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The positionality of the researcher in sociolinguistic research LGBTQ+ Perspectives in Linguistics. Jeremy Calder (they/she/he) University of Colorado Boulder. Sociolinguistics. How do different people speak differently and what do those differences say about who the speakers are?
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The positionality of the researcher in sociolinguistic researchLGBTQ+ Perspectives in Linguistics Jeremy Calder (they/she/he) University of Colorado Boulder
Sociolinguistics • How do different people speak differently and what do those differences say about who the speakers are? • Traditional ethnography and social meaning
Gender performance among SoMa drag queens • Gender performativity • Non-normativity • Semiotic interplay between phonetic variables and visual presentation • Fronted /s/
The role of the “I” in linguistics • The person vs the researcher • Ethnography: relationship between researcher and community • What happens when knowledge is co-constructed? • Outsider vs insider • What is a valid study? What is real linguistics?
Thank you! jeremy.calder@colorado.edu