Seminars and Workshops

 

Seminars and Workshops in Semester 1, 2020/2021

REGULAR DEPARTMENT EVENTS

READING GROUPS

Sociolinguistics Reading Group

The Sociolinguistics Reading Group is open to anyone who is interested in sociolinguistics.

The group meets for around one hour every Thursday afternoon at 1pm during term time in the Reading Room (Blk AS5-05-09) unless otherwise stated. The reading group will discuss current research articles from sociolinguistic journals (Language in Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, etc).

For more information, please email Christian Go at christian.go@u.nus.edu.

Thur, 6 Aug 1pm – 2pm	Stance and the construction of authentic celebrity of persona By Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson
Thur, 13 Aug 1pm – 2pm	Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora: The role of place, gender, and identity By Amanda Cole and Bronwen G. Evans
Thur, 20 Aug 1pm – 2pm	Metadiscourse and the management of relationships during online conflict among academics By Natasha Shrikant
Thur, 27 Aug 1pm – 2pm	Not a white girl and speaking English with slang: Negotiating Hmong American identities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA By Rika Ito
Thur, 3 Sept 1pm – 2pm	The social meaning of stylistic variability: Sociophonetic (in)variance in United States presidential candidates’ campaign rallies By Annette D’Onofrio and Amelia Stecker
Thur, 10 Sept 1pm – 2pm	Prestigious language, pigeonholed speakers: Stances towards the ‘native English speaker’ in a multilingual European institution By Veronika Lovrits and Julia de Bres
Thur, 17 Sept 1pm – 2pm	Masculinity, race and national identity: representations of non-Japanese men’s speech in contemporary Japanese novels By Satoko Suzuki
Thur, 24 Sept 1pm – 2pm	Public health messages about COVID-19 prevention in multilingual Taiwan By Chun-Mei Chen
Thur, 1 Oct 1pm – 2pm	The policy and policing of language in schools By Ian Cushing
Thur, 8 Oct 1pm – 2pm	Human sociality in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic: A systemic examination of change in greetings By Lorenza Mondada
Thur, 15 Oct 1pm – 2pm	Doing ‘being interrupted’ in political talk By Marta Baffy
Thur, 22 Oct 1pm – 2pm	Sociolinguistic labor, linguistic climate, and race(ism) on campus: Black college students’ experiences with language at predominantly white institutions By Nicole R. Holliday and Lauren Squires
Thur, 29 Oct 1pm – 2pm	Membership categorization analysis of racism in an online discussion among neighbors By Natasha Shrikant
Thur, 5 Nov 1pm – 2pm	Family Matters: Negotiating Intergenerational Mixed Identities among Eurasian Families in Singapore By Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Kristel Anne F. Acedera, Zarine L. Rocha, and Esther Rootham
Thur, 12 Nov 1pm – 2pm	‘The words has been immigrate’: Chronotopes in context-shaping narrative co-construction about Taiwanese loanwords with Taiwanese Americans By Ping-Hsuan Wang
Thur, 19 Nov 1pm – 2pm	Linguistic entrepreneurship: Common threads and a critical response By Ryuko Kubota
Thur, 26 Nov 1pm – 2pm	COVID-19 memes going viral: On the multiple multimodal voices behind face masks By Marta Dynel
Thur, 3 Dec 1pm – 2pm	Conflicts between World Englishes: Online Metalinguistic Discourse about Singapore Colloquial English By Tsung-Lun Alan Wan and Claire Cowie
Thur, 10 Dec 1pm – 2pm	Increasing interactional accountability in the quantitative analysis of sociolinguistic variation By Mirjam Elizabeth Eiswirth
Thur, 17 Dec 1pm – 2pm	‘Northmen, Southmen, comrades all’? The adoption of discourse like by migrants north and south of the Irish border By Karen P. Corrigan and Chloé Diskin

ENDDOC Reading Group

The ENDDOC (on Endangered Languages & Language Documentation) Reading Group usually meets alternate Mondays during term time at Meeting Room 6, PC Commons, Education Resource Center (ERC) Level 2 University Town (above Starbucks) unless otherwise stated.  All are welcome.  Details:  Enddoc general.