2021

Is Gen Z Lingo Just Butchered AAVE? How Internet Culture Contributes to Appropriation

Sociolinguistics

Rae Cristal, Xin Liu, Jasmine Shao, Megan Ye In their recent skit called “Gen Z Hospital,” SNL put on a show depicting the quirky lives of an average “zoomer”, filled with internet-related troubles. At one point, the distinctly white actress Heidi Gardner utters: “If he keeps leaving us on read, he’s gonna catch these hands […]

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How We SEE Sign: The Interplay Between Sign Styles and Characteristics of Deaf Identity

Sociolinguistics

Serena Gutridge, Ally Shirman, Jennifer Miyaki, Paige Escobar, Paulina Cuevas Are the variations in sign language attributed to just a flick of the wrist? This study provides an analysis of the relationship between agents’ identities within the Deaf community and their signing style. In the United States, signers use American Sign Language (ASL) and Signed

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“It’s just a game”: Toxic Triggers in the Competitive FPS Valorant

Sociolinguistics

David Vuong, Emma Tosaya, Jane Heathcote, Kai Garcia If you have ever played an online game, of any variety, chances are you have run into a toxic player or two. Online gaming has a long, deep rooted history of toxicity, often attributed to many games’ violent or competitive natures. However, toxicity can stem from a

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Could you pass the salt-juseyo? A Comparison of Politeness Strategies in American English and Korean

Sociolinguistics

Verania Amaton, Kimberly Maynard, YueYan Kong, Yi Wang BTS. Gangnam Style. K-dramas. Korean culture has been steadily making its way into the United States’ mainstream culture leading to more contact between the cultures and languages. Any fan of Korean media knows that Korean has built-in formality tiers, a tricky part for native speakers of English

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THE GAY PONDER: Closeted Sapphic Celebrities Deciding How To Talk About Their Private Lives

Sociolinguistics

Kayla Cardoso, Van Hofmaister, Jamie Jiang, Clarissa Sie, Rainey Williams In 2016 a 1979 interview with Jodie Foster resurfaced on the internet and instantly took hold in the meme community. When asked about a potential boyfriend, Jodie smirks, licks her lips, and raises her eyebrows in a manner that gives the impression she knows something

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“I like going to the bitch”: Konglish (Korean-English) and Perception

Sociolinguistics

Chen Chang, Jennifer Eom, Kanghyun Lee, Lavinia Lee, Cynthia Ortiz “I can make the PowerPoint, but, uhmm…can you do the oral presentation for me?” Due to pronunciation unfamiliarities in the English language, ESL (English as Second Language) speakers may sometimes develop apprehensiveness and insecurities towards their oral speaking skills. This is not an intrinsic response

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Males and Females, Are We Really That Socially Different? An Exploration of Same-Sex Friendship Dynamics

Sociolinguistics

Shirley Yao, Sabrina Meyn, Viktoria Hovhannisyan The friendship dynamics that males and females form with the same-sex differ in how they bond homosocially: either vertical or horizontal. Homosocial bonds are those that are non-romantic social bonds between those of the same-sex. Historically, these two types of homosocialities are used to regulate how people perform gender.

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Different Ways that Male and Female Streamers Behave on Valorant Streams

Sociolinguistics

Kevin Kim, Kota Tsukamoto, Guorang Zhang, Cindy Zheng For our experiment, we analyzed Twitch streamers playing Valorant. Twitch, or Twitch.TV, is an online streaming platform popular among gamers. Valorant is a popular first-person shooter (FPS) game created by Riot Games in 2020. Valorant, as of 2021, has an estimated 12 million players, peaking at 15

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“I scared he eat, then the stomach explode!”: Missing Tense and the Standardization of Singlish

Sociolinguistics

Hannah Chu, Trevor Htoon, Youchuan (Aaron) Hu, Ann Mayor, Grace Yao Can we detect language change right as it’s happening? As a result of nearly a century of colonial handoffs, the Southeast Asian Island of Singapore developed its own, unique variety of English: Singapore Colloquial English, more commonly known as Singlish. There is reason to

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Beyond the Binary: Analyzing Vocal Pitch of Non-Binary Celebrities

Sociolinguistics

Megan Fu, Rowan Konstanzer, Erin Kwak, and Kimberly Gaona Examining the speech of nonbinary individuals allows a better understanding of how different speech acoustic features such as vocal pitch, quality, and tempo are used to help construct gender identity. By investigating the speech acoustic features of non-binary celebrities, this study investigates whether coming out would

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