The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2014 edition of my course, Language and Societies, and presented at the course blog of the same name. 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
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