Hey, smart people!  I've recently had an idea that I can't actually flesh out without knowing something about blackface - its construction in modern media, its meaning/effects, that sort of thing.  And I don't, really.

My question to you-all is this: what should I be reading about (modern) blackface?  Classics, new cutting-edge stuff, anything that ( Read more... )

Book Notice: Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521836067Author: Florian Coulmas ( Read more... )

Just pseudo-defended my thesis (meaning it wasn't actually under attack, I just had to give a mandatory but ungraded presentation about it at the senior thesis colloquium).

The thesis right after mine was:

A Girl in Boy's Clothing: An Exploration of Linguistic Cross-Dressing in Girls' MangaI examine the use of Japanese gender language in the ( Read more... )

The thesis is as done as it's going to get. For those of you who are masochists or terminally bored, here 'tis:

Signs of Conflict: Language, Power, and Bilingual Deaf Education in MontrealDo I feel like a tool for using the "Signs of X" witty-title-cop-out? Oh yeah. Do I really mind all that much? Nope ( Read more... )

Linguists:

Announcing the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard!

Call for Papers

Boston/Cambridge folk:

Vagina Monologues are back!  I'm interpreting for two productions this year, as follows -

- Feb. 17, Agassiz Theatre, Harvard University (more detailed info when I have it)

- Feb 25 and 26, 8 pm, the Footlight Club (aka ( Read more... )

( en langue françoise )

I mention it because, in my fit of fevered 1-am-packing (can't sleep, empty suitcases will eat me), I found a response paper I wrote for my advisor's class this past semester. It feels profound to me, although as I recall, it sparked my last existential crisis (before the "hearing" thing). Anyway, I welcome comments from the two of you who read ( Read more... )