J.M. (Janet, she/her) Fuller, Prof

Janet M. Fuller

Professor of Language and Society

Department of European Languages and Cultures

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

The Netherlands

 

E-mail: j.m.fuller@rug.nl

 

 

Education

 

            Ph.D. in Linguistics, August, 1997                                                               

            University of South Carolina

            Dissertation: Pennsylvania Dutch with a Southern Touch:

                                 A Theoretical Model of Language Contact and Change

            Director: Carol Myers-Scotton

 

            M.A. in American Studies (Linguistics) and Ethnology, June 1992

            Freie Universität Berlin (Free University Berlin), Germany

            Thesis: Social Models of Language Choice

            Director: Carol Pfaff

                                                                                                         

            B.A. in Anthropology, 1984

            Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

 

Professional Experience

 

Professor of Language and Society, Department of European Language and Cultures,

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (University of Groningen), The Netherlands, 2017 - present

Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, 2012 – 2017

            Director of Women’s Studies at Southern Illinois University, August 2010 – July 2013

Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, 2004-2012

                        Cross appointment with Women’s Studies since 2003

                        Cross appointment with Linguistics since 2006

Guest Professor of English Linguistics, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, summer

semester 2009

Guest Professor of American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2005-

2006

Associate Professor of Linguistics at Southern Illinois University, 2003-2004

Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Southern Illinois University, 1997 – 2003

 

            Research Assistant at the University of South Carolina

                        summer, 1994 - summer, 1997

 

            Teaching Assistant at the University of South Carolina

                        fall, 1992 - spring 1994

Courses Taught: English 101, Freshman Composition & English 101b, Freshman

Composition for Non-Native Speakers

 

            English as a Foreign Language Instructor, 1989-1992

                        The Ascot School of Languages, Berlin, Germany

                        Akademie für Fremdsprachen GmBH, Berlin, Germany    

 

University teaching experience

RUG

            Undergraduate teaching:

                        Language & Society

                        Language & Power

                        Eurolab 2: Migration

                        Eurolab 2: Media & Society

                        Eurolab 3: Democracy Deficits

                        Place & Belonging (Language Specific 2, English)

                        How to Research Gender and Diversity

            Graduate teaching:

                        Discourse Analysis

 

SIUC (Courses listed are in the Department of Linguistics (LING), the Department of Anthropology (ANTH) and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS).) Note: 300-level courses and below are undergraduate courses; 400-level courses are intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students; 500-level courses are graduate seminars.

 

           

            LING 200: Language, Society and the Mind

ANTH 202: American’s Diverse Cultures

            ANTH 240B: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

                        LING 320i: Language, Gender and Power

                        LING 401: General Linguistics

                        LING 405: Phonology

                        ANTH/LING 406:  Historical Linguistics

                        ANTH/LING 415: Sociolinguistics

                        ANTH/LING 416: Spanish in the USA

                        LING 543: Bilingualism

                        ANTH/LING 544: Discourse Analysis

                        ANTH/WGSS 546:  Language, Gender, and Sexuality

                        LING 546: Pragmatics

LING 341/588: Intercultural Communication

WGSS 591: Topics: Discourses of Gender and Sexuality

WGSS 591: Topics: Feminist Theories and Methodologies

                       

            M.A.Theses/Dissertations Directed (Selected Topics)                                           

                        Language ideologies and language policy in Catalonia

Language maintenance and integration of EU migrants in the Netherlands

                        Singular they in English       

Depictions of women in Der Spiegel photographs and captions

A Critical Discourse Analysis of media discourse on the war on Iraq

Ideologies about Japanese Women’s Language

Critical Discourse Analysis of Representations of North Koreans

Identity and Community in Young Turkish-American Women’s Facebook                                           Practices and Performances

Identity and Language Use in a Latino Community in Southern Illinois

African American Identity Construction on Facebook

Gender Identity in Table-Top Role Playing Games

The Matrix Language Frame Model applied to French-Lingala Codeswitching

 

Publications

 

Books

2021.  (with Ronald Wardhaugh). Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 8th edition. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

2020.  (with Jennifer Leeman) Speaking Spanish in the US: The Sociopolitics of Language. Multilingual Matters (2nd edition of Spanish Speakers in the USA).

 

2015. (with Ronald Wardhaugh). Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th edition. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

2013.   Spanish Speakers in the USA.  Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

 

2012.  Bilingual pre-teens: Competing ideologies and multiple identities in the U.S. and Germany. New York: Routledge.

 

Edited Volumes

2006.   (with Linda Thornburg).  Studies in Contact Linguistics:  Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

 

1995.  (with Ho Han and David Parkinson). Proceedings of the Eleventh Eastern States Conference on Linguistics.  Ithaca, NY: DMLL Publications.

 

Refereed Journals

2019. Immigration, Integration and Leitkultur in German Newspapers: Competing Discourses about National Belonging. Studii de lingvistica 8 (2) (Le discours politique identitaire face aux migrations), 175-190.

 

2015. (with Aimee Hosemann.) Latino Education. Language and Linguistics Compass 9:4. 183-195.

 

2010. Gendered choices: codeswitching and collaboration in a bilingual classroom. Gender and Language 4:1.181-208.

 

2009. Sam need gun go war: performances of non-Standard English in the construction of identity. Journal of Sociolinguistics 13:5.659-669.

 

2007. Language choice as a means for shaping identity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 17:1.105-129.

 

2005.  The uses and meanings of the female title “Ms.” American Speech 80:2. 180-206.2003.

 

2003.   Use of the discourse marker ‘like’ in interviews. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7:3.365-377.

 

2003.   Discourse marker use across speech contexts: A comparison of native and non-native speaker performance. Multilingua 22. 185-208.

 

2003.  The influence of speaker role on discourse marker use.  The Journal of Pragmatics 35:1.23-45.

 

2001.   The principle of pragmatic detachability in borrowing: English-origin discourse markers in Pennsylvania German. Linguistics 39:2.351-369.

 

2000.   Language choice and speaker identity: the influence of a researcher’s linguistic proficiency in interviews. Southern Journal of Linguistics 24:1.94-102.

 

2000.  Morpheme types in a matrix language turnover: the introduction of system morphemes from English into Pennsylvania German.  International Journal of Bilingualism 4.1.45-58. (Special issue on Testing a Model of Morpheme Classification with Language Contact Data)

 

2000.   (with Heike Lehnert). Noun phrase structure in German-English codeswitching: variation in gender assignment and article use. International Journal of Bilingualism 4.3.399-420.

 

1999.   Between three languages: composite structures in Interlanguage. Applied Linguistics 20/4.534-561.

 

1999.  The role of English in Pennsylvania German development: best supporting actress? American Speech 74.1:38-55.

 

1998.  Variation in word order in Pennsylvania German: the role of English complementizers in subordinate clauses. Papers in Sociolinguistics:  NWAVE 26, L’Université Laval (Quebec), 273-79.

 

1996.  When cultural maintenance means linguistic convergence: Pennsylvania German evidence for the Matrix Language Turnover hypothesis. Language in Society 25.493-514.

 

1994.  Deconstructing the defense:  style switching and irony as linguistic strategies in the   courtroom.  SECOL (South Eastern Conference on Linguistics) Review 17.31-44.

 

1993.   (with Michael Montgomery and Sharon DeMarse). The black men has wives and sweet Harts [and Third Person Plural -s] jest like the white men: evidence for verbal -s from written documents on nineteenth-century African American speech. Language Variation and Change 5.3:335-357.

 

1993.  Hearing between the lines:  style switching in a courtroom setting. Pragmatics 3.29-43.

 

Book Chapters and other Invited Publications

2021. (with Richard Cameron). Sociolinguistics (updated version). IN Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Oxford University Press.

 

2019. Immigration and Integration.  In English in the German-Speaking World, ed. by Raymond Hickey, 165-184. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

 

2019. Linguistic Landscapes and the Making of an Imagined Community. IN The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin, ed. by Heyd, Theresa / Mengden, Ferdinand / Schneider, Britta, 279-297. Berlin: De Gruyter.

 

2019. Anthropology. IN Language Contact (Vol. 1), Handbücher zur Sprach-und Kommunikationswissenschaft Series, ed. by Jeroen Darquennes, Joe Salmons, and Wim Vandenbussche, 679-691. De Gruyter.

 

2019. Discourses of Immigration and Integration in German Newspaper Comments. In Migration and Media: Discourses About Identities in Crisis, ed. by Andreas Musolff and Lorella Viola, 317-338. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

 

2019. Ideologies of Language, Bilingualism, and Monolingualism. IN The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism, ed. by Lourdes Ortega and Annick De Houwer. Cambridge University Press, 119-134.

 

2017. (with Julio Ruben Torres). Spanish in the US. IN Heritage Language Policies around the World, ed. by Sheena Shah and Corrine Seals. Routledge.

 

2017. (with Richard Cameron). Sociolinguistics. IN Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Oxford University Press.

 

2014. Language choices and ideologies in the bilingual classroom. IN Multilingual             education: Negotiating Between Language Learning and Translanguaging, ed. by Jasone        Cenoz and Durk Gorter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

2013. (with Janelle Briggs and Laurel Dillon-Sumner.)  Men eat for muscle, women eat for weightloss: Discourses about food and gender in Men’s and Women’s Health magazines. IN Culinary Linguistics, ed. by Cornelia Gerhardt, Susanne Ley, and Maximiliane Frobenius. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 261-280.

 

2013. Made in Berlin: bilingualism and identity among immigrant and German-background children. IN Multilingual Identities: New Global Perspectives, ed. by Inke Du Bois and Nicole Baumgarten. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 35-50.

 

2009. How bilingual children talk: strategic codeswitching among children in dual language programs. IN First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language, ed. by Miles Turnbull and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, 115-130. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

 

2009. Teaching and Learning Guide for Multilingualism in educational contexts: ideologies and identities. Language and Linguistics Compass 3/5: 1374–1378.

 

2009. Multilingualism in educational contexts: ideologies and identities. Language and      Linguistics Compass 3:1.338-358.

 

2008. Language and identity in the German diaspora. IN German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss, ed. by Schulze, Mathias, James M. Skidmore, David G. John, Grit Liebscher, and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach, 3-20. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

 

2007. (with Minta Elsman and Kevan Self). Addressing peers in a Spanish-English

bilingual classroom. IN Spanish in contact: Educational, Social, and Linguistic Inquiries, ed. by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron, 135-151. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

 

2007. Case Study No. 4:  Studying language ideologies and identities in southern Illinois. IN The Human Experience: A Recitation Manual for Anthropology, ed. by Andrew Balkansky, Robert Corruccini and Meghan Harrison, 51-62. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

 

2007.   German.  IN The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Language, Vol. 5, ed. by Michael           Montgomery and Ellen Johnson, 65-69. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

 

2006.   Borrowing trouble: convergence in Pennsylvania German. IN Studies in Contact Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert, ed. by Linda L. Thornburg and Janet M. Fuller, 189-204. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishers.

 

2006.   Língua e identidade na diáspora Alemã (e na Pátria).  IN Tempos Históricos 09, ed. by Antonio Bosi, 11-425, 11-39. Department of History - University of Western Paraná

 

2003.   (with Glenn Gilbert).  The Linguistic Atlas of Texas German revisited. IN German Language Varieties Worldwide: Internal and External Perspectives/Deutsche Sprachinseln weltweit: Interne und Externe Perspektiven, ed. by William Keel and Klaus Mattheier. Peter Lang, 165-176.

 

2000.   Changing perspectives on data: interviews as situated speech.  American Speech 75:4.48-50.

 

            1996.  (with Michael Montgomery). What was verbal -s in 19th century African American English? IN Focus on the USA (Varieties of English Around the World, Volume 16), edited by Edgar Schneider, 211-230.  Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

Proceedings

Forthcoming. ‘Organically German?’: Changing ideologies of national belonging. Studies in Language Variation: Selected Papers of ICLaVE|10, ed. by Hans van der Velde, Nanna Hilton, and Remco Knooihuizen, 113-135.  John Benjamins Publishing Company.

 

2003.  The sociopragmatic values of Pennsylvania German (“Dutch”): changes across time,

place and Anabaptist sect.  Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, ed. by James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, and Jeff MacSwan. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

 

            1997.  Co-constructing bilingualism: non-converging discourse as an unmarked choice.  SALSA (Symposium About Language in Society -- Austin) IV Proceedings, ed. By Alice Chu, Anne-Marie P. Guerra, and Chantal Tetreault, 68-77.  Austin, TX: University of Texas Linguistics Department.

 

Reviews

2012. Review of Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe, ed. by Jenny Carl and Patrick Stevenson. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16:1.117-120.

 

2012. Review of Discursive Constructions of Immigrant Identity: A Sociolinguistic Trend Study on Long-Term American Immigrants, by Inke Du Bois. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16:5.699-702.

 

2010. Review of Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective, by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14:4. 562-566.

 

2009. Review of Play Frames and Social Identities: Contact Encounter in a Greek

            Primary School, by Vally Lytra. Language in Society 38:1.7-10.

 

2009. Book note on Discourse and Identity, ed. by Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin and

            Michael Bamberg. Language in Society 38:1.123-4.

 

2008. Review of Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach, by Victoria

            Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine Helen Palczewski. Gender and Language 2:2.227-231.

 

2006. Review of Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse, by Simone Müller. LinguistList 17.2073.

2005.  Review of An Introduction to Pragmatics: Social action for Language Teachers, by

            Virginia LoCastro.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27:3.472-3.

 

2004. Review of Bilingualism and Social Change: Turkish Speakers in North Western

            Europe, ed. by J. Normann Jørgensen.  LinguistList 14-3566.

 

2004. Review of Discourse Construction of Youth Identities, ed. by Jannis K.

Androutsopoulos and Alexandra Georgakopoulou.  LinguistList 14-1656.

 

2001.   Review of The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing, by Ruth King. Diachronica 18.2.379-383.

 

2001.  Review of Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation, by Gisle Andersen. LinguistList 12.2724.

 

2001.   Review of The Phonology of Pennsylvania German English, by Achim Kopp. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 12.1.187-191.

 

2000.   Review of Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects, ed. by Lenore Grenoble and Lindsay Whaley. International Journal of Bilingualism 4.1.114-16.

 

2000.   Review of Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity, ed. by Peter Auer. World Englishes 20:1.109-11.

 

1999.   Review of One Speaker, Two Languages: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching, ed by Lesley Milroy and Pieter Muysken.  American Speech 74.426-29.

 

1995.  (with Carol Myers-Scotton). Review of Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register, ed. by Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan.  Anthropological Linguistics 37.413-16.

 

Other

2006    Consultant for the Sociolinguistics Section of the 6th edition of A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics by David Crystal.

 

Presentations

Invited Talks

2021.   Introducing the Summer School: Language Diversity in Education. Opening lecture at Diversity in Education summer school, University of Groningen, June 27 – July 2, Virtual summer school, Groningen, The Netherlands.

2021.   Multilingual Societies, Multilingual Schools:  Critical Perspectives on Language Ideologies in Educational Contexts. Opening lecture at New Perspectives on Emerging Grammars, Variation and Change. February 21st to 23rd, Virtual Conference | Berlin, Germany.

2019.   Media Discourses of Populism: Critical Perspectives. Keynote lecture at the Winter            School Imagining Southern Europe: Culture and Populism, February 18 -     22, Valencia, Spain.

 

2018.   ‘Ein Biodeutscher wie ich’: Discourses of National Belonging in German Newspaper Comments, Paper to be presented April 10, Sociolinguistics Series, Leiden University.

 

2017.   Linguistic Landscapes and the Making of an Imagined Community in Berlin, Germany.

Friday Speaker Series, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, January 13.

 

2016.   Linguistic Landscapes and the Making of an Imagined Community:  Language

Commodification, Transnational Identities, Cosmopolitan Codes and Glocalization. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin conference, September 30 – October 1, 2016, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

 

2016.  Minority languages in linguistic landscapes:  Berlin and Chicago. Paper presented at the University of South Carolina Linguistics Program Colloquium, January 15.

 

2015.  The linguistic and discursive construction of the borders around Deutschsein

(Germanness) in Berlin.  Paper presented at the Autumn School  on Grenzgänger in Theorie und Praxis: Von der Permeabilität der Grenz zur Liminalität neuer Akteure und Räume? (Border crossers in theory and practice: From the permeabilitz of the border to the liminality of new actors and spaces). Viadrinia University, Center for Border in Motion: Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

 

2015.  Sprachideologien und soziale Identitäten: Berlin und southern IL (Language ideologies 

and social identities:  Berlin and southern Illinois). Paper presented at the Center for Language, Variation and Migration, University of Potsdam, January 7.

 

2015.  Minority languages in linguistic landscapes:  Berlin and Chicago. Paper presented at the

            University of Illinois at Chicago Talks in Linguistics, April 10.

 

2015.  Spanish in the linguistic landscapes of Illinois:  from marginalized to mainstream. Latino

            and Latin American Studies Talk Series, Southern Illinois University, April 22.

 

2010.  Language ideologies and meanings of German and English in a bilingual school setting. Paper presented at the conference Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures in Global Perspective, Madison, WI, March 25-26.

 

2006.   Immigration into Germany:  language use and identity in a multilingual setting. Paper presented at The German Language and Immigration in International Perspective, Madison, WI., Sept. 28-29.

 

2006. Language and identity in the German diaspora (and at home). Keynote presentation at

Diaspora Experiences: German-Speaking Immigrants and Their Descendants. Waterloo Center for German Studies, Waterloo, Ontario, August 24-27.

 

2001.  Discourse markers as tools for negotiating common ground:  native versus non-native

            speakers. Presentation at the Linguistics Colloquium Series, Northeastern Illinois

            University, March 13.

 

2000.  Variation in Pennsylvania German: conservation, innovation, and attrition among Beachy Mennonites.  Presentation given at the Mini-Conference at the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, Madison, WI, April 1.

 

1999.     The role of language proficiency in sociolinguistic interviews.  Presentation given on an invited panel at SECOL (South Eastern Conference on Linguistics) April 9-10, Norfolk, VA.

 

 1997. The application of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) Model to dynamic language contact phenomena. Presentation given at Georgetown University in a course on Pidgin and Creole Languages, April 16.

 

Organized Sessions

2021.   Media discourses about immigration and integration: National languages, immigrant

languages, and multilingualism. Symposium organized for AILA, August 16-20, virtual conference, Groningen, The Netherlands.

 

2009.  Ideologies and identities in Spanish-English bilingual education in the U.S.

            Colloquium organized for the International Symposium on Bilingualism, July 8-11, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

 

2008. (with Inke du Bois and Nicole Baumgarten). Multilingual identities: new global perspectives on immigrant discourses. Workshop organized for the Association Internationale Linguistique Appliqué (AILA), Aug 25-29, Essen, Germany.

 

Conference Presentations

2021.   Forbidden Tongues:  The affective canon and multilingualism in Germany. Paper

presented at AILA, August 16-20, virtual conference, Groningen, The Netherlands.

 

2021.   (with Emily Davis). Veiled Insults: Discourses about Burqas during the COVID-19

Pandemic. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Circle, virtual conference, Antwerp, Belgium.

 

2018    Discourses of National Belonging in Germany:  Twitter Data and the 2018 World Cup. Paper presented at the Language and Belonging Workshop, October 5, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 

2018    Discourses of Belonging in Contemporary Germany. Paper presented at the             Sociolinguistics Circle, April 6, Maastricht, The Netherlands

 

2018    Borders and Belonging: Immigration and Integration in Germany.  Paper to be presented at the Languages and Borders conference, March 26 – 27, Bristol.

 

2017    Immigration, integration and Leitkultur in German newspapers: competing

            discourses about national belonging. Paper resented at Discours Politique Identitaire 3: Le discours politique identitaire face aux migrations, Oceober 20-21, Montellier, France.

 

2017    Minority Languages and the Linguistic Landscapes of Chicago and Berlin. Poster presented the the Conference on Multilingualism, November 6-8, Groningen, The      Netherlands.

 

2017    Immigration, integration and Leitkultur in German newspapers: competing discourses                   about national belonging. Paper resented at Discours Politique Identitaire 3: Le discours        politique identitaire face aux migrations, Oceober 20-21, Montellier, France.

 

2015    Linguistic landscapes in Berlin. Paper presented at the Borders and Identities: Urban Fragmentation Conference, Berlin March 16-19.

 

2012.   Transnational youth language in Berlin:  German and English in the construction of identity. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Berlin, Germany, August 21-24.

 

2010.   Intersections of class and gender: English proficiency as a marker of middle class

femininities. Paper presented at NWAV 35, San Antonio, TX, November 4-6.

 

2010.  Language ideologies in transnational Berlin: social meanings of English and German (part of an organized panel titled Language, migration and belonging: spaces of inclusion and exclusion in a changing Europe). Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Southampton, England, September 1-4.

 

2009.  The ideology of normative monolingualism in the shaping of bilingual identities. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 8-11.

 

2009.  Punctual ‘whenever’ in South Midland youth speech. Paper presented at The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, April 8-10, New Orleans, LA.

2008.  Made in Berlin: bilingualism and identity among immigrant and German-background

            children. Paper presented in the Multilingual Identities Workshop at AILA, the 15th

            World Congress on Applied Linguistics, August 25-29.

 

2008.   Gender and disruptive behavior in fourth and fifth grade classrooms. Paper presented at

            NWAV 37, Houston, TX, Nov. 6-9.

 

2008.  The ideology of normative monolingualism in the shaping of bilingual identities:

            Spanish/English bilingual pre-teens in southern Illinois. Paper presented at

            Sociolinguistics Fest, Bloomington, IN, June 12-14.

 

2007. Community values and classroom norms: boys’ codeswitching patterns in bilingual

education programs in Europe and the U.S. Paper to be presented at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, Germany, May 30-June 2.

 

2006. Mother Tongue, partner tongue, tongue-in-cheek: pre-teen boys’ construction of identity in a bilingual classroom. Poster presented at NWAV 35, Columbus, OH, November 9-12.

 

2005.  (with Kevan Self and Minta Elsman). To switch or not to switch, that is the question:

            addressing peers in a Spanish-English bilingual classroom. Paper presented at the      

            20th Conference, Spanish in the U.S., Chicago, IL, March 24-26.

 

2005.  (with Minta Elsman). Codeswitching in the classroom:  identity and language choice.            

            Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, Spain,       

            March 20-23.

 

2004.   Will you be my best friend?: ethnic identity, gender and language choice in a

            bilingual classroom.  Paper presented at NWAVE 33, Sept 30 – Oct. 3, Ann Arbor, MI.

 

2004:   Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock, and Ms. White: Female title usage in the South Midlands.  Paper presented at the American Dialect Society, January 8-11, Boston, MA.

 

2003.   Come in, Mrs. Johnson – or is it Miss?: Female title usage in the South Midlands. Poster presented at NWAVE 32, October 8-12, Philadelphia, PA.

 

2003.  The sociopragmatic values of Pennsylvania German: changes across time, place and Anabaptist sect.  Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, April 30-May3, Tempe, AZ.

 

2001.   Positions of power in couples’ talk: the native language advantage. Paper presented at NWAV 30, October 11-13, Raleigh, NC.

 

2001.   (with Glenn Gilbert). The Linguistic Atlas of Texas German revisited. Paper presented at the German Speech Island Conference, March 29-April 1 2001, Max Kade Center for German-American Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

 

2000.   Discourse markers across genres of discourse: native versus non-native speakers. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society meeting, January 6-8, Chicago.

 

1999.  Individual variation in Pennsylvania German: innovation vs. fossilization. Paper presented at NWAVE-28, October 14-17, Toronto.

 

 

1999.     (with Heike Lehnert). Constructing a grammatical frame in codeswitching: noun phrases in German-English codeswitching. Paper  presented in a Colloquium on Grammar and Codeswitching at the 2nd International Symposium on Bilingualism, April 14-17, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

 

1999.   Language choice and speaker identity: the influence of a researcher’s linguistic proficiency in interviews.  Paper presented on an invited panel on Fieldwork for the New Century at SECOL (Southeastern Conference on Linguistics) LX.  April 8-10, Norfolk, VA.

 

1998.  Marking common knowledge and negotiating common ground: the use of y’know in Pennsylvania German. Paper presented at NWAVE 27, Athens, Georgia, October 1-4.

 

1998. The role of discourse marking in bilingual speech. Paper presented at the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, July 19-24, Reims, France.