Required Readings: Books are available at the NYU Bookstore. Articles and books are on reserve in Bobst library. 
Schieffelin, B. B.   1990. The Give and Take of Everyday Life. NY: CUP. 
Kulick, D.  1992. Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction. NY: CUP.
Bauman, R.   (1983) 1998. Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among 17th Century Quakers. London: Quaker Home Service. 
Sources: 
Baugh, J. & J. Sherzer (eds)   1984 Language in Use. Prentice Hall (LU)
Blount, B. (ed)   1995 Language, Culture and Society. 2nd edition. Waveland (LCS)
Giglioli, P. (ed)  1985 Language and Social Context. Penguin. (LSC)

Course Outline: (please read in order of listing) 

1. Introduction 1/20 

2. Language and Culture - 1/22  
Boas, F.   1911 Introduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages. (LCS)
Sapir, E.   1933 Language. In D. Mandelbaum ed, Selected writings of Edward Sapir. Berkeley: UC California. pp 7-22.
Sapir, E.   1929 The Unconscious Patterning of Language. In D. Mandelbaum ed, Selected writings of Edward Sapir. Berkeley: UC California. pp 544-559.

3. Language and Thought 1/27, 1/29 
Whorf, B.L.   1941 The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language. (LCS)
Conklin, H.   1955 Hanunóo color categories. (in D.Hymes ed.) 
Frake, C.  
1964 How to ask for a drink in Subanun. (LSC) 
Bulmer, R.   1967 Why the cassowary is not a bird. 
Ochs, E.   1984 Clarification and Culture. Georgetown Univ Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. 
Cohn, C.   1987 Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals. Signs 12:687-718.
 4. Speech Communities, Language Communities 2/3  
Jackson, J.  1974 Language Identity of the Colombia Vaupes Indians. In R. Bauman & J. Sherzer (eds) Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. NY:CUP pp 50-64. 
Dorian, N.   1982 Defining the Speech Community to include its Working Margins. In S. Romaine (ed). Sociolinguistic Variation in Speech Communities. London: Edward Arnold. 
Silverstein, M.  1996 Encountering Languages and Languages of Encounter in North American Ethnohistory. JLA 6,2:126-144.

5. Ethnography of Communication 2/5, 2/10  
Hymes, D.   1962/1995 The ethnography of speaking (LCS) 
Sherzer, J.   1979 Strategies in Text and Context. (LU)
Bauman, R.   1981 "Any man who keeps more'n one hound'll lie to you": Dog trading and story telling in Canton, Texas. (LU)
Schieffelin, B.B.   1990 Give and Take Chaps 3-5. 

6. Language Socialization 2/12, 2/17 
Schieffelin, B. B.   1990 Give and Take... chaps 1-2, 6- 9. 

7. Language(s), Speaker(s) and Context(s) 2/19, 2/24 
Basso, K.   1970 To Give up on Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture. (LSC) pp 67-86. 
Duranti, A.   1992 Language in context and Language as context: Samoan respect vocabulary. In Rethinking Context. A. Duranti & C. Goodwin eds. Cambridge: CUP.
Irvine, J.   1990 : Registering Affect: Heteroglossia in the linguistic expression of affect. In Language and the politics of emotion. C. Lutz & L. Abu-Lughod eds. Cambridge: CUP.
Ferguson, C.   1959 Diglossia (LSC)
Eckert, P.   1980 Diglossia: Separate and unequal. Linguistics 18: X 56-64.
Kuter, L.   1989 Breton vs French: Language and the opposition of political, economic, social and cultural values. In N. Dorian (ed) Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death. NY:CUP.

8. Language and Social Identity 2/26, 3/3 * Book review due in class 2/26 
Bauman, R.   (1983) 1998. Let Your Words Be Few.

9. Language and Identities I 3/5, 3/10  
Heller, M.   1982 Negotiations of language choice in Montreal. In Language and Social Identity, J. Gumperz (ed). Cambridge: CUP. pp 108-118 
Heller, M.   1995 Code-switching and the politics of Language. In One Speaker, Two Languages. L. Milroy & P. Muysken (eds). Cambridge: CUP. pp. 158-174. 
Zentella, A.   1987 Language & female identity in the Puerto Rican community. In J. Penfield (ed) Women and language in transition. 
Zentella, A.   1990 Returned migration ... 
Mitchell-Kernan, C.   1972 Signifying & Marking: Two Afro-American speech acts. In Directions in Sociolinguistics. John Gumperz & Dell Hymes (eds) NY: Holt 
Urciuoli, B   1991 The Political Topography of Spanish and English. American Ethnologist 18, 2:295- 310. 

***** IN CLASS MIDTERM EXAM 12 March *****  
Spring break 3/16-3/20 

10. Language and Identities: Gender (and other social variables) 3/24, 3/26, 3/31  
Trudgill. P.   1983 Sex and covert prestige. In On Dialect. NYU Press. pp 169-185. 
Eckert, P & Sally McConnell-Ginet   1995 Constructing meaning, constructing selves. In Gender Articulated. K. Hall & M.
Bucholtz eds. NY: Routledge.  
Woolard, Kit   1995 Gendered Peer groups and the Bilingual repertoire in Catalonia. SALSA 2:200-220 
Mendoza-Denton, N.   1996 'Muy Macha': Gender and ideology in gang-girls' discourse about makeup. Ethnos 61:1-2. 
Ochs, E. & C. Taylor   1995 Father Knows Best. in Kira Hall & Mary Bucholtz (eds) Gender Articulated 
Gal. S.   1991 Between speech and silence. In M. di Leonardo (ed) Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge. Univ Cal Press 
O'Barr, W. & B. Atkins   1980 "Women's language" or "powerless language" In Women and language in literature and society. S. McConnell-Ginet et al. 
Gal, S.   1978 Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in a bilingual community. Language in Society 7:1-16.

11. Language and Social Interaction 4/2, 4/7  
Goffman, E.   1967 On face-work. In Interaction ritual: Essays on face to face behavior. NY: Pantheon. (orig. 1955 Psychiatry 18:213-31). 
Merritt, M.   1980 On the use of OK in service encounters (LU) 
Schegloff, E.   1989 The routine as achievement.12. Language shift, language death 4/9, 4/14 Kulick, D. 1992 Language shift and cultural reproduction Chaps Intro-4, 6-8 

** Transcription project due 4/13 (MONDAY) by 5pm **  

13. African-American Vernacular English* 4/16  
Morgan, M.   1994 Theories and Politics in African American English. Annual Review of Anthropology 23:325-45. 
Hewitt, R.   1989 Creole in the Classroom: Political Grammars and Educational Vocabularies. In Social Anthropology and the Politics of Language. R. Grillo (ed). London: Routledge. pp 126- 144. 
Labov, W.   1982 Objectivity and Commitment in Linguistic Science: The Case of the Black English Trial in Ann Arbor. Language in Society 11:165-201.

14. Literacies 4/21  
Heath, S.   1982 What no bedtime story means. Language in Society 11:49-76 
Michaels, S. & Cazden, C.   1986 Sharing time. In The Acquisition of Literacy: Ethnographic Perspectives. B. B. Schieffelin & P. Gilmore (eds.) Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. 
Kulick, D. chap 5  

15. Language, Social Stereotypes & Discrimination 4/23 * short paper due in class  
Silverstein, M.   1996 Monoglot "Standard" in America. In The Matrix of Language. D. Brenneis & R. 
Macauley (eds). Waveland. pp 284-306.  
Lippi-Green, R.   1994 Accent, Standard Language, language ideology, and the Discriminatory Pretext in the Courts. Language in Society 23, 163-198. 
watch "American Tongues" (video) in Bobst  

16. Cross-talk 4/28  
Gumperz, J. & J. Cook Gumperz   1981 Ethnic differences in communicative style. In Language in the USA. C. Ferguson & S. Heath (eds).pp 430-445 
Gumperz, J.   1982 Interethnic Communication, pp 172-186; Ethnic style in political rhetoric. In Discourse Strategies. John Gumperz. Cambridge: CUP pp 187-203 
Akinnaso, N. and C. Seabrook   1982 Performance and Ethnic Style in Job Interviews. In Language and Social Identity J. Gumperz (ed) pp. 119-114. 
watch "Crosstalk" (video)   ***** IN CLASS FINAL EXAM 30 April *****

  
Assignments: 
1. Language and Social Identity: Bauman book review 15% 
2. Language and Social Stereotypes: Readings and American Tongues 15% 
3. Transcription exercise 20% 
Exams:  midterm (in class) 25% final (in class) 25%
 

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