Alicia Brazeau

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 […]

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 […]

Possible Midterm Questions: Possible Questions

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Here is the link to the dialect survey discussed in the New York Times (and connected to the Harvard Dialect Survey): link