Kiesling Readings for Sociolinguistic Summer School
Definitely read these two
Johnstone, Barbara and Scott F. Kiesling. 2008.Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of
/aw/-monophthongization. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12,1:5-33.
Bucholtz, Mary. 2009. From stance to style: Gender, interaction, and indexicality in Mexican
immigrant youth slang. In Stance: Sociolinguistics Perspectives, ed. by Alexandra Jaffe. pp. 146-170.
Try to read at least the first two pages of this one
Silverstein, Michael. 2003. Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life. Language &
Communication, 23: 193-229.
(I recommend skimming the first part, reading the examples, and then going back and reading the first
sections carefully. If you don’t understand everything, it’s OK, we will review it – make sure to bring a
copy to the workshop.)
Not required, but useful readings if you are feeling energetic.
Eckert, Penelope. 2008. Variation and the indexical field. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12,4:453-476.
Kiesling, Scott F. 2009. Style as stance: Stance as the explanation for patterns of sociolinguistic
variation.In Stance: Sociolinguistics perspectives, ed. by Alexandra Jaffe. pp. 171-194.
Lempert, Michael. 2008. The poetics of stance: Text-metricality,epistemicity, interaction. Language in
Society, 37, 569-592.