Tuesday, Jan 23: Lippi-Green, “The Myth of the Non-Accent”: Non Accent
Thursday, Jan 25: Lippi-Green, “Teaching Children How to Discriminate”: Teaching Children
Tuesday, Jan 30: Lippi-Green, “Hillbillies, Hicks, and Southern Belles”: Hilbillies
Thursday, Feb 1: Julie Sedivy, “Votes and Vowels: A Changing Accent Shows How Language Parallels Politics”
Jeff Guo, “Donald Trump’s Accent Explained” and https://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400658679/when-politicians-lose-their-accents
Thursday, Feb 8: Alim and Smitherman, Chapter 1 of Articulate While Black: “Nah, We Straight”: Nah We Straight
and Smitherman interview: Smitherman Interview
Tuesday, Feb 13: Alim and Smitherman, Chapter 2: “Articulate While Black”: Articulate While Black
Thursday, Feb 15: Alim and Smitherman, Chapter 6: “Change the Game”: Change the Game
Thursday, Feb 22: (Reading Change!): Tannen, “Indirectness at Work”: Link
Tuesday, Feb 27: Style Guides: Chicago Style Excerpts and APA Manual Excerpts
Thursday, March 8: Betsy E. Evans, “English as Official State Language in Ohio: Economy Trumps Ideology”: English as Official and Jenkins, “English as a Lingua Franca”: English Lingua Franca
Tuesday, March 27: Lippi-Green, “Ya basta!”: Ya basta
Optional reading (it’s short and awesome): Anzaldua, Wild Tongue: Wild Tongue
Thursday, March 29: Lippi-Green, “Defying Paradise: Hawai’i”: Defying Paradise
and watch a segment of PBS’s Language Matters: http://www.pbs.org/video/language-matters-full-episode/ (from 1:10 to end — about 35 minutes)
Tuesday, April 2: Flutes of Fire, pg 155-187: Flutes of Fire Essays
Thursday, April 5: Flutes of Fire, pg 221-233 and Perely, “Silence Before the Void”: Silence Before the Void
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End of Semester Schedule and Readings:
Tuesday, April 10: Informal Proposal due for Language Preservation Project: Informal Proposal
Thursday, April 12: Williams, “Phenomenology of Error”: http://gsas.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/error.pdf
Tuesday, April 17: Hairston, “Not All Errors Are Created Equal”
Thursday, April 19: Grammar research work day
Tuesday, April 24: Dawkins, “Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool” Link
Thursday, April 26: Grammar Police project due
Tuesday, May 1: Final Project Research: Rough draft of Language Preservation due
Thursday, May 3: Final Project Research: Rough draft of presentation due
Exam Time: Final Presentations (Thursday, May 10th at 9am)