UofSC Linguistics

Check out this thread for a livetweet of Dr. Weldon's #LSA2022 Plenary "Talking Black/Sounding Black: Middle Class African American English and the State of the Black Union"

IN THE NEWS: Paul Malovrh, an associate professor of second language acquisition and Hispanic linguistics at #USC discusses school language immersion programs and teacher shortages. @UofSCLing 🔗: bit.ly/3QsuUBY

MA alumnae Jennifer Heinmiller, 2011, and Bianca Jenkins, 2018, are among the linguists assembling the new Oxford Dictionary of African American English. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Check out the awesome work two of our linguistics MA graduates are doing on the Oxford Dictionary of African American English!

Two ling graduate students, Paige Pinkston and AJ Murphy @anyssamurphy, have been named as Bilinski Fellows for ‘23-24! This dissertation writing fellowship supports grad students in the social sciences and humanities. Congrats Paige and AJ! 🎉

Got my fancy hat!

A huge congratulations to Jiang Liu for his promotion to Associate Professor and Nina Moreno @ProfNinaMoreno for her promotion to Professor. We have amazing faculty at South Carolina Ling!!

Congrats to @anyssamurphy for her new article in the Journal of Greek Linguistics!! 🎉

Thanks to all the faculty and students who came out to celebrate the successes of our awesome graduate students!

An enormous round of applause for the PhD graduates: Archie Crowley @ArchieCrowley, Drew Crosby @drewmcrosby89, Ruthanne Hughes @Ruthanne47, Lesley Smith, John "Spud" McCullough @carpehorizon, and Dennis Keunhyung Park!

The UofSC Linguistics Program is so excited to celebrate our 6 MA and 6 PhD Graduates this spring! We are so proud of all the graduates and are looking forward to seeing all the amazing things they do in the future!

@UofSCLing SRS committee & @itsso_shana , congratulations on a successful SRS 2023. What a great day it was! Thank you for having me ❤️

Mañana, a partir de las 10 am (Eastern), un taller de capacitación profesional para educadores de lengua (español). ¡Los esperamos! Para preguntas sobre el evento, buscar información aquí: aatspscdotorg.wordpress.com

Six days of conferencing, networking, and hearing about some incredible work being done all over the world. Thanks to all who made #AAAL2023 and #TESOL2023 so great! @ProfNinaMoreno @UofSCLing

A huge congrats to Lav Lang-er @ArchieCrowley ! --- An undoubtably great dissertation, with a number of Lav Langers on the committee to boot!

Congratulations Dr. McCullough!! 🎉🎓

Congratulations Dr. Crowley!! 🎉

Congratulations Dr. Crosby 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations Dr. Hughes!! @Ruthanne47 🎓

"Metaphor Processing Strategies and their Effects on Reading Skills among L2 English Learners" by Shana Scucchi (@itsso_shana) Saturday in Poster Session 3 in Centennial D #LSA2023

“Language in the South as a sign of politeness or respect”: Navigating Southern American English politeness norms as transgender South Carolinians by Archie Crowley (@ArchieCrowley) Saturday at 2:30 in Mineral BC #LSA2023

Joining #LSA2023 this weekend? Check out the awesome talks and posters by @UofSCLing students and faculty in this thread!