Vineeta Chand, PhD (UC Davis)
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Lecturer,
Anthropology
Office: 325 Young, Off Hrs TBA
Keywords: Sociocultural linguistics (e.g. linguistic anthropology, sociophonetics, gender studies, cross-dialect intelligibility, post-colonial World Englishes), linguistic steganography, language disorders, metaphor theory
Office: 325 Young, Off Hrs TBA
| Email: | vchand | @ | ucdavis.edu |
Keywords: Sociocultural linguistics (e.g. linguistic anthropology, sociophonetics, gender studies, cross-dialect intelligibility, post-colonial World Englishes), linguistic steganography, language disorders, metaphor theory
Languages:
Indian English, Hindi, American English, Spanish, American English dialects
I am a lecturer in the Anthropology Dept. Fall 2009 (ANT 4, Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology), and will begin a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship at the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center in 2010.
Broadly, i am interested in how people use language. Both what they have available to them, and how they exploit linguistic resources in various contexts, settings, and mediums (and within this, i'm a fan of numbers and of qualitative research, but most generally, i'm a fan of data-based research). i am particularly interested in the application of linguistic theory and knowledge to the real world, from sociolinguistic work on how individuals use language to create a particular identity to applied clinical work in various areas. My dissertation focused on structural and ideological changes in Indian English as it has progressed into (I argue) a nativized dialect within the post-colonial setting. I examined three generations of IE speakers from New Delhi through sociolinguistic interviews, with fieldwork and data coding supported by a Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Linguistics). My applied work has involved 1) using language as an encryption device (lexical steganography), 2) exploring how particular linguistic features within narratives may be useful as a clinical diagnostic for dementia, and 3) using acoustic analysis to chart improvements in apraxic speech during rehabilitation.
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