13: What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
Added 2017-10-19 23:54:34 +0000 UTCIf you grow up with multiple accents to choose from, what does the one you choose say about your identity? How can linguistics unpick our hidden assumptions about what “sounds angry” or “sounds articulate”? What can we learn from studying the melodies of speech, in addition to the words and sounds?
In Episode 13 of Lingthusiasm, your host Gretchen McCulloch interviews Dr. Nicole Holliday, an Associate Professor of linguistics at Pomona Collegem about her work on the speech of American black/biracial young men, prosody and intonation, and what it means to sound black. We also talk about how Obama inadvertently provided her research topic, the linguistics of the Wu Tang Clan, and how linguistics can make the world a better place. Links to topics mentioned in this episode below.
For the links mentioned in this episode, check out the full shownotes page at: http://lingthusiasm.com/post/166585412086/lingthusiasm-episode-13-what-does-it-mean-to
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Oh interesting, I'm glad that helps make sense of something in your life! You might also enjoy the (main, not bonus) episode about rebalancing a conversation, if you haven't already listened to it, a lot of that also comes up cross-culturally as well.
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2020-04-16 20:58:03 +0000 UTC
