Once again, the early-career scholars in the 2022 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.
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
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