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Please join us on Tuesday, March 5 at 4:45pm in Cole Cinema for a free public lecture by
Visiting Anthropologist Katie Carmichael (Viriginia Tech), “A Sociolinguistics of Place.” In this
talk, Carmichael demonstrates the significance of place identity and place orientation in
sociolinguistic research. The talk considers questions including how can we more fully account
for participants’ varied relationships with the places they have lived? To what extent can we, as
researchers, create generalizable measures of place orientation that apply across different kinds
of communities? What do we have to gain from engaging further with disciplines who have
theorized about place attachment, aka a sense of “belonging”?
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