><i><span style="margin: 0px">ethnicity</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span></i><span style="margin: 0px">and<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><i>race<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></i><span style="margin: 0px">in
the<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><i>Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology.<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></i><span style="margin: 0px">PDFS on D2L in the \General folder. If you have time, read related entries on e.g.<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><i>ethnic
enclaves, ethnic groups, race (definitions of), ethnocentrism. </i></li></ol>
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<div style="margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Optional extras on D2L in the same folder: </div>
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<li>Paul Spickard's annotated bibliography of sociology scholarship on<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">ethnicity</span>. (Terse, biting and occasionally quite funny). Worth skimming through, and noting anything you'd like to explore
further, either this semester or in the future.</li><li>Vally Lytra's chapter on language and<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">ethnicity</span>, from the 2016<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><i>Routledge Handbook of Language & Identity</i>.<br>
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