Urban and Rural Language Research: Variation, Identity, and Innovation

In conjunction with colleagues at the University of Graz, Austria, our departmental sociolinguists are holding a small workshop at Trinity College this weekend on dialects inside and outside urban areas.

U of T sociolinguists involved are as follows.

• Jack Chambers (faculty) is giving one of the keynote talks: "Discontinuities in the dialect continuum."
• Derek Denis (faculty) is giving another of the keynote talks: "Enregisterment, resistance, and the spread of linguistic alterity in the most multicultural city in the world."
• Marisa Brook (faculty) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): "City rels, country rels: Prestige and the urban-rural divide in Ontario."
• Karlien Franco (postdoc) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): "Lexicalization in grammatical change? The simple past/present perfect alternation in Canadian English."
• Katharina Pabst (Ph.D.) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): "'I think (that) you have to have a certain confidence': The influence of urban professional life on complementizer that."
• Lauren Bigelow (Ph.D.):"Neo-hosers up north: Locally constructed meaning and FACE and GOAT ungliding in rural Ontario."
• Michael Iannozzi (BA 2014, now at the University of Western Ontario): "A road diverged on a farm: Diverging identites from a shared beginning."
• Katharina Pabst (Ph.D.) and Lisa Schlegl (Ph.D.) are both serving on a panel: 'The social and psychological challenges of fieldwork'.