William M Cotter
Biographic Data
| ID | 649345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Cotter |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cotter |
| SIGNATURE | COTTER W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8030-4033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voicing the Supply Chain
The specialty coffee industry emphasizes the importance of personal relationships that span disparate levels of the supply chain and production models that focus on the wellbeing of coffee producers. This emphasis presents specialty coffee as a socially progressive form of consumption that is often represented as superior to mass-produced coffee. Discourses that emphasize relationships between baristas and professionals at other levels of the sup…
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in the Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa covers an immense geographic region and includes within its boundaries a great deal of social, cultural, political, and linguistic diversity. Although a number of majority languages are spoken throughout the region, with Arabic being the largest, the region as a whole shows substantial language diversity, with the region's languages cutting across a number of different language groups and families. The broader geo…
The Arabic dialect of Gaza City
Gaza City, with a population of over half a million residents, is the largest urban center and de-facto capital of the Gaza Strip, which itself has a total population of over 1.8 million. As of 2018, it is estimated that at least 1.3 million of the residents of the Gaza Strip are Palestinian refugees from other areas in historic Palestine, having fled to Gaza after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. These refugee communities originally …
What's in Your Bag? 2019 Edition
Poetry Second Prize
Bivalent class indexing in the sociolinguistics of specialty coffee talk
In this article, we analyze the register of specialty coffee talk through an analysis of cupping events and broader specialty coffee company discourse. This register includes both a rarefied lexicon as well as broader rhetorical strategies utilized in specialty coffee marketing and branding, with indexical potentials pointing simultaneously to both higher and lower class positions. We refer to this semiotic pliability as bivalent class indexicali…
Not-so-strange bedfellows
Arabic is often investigated within dialectological frameworks that emerged in the 19 th century, though that work now exists alongside decades of variationist sociolinguistic research. The latter method typically produces abundant data, recorded at very high quality, which lend themselves to being transcribed, described and preserved. This paper presents descriptive information on the Arabic dialect of Gaza City, based on recent sociolinguistic …
Northern Arizona Vowels
Research Article| December 01 2017 Northern Arizona Vowels Lauren Hall-Lew; Lauren Hall-Lew lauren hall-lew is a reader in linguistics and English language in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Raised in Flagstaff, Arizona, she received her B.A. in linguistics from the University of Arizona in 2002, where her pilot study of northern Arizona English vowels was first written up as a class ter…
Gaza at the Margins? Legibility and Indeterminacy in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Despite prominent attention to the nature of the state in the social sciences, the place of language in creating and maintaining the state remains an emerging area of research. The analysis that follows investigates indeterminacy and illegibility in messages disseminated by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. This analysis highlights the ways in which linguistic indeterminacy is used as a tool by the state in controlling populations at its ma…
Current Research on Linguistic Variation in the Arabic‐Speaking World
Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles, and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf. Traditional Arabic dialectology has dealt predominantly with geographical variation. However, in recent years, more nuanced studies of inter‐ and intra‐speaker variation have seen the light of day. …
Social integration and dialect divergence in coastal Palestine
The history of Palestine has caused communities to be displaced and relocated, entailing that speech communities have been dismantled and created anew. The coastal cities of Jaffa and Gaza exemplify this reality. This study analyzes speakers from Jaffa, some of whom remained there and others residing in Gaza as refugees. Through an examination of three variables, (ʕ), (AH), and (Q), we shed light on the effects of dialect contact while highlighti…
One Piece of the Puzzle
Although a great deal has been written about the Gaza Strip within the fields of political science, history, and international relations, very little linguistic research has been conducted in the coastal territory. This study aims at filling one gap in the linguistic record of Gaza through an examination of one set of phonemes, the Arabic interdentals /θ, ð, ðˁ/, in the dialect of Gaza City. The results of this study suggest that the present day …
Bivalent class indexing in the sociolinguistics of specialty coffee talk
In this article, we analyze the register of specialty coffee talk through an analysis of cupping events and broader specialty coffee company discourse. This register includes both a rarefied lexicon as well as broader rhetorical strategies utilized in specialty coffee marketing and branding, with indexical potentials pointing simultaneously to both higher and lower class positions. We refer to this semiotic pliability as bivalent class indexicali…
Social integration and dialect divergence in coastal Palestine
The history of Palestine has caused communities to be displaced and relocated, entailing that speech communities have been dismantled and created anew. The coastal cities of Jaffa and Gaza exemplify this reality. This study analyzes speakers from Jaffa, some of whom remained there and others residing in Gaza as refugees. Through an examination of three variables, (ʕ), (AH), and (Q), we shed light on the effects of dialect contact while highlighti…
Gaza at the Margins? Legibility and Indeterminacy in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Despite prominent attention to the nature of the state in the social sciences, the place of language in creating and maintaining the state remains an emerging area of research. The analysis that follows investigates indeterminacy and illegibility in messages disseminated by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. This analysis highlights the ways in which linguistic indeterminacy is used as a tool by the state in controlling populations at its ma…
Current Research on Linguistic Variation in the Arabic‐Speaking World
Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles, and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf. Traditional Arabic dialectology has dealt predominantly with geographical variation. However, in recent years, more nuanced studies of inter‐ and intra‐speaker variation have seen the light of day. …
One Piece of the Puzzle
Although a great deal has been written about the Gaza Strip within the fields of political science, history, and international relations, very little linguistic research has been conducted in the coastal territory. This study aims at filling one gap in the linguistic record of Gaza through an examination of one set of phonemes, the Arabic interdentals /θ, ð, ðˁ/, in the dialect of Gaza City. The results of this study suggest that the present day …
Social integration and dialect divergence in coastal Palestine
The history of Palestine has caused communities to be displaced and relocated, entailing that speech communities have been dismantled and created anew. The coastal cities of Jaffa and Gaza exemplify this reality. This study analyzes speakers from Jaffa, some of whom remained there and others residing in Gaza as refugees. Through an examination of three variables, (ʕ), (AH), and (Q), we shed light on the effects of dialect contact while highlighti…
Current Research on Linguistic Variation in the Arabic‐Speaking World
Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles, and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf. Traditional Arabic dialectology has dealt predominantly with geographical variation. However, in recent years, more nuanced studies of inter‐ and intra‐speaker variation have seen the light of day. …
Not-so-strange bedfellows
Arabic is often investigated within dialectological frameworks that emerged in the 19 th century, though that work now exists alongside decades of variationist sociolinguistic research. The latter method typically produces abundant data, recorded at very high quality, which lend themselves to being transcribed, described and preserved. This paper presents descriptive information on the Arabic dialect of Gaza City, based on recent sociolinguistic …
Northern Arizona Vowels
Research Article| December 01 2017 Northern Arizona Vowels Lauren Hall-Lew; Lauren Hall-Lew lauren hall-lew is a reader in linguistics and English language in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Raised in Flagstaff, Arizona, she received her B.A. in linguistics from the University of Arizona in 2002, where her pilot study of northern Arizona English vowels was first written up as a class ter…
Gaza at the Margins? Legibility and Indeterminacy in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Despite prominent attention to the nature of the state in the social sciences, the place of language in creating and maintaining the state remains an emerging area of research. The analysis that follows investigates indeterminacy and illegibility in messages disseminated by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. This analysis highlights the ways in which linguistic indeterminacy is used as a tool by the state in controlling populations at its ma…
Bivalent class indexing in the sociolinguistics of specialty coffee talk
In this article, we analyze the register of specialty coffee talk through an analysis of cupping events and broader specialty coffee company discourse. This register includes both a rarefied lexicon as well as broader rhetorical strategies utilized in specialty coffee marketing and branding, with indexical potentials pointing simultaneously to both higher and lower class positions. We refer to this semiotic pliability as bivalent class indexicali…
What's in Your Bag? 2019 Edition
Poetry Second Prize
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in the Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa covers an immense geographic region and includes within its boundaries a great deal of social, cultural, political, and linguistic diversity. Although a number of majority languages are spoken throughout the region, with Arabic being the largest, the region as a whole shows substantial language diversity, with the region's languages cutting across a number of different language groups and families. The broader geo…
The Arabic dialect of Gaza City
Gaza City, with a population of over half a million residents, is the largest urban center and de-facto capital of the Gaza Strip, which itself has a total population of over 1.8 million. As of 2018, it is estimated that at least 1.3 million of the residents of the Gaza Strip are Palestinian refugees from other areas in historic Palestine, having fled to Gaza after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. These refugee communities originally …
Voicing the Supply Chain
The specialty coffee industry emphasizes the importance of personal relationships that span disparate levels of the supply chain and production models that focus on the wellbeing of coffee producers. This emphasis presents specialty coffee as a socially progressive form of consumption that is often represented as superior to mass-produced coffee. Discourses that emphasize relationships between baristas and professionals at other levels of the sup…
Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Arabic (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociolinguistics (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)