Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST
Johnson Center, Meeting Room B
Miami is well known as one of the most bilingual cities in the US, with over 60% of people over the age of five speaking Spanish at home, and most of those also speaking English. In this talk, Dr. Phillip Carter will present his research on attitudes towards Spanish and English, as well as towards different varieties of Spanish, and the ways that these attitudes reflect ideologies about Spanish, Miami, and the United States.
Phillip M. Carter is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics in the Department of English in the School of Environment, Art, and Society at Florida International University. Dr. Carter is a sociolinguist and scholar of language and culture in U.S. Latino communities whose research examines the relationship between social formations and linguistic variation, Spanish language change in the United States, and popular discourses about language.
