Dr. Rosina Lippi-Green: Linguistic Authenticity and Stereotyping
February 7, 12:00pm - 1:15pmMānoa Campus, St. John 11
A politician may spend 20 or more years running for office, and just as many years on the campaign trail trying to keep or win over voters.
The public language of political candidates has always been complicated by questions of attempted audience accommodation, performance and authenticity, topics which were rarely if ever raised to the level of national awareness or serious debate. Then, in 2008 what had been a homogenous candidate pool expanded to include an Anglo female governor from rural Alaska and an African-American senator/law professor with a multi-cultural background. As a result, topics having to do with race, sex, class and education were raised in public forums in ways that overlapped with issues of performance and authenticity.
For many commentators, the challenge was not to minimize potential offense to the candidate or the audience by circumlocution, but to find ways to express the forbidden and still avoid backlash. It is in situations like this that standard language ideology and language subordination tactics are the first and most effective tools, able to override logic and fact. The last two presidential campaigns provided a wealth of examples of linguistic subordination tactics designed to make racist, sexist and classist sentiments more publically palatable. I look at some of this data in the larger context of interpretation of stylistic practice.
Event Sponsor
The Charlene J. Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies, Mānoa Campus
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Christina Higgins, 956-2785, cmhiggin@hawaii.edu
Tuesday, March 19 |
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9:30am |
Graduating Student Global Seal of Biliteracy Testing
Mānoa Campus, Moore Hall 153B EWA Computer Lab
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12:00pm |
East-West Toastmasters Leadership/Public Speaking Club Meeting
Mānoa Campus, Hemenway Hall 215
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Thursday, March 21 |
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12:00pm |
NDPTC Webinar - Disaster Planning for Vulnerable Populations
Mānoa Campus, Online
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Monday, March 25 |
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12:30pm |
Linguistics Final Oral
Mānoa Campus, Moore Hall, Room 155A and Zoom, Link Below
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Wednesday, March 27 |
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9:00am |
Community Dialogues: “Microaggressions” with Jessica Lau
Mānoa Campus, ACCESS Lounge, Dean Hall, room 5/6
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11:00am |
Community Dialogues: “Microaggressions” with Jessica Lau
Mānoa Campus, Online
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12:00pm |
Law School Admissions Zoom Information Session
Mānoa Campus, Virtual
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3:00pm |
Fifty Years as Historians of Southeast Asia: Personal Perspectives
Mānoa Campus, UHM Music Building, Room: 36
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4:30pm |
Entrepreneurship Live x ThriveHI
Mānoa Campus, Walter Dods,Jr. RISE Center, Level 2
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4:30pm |
Student Sustainability Council Meeting
Mānoa Campus, Gilmore Hall 212
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6:00pm |
Turning to the Archives to Decenter the Settler State
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410
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Thursday, March 28 |
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9:00am |
PI-CASC Graduate Student Symposium
Mānoa Campus, Inmin Conference Room, East West Center
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9:30am |
Mathematics Final Oral
Mānoa Campus, George 213
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12:00pm |
Lunchbreak Mindfulness Series: The Spring Refresh
Mānoa Campus, Online
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3:00pm |
Gaza is Palestine: On Bakers and Storytellers
Mānoa Campus, 3114 Paliuili st
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4:30pm |
Gaza is Palestine: On Bakers and Storytellers
Mānoa Campus, 3114 Paliuili st
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5:00pm |
Part Time JD Flex and Law School Admissions - Zoom Information Session - March
Mānoa Campus, Virtual
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7:00pm |
Navigators Bible Study
Mānoa Campus, Honolulu Christian Church 2207 Oahu Ave, Honolulu, HI 96822
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Friday, March 29 |
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3:00pm |
Business Administration Final Oral
Mānoa Campus, Zoom
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Saturday, March 30 |
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7:30pm |
JAVANESE GAMELAN CONCERT
Mānoa Campus, Music Department Barbara Smith Amphiteater
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Sunday, March 31 |
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12:00pm |
Kalo Grant 3rd Round Application
Mānoa Campus, Walter Dods,Jr. RISE Center, Level 2
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