Janet M Fuller
Biographic Data
| ID | 221407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet M Fuller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuller |
| SIGNATURE | FULLER J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0784-3441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Affect and Discrimination in Media Discourses of Migration in Germany
This research analyzes the German term migrationshintergrund (MH; “migration background”), looking at data from 2005 to 2023 in newspapers and X. In the newspaper data, othering discourses are dominant. Counter-discourses noting discrimination in German society appear only infrequently. This pattern reproduces the affective-discursive canon of legitimizing fear and resentment of migrants and reproducing feelings of superiority for the imagined ma…
Multilingual variation and commodification
The English-origin phrase to go, as used in the German multilingual semiotic landscape, e.g. on public signs in cities, has developed meanings beyond its literal semantic meaning and with glocalised social connotations. This analysis shows that while it can be used at times almost equivalently to German zum Mitnehmen (‘to take away’), to go appears on written signs in Germany in new and playful localised ways. In addition, the connotation of to g…
Digitally mediated satire as a site for liquid racism
This analysis of three YouTube videos by a German content creator focuses on his performance of a migrant persona, using exaggerated ethnic stereotypes juxtaposed with a non-ethnically marked Standard German. The ambiguity inherent to humor, and the resulting multiple interpretations of these videos by viewers, open up opportunities for competing discourses of migration. Although largely seen as satire, and arguably intended as a criticism of ste…
Media discourses of migration
With a focus on the post‐2015 period in the western and northern regions of Europe, the research examined here shows prominent media discourses of othering, threat and deservedness of migrants. This spatial and temporal frame lends itself to the study of how discourses reflect the impact of the so‐called ‘refugee crisis’ in these regions of Europe. Since there was also continued immigration related to increased opportunities for work, education, …
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability
Current definitions of sustainability and sustainable development are problematic. They reinforce the dominant capitalist paradigm of economic growth as a goal—a system which has contributed in no uncertain terms to the current state of the planet—and they exclude animals as moral entities. We propose that sustainability is primarily an ethical issue which connects people, the planet on which we live, and the animals and other organisms which inh…
Biodiversity communication at the UN Summit 2020
Biodiverse ecosystems play a key role in maintaining life on earth. In response to rapid declines in biodiversity throughout the world, the UN Biodiversity Summit 2020 brought together world leaders to discuss potential solutions. We draw on cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and ecolinguistics in analysing the summit contributions. All speakers blended vocabulary from the fields of BUSINESS and NATURE; in doing so, they were able…
Hearing between the lines
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Latino Education
In this paper, we review scholarship on Latino Education in the US from the perspectives of positionalities – how are Latinos positioned in the educational process? We look at positions in terms of the type of educational program, particularly for English language learners, and at how the relationships within the school and classroom position Latinos in different ways. We further look at how racial category and ethnicity are evoked as ways of pos…
Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author’s Introduction This Teaching and Learning Guide is intended to provide instructors of courses in Sociolinguistics some guidance in incorporating the topic of multilingualism in educational contexts into their syllabi. Although schools the world over are increasingly serving multilingual populations, awareness of this reality has not, in many cases, sifted through to public consciousness, and incorporation of this topic into the sociolingui…
Gendered choices
This paper examines the use of Spanish and English, as well as collaborative discourse sequences, of four fourth graders in a bilingual classroom in terms of how they are used to construct gender identity. The analysis shows how language practices can become gendered through both societal and interactional norms and practices. The two girls’ use of English to construct their identities as best friends becomes part of the construction of femininit…
Multilingualism in Educational Contexts
There is a growing body of research that addresses the sociolinguistics of multilingual classrooms. Three themes within the research can be identified. The first is classroom discourse strategies; these studies address the interactional functions of language choice. Another theme is how power relations in the larger society influence language use in the school and classroom. The third theme in this body of research is the construction of social i…
Sam need gun go war
Language Choice as a Means of Shaping Identity
In this study of four Mexican-American fourth grade children in a Spanish-English bilingual classroom, language choice is shown to be a mechanism for constructing social identity. While all four children use both English and Spanish to perform their identities, the diversity of their social identities leads them to use the same linguistic resources in a variety of ways. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses show how specific language choices…
The Uses and Meanings of the Female Titlems
This article examines the use of the female title Ms. by students,faculty, and staff at a Midwestern university in the United States using data generated with the written survey used by Donna Lillian (1993) in a similar study in Canada. Findings show that faculty are fairly consistent in their understanding of Ms. as a neutral title to be used for all women and are more likely to choose this title than students and staff. Student responses show a…
Discourse marker use across speech contexts
This research analyzes the discourse marker (DM) use of native speakers and non-native speakers in two speech contexts, interviews and conversations. The findings indicate that native speakers use oh and well more in the conversation data, a difference which is also found in the non-native speaker data. The native speakers use like and y’know more frequently in the interview data, but the non-native speakers do not show a difference in the use of…
Use of the discourse marker like in interviews
The influence of speaker roles on discourse marker use
The principle of pragmatic detachability in borrowing
Different discourse markers (DMs) have been argued to have different levels of pragmatic detachability, based on whether they are lexical and content-oriented or nonlexical and operational in nature (Matras 1998). DMs that are nonlexical and operational in nature are claimed by Matras to be high in the pragmatic-detachability hierarchy and thus can be borrowed more easily in language contact. The present study addresses this claim with data from …
Morpheme types in a matrix language turnover
This contribution examines the roles that morphemes of different types, as defined within Myers-Scotton and Jake's 4-M model (2000), play in contactinduced language change. The data examined here are taken from interviews with seven speakers of Pennsylvania German (PG). This paper argues that a turnover of the Matrix Language is in process in PG. Such a turnover involves the gradual replacement of system morphemes of German origin with system mor…
Noun phrase structure in German-English codeswitching
This article investigates the construction of the grammatical frame in codeswitching in terms of the roles played by the two languages in contact, referred to here as the Matrix Language(ML) and Embedded Language(EL). In “classic” codeswitching, the ML sets the grammatical frame; in addition, however, we claim that the ML frame may be synchronically variable and may converge toward the EL with increased duration of bilingualism. This process has …
Changing Perspectives on Data
Research Article| November 01 2000 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON DATA: INTERVIEWS AS SITUATED SPEECH JANET M. FULLER JANET M. FULLER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 388–390. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-388 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JANET M. FULLER; CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON DATA: INTERVIEWS AS SITUATED SPEECH. Amer…
When cultural maintenance means linguistic convergence
Research on languages in contact has shown evidence of structural convergence, as well as internally motivated language change; one language which has been frequently studied in this light is Pennsylvania German (PG). Myers-Scotton 1993 posits that convergence involves a change in the selection of the language which sets the morpho-syntactic frame involved in language production. This is called a turnover in the Matrix Language (ML). Data from PG…
The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural - s ] Jest like the white men”
The analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal - s marking which parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. This correlation is highly suggestive for the study of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study finds no support for a basis fro…
The influence of speaker roles on discourse marker use
Language Choice as a Means of Shaping Identity
In this study of four Mexican-American fourth grade children in a Spanish-English bilingual classroom, language choice is shown to be a mechanism for constructing social identity. While all four children use both English and Spanish to perform their identities, the diversity of their social identities leads them to use the same linguistic resources in a variety of ways. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses show how specific language choices…
Use of the discourse marker like in interviews
The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural - s ] Jest like the white men”
The analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal - s marking which parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. This correlation is highly suggestive for the study of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study finds no support for a basis fro…
Discourse marker use across speech contexts
This research analyzes the discourse marker (DM) use of native speakers and non-native speakers in two speech contexts, interviews and conversations. The findings indicate that native speakers use oh and well more in the conversation data, a difference which is also found in the non-native speaker data. The native speakers use like and y’know more frequently in the interview data, but the non-native speakers do not show a difference in the use of…
The principle of pragmatic detachability in borrowing
Different discourse markers (DMs) have been argued to have different levels of pragmatic detachability, based on whether they are lexical and content-oriented or nonlexical and operational in nature (Matras 1998). DMs that are nonlexical and operational in nature are claimed by Matras to be high in the pragmatic-detachability hierarchy and thus can be borrowed more easily in language contact. The present study addresses this claim with data from …
The Uses and Meanings of the Female Titlems
This article examines the use of the female title Ms. by students,faculty, and staff at a Midwestern university in the United States using data generated with the written survey used by Donna Lillian (1993) in a similar study in Canada. Findings show that faculty are fairly consistent in their understanding of Ms. as a neutral title to be used for all women and are more likely to choose this title than students and staff. Student responses show a…
Media discourses of migration
With a focus on the post‐2015 period in the western and northern regions of Europe, the research examined here shows prominent media discourses of othering, threat and deservedness of migrants. This spatial and temporal frame lends itself to the study of how discourses reflect the impact of the so‐called ‘refugee crisis’ in these regions of Europe. Since there was also continued immigration related to increased opportunities for work, education, …
Gendered choices
This paper examines the use of Spanish and English, as well as collaborative discourse sequences, of four fourth graders in a bilingual classroom in terms of how they are used to construct gender identity. The analysis shows how language practices can become gendered through both societal and interactional norms and practices. The two girls’ use of English to construct their identities as best friends becomes part of the construction of femininit…
Multilingualism in Educational Contexts
There is a growing body of research that addresses the sociolinguistics of multilingual classrooms. Three themes within the research can be identified. The first is classroom discourse strategies; these studies address the interactional functions of language choice. Another theme is how power relations in the larger society influence language use in the school and classroom. The third theme in this body of research is the construction of social i…
Changing Perspectives on Data
Research Article| November 01 2000 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON DATA: INTERVIEWS AS SITUATED SPEECH JANET M. FULLER JANET M. FULLER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 388–390. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-388 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JANET M. FULLER; CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON DATA: INTERVIEWS AS SITUATED SPEECH. Amer…
When cultural maintenance means linguistic convergence
Research on languages in contact has shown evidence of structural convergence, as well as internally motivated language change; one language which has been frequently studied in this light is Pennsylvania German (PG). Myers-Scotton 1993 posits that convergence involves a change in the selection of the language which sets the morpho-syntactic frame involved in language production. This is called a turnover in the Matrix Language (ML). Data from PG…
Digitally mediated satire as a site for liquid racism
This analysis of three YouTube videos by a German content creator focuses on his performance of a migrant persona, using exaggerated ethnic stereotypes juxtaposed with a non-ethnically marked Standard German. The ambiguity inherent to humor, and the resulting multiple interpretations of these videos by viewers, open up opportunities for competing discourses of migration. Although largely seen as satire, and arguably intended as a criticism of ste…
The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural - s ] Jest like the white men”
The analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal - s marking which parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. This correlation is highly suggestive for the study of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study finds no support for a basis fro…
When cultural maintenance means linguistic convergence
Research on languages in contact has shown evidence of structural convergence, as well as internally motivated language change; one language which has been frequently studied in this light is Pennsylvania German (PG). Myers-Scotton 1993 posits that convergence involves a change in the selection of the language which sets the morpho-syntactic frame involved in language production. This is called a turnover in the Matrix Language (ML). Data from PG…
Morpheme types in a matrix language turnover
This contribution examines the roles that morphemes of different types, as defined within Myers-Scotton and Jake's 4-M model (2000), play in contactinduced language change. The data examined here are taken from interviews with seven speakers of Pennsylvania German (PG). This paper argues that a turnover of the Matrix Language is in process in PG. Such a turnover involves the gradual replacement of system morphemes of German origin with system mor…
Noun phrase structure in German-English codeswitching
This article investigates the construction of the grammatical frame in codeswitching in terms of the roles played by the two languages in contact, referred to here as the Matrix Language(ML) and Embedded Language(EL). In “classic” codeswitching, the ML sets the grammatical frame; in addition, however, we claim that the ML frame may be synchronically variable and may converge toward the EL with increased duration of bilingualism. This process has …
Changing Perspectives on Data
Research Article| November 01 2000 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON DATA: INTERVIEWS AS SITUATED SPEECH JANET M. FULLER JANET M. FULLER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 388–390. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-388 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JANET M. FULLER; CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON DATA: INTERVIEWS AS SITUATED SPEECH. Amer…
The principle of pragmatic detachability in borrowing
Different discourse markers (DMs) have been argued to have different levels of pragmatic detachability, based on whether they are lexical and content-oriented or nonlexical and operational in nature (Matras 1998). DMs that are nonlexical and operational in nature are claimed by Matras to be high in the pragmatic-detachability hierarchy and thus can be borrowed more easily in language contact. The present study addresses this claim with data from …
Discourse marker use across speech contexts
This research analyzes the discourse marker (DM) use of native speakers and non-native speakers in two speech contexts, interviews and conversations. The findings indicate that native speakers use oh and well more in the conversation data, a difference which is also found in the non-native speaker data. The native speakers use like and y’know more frequently in the interview data, but the non-native speakers do not show a difference in the use of…
Use of the discourse marker like in interviews
The influence of speaker roles on discourse marker use
The Uses and Meanings of the Female Titlems
This article examines the use of the female title Ms. by students,faculty, and staff at a Midwestern university in the United States using data generated with the written survey used by Donna Lillian (1993) in a similar study in Canada. Findings show that faculty are fairly consistent in their understanding of Ms. as a neutral title to be used for all women and are more likely to choose this title than students and staff. Student responses show a…
Language Choice as a Means of Shaping Identity
In this study of four Mexican-American fourth grade children in a Spanish-English bilingual classroom, language choice is shown to be a mechanism for constructing social identity. While all four children use both English and Spanish to perform their identities, the diversity of their social identities leads them to use the same linguistic resources in a variety of ways. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses show how specific language choices…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author’s Introduction This Teaching and Learning Guide is intended to provide instructors of courses in Sociolinguistics some guidance in incorporating the topic of multilingualism in educational contexts into their syllabi. Although schools the world over are increasingly serving multilingual populations, awareness of this reality has not, in many cases, sifted through to public consciousness, and incorporation of this topic into the sociolingui…
Gendered choices
This paper examines the use of Spanish and English, as well as collaborative discourse sequences, of four fourth graders in a bilingual classroom in terms of how they are used to construct gender identity. The analysis shows how language practices can become gendered through both societal and interactional norms and practices. The two girls’ use of English to construct their identities as best friends becomes part of the construction of femininit…
Multilingualism in Educational Contexts
There is a growing body of research that addresses the sociolinguistics of multilingual classrooms. Three themes within the research can be identified. The first is classroom discourse strategies; these studies address the interactional functions of language choice. Another theme is how power relations in the larger society influence language use in the school and classroom. The third theme in this body of research is the construction of social i…
Sam need gun go war
Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe
Latino Education
In this paper, we review scholarship on Latino Education in the US from the perspectives of positionalities – how are Latinos positioned in the educational process? We look at positions in terms of the type of educational program, particularly for English language learners, and at how the relationships within the school and classroom position Latinos in different ways. We further look at how racial category and ethnicity are evoked as ways of pos…
Biodiversity communication at the UN Summit 2020
Biodiverse ecosystems play a key role in maintaining life on earth. In response to rapid declines in biodiversity throughout the world, the UN Biodiversity Summit 2020 brought together world leaders to discuss potential solutions. We draw on cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and ecolinguistics in analysing the summit contributions. All speakers blended vocabulary from the fields of BUSINESS and NATURE; in doing so, they were able…
Hearing between the lines
Preview this article: Hearing between the lines, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.3.1.02ful-1.gif
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability
Current definitions of sustainability and sustainable development are problematic. They reinforce the dominant capitalist paradigm of economic growth as a goal—a system which has contributed in no uncertain terms to the current state of the planet—and they exclude animals as moral entities. We propose that sustainability is primarily an ethical issue which connects people, the planet on which we live, and the animals and other organisms which inh…
Media discourses of migration
With a focus on the post‐2015 period in the western and northern regions of Europe, the research examined here shows prominent media discourses of othering, threat and deservedness of migrants. This spatial and temporal frame lends itself to the study of how discourses reflect the impact of the so‐called ‘refugee crisis’ in these regions of Europe. Since there was also continued immigration related to increased opportunities for work, education, …
Digitally mediated satire as a site for liquid racism
This analysis of three YouTube videos by a German content creator focuses on his performance of a migrant persona, using exaggerated ethnic stereotypes juxtaposed with a non-ethnically marked Standard German. The ambiguity inherent to humor, and the resulting multiple interpretations of these videos by viewers, open up opportunities for competing discourses of migration. Although largely seen as satire, and arguably intended as a criticism of ste…
Affect and Discrimination in Media Discourses of Migration in Germany
This research analyzes the German term migrationshintergrund (MH; “migration background”), looking at data from 2005 to 2023 in newspapers and X. In the newspaper data, othering discourses are dominant. Counter-discourses noting discrimination in German society appear only infrequently. This pattern reproduces the affective-discursive canon of legitimizing fear and resentment of migrants and reproducing feelings of superiority for the imagined ma…
Multilingual variation and commodification
The English-origin phrase to go, as used in the German multilingual semiotic landscape, e.g. on public signs in cities, has developed meanings beyond its literal semantic meaning and with glocalised social connotations. This analysis shows that while it can be used at times almost equivalently to German zum Mitnehmen (‘to take away’), to go appears on written signs in Germany in new and playful localised ways. In addition, the connotation of to g…
Linguistics (14 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (13 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · German (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)