Anthropology Faculty
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Janet Fuller
Associate Professor

Cross-appointments with the Department of Linguistics and Women's Studies Program
4343 Faner Hall
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale IL 62901-4502
Phone: (618) 453-5057
Fax: (618) 453-5037
Email: jmfuller@siu.edu
Research interests Courses
My current research addresses issues of identity and ideology in the U.S. and Germany. Based on two years of fieldwork in a Spanish-English bilingual program in southern Illinois and a year of fieldwork in German-English bilingual programs in Berlin, Germany, my recent publications look at how the children use language to construct their multiple social identities in a world of competing language ideologies.

Editor of the Sociolinguistics Section of the Language and Linguistics Compass http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/linguistics/section_home?section=lnco-sociolinguistics

Anth 240B Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Anth/Ling 415 Sociolinguistics
Anth/Ling 416 Spanish in the USA
Anth/Ling 544 Discourse Analysis
Links
Linguistic Society of America  http://www.lsadc.org/
Society of Linguistic Anthropology  http://www.aaanet.org/sla/index.htm
Pennsylvania German language (Wikipedia entry)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_German_language
Selected publications

2010. Gendered choices: codeswitching and collaboration in a bilingual classroom. Gender and Language 4:1.

2009. “Sam need gun go war”: Performances of non-Standard English in the construction of identity. Journal of Sociolinguistics 13:5.659-669.2007 Language choice as a means for shaping identity.’ Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 17:1.

2007 With Minta Elsman and Kevan Self. ‘Addressing Peers in a Spanish-English Bilingual Classroom.’ Spanish in contact: Educational, social, and linguistic inquiries, ed. by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron, 135-151. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2006 Co-edited with Linda Thornburg). Readings in Contact Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

2005 `The Uses and Meanings of the Female Title "Ms."' American Speech 80(2): 180-206.

2003 Use of the discourse marker like in interviews. Journal of Sociolingiustics 7(3): 365-377.

2003 The influence of speaker role on discourse marker use.  The Journal of Pragmatics 35(1): 23-45.

2001 The Principle of Pragmatic Detachability in Borrowing: English-original discourse markers in Pennsylvania German. Linguistics 39(2): 351-369.

1999 The role of English in Pennsylvania German development: best supporting actress?  American Speech 74(1):38-55.

1996 When cultural maintenance means linguistic convergence: Pennsylvania German evidence for the Matrix Language Turnover hypothesis. Language in Society 25.493-514.