Robin M Queen
Biographic Data
| ID | 147910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin M Queen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Queen |
| SIGNATURE | QUEEN R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5181-9049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Getting to Know Them: Effects of Familiarity, Identity, and modeling on the Production of Singular Specific they : Supplemental material
Getting to Know Them: Effects of Familiarity, Identity, and modeling on the Production of Singular Specific they
The English pronoun they is currently undergoing a rapid change, in that they is increasingly being used to refer to specific (named) individuals as a singular personal pronoun. Although it has been used with a singular, indefinite antecedent for centuries, singular specific they is relatively new and coincides with rising recognition of the fluidity of gender identity and expression. For many individuals, they / them pronouns fit their gender id…
Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination
Language standardization involves minimizing variation, especially in written forms of language. That process includes judgments about people who don‘t or can‘t use the standard forms. These kinds of judgments can unfairly limit people's access to opportunities, including in educational and professional realms. In this essay, we discuss standardized language varieties and the specific ways beliefs and ideologies about them allow judgments about l…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Lesbian at the vanguard
This tribute considers the work of linguist and novelist, Anna Livia (1955–2007). Anna was a noted fiction writer before becoming a linguist and much of her work considered language play in literature. Anna brought her experience as a lesbian activist to queer linguistics, where she played an important role in establishing the field. Her work continues to be an important example of linguistic research on lesbians, an area that continues to be und…
Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes
Humans are remarkably efficient at parsing basic linguistic cues and show an equally impressive ability to produce and parse socially indexed cues from the language(s) they encounter. In this review, we focus on the ways in which questions of justice and equality are linked to these two abilities. We discuss how social and linguistic cues are theorized to become correlated with each other, describe listeners' perceptual abilities regarding lingui…
I think your going to like me: Exploring the role of errors in email messages on assessments of potential housemates
Two experiments explored reader reaction to written errors that were either typographic or grammatical. Errors were embedded in short texts presented as email responses to a housemate ad. In the first experiment, readers evaluated the writer and message on several dimensions (e.g., Was the writer trustworthy? Did the email flow smoothly?). Those dimensions were divided into a “social” scale (e.g. “This student seems similar to me”) and an “academ…
Contact-related Language Change and Variability in the Intonation Patterns of Turkish-German Bilinguals in Germany
Contact-related Language Change and Variability in the Intonation Patterns of Turkish-German Bilinguals in Germany
The days of our lives
In this article, I discuss the results of a small case study of one daytime serial drama in the United States and show that it links the macro-social category of gender to desire for upward social mobility through the use of linguistic tropes that conventionally index both gender and social class. This connection is critical to the more general commercial imperative inherent in the daytime drama to connect consumers with advertised products. In t…
Describing, analysing and judging language codes in cinematic discourse
Describing, analysing and judging language codes in cinematic discourse
Turkish-German bilinguals and their intonation: Triangulating evidence about contact-induced language change
In this article, I focus on the intonation patterns of Turkish-German bilinguals to discuss intonation within the context of language contact and language variation. The intonational variance involves the realization of terminal rises as produced by second- and third-generation Turkish-German bilinguals living in Germany. These speakers produce two phonetically, phonologically, and pragmatically distinct rises, which differ from what is typically…
Media Clips Collection: Creation and Application for the Linguistics Classroom
Research Article| May 01 2011 Media Clips Collection: Creation and Application for the Linguistics Classroom Lauren Squires; Lauren Squires Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robin Queen Robin Queen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2): 220–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1337028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer …
Prosodic orientation in English conversation
Women and the World of Dog Rescue: A Case Study of the State of Michigan
In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and societal shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, one can also observe a dramatic change in how humans in these societies have come to relate to nonhuman animals, dogs in particular. One of the new institutions created by this change in attitude and behavior toward dogs is the canine rescue organization, example…
Sociolinguistic Horizons: Language and Sexuality
In this essay, I examine the current state of research on the connections between language and sexuality and argue that the time has arrived for such research to adopt a more vigorous use of the scientific method, which will allow for testing the predictions made by the various theoretical interventions that have been proposed since the 1990s. I begin by outlining the major theoretical debate within the field, namely, the question of the place of…
Phrase-final intonation in narratives told by Turkish-German bilinguals
In this study, I examine how three preadolescent, Turkish-German bilingual girls use intonational resources from both of their languages as one strategy for organizing monologic narratives. In so doing, I show that the bilingual narrators make strategic use of phrase-final tunes that have their origins in the speakers' (and their community's) bilingualism. In particular, these speakers utilize two phrase-final rises that differ in their frequency…
How Many Lesbians Does It Take
Du hast jar keene Ahnung: African American English dubbed into German
This paper explores the translation of sociolinguistic variation by examining the ways that African American English (AAE) is dubbed into German. In discussing this ubiquitous yet poorly studied area of language use, I show that ideas about language as an index to social groupings are transferable to the degree that the ideas overlap in the cultures in question. In the case of German, if the character being dubbed is young, male and tied to the s…
Bilingual intonation patterns: Evidence of language change from Turkish-German bilingual children
This article discusses Turkish-German bilingual children's intonation patterns as they relate to processes of contact-induced language change. Bilingual speakers use two distinct rises in both Turkish and German. One rise (L*HH%) resembles a characteristic German rise, while the other (L%H%) resembles a characteristic Turkish rise. The rises pattern pragmatically in ways that are non-normative for both Turkish and German. Although this pattern is…
Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse
Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse. Mary Bucholtz. A. C. Liang. and Laurel Sutton. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 431 pp
Stay queer!''Never fear: Building Queer Social Networks
In this paper, I present evidence in support of the hypothesis that gay men and lesbians may use similar linguistics strategies in order to build and maintain queer social networks. Such social networks rely on an assumption of shared queerness that goes beyond gender-exclusive groups. The primary strategies discussed here are the incorporation of cultural understandings that are assumed to be shared, the appropriation of gender stereotypes for h…
Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes
Humans are remarkably efficient at parsing basic linguistic cues and show an equally impressive ability to produce and parse socially indexed cues from the language(s) they encounter. In this review, we focus on the ways in which questions of justice and equality are linked to these two abilities. We discuss how social and linguistic cues are theorized to become correlated with each other, describe listeners' perceptual abilities regarding lingui…
How Many Lesbians Does It Take
Bilingual intonation patterns: Evidence of language change from Turkish-German bilingual children
This article discusses Turkish-German bilingual children's intonation patterns as they relate to processes of contact-induced language change. Bilingual speakers use two distinct rises in both Turkish and German. One rise (L*HH%) resembles a characteristic German rise, while the other (L%H%) resembles a characteristic Turkish rise. The rises pattern pragmatically in ways that are non-normative for both Turkish and German. Although this pattern is…
Du hast jar keene Ahnung: African American English dubbed into German
This paper explores the translation of sociolinguistic variation by examining the ways that African American English (AAE) is dubbed into German. In discussing this ubiquitous yet poorly studied area of language use, I show that ideas about language as an index to social groupings are transferable to the degree that the ideas overlap in the cultures in question. In the case of German, if the character being dubbed is young, male and tied to the s…
Turkish-German bilinguals and their intonation: Triangulating evidence about contact-induced language change
In this article, I focus on the intonation patterns of Turkish-German bilinguals to discuss intonation within the context of language contact and language variation. The intonational variance involves the realization of terminal rises as produced by second- and third-generation Turkish-German bilinguals living in Germany. These speakers produce two phonetically, phonologically, and pragmatically distinct rises, which differ from what is typically…
Stay queer!''Never fear: Building Queer Social Networks
In this paper, I present evidence in support of the hypothesis that gay men and lesbians may use similar linguistics strategies in order to build and maintain queer social networks. Such social networks rely on an assumption of shared queerness that goes beyond gender-exclusive groups. The primary strategies discussed here are the incorporation of cultural understandings that are assumed to be shared, the appropriation of gender stereotypes for h…
Women and the World of Dog Rescue: A Case Study of the State of Michigan
In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and societal shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, one can also observe a dramatic change in how humans in these societies have come to relate to nonhuman animals, dogs in particular. One of the new institutions created by this change in attitude and behavior toward dogs is the canine rescue organization, example…
The days of our lives
In this article, I discuss the results of a small case study of one daytime serial drama in the United States and show that it links the macro-social category of gender to desire for upward social mobility through the use of linguistic tropes that conventionally index both gender and social class. This connection is critical to the more general commercial imperative inherent in the daytime drama to connect consumers with advertised products. In t…
Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination
Language standardization involves minimizing variation, especially in written forms of language. That process includes judgments about people who don‘t or can‘t use the standard forms. These kinds of judgments can unfairly limit people's access to opportunities, including in educational and professional realms. In this essay, we discuss standardized language varieties and the specific ways beliefs and ideologies about them allow judgments about l…
Media Clips Collection: Creation and Application for the Linguistics Classroom
Research Article| May 01 2011 Media Clips Collection: Creation and Application for the Linguistics Classroom Lauren Squires; Lauren Squires Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robin Queen Robin Queen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2): 220–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1337028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer …
Sociolinguistic Horizons: Language and Sexuality
In this essay, I examine the current state of research on the connections between language and sexuality and argue that the time has arrived for such research to adopt a more vigorous use of the scientific method, which will allow for testing the predictions made by the various theoretical interventions that have been proposed since the 1990s. I begin by outlining the major theoretical debate within the field, namely, the question of the place of…
Getting to Know Them: Effects of Familiarity, Identity, and modeling on the Production of Singular Specific they
The English pronoun they is currently undergoing a rapid change, in that they is increasingly being used to refer to specific (named) individuals as a singular personal pronoun. Although it has been used with a singular, indefinite antecedent for centuries, singular specific they is relatively new and coincides with rising recognition of the fluidity of gender identity and expression. For many individuals, they / them pronouns fit their gender id…
Describing, analysing and judging language codes in cinematic discourse
Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse
Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse. Mary Bucholtz. A. C. Liang. and Laurel Sutton. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 431 pp
Stay queer!''Never fear: Building Queer Social Networks
In this paper, I present evidence in support of the hypothesis that gay men and lesbians may use similar linguistics strategies in order to build and maintain queer social networks. Such social networks rely on an assumption of shared queerness that goes beyond gender-exclusive groups. The primary strategies discussed here are the incorporation of cultural understandings that are assumed to be shared, the appropriation of gender stereotypes for h…
Bilingual intonation patterns: Evidence of language change from Turkish-German bilingual children
This article discusses Turkish-German bilingual children's intonation patterns as they relate to processes of contact-induced language change. Bilingual speakers use two distinct rises in both Turkish and German. One rise (L*HH%) resembles a characteristic German rise, while the other (L%H%) resembles a characteristic Turkish rise. The rises pattern pragmatically in ways that are non-normative for both Turkish and German. Although this pattern is…
Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse
Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse. Mary Bucholtz. A. C. Liang. and Laurel Sutton. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 431 pp
Du hast jar keene Ahnung: African American English dubbed into German
This paper explores the translation of sociolinguistic variation by examining the ways that African American English (AAE) is dubbed into German. In discussing this ubiquitous yet poorly studied area of language use, I show that ideas about language as an index to social groupings are transferable to the degree that the ideas overlap in the cultures in question. In the case of German, if the character being dubbed is young, male and tied to the s…
How Many Lesbians Does It Take
Phrase-final intonation in narratives told by Turkish-German bilinguals
In this study, I examine how three preadolescent, Turkish-German bilingual girls use intonational resources from both of their languages as one strategy for organizing monologic narratives. In so doing, I show that the bilingual narrators make strategic use of phrase-final tunes that have their origins in the speakers' (and their community's) bilingualism. In particular, these speakers utilize two phrase-final rises that differ in their frequency…
Sociolinguistic Horizons: Language and Sexuality
In this essay, I examine the current state of research on the connections between language and sexuality and argue that the time has arrived for such research to adopt a more vigorous use of the scientific method, which will allow for testing the predictions made by the various theoretical interventions that have been proposed since the 1990s. I begin by outlining the major theoretical debate within the field, namely, the question of the place of…
Prosodic orientation in English conversation
Women and the World of Dog Rescue: A Case Study of the State of Michigan
In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and societal shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, one can also observe a dramatic change in how humans in these societies have come to relate to nonhuman animals, dogs in particular. One of the new institutions created by this change in attitude and behavior toward dogs is the canine rescue organization, example…
Media Clips Collection: Creation and Application for the Linguistics Classroom
Research Article| May 01 2011 Media Clips Collection: Creation and Application for the Linguistics Classroom Lauren Squires; Lauren Squires Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robin Queen Robin Queen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2): 220–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1337028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer …
The days of our lives
In this article, I discuss the results of a small case study of one daytime serial drama in the United States and show that it links the macro-social category of gender to desire for upward social mobility through the use of linguistic tropes that conventionally index both gender and social class. This connection is critical to the more general commercial imperative inherent in the daytime drama to connect consumers with advertised products. In t…
Describing, analysing and judging language codes in cinematic discourse
Describing, analysing and judging language codes in cinematic discourse
Turkish-German bilinguals and their intonation: Triangulating evidence about contact-induced language change
In this article, I focus on the intonation patterns of Turkish-German bilinguals to discuss intonation within the context of language contact and language variation. The intonational variance involves the realization of terminal rises as produced by second- and third-generation Turkish-German bilinguals living in Germany. These speakers produce two phonetically, phonologically, and pragmatically distinct rises, which differ from what is typically…
Contact-related Language Change and Variability in the Intonation Patterns of Turkish-German Bilinguals in Germany
Contact-related Language Change and Variability in the Intonation Patterns of Turkish-German Bilinguals in Germany
I think your going to like me: Exploring the role of errors in email messages on assessments of potential housemates
Two experiments explored reader reaction to written errors that were either typographic or grammatical. Errors were embedded in short texts presented as email responses to a housemate ad. In the first experiment, readers evaluated the writer and message on several dimensions (e.g., Was the writer trustworthy? Did the email flow smoothly?). Those dimensions were divided into a “social” scale (e.g. “This student seems similar to me”) and an “academ…
Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes
Humans are remarkably efficient at parsing basic linguistic cues and show an equally impressive ability to produce and parse socially indexed cues from the language(s) they encounter. In this review, we focus on the ways in which questions of justice and equality are linked to these two abilities. We discuss how social and linguistic cues are theorized to become correlated with each other, describe listeners' perceptual abilities regarding lingui…
Lesbian at the vanguard
This tribute considers the work of linguist and novelist, Anna Livia (1955–2007). Anna was a noted fiction writer before becoming a linguist and much of her work considered language play in literature. Anna brought her experience as a lesbian activist to queer linguistics, where she played an important role in establishing the field. Her work continues to be an important example of linguistic research on lesbians, an area that continues to be und…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination
Language standardization involves minimizing variation, especially in written forms of language. That process includes judgments about people who don‘t or can‘t use the standard forms. These kinds of judgments can unfairly limit people's access to opportunities, including in educational and professional realms. In this essay, we discuss standardized language varieties and the specific ways beliefs and ideologies about them allow judgments about l…
Getting to Know Them: Effects of Familiarity, Identity, and modeling on the Production of Singular Specific they : Supplemental material
Getting to Know Them: Effects of Familiarity, Identity, and modeling on the Production of Singular Specific they
The English pronoun they is currently undergoing a rapid change, in that they is increasingly being used to refer to specific (named) individuals as a singular personal pronoun. Although it has been used with a singular, indefinite antecedent for centuries, singular specific they is relatively new and coincides with rising recognition of the fluidity of gender identity and expression. For many individuals, they / them pronouns fit their gender id…
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