Jamaal Muwwakkil
Biographic Data
| ID | 907682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamaal Muwwakkil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamaal |
| FAMILY NAME | Muwwakkil |
| SIGNATURE | MUWWAKKIL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7323-0999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
You Have Never Lived a Day Outside of Your Body
Anthropology's well-known history of racist and colonial practices continues to inform which bodies go (un)marked with regard to researcher and researched subjectivities, with consequences for methodology and analysis. The imagined unmarked body of the researcher in the ethnographic context disallows consideration of any interaction between their subject position, its attendant histories, and how researchers interact with the community under stud…
The Role of the Graduate Student in Inclusive Undergraduate Research Experiences
The authors present a lab-based research model that engages graduate students in undergraduate research mentorship positions that are mutually beneficial for graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty. They show how this model can be scaled up and adapted across the range of English disciplines. The authors share examples of the different types of research that they have engaged in for linguistics, literary archival studies, creative writing,…
Virtue Signaling and the Linguistic Repertoire of Anti-Blackness
Increasing commodification of progressive language in public discourse over the past four decades has resulted in users' indexical alignment with anti-racist politics becoming unmoored from expectations of legitimate action toward dismantling white supremacy. In this essay, we describe how this process is enacted through virtue signaling-highlighting one's morality through the use of language and other signs that invoke progressive sociopolitical…
Conversation in the classroom
Linguists have found that certain dynamics of conversation are consistent across languages worldwide, and these dynamics can affect the classroom discussions that teachers use to assess student understanding and make instructional decisions. Carrie Holmberg and Jamaal Muwwakkil discuss how conversational pauses, for example, might lead questioners to infer meaning that isn’t overtly expressed. Yes/no questions tend to elicit quick yes responses, …
Virtue Signaling and the Linguistic Repertoire of Anti-Blackness
Increasing commodification of progressive language in public discourse over the past four decades has resulted in users' indexical alignment with anti-racist politics becoming unmoored from expectations of legitimate action toward dismantling white supremacy. In this essay, we describe how this process is enacted through virtue signaling-highlighting one's morality through the use of language and other signs that invoke progressive sociopolitical…
Conversation in the classroom
Linguists have found that certain dynamics of conversation are consistent across languages worldwide, and these dynamics can affect the classroom discussions that teachers use to assess student understanding and make instructional decisions. Carrie Holmberg and Jamaal Muwwakkil discuss how conversational pauses, for example, might lead questioners to infer meaning that isn’t overtly expressed. Yes/no questions tend to elicit quick yes responses, …
Virtue Signaling and the Linguistic Repertoire of Anti-Blackness
Increasing commodification of progressive language in public discourse over the past four decades has resulted in users' indexical alignment with anti-racist politics becoming unmoored from expectations of legitimate action toward dismantling white supremacy. In this essay, we describe how this process is enacted through virtue signaling-highlighting one's morality through the use of language and other signs that invoke progressive sociopolitical…
The Role of the Graduate Student in Inclusive Undergraduate Research Experiences
The authors present a lab-based research model that engages graduate students in undergraduate research mentorship positions that are mutually beneficial for graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty. They show how this model can be scaled up and adapted across the range of English disciplines. The authors share examples of the different types of research that they have engaged in for linguistics, literary archival studies, creative writing,…
You Have Never Lived a Day Outside of Your Body
Anthropology's well-known history of racist and colonial practices continues to inform which bodies go (un)marked with regard to researcher and researched subjectivities, with consequences for methodology and analysis. The imagined unmarked body of the researcher in the ethnographic context disallows consideration of any interaction between their subject position, its attendant histories, and how researchers interact with the community under stud…
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Applied linguistics (1 work) · Class (philosophy) (1 work)