Schedule 2017
Language Contact and Multilingualism
8:45am Registration
opens—CLA 1.302C
Elianna Greenberg—Georgetown University
An Analysis of Creole Usages in Modern Music & A Criticism of Institutionalized Sociolinguistics
Len Beké—University of New Mexico
Ajina ej how I hablar, no? Nuevomexicano bilingual predication constructions and the ideologization of talking Norte in the comedic performance of Carlos Medina
James Slotta—University of Texas at Austin
The annotated Donald Trump: From speaking with names to living in bubbles
11:00-11:50am Keynote
address
Dr. Jurgen Streeck—University of Texas at Austin
Shane Lief—Tulane University
Stefan Engelberg—Institute
for the German Language (Mannheim) & University of Mannheim
Changes in language ideology
in times of German colonialism
Thea Williamson—University
of Texas at Austin
English Only? Language
ideology and policy in an urban secondary school
Aisulu Raspayeva—Georgetown University
Polycentricity of Linguistic Landscape: The case study of a northern town in Kazakhstan
Dena Afrasiabi—University of Texas at Austin
Two-Veined: Language Contact
and the Body in Transnational Iranian Spaces
Isaac Muhando—Tulane University
Understanding Structural Re-alignment and Convergence in a
Mixed Language: The case of Sheng
Masha Khachaturyan—University of California, Berkeley
(Ecclesiastic) translation as a type of language contact and its linguistic consequences
Anna Belew—University of
Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Investigating multilingualism in an endangered-language
context: the case of Iyasa in Cameroon
Dr. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio—University of Texas at Austin
A quantitative approach to multilingual corpora
Butterfly Bar—2307 Manor Rd
Saturday: April 15, 2017
9:00am
Breakfast—CLA 1.302B
9:30-10:50am Session
4: Language Contact
Julia Fine—University of
California, Santa Barbara
Persistence of prosodic patterning in borrowed conjunctions:
The case of staupi and pet'am
Lindsay Morrone—University of New Mexico
A Sociophonetic Analysis of
an Albuquerque Drag Queen
Navdeep Sokhey—University of Texas at Austin
The Bahraini Chicken Nuggets:
Labializing Global and Local Identities
Dr. Na’ama Pat-el—University of Texas at Austin
Hebrew and Aramaic: siblings, neighbors, authorities
Aris Clemons—University of Texas at Austin
Spanish Use in ‘English-Only’
Contexts
Guadalupe Del Rosario Barrientos—University of Texas at Austin
Ni de aqui, ni de alla: Chicana Language and Identity
in a Primarily White Institution
Mark Visonà—Georgetown University
Language Attitudes and Linguistic Landscapes of Malawi
Yeon-ju Bae—University of Michigan
“That Non-duality Feels Like Unknowing”: Shifting Authority
and Gesturing De-authority in a Korean Zen Translation
Mary Kate Kelly—Tulane University
The Scribe’s Hand Betrays His
Tongue: Diglossia among the ancient Maya
Anthony K. Webster—University of Texas at Austin
Why Tséhootsooí does not equal Kit Carson Dr.: On the poetics and politics of
Navajo place-names
Rodney C. Jubilado—University of Hawaii at Hilo
Language Situation and Migration of the Filipinos in Hawaii
Gregory D. S. Anderson and Bikram Jora—Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
Internal neo-colonialism, “development” and the languages of “primitive tribals” in Jharkhand and Odisha states, India
4:40-5:30pm Keynote
address
Dr. Lyle Campbell—University of Hawai’i Manoa
Language Contact
and Language Documentation: Whence and Whither?
Biographies
Keynotes:
Dr.
Lyle Campbell—University
of Hawai’i Manoa
Lyle Campbell (PhD UCLA), Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, has held joint appointments in Linguistics, Anthropology, Behavioral Research, Latin American Studies, and Spanish; he has been visiting professor at universities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Mexico, and Spain. He has published 21 books and c.200 articles, and is on 18 editorial boards. He has had numerous grants and awards, including NSF (14 grants); NEH; Humboldt Stiftung; Fulbright Fellowship; Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America; Collitz Professorship (LSA Linguistic Institute); University of Canterbury Research Medal. He won the LSA’s “Leonard Bloomfield Book Award” twice, for American Indian Languages (1997, Oxford University Press) and Historical Syntax in Cross-linguistics Perspective (1995, Alice Harris & Lyle Campbell, Cambridge University Press). He is co-founder of the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (endangeredlanguages.com). His specializations are: historical linguistics, language documentation, indigenous languages of the Americas, typology, and Uralic languages. He grew up in rural Oregon.
Dr. Na’ama Pat-el—University of Texas at Austin
Na’ama Pat-El is a
linguist specilizing in ancient Semitic languages, language contact, and
historical syntax. She holds advanced degrees in Linguistics and Semitic
Philology from the Hebrew University and Harvard University and is currently an
associate professor of Semitic languages and linguistics at the University of
Texas, Austin. She has published on contact between Aramaic and Hebrew,
Comparative Semitic lingusitics, Subgrouping and syntactic change. Her
monograph “Studies in the Historical Syntax of Aramaic” (Gorgias, 2012) touches
on aspects of syntactic change during three millennia. She is currently editing
a volume on the Semitic languages (Routledge) with John Huehnergard.
Dr.
Jurgen Streeck—University
of Texas at Austin
Dr. Jürgen Streeck (Ph.D. F.U. Berlin, 1981) conducts video-based research on human interaction in everyday life. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany, Southeast Asia, and the U.S. Streeck is particularly interested in language and the body as media of interaction and cognition and in the cultural and experiential foundations of language and meaning. His book Gesturecraft—The Manu-facture of Meaning (2009) is a comprehensive study of the ways in which we use hand gestures to understand the world together and organize talk, work, and social contexts. Among the questions it addresses are how we make sense of things by creating visual and bodily representations of them and how we think with our hands. Streeck is co-editor, with Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron, of a book on multimodal interaction, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and editor of New Adventures in Language and Interaction (Benjamins, forthcoming). In addition to his research on everyday interaction, Streeck is keenly interested in art and music, has published on ways in which painters analyze embodied communication, and studies how rappers have re-invented language and a new community, the ‘hip-hop nation’, has evolved from new ways of using languages.
Dr. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio—University of Texas at Austin
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, a native of the Dominican Republic, earned an M.A. in Linguistics & Cognitive Science from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University. She currently serves as Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at The University of Texas. Professor Toribio’s dossier reflects scholarship in the areas of language contact and variation and a trajectory from theoretical to more empirically-based approaches. She is recognized for her research on code-switching, addressing morpho-syntactic, phonetic, and discursive-pragmatic mixing patterns among diverse multilingual populations. She co-directs, with Professor Barbara Bullock, the Bilingual Annotation Tasks research group, a cohort from the humanities and natural sciences which seeks to bring NLP tools to the analysis of mixed-language texts. A second line of research, pursued over several decades, examines the speech of residents of rural regions of the Dominican Republic and their compatriots in the U.S. That research records the incidence and dissemination of linguistic properties that serve important functions as indices of ethnicity, race, gender, among other social variables. Professor Toribio’s individual and collaborative research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Russel Sage Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others, and the findings appear in The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, Social Science Quarterly, International Journal of Bilingualism, Lingua, andLinguistic Inquiry, among others.
Presenters:
Dena
Afrasiabi—University
of Texas at Austin
Dena Afrasiabi received her
Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from UT Austin in May of 2016.
Her research interests include language ideologies, mocking practices, media
studies, modern Persian literature.
Gregory D. S. Anderson and Bikram Jora—Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
Dr. Greg Anderson is founder
and president of Living Tongues Institute and an expert on Munda languages. Dr.
Bikram Jora is South Asia Regional Coordinator for Living Tongues Institute. He
is a native speaker of the Kherwarian Munda language Tamaria Mundari of
Jharkhand, India. Anderson and Jora have been surveying Munda languages in
Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra for the past seven years.
Yeon-ju
Bae—University of
Michigan
I’m a second year PhD student
in linguistic anthropology at the University of Michigan. I hold a BA and MA in
anthropology from Seoul National University, and my MA thesis is about speech
genres and poetic structure of oral performance at a Korean Protestant church.
For my doctoral research, I’m working on Korean Buddhist psychotherapy as a
response to suicide and social suffering in South Korea.
Guadalupe
Del Rosario Barrientos—University
of Texas at Austin
Guadalupe is a first year
master’s degree candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the Center
for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies. She received her
bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in linguistics and languages with
concentrations in Spanish and Russian. Her research and academic interests include Russian/Mexican transnational and comparative
studies, Russian folklore and folk culture, foreign and second language
acquisition, and translation studies.
Len
Beké—University of
New Mexico
My research interests center on the Nuevomexicano Spanish dialect and community. I have been studying this variety since 2011 and have done fieldwork in many areas of the state including Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Pecos and Abiquiú. Specific interests include contact induced language change, grammaticalization, language maintenance, linguistic repression, verbal art performance, and documentary & critical toponymy. I am currently working towards a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.
Anna Belew—University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. My research focuses on language
documentation, sociolinguistics, and language endangerment; my dissertation is
a sociolinguistic documentation of Iyasa (Bantu A.30, Cameroon). I have been
working with languages of Cameroon since 2008, and am interested in linguistic
diversity and multilingualism in Africa in general.
Aris
Clemons—University of
Texas at Austin
Aris Clemons
is a doctoral student in the Spanish and Portuguese department at UT Austin.
She began her career as an ESL/Spanish teacher in Madrid, Spain. Returning to
the U.S., she completed her MA in Linguistics at Syracuse University and
continued her career as an educator and administrator at a Catholic school for
low income students in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, she focuses on the intersection
of language, race, and identity in educational contexts.
Stefan
Engelberg—Institute for the German
Language (Mannheim) & University of Mannheim
Head
of the department of Lexical Studies at the Institute for German Language in
Mannheim since 2006; professor for German linguistics at the University of
Mannheim since 2006; habilitation on the lexicon-grammar interface at the
University of Wuppertal in 2005; PhD on verb semantics at the University of
Wuppertal in 1998. Research on lexical semantics, argument structure, word
formation, lexicography, language contact, language and colonialism.
Julia
Fine—University of California,
Santa Barbara
I
am currently a graduate student in Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. My research
interests include prosody, style, affect and identity; language documentation
and revitalization; and language, gender and (a)sexuality. I work primarily
with the Kodiak Alutiiq language revitalization community in Kodiak, Alaska,
and I am in the process of writing my master's thesis on the prosodic
characteristics of constructed dialogue in Alutiiq storytelling.
Elianna
Greenberg—Georgetown
University
Elianna Greenberg’s work focuses upon creating teaching methods that use linguistics and social politics to encourage interdisciplinary, culturally critical thinking among young learners. She earned her M.S. from Georgetown University, where she studied sociolinguistics, and her B.A.F.A. from The New School, where she studied discourse analysis and photography. Now an educator, Elie is pursuing a career in large-scale education reform, focusing on linguistic and cultural consciousness as a vehicle for change.
Rodney
C. Jubilado—University
of Hawaii at Hilo
Rodney C Jubilado holds the
degree of PhD in Theoretical Linguistics, and teaches at University of Hawaii.
His research interests include theoretical linguistics, English in Southeast
Asia, heritage education, migration, and Southeast Asian cultural studies. He
has spoken at international conferences in Asia, Australia, and North America.
His professional society affiliation includes the Linguistic Society of
America, Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, Association for Asian Studies,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, etc.
Mary
Kate Kelly—Tulane
University
Mary Kate Kelly is a PhD Candidate at Tulane University, studying the linguistics of Maya hieroglyphs. Her research looks at the linguistic variation present in the inscriptions, in order to gain better insight as to the distribution of different, but related, linguistic groups among the Maya. Her interests lie at the crossroads of language, literature, and culture, and extend to historical linguistics and the world’s writing systems.
Masha
Khachaturyan—University
of California, Berkeley
Maria Khachaturyan is a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley. Her primary interests lie in the fields of linguistic anthropology, linguistic documentation, (historical) syntax, and typology. Her main descriptive focus is Mano, a Mande language spoken in Guinea and Liberia. She has been doing fieldwork among the Mano people since 2009. In 2015 she published a grammar of Mano.
Shane
Lief—Univeristy of Michigan
Lindsay
Morrone—University of
New Mexico
Lindsay Morrone is a PhD
student in Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests
lie in typology, information structure, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistic
variation within the local context of Albuquerque's LGBT community.
Isaac
Muhando—Tulane
University
Isaac Muhando is a language
scholar from Kenya currently pursuing his PhD in Linguistics at Tulane
University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds a masters degree in Linguistics
and TESOL from Ball State University, Indiana. His primary research interests
include Syntax and Morphology of Sheng, Lunyore focus marking, language
contact, and multilingualism in urban areas.
Aisulu Raspayeva—Georgetown University
Aisulu Raspayeva is a PhD candidate at the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University. She is an international student from Kazakhstan, who is specializing in Sociolinguistics with a research focus on cross-cultural communication and national identity construction in modern Kazakhstan. She received her B.A. at Kazakh University of World Languages and M.A. in TESOL at WVU and has taught ESL/EFL for 7 years.
James
Slotta—University of
Texas at Austin
James Slotta is a lecturer in
the anthropology department at the University of Texas, Austin. His research
focuses on the political significance of listening and communicative contact in
both Papua New Guinea and North America.
Navdeep
Sokhey—University of
Texas at Austin
Navdeep Sokhey is a PhD
student focusing on Arabic sociophonetics at UT Austin. She conducted research
on the phenomenon of palatalization (namely of the alveolar nasal) &
gendered identity in Cairene Arabic for her master’s thesis, and is currently
undertaking comparative sociophonetic work on Cairene and Bahraini Arabic. She was
a CASA and Fulbright fellow at the American University in Cairo, Egypt prior to
beginning graduate studies at UT, and has additionally spent time living and
observing Arabic dialects in Jordan and Bahrain.
Mark Visonà—Georgetown University
Mark is in his second year of coursework for a PhD
concentration in sociolinguistics after spending six years in the Middle East
(pursuing graduate studies in journalism and mass communication and working as
a teacher). His current and past research interests include agenda-setting in
social media, style-shifting via constructed dialogue, and discourse analysis
of online content.
Anthony
K. Webster—University
of Texas at Austin
Anthony K. Webster is a
linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on Navajo ethnopoetics and verbal
art. He is the author of Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics (UNM
Press, 2009) and Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry (Arizona,
2015) as well as numerous articles on the language/culture/individual nexus,
and with Paul Kroskrity, the editor of The Legacy of Dell Hymes:
Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice (IU Press, 2015).
Thea
Williamson—University of Texas at Austin
Thea Williamson is a doctoral candidate in the College of Education and Assistant Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. A former high school English teacher and after-school program administrator, her research interests are teaching and learning reading and writing in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, language ideology, and teacher education. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and Comparative Literature from Haverford College and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from UT Austin.
Acknowledgements
Sponsors: We would like to extend our gratitude to the following sponsors for SALSA XXV: College of Liberal Arts, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, Communication Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at UT Austin, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of English
