Once again, the early-career scholars in the 2021 edition of my course, Language and Societies, have written some amazing papers, for which the abstracts are linked below. 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
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