Jocelyn Ahlers
Biographic Data
| ID | 75440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Ahlers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahlers |
| SIGNATURE | AHLERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Marcos |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1121-7646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
You keep the y'alls: Multivocality and embodiment in college students' negotiations of academic English
Throughout their education, students learn to use “academic English,” and to navigate associated language ideologies. In focus groups, college students discuss formal features of “academic English,” especially “removing ‘I’,” and “avoiding bias,” that they link to a sense of alienation and loss. They show themselves not to be passive receptacles for the ideologies they are exposed to as part of their education, but rather, as agents who take up v…
Nuwä Abigip: Kawaiisu Language and Cultural Center
Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance by Jenny L. Davis
Reviewed by: Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance by Jenny L. Davis Jocelyn C. Ahlers Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance. By Jenny L. Davis. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. 170. ISBN 9780816537686. $50 (Hb). In the conclusion to Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance, Jenny L. Davis writes, ‘Whe…
Native California Languages as Semiotic Resources in the Performance of Identity
Research on language endangerment and revitalization suggests that in many communities, even token uses of endangered heritage languages serve important semiotic functions. This paper proposes that semiotic processes allowing language, and particular uses of language, to serve as indices of identity rely on intertextual relationships to past linguistic usages and to sociocultural knowledge surrounding those past uses. A focus on the use of endang…
Linguistic variation and time travel: Barrier, or border-crossing
Gender and endangered languages: Intersections
While studies of the interplay of language use and gendered identity have pointed to the complex interactions between the two, and while researchers have similarly considered the ways in which endangered languages of heritage serve as resources in the construction of identity in communities focused on language revitalization, the intersection of these two fields of study has only rarely been examined. As awareness of the endangered status of many…
Language revitalization and the (re)constituting of gender
While many authors have investigated the processes by which children are socialized into gender roles within their communities of practice, and others have taken up an examination of the ways in which gender is a consideration in language endangerment and revitalization, the process of gender socialization in communities working towards language revitalization has been less well examined. The purpose of this paper is to examine gender role social…
Gender and endangered languages
While studies of the interplay of language use and gendered identity have pointed to the complex interactions between the two, and while researchers have similarly considered the ways in which endangered languages of heritage serve as resources in the construction of identity in communities focused on language revitalization, the intersection of these two fields of study has only rarely been examined. As awareness of the endangered status of many…
Two Eights Make Sixteen Beads: Historical and Contemporary Ethnography in Language Revitalization
While analyses of numerals typically focus on presenting morphological and phonological data as well as on comparative historical analyses of the numeral systems of related languages, numerals are rarely analyzed as indices of the kinds of cultural information seen in such semantic fields as, e.g., kinship terminology. On the contrary, an examination of the two counting systems of Elem Pomo reveals a network of sociocultural connections. This pap…
The many meanings of collaboration: Fieldwork with the Elem Pomo
Introduction: Reflecting on language and culture fieldwork in the early 21st century
The Issue of "Authenticity" in California Language Restoration
Two language revitalization programs in California are described here with a focus on how new words can be developed in a way authentic to a given language which reflects traditional values and thoughts. The importance of combining classroom approaches with community-based programs is also discussed
Cognitive Metaphors in Hupa
The study of cognitive metaphors is a recent one in linguistics, and has opened up new doors in our understanding of language, as well as of the cognition that underlies language. Until recently, metaphor was considered to be a phenomenon that occurred only in literary language. However, George Lakoff and others have shown that metaphors are in fact deeply embedded in everyday language and provide a window into both the minds and cultures of spea…
Metonymy and the Creation of New Words in Hupa
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in Native American Languages (1996)
The Issue of "Authenticity" in California Language Restoration
Two language revitalization programs in California are described here with a focus on how new words can be developed in a way authentic to a given language which reflects traditional values and thoughts. The importance of combining classroom approaches with community-based programs is also discussed
Native California Languages as Semiotic Resources in the Performance of Identity
Research on language endangerment and revitalization suggests that in many communities, even token uses of endangered heritage languages serve important semiotic functions. This paper proposes that semiotic processes allowing language, and particular uses of language, to serve as indices of identity rely on intertextual relationships to past linguistic usages and to sociocultural knowledge surrounding those past uses. A focus on the use of endang…
Linguistic variation and time travel: Barrier, or border-crossing
Language revitalization and the (re)constituting of gender
While many authors have investigated the processes by which children are socialized into gender roles within their communities of practice, and others have taken up an examination of the ways in which gender is a consideration in language endangerment and revitalization, the process of gender socialization in communities working towards language revitalization has been less well examined. The purpose of this paper is to examine gender role social…
Introduction: Reflecting on language and culture fieldwork in the early 21st century
Gender and endangered languages
While studies of the interplay of language use and gendered identity have pointed to the complex interactions between the two, and while researchers have similarly considered the ways in which endangered languages of heritage serve as resources in the construction of identity in communities focused on language revitalization, the intersection of these two fields of study has only rarely been examined. As awareness of the endangered status of many…
Two Eights Make Sixteen Beads: Historical and Contemporary Ethnography in Language Revitalization
While analyses of numerals typically focus on presenting morphological and phonological data as well as on comparative historical analyses of the numeral systems of related languages, numerals are rarely analyzed as indices of the kinds of cultural information seen in such semantic fields as, e.g., kinship terminology. On the contrary, an examination of the two counting systems of Elem Pomo reveals a network of sociocultural connections. This pap…
The many meanings of collaboration: Fieldwork with the Elem Pomo
Metonymy and the Creation of New Words in Hupa
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in Native American Languages (1996)
Cognitive Metaphors in Hupa
The study of cognitive metaphors is a recent one in linguistics, and has opened up new doors in our understanding of language, as well as of the cognition that underlies language. Until recently, metaphor was considered to be a phenomenon that occurred only in literary language. However, George Lakoff and others have shown that metaphors are in fact deeply embedded in everyday language and provide a window into both the minds and cultures of spea…
The Issue of "Authenticity" in California Language Restoration
Two language revitalization programs in California are described here with a focus on how new words can be developed in a way authentic to a given language which reflects traditional values and thoughts. The importance of combining classroom approaches with community-based programs is also discussed
The many meanings of collaboration: Fieldwork with the Elem Pomo
Introduction: Reflecting on language and culture fieldwork in the early 21st century
Language revitalization and the (re)constituting of gender
While many authors have investigated the processes by which children are socialized into gender roles within their communities of practice, and others have taken up an examination of the ways in which gender is a consideration in language endangerment and revitalization, the process of gender socialization in communities working towards language revitalization has been less well examined. The purpose of this paper is to examine gender role social…
Gender and endangered languages
While studies of the interplay of language use and gendered identity have pointed to the complex interactions between the two, and while researchers have similarly considered the ways in which endangered languages of heritage serve as resources in the construction of identity in communities focused on language revitalization, the intersection of these two fields of study has only rarely been examined. As awareness of the endangered status of many…
Two Eights Make Sixteen Beads: Historical and Contemporary Ethnography in Language Revitalization
While analyses of numerals typically focus on presenting morphological and phonological data as well as on comparative historical analyses of the numeral systems of related languages, numerals are rarely analyzed as indices of the kinds of cultural information seen in such semantic fields as, e.g., kinship terminology. On the contrary, an examination of the two counting systems of Elem Pomo reveals a network of sociocultural connections. This pap…
Gender and endangered languages: Intersections
While studies of the interplay of language use and gendered identity have pointed to the complex interactions between the two, and while researchers have similarly considered the ways in which endangered languages of heritage serve as resources in the construction of identity in communities focused on language revitalization, the intersection of these two fields of study has only rarely been examined. As awareness of the endangered status of many…
Linguistic variation and time travel: Barrier, or border-crossing
Native California Languages as Semiotic Resources in the Performance of Identity
Research on language endangerment and revitalization suggests that in many communities, even token uses of endangered heritage languages serve important semiotic functions. This paper proposes that semiotic processes allowing language, and particular uses of language, to serve as indices of identity rely on intertextual relationships to past linguistic usages and to sociocultural knowledge surrounding those past uses. A focus on the use of endang…
Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance by Jenny L. Davis
Reviewed by: Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance by Jenny L. Davis Jocelyn C. Ahlers Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance. By Jenny L. Davis. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. 170. ISBN 9780816537686. $50 (Hb). In the conclusion to Talking Indian: Identity and language revitalization in the Chickasaw renaissance, Jenny L. Davis writes, ‘Whe…
Nuwä Abigip: Kawaiisu Language and Cultural Center
You keep the y'alls: Multivocality and embodiment in college students' negotiations of academic English
Throughout their education, students learn to use “academic English,” and to navigate associated language ideologies. In focus groups, college students discuss formal features of “academic English,” especially “removing ‘I’,” and “avoiding bias,” that they link to a sense of alienation and loss. They show themselves not to be passive receptacles for the ideologies they are exposed to as part of their education, but rather, as agents who take up v…
Sociology (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Endangered species (3 works)