Chase Wesley Raymond's research is interdisciplinary, centering on the use of language in everyday life. For him, the study of language provides the means through which the moment-by-moment 'doing' of social life is accomplished and can be systematically investigated. In addition to everyday conversation, he is particularly interested in situations of contact—when divergent languages, dialects, cultures, etc. come together in interaction—with a primary focus on Spanish speakers in the United States. He brings together methods from Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics to investigate language use in both institutional and non-institutional contexts.
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Social Interaction, Conversation Analysis, Discourse, Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, Language in Society, Language and Identity, Pragmatics, Ethnomethodology, Spanish, Spanish in the U.S., Microsociology, Communication in Medicine, Health Communication, Intercultural Communication
LING 1000 - Language in U.S. Society
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Nontechnical exploration of the ways that language is used in America. Emphasizes language as a social institution and how values and goals of both public institutions and private groups shape and are shaped by language and its use.
LING 3550 - Talk at Work: Language Use in Institutional Contexts
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
Provides an overview of language use in various workplace settings, with an emphasis on hands-on data analysis. Possible contexts include 911 emergency calls, doctor-patient consultations, news interviews, customer-service encounters, classroom discourse, and courtroom interaction. The course also discusses language-based inequalities in such contexts, as well as some of the laws and policies that govern language in the workplace. Recommended prerequisite: LING 1000.
LING 3800 - Special Topics in Linguistics
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Fall 2021
Intensive study of a selected area or problem in linguistics. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
LING 4100 - Perspectives on Language
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Spring 2020
Provides extended critical examination of a few selected issues, chosen each term for their general interest and relevance, e.g., the relation between language and thought, or human language vs. animal languages, and computer languages. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided topics vary. Recommended prerequisite: LING 2000.
LING 4700 - Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics
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Spring 2020
Provides an introduction to the theories and methods of Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL), which aim to uncover the procedural infrastructure of language use in social interaction. The course emphasizes hands-on experience in analyzing naturally-occurring interactional data. Topics may include: turn-taking, sequence and preference organization, repair, reference, epistemics, and identity.
LING 5700 - Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2024
Provides an introduction to the theories and methods of Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL), which aim to uncover the procedural infrastructure of language use in social interaction. The course emphasizes hands-on experience in analyzing naturally-occurring interactional data. Topics may include: turn-taking, sequence and preference organization, repair, reference, epistemics, and identity. Same as LING 4700.
LING 5800 - Open Topics in Linguistics
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2021
Various topics not normally covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. Contact the department office for information. May be repeated up to 9 credit hours.
LING 6300 - Topics in Language Use
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2023
Discusses current issues and research in a selected area related to language use and function. Sample topics include conversational interaction, language policy, language content, and sociolinguistic variation.
LING 7800 - Open Topics in Linguistics
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Spring 2019
Various topics not normally covered in the curriculum; offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. Contact the department office for information.
SPAN 4215 - Spanish in the United States
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
Describes the linguistic characteristics of U.S. Spanish, Spanish-English bilingualism and direct contact, including the study of borrowing, code switching, phonological and grammatical convergence, leveling, accommodation and attrition, among other linguistic phenomena. Discusses the relationships between language and identity, as well as the role of Spanish in U.S. education, media and social institutions.
SPAN 4990 - Spanish Honors Thesis
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Spring 2018
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Recommended prerequisite: 18 hours of upper-division Spanish, 3.00 GPA overall, and 3.50 GPA in Spanish. Recommended restriction: 18 hours of upper-division Spanish, 3.00 GPA overall, and 3.50 GPA in Spanish.
