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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site British Bites TREK 1 week, 6 days ago
Welcome to the British Bites Trek!
We’ll use this blog to share our experiences as we travel (and eat) our way through London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. For each food […]
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 1 month ago
Tuesday, May 1: Rough draft due!
Please bring 2 copies of your “shitty first draft” of your Language Preservation project to class.Handouts: Language Preservation Project and Language Preservation Project Gr […]
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 2 months ago
Tuesday, April 17th: Reading due: Hairston, “Not All Errors Are Created Equal”: Link
Work due: Idea for what you want to learn about for the Grammar Police assignment
Thursday, April 19th: Work due: R […]
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 3 months ago
Possible Midterm Questions: Possible Questions
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 3 months ago
Monday, Feb 26: Essay question idea due — email submission to abrazeau@wooster.edu
Tuesday, Feb 27: Read one style guide (either APA or Chicago) and skim the other guide.
Chicago: Chicago Style […]
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 3 months ago
Speech Act Basic Report
Speech Act in Social Settings
Speech when 5 to 7 people present
Speech when distribution mostly women
Speech when distribution mostly women
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 3 months ago
Basic Report Interruptions
Interruptions in Groups 5 or more
Interruptions in groups less than 5
Interruptions in roughly equal gender distribution
Interruptions when mostly women
Interruptions in Social Groups
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 4 months ago
Tuesday, Feb 20: Reading due: Chapter 6 of Language, Society, and Power
Research due: Conduct an informal interview with a parent, grandparent, or “older” adult with whom you feel comfortable. Ask them about […]
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 4 months ago
Writing Due: Your Accents, Identity, and Stereotype project is due this week: Accents, Identity, and Stereotype
You can either turn in your project to the front desk of the Writing Center by 3pm on Tuesday. […]
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 4 months ago
Emilee McCubbins, Marcel Elkouri, Hannah Sullivan, Gerald Dryden
Disney’s Treatment of Accent
In Zootopia, there is typically just stereotypical, general American accents reminiscent of the northeastern U […]
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Alicia Brazeau wrote a new post on the site The Politics of Language 7 years, 5 months ago
Here is the link to the dialect survey discussed in the New York Times (and connected to the Harvard Dialect Survey): link