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Dr. Daria Bahtina is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language and identity, perception and expression of social categories, meta-communicative strategies, common ground, experimental linguistics, and research design. Most blog posts are the product of collaborative work by the undergraduate students at UCLA, many of […]

Why do we speak the way we do? How do we use language to project our identity or to perceive the identity of others? Which linguistic resources do we draw on to mark and defend social group boundaries, or negotiate or question them? What is the range of social actions that we can accomplish through