December 2019

A Digital Take on Modern Model Minority: Not So Subtle Asian Traits

Sociolinguistics

Subin Kim, Jihee Choi, Fiona Dai, Chris Ngo This study investigates social implications of Asian Americans being stereotyped as a model minority. The notion of the model minority basically highlights only positive aspects and successes of a group, while ignoring or downplaying the negative aspects and characteristics. Many Asian Americans have been preconceived as “nerdy” […]

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Emojis: The 21st Century’s Universal Form of Digital Communication

Sociolinguistics

Elisha Daria, Julia Jacoby, Jocelyn Martinez Since their inception in 1999, emojis have become essential to how we communicate. Utilizing the iconographetic communication model devised by Christina Margrit Siever (2019), our group wanted to examine and compare how people use emojis within a public sphere, such as Instagram or Twitter, versus a private one, such

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Love Language: A Sociolinguistic Study on Bilingual Couples Talk

Sociolinguistics

Yiran Li, Ekeme Ekanem, Mary Youngblood, and Nguyenova Dieu Anh – Shelly Code-switching, where more than one language is integrated into speech, is extremely common amongst bilingual and multilingual speakers. Unfortunately, code-switching is often viewed by society as lazy or unintelligent, creating a negative stigma around speakers of non-standard language, which are often minority groups.

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May I Speak Now? Examining Gendered Turn-Taking in Televised Debates

Sociolinguistics

Daniel Li, Jennifer Moon, Ming Liang, Minh-Khoa Tran The present text explores turn-taking by focusing on two prominent models which describe gender differences in communication — the dominance model and the difference model. The idea of deep interruptions is also employed in this study to better measure turn taking during interactions. We are focusing on

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Gen Z, Slang, and Stuff

Sociolinguistics

Anonymous author, Daniela Vega, Giselle Chan,  Yuxiao Li This study provides an analysis on the use of general extenders within Generation Z (Gen Z) online discourse. Utilizing qualitative analysis methods on social media dialogue (e.g. Youtube comments, Tweets, Spotify playlists, etc.) allows us to demonstrate how Gen Z members have created a new general extender

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Bilingualism in TV: When and why does code-switching happen?

Sociolinguistics

Zoe Willoughby, Anton Nogin, Isaiah Sandoval, Maria Becerra As bilingualism becomes increasingly prevalent in a wider variety of television shows, sociolinguistic analysis of what code-switching entails and why it is used becomes even more important to look at. We delve into an analysis of the shows Dora the Explorer and One Day at a Time

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Dorothy wants to know: How can television influence language development?

Sociolinguistics

Looking at Child-Directed Speech on Sesame Street Tania Aguilar, Alex Ferguson, Thomas Gerard, Matthew Pham In today’s highly advanced and technological world, access to media through the Internet is not a challenge for any age group. Most children have their eyes constantly glued to a screen, whether that be a television, tablet, computer, or mobile

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Okay So…Vloggers You Know?

Sociolinguistics

James Beasley, Mahta Marefat, Betsy Wo The present article focuses on identifying how YouTube content creators shape their material and influence viewers’ language through storytelling. The evident popularity of YouTube among younger generations leads to the hypothesis that linguistic variants displayed by content creators subtly influence the conversation styles of young adults. This study was

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Why do people interrupt? It depends on the situation you are in.

Sociolinguistics

Mariane Bangui, Oi Kei Cheung, Oscar Franco, Yunjae Lee We have all been interrupted by others while saying something. Being interrupted is a universal experience, but have you ever hypothesized what contexts affect how we interrupt? Here we present a project investigating how dynamics in negotiations can be reflected through the use of interruptions (N=100)

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Gender Differences in Written Language

Sociolinguistics

Jasmine Murphy, Hannah Hong, Kyungjo Kim, Omar Balawag This study investigates gender differences in written language. Particularly, by analyzing cover letters for women-preferential language indicators, we find how gender is enacted in formal, written contexts. Furthermore, we investigate how usage of women’s language indicators is affected when discussing subjects deemed to be masculine or feminine.

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