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Dissertation research
Dissertation research
My dissertation was centered around language practices, ideologies, and discourses by Gullah Geechee tour guides in Charleston, SC.
I observed that in intercommunity contact between outsider tourists and insider tour guides, guides create curated and enregistered styles of language. These practices are readily commodified by guides for outsider consumption while simultaneously indexing them as authentic in-group community members. This illustrates a high level of metalinguistic awareness in minority language-speaking intercommunity intermediaries, which speaks to how creole language communities navigate and negotiate language expression within hegemonic systems.
Other research
Other research
Creole language sociophonetics
Creole language sociophonetics
Style, commodification and authenticity
Style, commodification and authenticity
Performance and identity
Performance and identity
April 2023 "What Mr. Simmons said: Stylization, pitch, and the voicing of others on the Gullah Geechee cultural heritage tour" Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America (PLSA)
April 2022 "Tree bahk or 3.0 Bark: Linguistic identity and the sociophonetic variation of rhotics in Gullah Geechee" Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA)
Jan 2022 "Sociophonetic style-shifting: R-lessness in the construction of Gullah Geechee performance and personhood" Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2022 Annual Meeting
July 2023 "Gullah Geechee style-shifting as mediation in intercommunity performance contexts" Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 6, University of Georgia
Nov 2023 "Linguistic souvenirs and Charleston markets: discourses of authenticity in the Gullah Geechee tourism industry" American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society (AAA/CASCA) Annual Meeting
Jan 2022 "Matter of artifact: indexing authenticity in Gullah Geechee tour guide linguistic media" American Dialect Society (ADS) Annual Meeting 2022
Accepted, in revision "Stillyet, de net ain teah: Gullah Geechee language expression in the digital age" American Speech
Jan 2023 "Metatouristic stancetaking: The Gullah Geechee cultural heritage tour and the negotiation of personhood" American Dialect Society (ADS) 2023 Annual Meeting
April 2022 "Metalanguage and the ethnolinguistic repertoire in Lowcountry Gullah Geechee tourism contexts" Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) 2022
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