People
Faculty
Jacquelyn Rahman
Titles
- Assistant Professor
- Director of Linguistics
Education
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004
- M.A., University of Texas, 1998
Teaching Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntactic and lexical analysis
- African-American English
- Pidgins and creoles
Research Interests
- The intersection of social class with regional and ethnic identity
- Standard and vernacular varieties of African American English: structure, social contexts, verbal traditions
- Passive-like constructions in analytic languages
Publications
- “Middle Class African Americans: Reactions and Attitudes toward African American English.” Forthcoming Summer 2008 in the journal American Speech.
- “Woman to Woman: the Distinctive Style of African American Female Comedians.” Chapter in a volume on African American women’s language, edited by Sonja Lanehart.
- “An ay for an ah: Language of Survival in African American Narrative Comedy,” American Speech, Vol. 82, Spring 2007.
Work in Progress
- Linguistic practices of the African-American middle-class
- Passives in Caribbean English Creole
