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The University of Chicago Anthropology 271; English 143; Gen Stds Humanities 223; Linguistics
268: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on a Language Community: American
English Readings and Syllabus, Spring 1997
This course is designed to develop a consciousness of the history of sociocultural and political shapings of the American English language community in the context of social formations like the evolving U. S. nation-state, systems of social differentiation and stratification associable with this, and cultural ideologies of oneness/difference in various discourses of American self-consciousness. The structural and functional facts of American English in its varieties are seen in the context of social formations, and in respect of the mediating role of language in the dynamic projects of those social formations. All readings for the course have been placed on 4-hour reserve status
at Harper Library.
*Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Revised edition. London: Verso. [JC311.A6560 1991] Bailey, Richard W. 1991. Images of English: A cultural history of the language. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [PE1072.B330 1991] Bailey, Richard W. & Görlach, Manfred (eds.). 1982. English as a world language. Ann Arbor: Unniversity of Michigan Press. [PE1700.E5] *Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1981. The dialogic imagination: Four essays. M. Holquist, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press. [PN3331.B161] *Baron, Dennis. 1990. The English-Only question: An official language for Americans? New Haven: Yale University Press. [P119.32.U6B370 1990] Bourdieu, Pierre. 1991. Language and symbolic power. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. [P106.B68130 1991] Brenneis, Donald & Macaulay, Ronald K. S. (eds.). 1996. The matrix of language: Contemporary linguistic anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. [P35.M290 1996] *Cmiel, Kenneth. 1990. Democratic eloquence: The fight over popular speech in nineteenth century America. New York: William Morrow. [PE2809.C570 1990] *Conklin, Nancy F. & Lourie, Margaret A. 1983. A host of tongues: Language communities in the United States. New York: Free Press. [P377.C75] *Crawford, James (ed.). 1992. Language loyalties: A source book on the Official English controversy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [P119.32.U6L360 1992] *Ferguson, Charles A. & Heath, Shirley Brice (ed.). 1981. Language in the U S A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [P377.L28] *Fliegelman, Jay. 1993. Declaring independence: Jefferson, natural language, and the culture of performance. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [E332.2.F550 1993] Giglioli, Pier Paolo. 1972. Language and social context: Selected readings. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. [P41.G46] *Gustafson, Thomas. 1992. Representative words: Politics, literature, and the American language, 1776-1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [PS217.P64G80 1992] Kramer, Michael P. 1992. Imagining language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [PE2807.K730 1992] Looby, Christopher. 1996. Voicing America: Language, literary form, and the origins of the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [PS193.L660 1996] *Wills, Garry. 1992. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The words that remade America. New York: Simon & Schuster. [E475.55.W540 1992]
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