Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and the Humanities Public Lectures: “Sociolinguistics of Race, Style, and Attitudes”! Kate T. Anderson! Assistant Professor! Iyabo F. Osiapem! University of Houston Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary! "Linking Race and Speech Style through a Sociocultural Theoretical Lens” "I'm Bermudian Like": Using language to perform ”In this presentation I discuss major sociolinguistic approaches to Bermudian identity” Linguistic Profiling based on race--the supposed identification of Bermudians live in the in-between, neither American, British, or someone's race based only on hearing their voice. Summarizing Caribbean. In this talk I will explore how Bermudians, both the methods and findings of my prior work on this subject, I then black and white, use grammatical structure and lexical choice to outline a sociocultural approach to Linguistic Profiling and argue index their Bermudian identity. for a complementary way forward in the field on this timely subject. ” Dr. Osiapem work focuses on language and identity, and the Dr. Anderson's research focuses on discourse and social many ways that they are entwined, among speakers of construction of macro-social categories (e.g, race, ability) through Bermudian English. Recently she has been working on the micro-social interactions (e.g., talk and interaction). Her most history of Black Bermudian English trying to determine how it recent projects explore epistemological underpinnings of research fits into the Atlantic Anglophone Creole Continuum and on approaches to Linguistic Profiling and Multimodal Authoring, perfectivity in the verb phrase of Bermudian English. reflecting her joint interests in social constructions of race and classroom interactions. Sponsored by the Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and the Humanities!.