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Dennis R. Preston
Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Sociolinguistics, dialectology, ethnography, discourse, SLA
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- Sociolinguistics
- Folk Linguistics
- Dialectology
Selected Publications
(2008-09 only)
2009
With James Stanford (eds). Variation in indigenous minority languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins (Impact series).
With Robert Bayley. Variationist linguistics and second language acquitition. W. Ritchie & T. Bhatia (eds), The new handbook of second language acquisition. Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley UK: Emerald, 89-113.
With Nancy Niedzielski. Folk pragmatics. G. Senft, J.-O. Östman, and J. Verschueren (eds). Culture and language use. (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 20. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 146-55.
Are you really smart (or stupid, or cute, or ugly, or cool)? Or do you just talk that way? In M. Maegaard, F. Gregerson, P. Quist, & J. N. Jørgensen (eds). Language attitudes, standardization and language change — perspectives on themes raised by Tore Kristiansen on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Oslo: Novus Forlag, 105-29.
With Nancy Niedzielski. Folk linguistics. N. Coupland & A. Jaworski (eds), The new sociolinguistics reader. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave/Macmillan, 356-73.
Linguistic profiling: The linguistic point of view. M. R. Salaberry (ed.), Language allegiances and bilingualism in the US. Bristol/Buffalo/Toronto: Multilingual Matters, 53-79.
Language, space, and the folk. P. Auer & J. Schmidt (eds), Language and space: Vol. I. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 179-201.
2008
With Robert Bayley. Variation and second language grammars. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 1,2:385-97.
With Mercedes Viejobueno and Carol G. Preston, US and Argentine impoliteness. M. Locher, & J. Strässler (eds), Standards and Norms in the English Language. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 95. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 367-91.
Offices & Honors
Organizational Activity
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (Nominating Committee, 1993-94; Distinguished Scholarship & Service Award Committee 2009
- American Dialect Society (Chairperson, Research Committee, 1989 Centennial year celebration; Executive Committee, 1990-93; Vice-president 1999-2000; President, 2001-02; Representative to ACLS-NHA, 2002; Nominating Committee 2003-06)
- International Conferences on Methods in Dialectology (Executive Committee, 1997-2002)
- Linguistic Society of America (Associate Editor, Language, 1997-99; Director, LSA Institute, 2003; Linguistic Institutes and Fellowships Committee, 2003-; Executive Committee, 2005-07; Resolutions Committee 2005; Audit Committee, 2005-07; Chair, Bloomfield Book Award Committee, 2007; Directorate Transition Committee 2007; Representative to COSSA 2007-8; Nominating Committee 2009-11; Public Relations Committee 2009-11)
- Michigan Linguistic Society (President, 1988-89; meeting co-organizer 1992)
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (Advisory Council, Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group, l976-79; Associate Director, TESOL Summer Institute 1990)
Honors & Awards
- Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University (2009)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic (2004)
- University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University (2003)
- Paul Varg Arts & Letters Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University (2002)
- Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (2000)
- Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan State University (2000)
- Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1998)
- Medal of the University, Adam Mickiewicz University (1986)
Grants
(2000 and later only)
2009-12
International advisor, Helsinki Finnish: diversity, social identity and linguistic attitudes in an urban context. Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
2005-09
International Council member, Centre for Language Change in Real Time (LANCHART), Copenhagen University, Danish National Research Foundation
2005-07
The acquisition of dialect phonology by non-English language background speakers, National Science Foundation
2004-05
Dissertation fellowship, Bartłomiej Plichta, National Science Foundation
2003-04
with Mutsuko Endo Hudson. The 13th meeting of the Japan/Korea Linguistics Society, The Japan Foundation
2002-06
with John Baugh, Washington University in St. Louis. Linguistic Profiling, Ford Foundation
2002-
Sponsorship of an American Dialect Society Professorship at Linguistic Society of America Institutes, American Dialect Society
2002-03
A Korean Linguistics track in the 2003 LSA Institute, The Korea Foundation
with Ivan Sag, a computational linguistics track at the 2003 LSA Institute, American Association for Computational Linguistics
2001
Consultant planning grant, with Artemis Media Project, Montgomery, AL. A series of PBS radio segments on American dialects, National Endowment for the Humanities
1999-2000
Research Experience for Undergraduates, Supplement to National Science Foundation Grant 1998-2000 with Brian Joseph, a State Linguistic Profiles Conference, Columbus, OH, May 11-13, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities (The Ohio State University)
1998-2000
Accomodation to the Northern Cities Shift, National Science Foundation
Selected Presentations
(2007 or later only)
Abbreviations:
AAAL = American Association for Applied Linguistics
ADS = American Dialect Society
AILA = International Association for Applied Linguistics
ICMD = International Conference on Methods in Dialectology
LSA = Linguistic Society of America
NWAV = New Ways of Analyzing Variation
TESOL = Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
2010
Transmission & diffusion, contact, and space & symmetry in the acquisition of norms. Annual LSA Conference, Baltimore, January
The cognitive foundations of folk, attitudinal, and ideological linguistics. Plenary lecture, 34th International LAUD Symposium “Cognitive Sociolinguistics,” University of Koblenz-Landau. March
2009
Language standards and language regard in the 21st Century. Invited lecture, The nature and role of language standardisation and standard languages in late modernity. University of Copenhagen, February
The cycle of regard, perception, and production. Plenary lecture, Production, Perception, Attitude. University of Leuven, April
Talking attitudes: Discoursal approaches to language attitudes. Plenary lecture, Language Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) Graduate Student Association conference, University of California Santa Barbara, May
Talk about talk: Discoursal approaches to language regard. Invited lecture. Research Institute for the Languages of Finland and the Departments of Finnish and English, the University of Helsinki, August
The four elephants of sociolinguistics inspect a ping-pong ball. Plenary lecture, Poznań Linguistics Meeting, Gniezno, September
With Jon Bakos, the perception of Oklahoma speech. NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 38, Ottawa, October
Folk linguistics: On to Okalhoma, Invited lecture, Language and linguistics student conference, University of Central Oklahoma, November
Language, space and geography, Invited lecture, University of Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) November
2008
With Michael Silverstein. Attitudes, ideologies, and folk linguistics. Invited lecture, Symposium on sociolinguistics and linguistic theories, LSA, Chicago, January
Linguistic profiling: How your brain can fool your ear. Plenary lecture, AAAL, Washington, DC, March
Discourse in folk linguistics and language attitude studies. Invited lecture, Workshop on micro and macro approaches to language attitudes, folk linguistics, and language ideologies, Sociolinguistics 17, Amsterdam, April
Perceptual linguistics, Invited lecture, Centruum voor Linguïstiek, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, May
Perceptual dialectology in the 21st Century, Invited inaugural lecture, perceptual dialectology — Neue Wege der Dialektologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, May
Second language background speakers’ acquisition of Michigan vowels. ICMD, Leeds, August
With Michael Pasquale, A folk linguistic taxonomy of language teaching and learning. AILA, Essen, August
Canada: The big sibling to the north. Invited lecture, University centenary celebration, University of Alberta, September
When ultimate achievement isn’t native-like. Invited lecture, High-Level Proficiency in Second Language Use, Stockholm University, October
Communities, Invited plenary lecture, NWAV, Rice University, Houston, November
The ecology of speech communities, Invited lecture, The Ecology of language, Agder University, Kristiansand, November
General American and other mythical creatures, University of Stockholm American English Lecture Series, November
2007
Variationist linguistics and SLA. Invited lecture, Language Learning panel for the 30th anniversary of AAAL, Costa Mesa, CA, April
With Michael Pasquale, A folk linguistic taxonomy of language teaching and learning. AAAL, Costa Mesa, CA, April
The myth of General American English. Invited lecture, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin, June
The cognitive foundations of language attitude studies. Plenary lecture, GradEast and LANCHART Summer School, Copenhagen University, June; Invited lecture, Symbolic Minds lecture series, Humboldt University, Berlin, June; Invited lecture, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, June
Varieties of American English. Invited lecture, University of Alcalá, November
With Jaclyn Ocumpaugh & Rebecca Roeder. The acquisition of English by Spanish speakers in Michigan. Invited lecture, Proyecto para el Estudio Sociolingüistico del Español de España y de América, Comillas, Spain, November
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