Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 14 (2022)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by early-career scholars from the 2022 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Lily Adzigian: A Look at Cannabis Branding Language in Michigan
Gavin Baltes: Satanic Language: A Question About The Satanic Temple
John Cardinal: Defense, Memory, and Land: Linguistic Analysis of the Destruction of Fort Shelby
Casey Carter: Blueberries, Apes, and Golf Balls: Creation and Use of Language in Destiny 2
Julia DiLaura: Acknowledging the Act: Analyzing Indigenous Land Acknowledgements Through the Lens of Speech Act Theory and Performativity
Michael Drasher: Psychedelic Therapies: Elucidating Deception with Discourse Analysis of Big Pharma
Santeiu Griffin: Where They Do Dat At?: Black Perceptions of African American Vernacular English
Patience Johnson-Williams: Breaking Linguistic Chains: The Dangers of Pathologizing Language in Schizophrenia
Hope Kujawa: “Hello and Welcome Back to Hell”: Linguistic Performances of Authenticity by Left-Wing YouTube Influencers
Bryan Lamorena: CHamoru Language and Identity in the United States Mainland
Alexis Martin: Ethical Considerations of Hedging and Expressions of Certainty in the Integrative Treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Day O’Neal: Why can’t I say ‘fork?’: Taboos and word substitutions in social media settings
Victoria Phillips: Korean Terms of Address and Social Cognition
Alexa C. Maximiliane Ruhfass: An Ethnopoetic Examination: Franz von Kobell`s Mid-19th-Century Bavarian and High German Poems
Maria Santine: The Revitalization and Modernization of Anishinaabemowin
Alicia Shiff: The Online Debate Between American Muscle Car Culture and Japanese Car Culture in the Motor City
Marissa Torey: Expected Etiquette for Drinking Rituals in China: Natives vs. Foreigners
A.G. Woody: To Weed or Not to Weed, that is the Question Asked About Dandelions and Clovers by Home Gardeners on Reddit
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 13 (2021)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by early-career scholars from the 2021 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Noelle Belanger: Lavender Linguistics and the Discourse in Online Sapphic Communities
Lily Conquest: Connecting Cultures: Medical Interpreter Ideology and Role Construction
Matthew Defauw: Fast-food Billboard Advertisements: A Semiotic Linguistic Approach to Syntax
Jenna Huntley: Anatomical Jargon: Modest or Arrogant?
Antione Martin: Interpretations of Heart Disease: “The Socialization of Providers”
Raveena Mata: The Versatility of Water: Metaphor and Imagery in Sikh Scripture
Mariah McClendon-Smith: Sassy, Moody, Nasty: The Performance of Sexuality through Language by Black Women in Hip-Hop
Nicole Mullins: “You’re not my Real Mom!” Biological Vs. Socially Constructed Motherhood: A Discursive Analysis of Childless Stepmother Blogs on Identity
Virginia Nastase: United States Abortion Discourse: An Examination of Problematic Terms
Jocie Osika: Commodification of Teen Girls and the Negotiation of Their Fates through Heart Gallery Descriptions
Sydney Queen: Truth and Telepathy: The Optics of Lying in Ursula K. Le Guin’s City of Illusions
Gavin Redding: Words of Faith: The Missionary Linguistic Practices of Frederic Baraga and Sela G. Wright
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 11 ( 2019)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2019 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next two weeks, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Kate Blatchford: Redefining Urban Space: Language in the City Beautiful Movement
Dina Charara: Islamophobic Discourse Beneath the Façade of Liberalism and Atheism
Amanda Diaz: To stage manage or not to stage manage
Sam M: Comparing nineteenth century literature portrayals of AAVE by black and white authors
Justin Mazzola: A Ghost of a Tale: Discerning Evidentiality Among Ghost Narratives on Reddit
Shannon Mckeown: Fake News, Crooked Hillary, and Bad People: A Linguistic Analysis of Donald Trump’s Twitter Insults
Jahnavi Narkar: The Promise of Fairness: A Linguistic Analysis of Skin Lightening Advertisements in India
Jennifer Reed: Linguistic Landscape of Japanese in Novi
Zachariah Shorufi: The linguistic legacy of British colonization in Iraq
Tabitha Trembley: The Dichotomy of Gender in Relation to Honor as Shown in the Language of Irish Fairy Tales and Folktales Printed After 1800
Michael T. Vollbach: Historical Influences on the Odawa Language
Li Zhang: Navigating internet censorship in China
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 10 (2018)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2018 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next two weeks, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Yen-ting Chang: “Found My Best Self”: Women’s Fitness and Body Transformation Discourse
Asa Choate: French Naming Practice of Assimilating English-based Internet Terminology
Grace Fusani: Languages in Dreams: A Look into the Influencers of Bilinguals & L2 Learners in the Dreamworld
Ashley Johnson: Language, gender, and uncertainty in writing about sex identification in Maya bioarchaeology
Robert McCallum: Tensions, Power and Words: The Use of Authoritative Brand Identity Language on Ad Agency Websites
Andrew McKinney: Sorrow, shame, and lament in Irish folk lyrics
Kelsey McKoy: The Interpretation of African American Vernacular English in Museums
Craig Meiners: Metaphors in Branding and Design of Professional Basketball Players’ Shoes
Carly Slank: Dogespeak: a Heckin Good Descriptive and Contextual Analysis
Samantha Spolarich: The magical discourse of Harry Potter: how spells came to be
Jami Van Alstine: Voice in postcards related to the woman’s suffrage movement in the United States in the early 20th century
Anna Zabicka: “Rigvir, Anyone?”: A Discourse Analysis Of Oncolytic Virotherapy Medication Websites
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 10 (2018)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2018 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next two weeks, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Yen-ting Chang: “Found My Best Self”: Women’s Fitness and Body Transformation Discourse
Asa Choate: French Naming Practice of Assimilating English-based Internet Terminology
Grace Fusani: Languages in Dreams: A Look into the Influencers of Bilinguals & L2 Learners in the Dreamworld
Ashley Johnson: Language, gender, and uncertainty in writing about sex identification in Maya bioarchaeology
Robert McCallum: Tensions, Power and Words: The Use of Authoritative Brand Identity Language on Ad Agency Websites
Andrew McKinney: Sorrow, shame, and lament in Irish folk lyrics
Kelsey McKoy: The Interpretation of African American Vernacular English in Museums
Craig Meiners: Metaphors in Branding and Design of Professional Basketball Players’ Shoes
Carly Slank: Dogespeak: a Heckin Good Descriptive and Contextual Analysis
Samantha Spolarich: The magical discourse of Harry Potter: how spells came to be
Jami Van Alstine: Voice in postcards related to the woman’s suffrage movement in the United States in the early 20th century
Anna Zabicka: “Rigvir, Anyone?”: A Discourse Analysis Of Oncolytic Virotherapy Medication Websites
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 9 (2017)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2017 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Over the next few weeks, some students will be posting links to PDF versions of their final papers below their abstracts. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next two weeks, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
John Anderson: Symbolic Meanings of the “Rune Poems”
Bridget Bennane: A Woman Ran for President: A Political and Gender Discourse Analysis on Hillary Clinton
Kaitlin Carter: Ubermess: Corporate Social Responsibility Responses as a Dialogue through Social Media
Lynn Charara: Portraits of The Orange Man
Rebecca Cornejo: Identity at 70 MPH: The crafting, meaning, and importance of personalized license plates
Nadine Duchaine: Native American Code Talkers: Life before the Code
Katilyn Gerstner: Differences in opportunity teaching styles between multiparous and uniparous chimpanzee mothers suggest that experienced mothers are better teachers
Michael Henson: Critical Discourse Analysis of Media: A Systematic Approach to Analyzing Child Welfare Representation in the Media
Miriam Jacobs: Metaphors of Poverty
Kelsey Jorgensen: Displaying the Dead: Assessing Agency Through Museum Linguistic Practices
Travis Kruso: Updating the Fashion System? Using Language to Create and Maintain Authenticity in the Online Avant Garde
Colleen Linn: Legitimatizing the right to water in Michigan’s post-industrial cities
Emily K. Lock: Gettin’ Fit to Push a Bit: Medical advice about exercise during pregnancy (1900-present)
Stacy F. Markel: Power Play: gender, power, and language of nurses and doctors
Kailey McAlpin: Analyzing Detroit’s Racialized Public Discourse of Urban Renewal through Metaphor
Luke Pickrahn: The language of extreme metal
Terri Renaud: Language Construction and Cultural Representation in Fantasy Video Games
Elizabeth Riedman: The discourse of Detroit: A critical look into the use of language within Detroit documentaries
Rebecca Sawyer: Beisbol and Tostones: Constructing Narratives of Puerto Rican Identity in Secondary Level, First Year Spanish Textbooks
Maria Schell: Discipline or Domestic Violence: Distinctions in discourse about interpersonal violence
Jasmine Walker: Lexical and Performative Cues for the Provocation of an Altered State of Consciousness in the American Evangelical Church
Hannelore Willeck: 18th Century Advertising Language and the Shift from British Colony to New Nation
Josh Wolford: Anishinaabe Toponyms in Michigan: A History of Colonized Folk Etymology and Anishinaabe Cultural Renaissance
Athena Zissis: Memories of Unrest: Placing the Detroit 1967 Project within the Riot vs. Rebellion Debate
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 8 (2016)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2016 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Over the next few weeks, some students will be posting links to PDF versions of their final papers below their abstracts. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next week, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Kayla Hurd:Trepanning Medical Latin: The language barrier between doctor and patient
Melissa Moore: Kamen Rider vs. Fansubbing
Matthew Ashford: Who Carries the Water? An Analysis of Online Disputation Regarding the Flint Water Crisis
Amber Golembiewski: Negative and Positive Comment Discourse Analysis on a Popular Pornography Website
Allison M. Hebel: Hee-Hees, Giggles, and Titters, Oh My! English Lexical Laughter Grades, Associations, and Histories
Caitlin M. Cassady: Language Ideology in Discourses on Physician Assisted Dying: Untangling Threads of Discord in the Case of Brittany Maynard
Adelaide Gillham: Social Invisibility and Dehumanization of Asexuals and Aromantics through Language Policing
Kyle Dunn: Race, Agency, Blame and Gender: Narratives on Police use of Force in a South Carolina High School
Daniel Mora Argüelles: (Sad Beep): Eliciting Meaning from the Interactions between Pragmatics and Non-Linguistic Utterances
Kathleen M. Hanlon-Lundberg: Delivering Agency: Online Birth Stories in the US
Beau Kromberg: My Partner and I: Commitment Terminology within Evolving Heteronormative Linguistic Contexts
Natasha Modi: Examining the Use of Language in Promoting Hindu Patriarchy by Using Vedic Texts
Aaron Taylor: ‘I know words…I have the best words’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Face-saving Tactics
Mallory Moore: A Pirate’s Life for Me: A Comprehensive Analysis of What it Means to “Talk Like a Pirate”
Kristy Estabalaya: Tagalog-English Codeswitching in Scripted Television Shows
Gavin Swantick: Latin, Metalinguistics, and the Society of St. Pius X
Andrew Eppens-Gross: Pass the Gaudy Dutchie to the German Side: An Examination of an Early Language Community in Nineteenth Century Detroit
Crystal Mitchell: Echolalia within Children with Autism
Ashlee Jed:Linguistic Norms and Expectations in Gyms with Different Social Spaces
D. Castagna: The Commoditization of Values in the Marketplace: Linguistics Utilized in Marketing Discourse
Debbie Leggett: Speaking Craft Beverage: Building Power, Status, and Economy with Linguistic Capital in the Craft Beverage World
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 7 (2015)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2015 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Over the next few weeks, some students will be posting links to PDF versions of their final papers below their abstracts. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next week, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Kat Slocum: Greensky Hill Native American Methodist Church: the role of language in group identity
Nicole Lopinski:‘The Hobbit’: An Analysis of Popular Media Portrayal of Homo floresiensis
Kimberly Oliver: Voodoo in Popular Music: Linguistic Semantics’ Influence on Identity and Stereotype Formation
Laura Cunningham: #NotAllMen and the Blame Game: A critical discourse analysis of a Twitter hashtag
Krist Bollano: Word Frequency and Online Dating: Self Promotion Through a Text-Based Medium
Adam Bender: Is Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) Appropriate for Adapting Quechua to Modern Society?
Dovie Jenkins: Logically Speaking: Loglan, Lojban and the Search for a Logical Language
Erika Carrillo: Hoarding and the Material Accumulation of Time
Grace Pappalardo: Hausa Kinship Terminologies: Insights Into Culture and Cognition
Jaroslava Maria Pallas: From Little Acorns Big Oaks Grow: Exploring the nature metaphor in anarchist discourse
Kaitlin Scharra: Menstrual Authority: A Lexical Semantic Evaluation of Kotex’s First 20 Years
Sarah Beste: Pornography of Ruin: The Metaphor of Sensuality in Ruination as It Applies to Detroit
Mark Jazayeri: Arriving at a Cultural Model of Artificial Intelligence
Glenda Wyatt-Franklin: In Front of the White People: Black Speech, White Perceptions, and the Effects on African American Health
Samantha Malette: “Emerald Isle of the Caribbean”: Montserrat’s “Brogue” Examined
Kayla Niner: Don’t Stay Here!: An Analysis of Words Used to Describe One-Star Class Hotels
Madeleine Seidel: Retelling Snow White: The Tale and its Reflection of Western Culture
Michelle Layton: Creating an Image of Purity Through the Use of Metaphor: The Case of Pure Michigan
Theia Easley: Language of Inclusivity: Womanist Theological Thought in Addressing Issues of Social Injustice
Eduardo Piqueiras: Countering an Equitable Multilingualism with an EU English Variant: The Role of Language Policies and Translators in the European Union
Elizabeth Bonora: Identity & Ink: An Interpretation of Kanji Tattoos on English-Speaking Bodies
Wendy Hill: The language of the law: linguistic discord in the courtroom
Livija G. Marina: Serbian Heritage Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Identity of the ‘Voice’ from a Serbian Orthodox Church in Michigan
Andrés Romero: Testimonios of Violence: A Discourse Analysis of Colombian Demobilized Paramilitaries
S.M. Hamdan: Identity & Second Language Acquisition: International Saudi Students Studying Abroad
Kathryn Nowinski: Constructing Identity through Sound: Brand Naming Practices and Phonetic Symbolism
Richard D.H. Bridges: Catching It in the Net: Some Lulzy Acronyms
Jeff Rowe: Divergent Definitions of Food Justice: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Inger Sundell-Ranby: Use of the word ague by pioneers in the Midwest
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 6 (2014)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2014 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Over the next few weeks, some students will be posting links to PDF versions of their final papers below their abstracts. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next week, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Alex B. Hill: A critical discourse on Detroit’s ‘Food Desert’ metaphor
Maya Stovall: How Ballet Terminology is Disputed and Employed as the Language of Dance
Roba Hrisseh: Social Stigmas Attached to Dialectal Differences: Lebanese and Yemeni Dialects in Dearborn City, Michigan
Suzanne Walsh: The Car Becomes Me
Kyrene Collins: Color Terminology in English and French
Srinawati: Sundanese Speech Levels
Eric Boulis: Klingon as Reviewed by the Fans
Taylor Monday: Sustainability: Defining Something that Deals with Everything
Zeina Lubus: English and French code-switching – an index to Christianity and Islam in modern Lebanon
Kaitlyn Ahlers: “Bold, Brash” Brews: Sensory Description among Craft Beer Consumers
Rachel Willhite: Gender Perspectives and Prediction in Online Communication
C. Lorin Brace VI: Together Forever: Gendered Language Use in Gravestone Epitaphs
Michael Elster: Transmitting “Realness”: Linguistic and Economic Tension in Drag Queen Speech
Andrew Bray: Wheel, Snipe, Celly: Understanding the Creation, Expansion, and Evolution of the Ice Hockey Anti-Language
Amber Aschwanden: Roman obelisks and the convergence of historical and contemporary linguistic landscapes – A pilot study
Madelyn Gutkoski: Discourse of Fitness and Sport in the CrossFit Community of Practice
Stanislava Chavez: Language and Warfare: Prehispanic Pukaras and Scholars’ Battle Over Andean Militarism
Daniel Mora: Profanity in social settings
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 5 (2013)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2013 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Over the next few weeks, some students will be posting links to PDF versions of their final papers below their abstracts. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next week, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Heather Buza: An Analysis of Driving Contracts for Persons with Dementia
Darlene Pennington-Johnson: The Verbal Art of Bribery: Going Further than Detroit’s Front Door
Stephen Teran: Aviation English and Communication Problems
Hind Ababtain: Saudi Arabic Diglossia and Code-Switching in Twitter: Education and Gender Effect
Kaitlin Muklewicz: Physician communication with women who have multiple sclerosis
Jennifer O’Hare: Irish or English? An Irish Parent’s Decision about a Child’s Education
Michael Thomas: Fixing and Fixing: Literal Language and Perceptual Relevance in High-Functioning Autism and the Less Wrong Community
Georgia Diamantopoulos: The Linguistic Expression of a Greek-American Identity
Kelsey Garason: Exploring Language and Gender through Blood and Combat
Brenna Moloney: The Dialectics of Pronoun Use in Modern Russia
Elspeth Geiger: Anishinaabemowin Animacy: The Metalinguistic Beliefs in Language Revitalization Websites
Jeri L. Pajor: Can Sacred Spaces Reveal Clues to Wyandotte’s German Ethnic Heritage and Show Status?
C.A. Donnelly: I Want to Convince You to Believe: Discourse and Authority in the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory
Kelly A. Johnston: The Invisible Majority: Language as a Means of Education in the Context of a German-American Historic House Museum
Talia Gordon: Beyond the Board: Metalinguistic Awareness and Language Beliefs Among Expert Scrabble Players
Leah Esslinger: Greeting Patterns in Midtown Detroit
Kimberly Anne Shay: Indigenous Language and Assimilation: Navajo and the Workplace
Sarah Carson: Black Nerds in the Media: A Linguistic Analysis
Monica Mieczkowski: “She may have wanted it”: Discourse of Consent in Online Accounts of the Steubenville, Ohio Rape
Julie Haase: Judging a Wine (Or Winery) by its Label
Kimberly A. Compton: A Community of Practice and Constructing Children’s Agency
Katherine Korth: AKC: Ravelry’s Impact on the Language of Knitters
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 3 (Spring 2011)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2011 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Over the next few weeks, some students will be posting links to PDF versions of their final papers below their abstracts. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next week, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Marius Sidau
A Linguistic Approach to the Authorship of the Book of Mormon
Brent Collins III
An investigation of contributing factors that lead to social fragmentation between Black-Americans, Africans, Caribbeans and West Indians
Jean Calkins
African American Vernacular English in the Classroom
Jacqui
The cultural and linguistic relevance of naming practices
Isra El-beshir
Women’s Language and its Legal Implications
Ashley Phifer
Eskimo or Inuit: What ethnonym do museums use in displaying art and material culture?
Lauren Schleicher
Physicians’ use of persuasive techniques as a verbal tool to increase colorectal cancer screening adherence
Jennifer Meyer
The Antonine Plague: A Linguistic Analysis
Molly Hilton
Thick: Social Censorship in an Empathetic Online Community
Daniel Harrison
From sauvage to salvage: a quantitative analysis of European-Algonkian vocabularies from contact to the mid-19th century
E.J. Stone
The Power of Rumor: Blood Libel in the Modern World
Amy C. Krull
From Grits to Corn Chips: An Invention of Tradition
Zein Kalaj
The historical, linguistic, and social stigma of leadership titles
Sofía Syntaxx
Live by the drum: exploring linguistic expressions of pan-Indian ethnic identity in contemporary indigenous music
Rachel Doyle
Gesture: An Integral Component of Language Acquisition and Learning
Krystal Athena Hubbard
Rice and Gullah: Linguistic Resistance and Economic Growth on Antebellum South Carolina Rice Plantations
Summar Saad
The Changing Linguistics of the Organic Food Market
Yasmin Habib
Code-switching among Arab-American speakers
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 2 (Spring 2010)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2010 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Over the next few weeks, some students will be posting links to PDF versions of their final papers below their abstracts. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture over the next week, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers.
Anton Anderssen: Exceptional Musical Ability within a Framework of Metalinguistical Ideologies about Swedish Language
Ami Attee: I See What You’re Saying: The Communicative Functions of Hand Gestures
Brandon Davis: Language Variation: A Case Study of the Island of Tanna, Vanuatu
Andrea DiMuzio: Writing History in Formative Mesoamerica: Connecting History and Social Stratification in Four Ancient Scripts
Kate Frederick: Losing Power: The Effect of Language Loss in Native American Communities
Margaret Gale: It’s About Time
Mark Hill: The Implications of Gender in Patient-Physician Discourse
Emily Jelsomeno: Bitch, Nigger and Gay: Exclusive Language? The Semantic Shift of Pejorative Words and Reclamation
Frankie Johnson: Gender-Specific Honorifics in Japanese: A Comparative Study
K.A.L.: Dubbing and Subtitling in Europe: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Cultural Implications
R. LaPorte: Bosnian Language and Ethnic Identity
Kathryn Meloche: On and About Glass Bottles—the effects of technology on the evolution of bottle language
Cherry Meyer: The De-centering of Standard English through Indigenous Postcolonial Poetry
Evelyn Postell-Franklin: Mixed Messages: discourse trends in the hip-hop era
Melinda Pye: Infant Baby Talk: Is it an Effective Device?
Georgia Richardson-Melody: A Worldview Lost in Translation: Issues with Translating Ayurvedic Science into a Biomedical Worldview
Jennifer Rivera: American Sign Language and the influences of Computer Mediated Communication
Leah R. Shapardanis: What do whining dogs have to do with universal grammar?
Graham Sheckels: A Discourse Analysis of Runic Messages in Two Media
Joseph A. Sindone III: Linguistic and paralinguistic cues of text-based computer-mediated communication and their associated social processes
Claudia Voit: Reassessment of the Maya Verb Root, K’al
Editorial note
The twelve extended abstracts that follow are work by junior scholars from the 2009 edition of the course Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University.
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