Lee Presents at National Conference

Professor Janie Lee recently presented the paper “Isn’t He Really Korean Once the Mask Comes Off?: Circulation of Raciolinguistic Ideologies in South Korean Television” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. Her paper was part of a panel on language, race, and digital media. … [Read more...]

Lee Presents at Recent Conference

Dr. Janie Lee recently presented the paper 'Isn't He Really Korean Once the Mask Comes Off?: Circulation of Raciolinguistic Ideologies in South Korean Television' at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.  Her paper was part of a panel on language, race, and digital media. … [Read more...]

Dr. Lee Presents at Linguistics Conference

Professor Janie Lee presented a paper entitled 'Ideologies of Language Competence and Citizenship in South Korean Television' at the recent Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. The presentation examined evaluative remarks made on foreign-born men’s Korean fluency in a popular TV show and argued that these men's race and gender play a role in their exclusion from Korean nationhood. … [Read more...]

Dr. Fallon Presents at Conference

Congratulations to Dr. Fallon! Last month he presented the paper “The Tangled Web of Reconstructing Proto-Agaw Dorsal Consonants” at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Minneapolis, MN. … [Read more...]

Christina Kakava Linguistics Speaker Series

On October 23 at 7:30 in the Great Hall, world-renowned linguist Deborah Tannen will inaugurate the newly christened Christina Kakava Linguistics Speaker Series, honoring our deceased, and highly beloved, UMW sociolinguist Dr. Kakava.  Look under Linguistics: Linguistic Speaker Series above for details, or click on the slideshow image of Deborah Tannen to read a feature story about the event written by Jeanne Converse. … [Read more...]