Tag: research
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“Honest-to-Goodness American Speech”: MLA “Outtakes” Part 2
This post is the second in a series inspired by material I came across in my research for MLA 2021, but did not quite fit into the presentation project. My MLA project traced the way literary texts were used as data for insight into African American language in the important journal, American Speech, in the…
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“A Crude Duplication of the Sounds”: Some “out-takes” from my MLA 2021 talk
I’ll be honest; my presentation for MLA this year–a pilot study on how linguists talk about literary texts in the journal American Speech in the early 20th century–was probably the least polished talk I’ve ever done at MLA, or maybe anywhere. It was difficult to focus on that work knowing people were storming the capitol…
Carly Overfelt, Ph.D. 