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ELITE ENGAGEMENT IN LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING: AHMED TALEB IBRAHIMI AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARABIZATION IN ALGERIA
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation looks at elite engagement in the process of language policy and planning in Algeria after independence, highlighting the connection between ideology and the development of national identity. To achieve ...
Telling Disability: Identity Construction in Personal and Vicarious Narratives
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study examines the construction of disability identities in personal and vicarious narratives. Sociolinguistic research on narrative focuses largely on personal narrative (Schiffrin 1996); some studies claim that ...
Gesture in Multiparty Interaction: A Study of Embodied Discourse in Spoken English and American Sign Language
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This dissertation is an examination of gesture in two game nights: one in spoken English between four hearing friends and another in American Sign Language between four Deaf friends. Analyses of gesture have shown there ...
Quantitative Authorship Attribution of Users of Mexican Drug Dealing Related Online Forums
(Georgetown University, 2012)
As the violence in the Mexican drug war escalates, a proliferation of social media sites about drug trafficking in Mexico was followed by the murder of some of their users, and the eventual disappearance of many of those ...
Vowel variation, style, and identity construction in the English of Latinos in Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This study investigates the interrelationship of language, identity, and /ae/ (“ash”) variation along the first-formant (F1) and second-formant (F2) dimensions, in first- and second- generation Latinos in the Washington, ...
Phonetic variation in Washington DC: Race, neighborhood, and gender
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This dissertation explores the speech of African American and European American residents in the District of Columbia, approaching from both variationist and discourse-analytic perspectives. The study investigates the ...
Language variation and change in an Amdo Tibetan village: Gender, education and resistance
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This dissertation examines variation in the realization of the final bilabial nasal (m) among speakers of Amdo Tibetan farmer dialect. The bilabial nasal (m) in words like lam `road', for example, neutralizes with the ...
Power through Participation: A sociolinguistic approach to identifying leadership in executive education classroom discourse
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Studies of power in professionals’ relationships are generally situated in the workplace (e.g. Holmes & Chiles, 2010; Schnurr & Chan, 2011). Inspired by this work, I extend the study of power to interactions between ...
Sociophonetic Variation at the Intersection of Gender, Region, and Style in Japanese Female Speech
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This dissertation is a sociophonetic study of 46 female Japanese speakers from three major metropolitan regions: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. While previous work on Japanese Women's Language assumes a monolithic speech variety, ...
Language, Ethnicity and Identity in a New Jersey Korean-American Community
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation investigates the variable patterning of two phonological features in the speech of 24 Korean Americans in the most densely populated Korean American community in the US, Bergen County, in the northeast ...