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Socioling
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M.A. and Ph.D. students in the Department of Linguistics
at the University of Colorado who are interested in conducting research
in the field of sociolinguistics are invited to join Sling, an informal
departmental group dedicated to researching and discussing any and all things
sociolinguistic. Unlike the CLASP program, which is interdisciplinary in
scope and involves students and faculty from a variety of different departments
around campus, Sling caters specifically to students earning degrees in
linguistics.
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| Activities in the past have included: (1) abstract-writing
workshops, in which students and faculty write, review, and prepare abstracts
for upcoming conferences in sociolinguistics; (2) brown-bag lunch gatherings
to discuss new and interesting sociolinguistic research in the field, especially
research by Sling participants; (3) data-workshops, in which students and
faculty present collected data for feedback and analysis; (4) discussion
meetings with invited lectures or visiting scholars in sociolinguistics;
and (5) the collective viewing of an occasional Bollywood or other tangentially-related
film (favorites include The Wall, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,
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With faculty permission, Sling participants may obtain access
to the sociolinguistics lab in Hellems. The lab currently houses eight computer-equipped
student desks, as well as state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment and software
to assist in the collection and analysis of language data. Additionally, the lab is home to the University of Colorado's sociolinguistics library.
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Linguistics faculty and students interested in subscribing to the Sling
listserv can send an email (with no subject header) from a CU email account
to: listproc@lists.colorado.edu.
The entire text of the message should read: subscribe sling <firstname>
<lastname>. Electronic confirmation of the subscription should arrive
within 24 hours of subscribing. If you have any problems subscribing to
the list, please contact kira.hall@colorado.edu.
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