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SECOL 2018 @

“Crossing Borders” the 85th on Linguistics

April 19-21, 2018

The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center Blacksburg, Virginia

Supported by Virginia Tech’s Department of English Humanities at Virginia Tech Moss Arts Center Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) Institute for Policy and Governance Office for Inclusion and Diversity Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Blacksburg, Virginia 1 Thursday, April 19

11:00 a.m. – Registration, Second Floor Foyer 1:00 p.m. Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Language Use on Social Media and Talking Southern Language and Politics Session 1 in Video Games Chair: Paul Reed Chair: Karen Burdette Chair: Nathalie Dajko 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. The Valuation of Econyms and Let Us Plead With Our Government: “What are you doing, Link?”: Their Perlocutionary Force in Verbal Rights, Responsibilities, and the First- The Use of Pronouns in a Let’s Play Construction of Local Political Economies Person Plural in Letters to the Editor in Leah Nodar Anita Puckett Sri Lankan and Kenyan Englishes North Carolina State University Virginia Tech Theresa McGarry Martha Michieka East Tennessee State University 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Assessing the Validity of Mid-nineteenth Keywords in the Bush and Obama years: “Skyrim is for the Nords!”: Linguistic Century Literary Southern Dialect in The Case of “Freedom” Difference and White Male Nationalism Fisher’s River (North Carolina) Scenes and Michael Olsen in a Role-Playing Game Characters by “Skitt, who was raised thar” Jon Inscoe Radoslaw Dylewski University of Maryland, Baltimore County Adam Mickiewicz University 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Crossing Ideological Borders: Inclusive Pronoun Usage in the Nonstandard Punctuation and Discursive The Case of the “Liberal Redneck” and Construction of Political Identity Functionality on Twitter: the Deployment of Southern Stereotypes Zack Dukic A Corpus-Driven Analysis in Political Comedy North Carolina State University Elizabeth Wright Catherine Davies The 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Comparing Southern Dialect Variation The Use of Implosive Consonants in Stillyet, de net ain teah: Gullah Language between Interviews and Songs in Obama’s Style Shifts Expression in the Digital Age the Speech of a Country Music Artist, Taha Husain John McCullough Alan Jackson University of Kentucky University of South Carolina Margarita Nemchuk Jon Bakos Indiana State University

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Talking Black in America Screening, Lyric Theatre (campus map O-3)

5:45 – 7:45 p.m. Reception, Owens Banquet Hall (campus map N-5)

Dinner (on your own)

2 SECOL 2018 @ Virginia Tech Friday, April 20

Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Discourse Analysis and Narratives Session 2 Chair: Lars Naborn Chair: Katie Conner Chair: Maeve Eberhardt 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. /t / and /d / affrication across time and Exploring Turn-Taking and Discourse Can I Get an Amen?: African American corpora Markers through Generations English in RuPaul’s Drag Race Bridget Smith Meghan Kolcum Alyssa Crowley North Carolina State University Virginia Tech University of South Carolina 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Acoustic correlates of stress in “Some line just massively got crossed”: A Fightin’ Words: Dialect Discrimination in second-language Spanish discourse analysis of what it means to be a the Academic and Professional Workplace Justin Bland woman in academia Caroline Myrick Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza Kate Rustad Jon Forrest Kathryn Campbell-Kibler The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill North Carolina State University The 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Center of Gravity and Duration of “If you ask me for one, I’ll give you three”: Bordered by Bilingualism: Perceptions of Fricatives in Consonant Clusters Oral storytelling performance and University toward National and Lisa Lapani construction in Central Appalachia Foreign Languages University of Georgia Brandon Jent Madison Densmore University of Kentucky The University of Mississippi

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break, Upper Quad

Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Language in Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography Morphosyntax Session 3 Chair: Mike Picone Chair: Alex Ratté Chair: Justin White 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. A variationist analysis of first-person- Transgressing Linguistic Boundaries: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Arabic singular subject expression in Louisiana A Corpus-based Study on Religion’s Verbal Agreement Asymmetries French Restrictive Influence on the Frequency of Connor Rouillier Aarnes Gudmestad Pain Language in Louisiana State University Katie Carmichael David Johnson Virginia Tech Kennesaw State University 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. The Distribution of Multiple Modals in Horses and Language: An Early and The Bigger Picture of Parameter Theory: Southeastern Louisiana English Enduring Partnership Interfacing Language and Cognition Greg Johnson Sarah Tsiang Ralf Thiede Louisiana State University Eastern Kentucky University UNC Charlotte 11:30 a.m. – Linguistic Sub-Regions and Boundaries 12:00 p.m. of North Louisiana: Contemporary, Historical, and Literary Data Lisa Abney Northwestern State University 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own) Executive meeting at Preston’s Restaurant

Blacksburg, Virginia 3 Friday, April 20 (continued)

Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Gender and Sexuality Spanish Language Contact & Language Change Session 4 Chair: Abby Walker Chair: Aarnes Gudmestad Chair: Joe Eska 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. When Violation Goes Viral: Uses of Tú and Usted in Ancient Loanwords and their Significance A Critical Discourse Analysis of Isleño Spanish Conflict for Language Contact in Early Japan Social Media Comments on Felice Coles Alexander Francis-Ratte Sexual Assault in the ‘Real’ World University of Mississippi Furman University Katherine Conner North Carolina State University 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Gender-specific Derogatory Terms: The Social Meanings of Tú and Usted: New Japanese-Korean Cognates and Some A Diachronic Study Attitudes and Perceptions of the speakers Implications for Japanese-Korean Border Leslie Layne Giovani Lopez Crossings University of Lynchburg University of Alabama Emily Nicholson Alexander Francis-Ratte Furman University 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Dative Clitic Placement in Contemporary The Effect of Massive Internal Cuban Spanish: A Relic from the Past? Displacement on the of Justin White Portuguese in Luanda, Angola Florida Atlantic University Vanessa Swenson University of Georgia, PhD 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Break, Upper Quad Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Session 5 Language Practices in the “new” Language Contact Semantics-Pragmatics : Perception, Performance, Chair: Dennis Preston Chair: Ralf Thiede and Representation of local Dialects in a Post-disaster Context Chair: Lisa Abney 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. “An edgy aftertaste of danger”: That Marine Base in North Carolina: Crossing Theoretical Borders: Media representations of New Orleans What Would the Young Lieutenant A Pragma-Semantic and Ethnographic a decade after the flooding General Call It? Analysis of Yoruba Greeting and Christina Schoux Casey Karen Burdette Farewell Expressions Aalborg University Tennessee Tech University (Emerita) Taofeeq Adebayo Maeve Eberhardt University of Vermont 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Superdiversity and Applying Theoretical Some Hermeneutic Considerations in Perceptions of Research Paradigms to Language Contact Formal Semantics before and after Janice Jake Mark Honegger Katie Carmichael Midlands Technical College University Louisiana, Lafayette Virginia Tech 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Optimal Grammar of English-use in Nathalie Dajko Bollywood Lyrics Tulane University Razia Husain Dialect emergence across linguistic North Carolina State University borders: Networks, identity, and Latinx threat in New Orleans Latinx English Tom Lewis Tulane University 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Break, Upper Quad Plenary Talk Drawing the Line: Perceptual Dialectology, Borders, and Southernness 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Jennifer Cramer, University of Kentucky Solitude

Dinner (on your own)

4 SECOL 2018 @ Virginia Tech Saturday, April 21

8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Business meeting, Solitude

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Break, Upper Quad Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Session 6 Language and Place Pedagogy and Public Engagement Sociophonetics Chair: Katie Carmichael Chair: Catherine Davies Chair: Abby Walker 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Labels of Southern Identity Bridging the Educational Gap with A Quantitative Study of the Dutch /tj/ Susan Tamasi Talking Black in America: Educational Cluster Realization Among Multicultural Materials on Sociolinguistic Topics Speakers in Amsterdam Paulina Bounds KellyNoel Waldorf Lars Naborn Tennessee Tech University North Carolina State University North Carolina State University Jennifer Cramer University of Kentucky 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Three Kinds of Borders Empowering Standardized English The Impact of Social Factors on Vowel Dennis Preston Learners: A Critical Language Pedagogy Duration in Natural Southern Speech Oklahoma State University Intervention for Middle Grades Students Rachel Olsen Jessica Hatcher Margaret Renwick Jeffrey Reaser University of Georgia North Carolina State University 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. “Bitch we are not stuck in 2005”: #Lingwiki: Wikipedia Engagement “The Athens bubble”: Stancetaking, Chronotopes, and in Promoting Public Scholarship in The (aw) Diphthong in an Urban-oriented Ideological Identity in Reactions to Linguistics Enclave in Rural Southeast Ohio Imitations of American Regional Accents May Chung Sinae Lee Marie Bissell Antione Tomlin Peter Andrews North Carolina State University Forrest Caskey Khalid Alharbi Christine Mallinson LeNora Candee University of Maryland, Baltimore County Michelle O’Malley Olga Sormaz 11:30 a.m. – The Linguistic Landscape of Smith Island: Researching and Teaching Multimodality Prosodic Variation in 12:00 p.m. Signage and Register Contrasts between Michael Picone Paul Reed Residents and Tourists University of Alabama University of Alabama Tripp Maloney 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own) Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Session 7 African American English Multilingual Situations Syntax-Semantics Chair: Caroline Myrick Chair: Taofeeq Adobayo Chair: Joe Eska 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. “Yeah, man, I told you that I’m a monster The Borderless Ogiek: A Focus on the Crossing Semantic Boundaries: That why I be rappin’ non-sto’”: Diminishing Voices of the Endangered A Syntactic Analysis of An Analysis of the Appropriation of AAE Akie Language in Kenya English Get Constructions by Global Musical Artists Isaac Muhando Melissa Gomes Bryanna Willis Tulane University University of Georgia University of South Carolina 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. “I ain’t sorry”: African American English Multilingualism with Multiple Identities The Syntactic Structure of as a Stylistic Resource in the John M. Clifton English Verbal Idioms Strategic Development of Beyoncé’s SIL International & University of North Dakota Anissa Neal Performative Persona formerly The University of North Carolina at Maeve Eberhardt Chapel Hill Madeline Vdoviak-Markow University of Vermont

Blacksburg, Virginia 5 Saturday, April 21 (continued)

Room Solitude Smithfield Duck Pond Session 7 African American English Multilingual Situations Syntax-Semantics (continued) Chair: Caroline Myrick Chair: Taofeeq Adobayo Chair: Joe Eska 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. “It’s true; ain’t nobody got time fo dat”: One Nation-one Language and many Linguistic Subordination and the Humor Speakers excluded: Language Ideologies of Black Speech among Pre-service Teachers in South Shalina Omar Mara Barbosa North Carolina State University Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Italians in the US, Italian Americans, or Italians and Americans?: Language and Identity Practices of new Italian Immigrants to the US Cecilia Tomasatti North Carolina State University

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Break, Upper Quad

Plenary Talk What network structure can (and can’t) reveal about linguistic variation: The loss of the Southern Vowel Shift in Raleigh 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Robin Dodsworth, North Carolina State University Solitude

6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Reception (dinner provided), Hahn Horticulture Gardens, first shuttle leaves The Inn at 5:45 p.m.(campus map K-9)

Restaurant Guide

Best nearby dinner spots: Best vegetarian food: Black Hen** (Farm to table; downtown; $$$) Gillie’s** (Vegetarian; downtown; $$) Gaucho’s Brazilian Grille** (Brazilian steakhouse; India Garden (Indian; Price's Fork; $$) University City Blvd ; $$) Poor Billy’s (Seafood, steakhouse; downtown; $$) 622 North (American, wine bar; downtown; $$) Best bars: Ceritano’s (Italian, wine bar; downtown; $$) Bar Blue at Black Hen** (cocktail bar; downtown; $$$) Zeppoli’s (Italian, wine bar; University City Blvd; $$) Lefty’s (brewery/restaurant; S. Main; $$) The Underground (bar/restaurant; downtown; $$) Best nearby lunch spots: The Rivermill (bar/restaurant; downtown; $$) Cabo Fish Taco** (Mexican, seafood; downtown; $$) Souvlaki** (Greek, Mediterranean; downtown; $) Best food “excursions”: Benny Marzano’s (Jumbo slice pizza; downtown; $) Palisades** (American; Eggleston; $$) – dinner or brunch Green’s (sushi, American, Mediterranean; downtown; $$) Kalbee Restaurant (Korean; Pembroke; $$) – dinner Boudreaux’s (Cajun/Creole; downtown; $$) Due South BBQ (Barbecue; Christiansburg; $$) – lunch Latino’s Taste (Salvadoran; Radford; $) – lunch or dinner **Conference organizer’s pick

6 SECOL 2018 @ Virginia Tech The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center Floorplan

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