Once again, the awesome students in my Language and Societies graduate class here at Wayne State have done amazing scholarship this semester. Their research abstracts can be found at the course website of the same name, still running now after 17 years.
This year’s papers run the gamut across linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and allied areas. From the grammar of ownership and personhood in pre-Civil War Tennessee legal documents, to the linguistic landscape of highly multilingual Hamtramck, Michigan, to discourse analysis of contemporary Christian practitioners of bibliomancy (to pick just a few!) there’s so much rich material. It is trite but nonetheless true to say that I always feel that I learn enormously from my students about topics I’d never have thought about.
Comments on the individual abstracts are very welcome! The students may be willing to share their final papers once finished in the next week or two. So head over to the Language and Societies blog and click on the individual posts to comment.
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