Emory University Program in Linguistics

Please join the Department of German Studies and the Program in Linguistics for a conversation with Professors Hiram Maxim and Dan Walter about Professor Walter’s latest book, "Psycholinguistic Approaches to Instructed Second Language Acquisition" on February 8, 2024 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Oxford Road Building Presentation Room.
Link to the poster and event details are in the comments.

Please join us for a presentation and discussion of gender-fair language and 3rd-person pronouns, Tuesday, October 17th at 5:30pm, Math&Sci Ctr E208 or online via Zoom. For more details and zoom link: http://linguistics.emory.edu/home/news/index.html

Congratulations to the Linguistics Class of 2023!
http://linguistics.emory.edu/home/graduation-pages/index.html

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Sonja Lanehart, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Date: Monday, November 28, 2022 @ 4pm
Title: Words Matter: Language, Linguistic(s), and Race
Link to join the webinar: https://emory.zoom.us/j/97265416408?pwd=QnZkZUEwdG5OYlRuUk9QZEVZTG1tdz09
Passcode: 011033

Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociolinguistics

The Program in Linguistics at Emory University in Atlanta, GA seeks a full-time faculty member in Sociolinguistics at the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor to begin Fall 2023. We are looking for a strong teacher-scholar dedicated to undergraduate education to join our thriving program. We are seeking a language variationist who works in minoritized language varieties and communities in North America, such as African American Language, Latinx language, LGBTQ+ varieties, Indigenous languages, Jewish languages, ASL, or other.

We are looking for a dynamic instructor with classroom experience in Linguistics to teach 5 courses per year (3-2 teaching load), including introductory and advanced courses in sociolinguistics, general linguistics, language variation, and the candidate’s area of expertise. Candidates should be able to mentor a diverse community of students and consider linguistics to be fundamentally connected to issues of social justice and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The position of Assistant Teaching Professor is a part of Emory’s Lecture Track Faculty (LTF) with renewable contracts, and with the possibility of promotion through the ranks of Associate Teaching Professor and Full Teaching Professor http://college.emory.edu/faculty/faculty/promotion-lecture-track.html. The initial contract is for three years and includes full benefits.http://college.emory.edu/faculty/documents/faculty/faculty-responsibilities.pdf

Qualifications
A PhD in Linguistics (or a closely related field) is required; degree in hand is preferred, but advanced ABDs will be considered.

Application Instructions
Please submit a letter of interest, cv, teaching statement, a brief statement describing your experience and vision regarding the teaching and mentorship of students of diverse backgrounds, and the names and contact information for three references. Submit all materials through http://apply.interfolio.com/114173. We will start to review applications on Nov. 7, 2022; all applications submitted by Nov. 21, 2022 will be considered. Please contact [email protected] with questions.

Emory University is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Congratulations to the Emory Linguistics Class of 2022. Our warmest thoughts and highest hopes are with you as you celebrate.
http://linguistics.emory.edu/home/news/events/awards/classof2022.html

Dr. Jessi Grieser, University of Tennessee
Date: Monday, Apr 11, 2022 @ 4:00pm Eastern Time
Location: White Hall 101 and Zoom (email [email protected] for link)
Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification
In this talk, I'll discuss the Big-D discourses of gentrification and the ways they serve as a form of abstract liberalism to obscure the racialized nature of change. Drawing on ten years of sociolinguistic interview data from the neighborhood of Anacostia, in Washington, D.C., I'll demonstrate how the ways Anacostians talk about their space counters those Big-D discourses at the discourse level, at the narrative level, and at the morphosyntactic level in ways which serve to re-racialize the process of gentrification and strip the agency of outsiders to determine what constitutes "good change." I then back out to look at the bigger questions of the ways gentrification is considered an a-racialized process and how the residents' talk brings race to the forefront, rejecting the colorblind racism assumptions inherent in the abstract liberalism appeal.

http://linguistics.emory.edu/home/news/index.html

Dr. Annette D'Onofrio, Northwestern University
Date: Monday, Mar 14, 2022 @ 4:00pm Eastern Time
Location: email [email protected] for ZOOM link
Title: Personae in sociolinguistic perception
Work in sociolinguistic variation has traditionally examined correlations between linguistic features and macro-social factors, such as gender, socioeconomic class, or region of origin. However, more recent approaches have focused on the ways that speakers project holistic social personae in interactions through linguistic styles. While the body of work on sociolinguistic style is growing, less is known about the cognitive basis of links between features of linguistic styles and social meanings. This talk explores the social information that can be connected with linguistic expectations for a listener, focusing on how information about a speaker’s holistic persona can influence perceptual behavior in a variety of tasks. Together, these studies show that social knowledge of a speaker is integral to various aspects of linguistic perception, and that knowledge related to a speaker's holistic persona must be represented and linked with linguistic features in the mind.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Mind, Brain and Culture.

It's been 25 years since we first created our core courses History of the American Languages (LING-101) and Language, Mind and Society (LING-401). These courses – our introduction and our senior seminar – define us as a program and make us unique among linguistics majors worldwide. Read more about our history.
http://linguistics.emory.edu/home/about/history.html

This presentation describes corpus-based discourse analytic approaches to studying the language of COVID-19. Two empirical projects help to uncover and examine patterns in language from early in the pandemic, which continues nearly two years later.

First, a corpus of news media was used to examine the shifts in the meaning words now associated with COVID-19: crisis, social, died, and remote. We then describe how the corpora News on the Web (Davies, 2016- ) and The Coronavirus Corpus (Davies, 2020-) can be used by qualitative researchers to help triangulate their claims with quantitative findings from these databases of naturally-occurring language.

Then, we describe a study of a specialized corpus: university reopening statements from the summer of 2020. These correspondences were studied using genre analysis and corpus-based techniques. Their rhetorical functions and themes (e.g., community solidarity, agency, control) are described through the lens of crisis management.

To wrap up, we turn our attention to the present. The data collected for these studies was from very early on in the pandemic. Messaging was in flux, language reflected the changing of our understanding. We posit ways that, with more known about the virus, for example, such communication may now differ.

Contact [email protected] to receive the Zoom link to the event.

https://youtu.be/KegE6tviRDA

Linguistics Congratulates Class 2021 Congratulatory video to the Emory Linguistics Class of 2021.

http://linguistics.emory.edu/home/news/events/awards/classof2021.html

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Nicole Holliday, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 @ 4pm EST
Title: Sociolinguistic Variation and Identity Among Black/Biracial Men
Link to join the webinar:
https://emory.zoom.us/j/91395887519?pwd=RVF4cHBtbjdDVUl3UUlCa09OSTJ1Zz09
Meeting ID: 913 9588 7519 | Passcode: 758271