FALL 2022

Welcome to our 2022-Fall SDLVC Calendar!

During this semester, we will have face-to-face Meetings (unless noted). Our meetings will take place on select Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m., starting September 29th, 2022 in Room 3092C FLB Building. If you are interested in joining our reading group, please write to Jonathan Pye, our graduate assistant.

09/29/2022 – Language Contact

Trudgill, Peter. 2008. Colonial dialect contact in the history of European languages: on the irrelevance of identity to new-dialect formation. Language in Society 37.

(OPTIONAL) Mufwene, Salikoko. 2008. Colonization, population contacts, and the emergence of new language varieties: A response to Trudgill. Language in Society 37.


10/13/2022 – Language Contact

Escobar, A. (2022). The Emergence of Andean Spanish: Against the Odds. In S. Mufwene & A. Escobar (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact: Volume 2: Multilingualism in Population Structure (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 618-634). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316796146.030


11/03/2022 – Globalization and Identity

Blommaert, J. (2007). Sociolinguistic scales. Intercultural Pragmatics 4, 1-19.


11/10/2022 – Language contact from an applied sociolinguistic perspective

Fagyal, Z. (2022). Monolingualism vs. Multilingualism in Western Europe: Language Regimes in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. In S. Mufwene & A. Escobar (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact: Volume 2: Multilingualism in Population Structure (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 228-254). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316796146.012


11/17/2022 – Language and Indexicality

Callesano, S. (2022). Indexicality and bricolage: A sociolinguistic approach to “no sabo kids”


12/01/2022 – Linguistic Bias

Callesano, S. & Carter, P.M. (in press). Unidirectional language bias: The Implicit Association Test with Spanish and English in Miami. International Journal of Bilingualism.