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
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