<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear Friends of Sociolinguistics,</span></div> <div> <div> <div class="WordSection1"> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Dr. Charlotte Vaughn (University of Oregon) will be giving a research presentation titled "New directions for the study of perception in sociolinguistics" on Monday, February 3rd, from 12:00-1:30pm in B-243 Wells Hall. An abstract is below. We hope to see many of you there.</span><br> <br> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Suzanne Wagner</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">on behalf of the Sociolinguistics search committee</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin-bottom:12.0pt"> <br> <span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#201F1E; background:white">———</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;text-align:center"> <b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Dr. Charlotte Vaughn</span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;text-align:center"> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">University of Oregon</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;text-align:center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;text-align:center"> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">12:00 - 1:30pm, B-243 Wells Hall</span></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </p> <p align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;text-align:center"> <b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">New directions for the study of perception in sociolinguistics</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Since its beginnings, the field of sociolinguistics has examined listeners’ perceptions as well as speakers’ productions. However, the questions tackled in sociolinguistic perception research have remained relatively siloed and self-contained, especially in comparison to the broad range of work on production. In this talk, I suggest that perception’s full ramifications for sociolinguistic theory are only beginning to be understood. I argue that studying listeners can provide insight into a wide range of key sociolinguistic topics, from core aspects of variables to broader societal applications. I also demonstrate how research into sociolinguistic perception directly interfaces with other subfields that explore the perception of variation. To do this, I present results from several experimental studies that exemplify different areas of my current research program, including one that explores the social meanings of adjective intensifiers (e.g., very, really), and another that probes listener knowledge of probabilistic conditioning constraints of the English sociolinguistic variable (ING). I consider how the findings from these studies can speak to traditional sociolinguistic questions not often addressed by work in perception, and how they can be used to raise new questions. I also discuss how such work can build toward broader applications, such as combatting linguistic prejudice. In bringing new approaches and new questions to sociolinguistic perception studies, I aim to mainstream the role of the listener within sociolinguistics, and to better connect sociolinguistics with other areas of linguistic inquiry.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </p> </div> <div id="Signature"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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