Richard Giblett, Mycelium Rhizome
research
sociolinguistic perception
I am interested in the listening subject's experience with language. I design [socio]linguistic experiments that seek to understand how individual and collective experiences inform language perception. Oftentimes, experiment design and data analysis are informed by critical social theories—e.g., raciolinguistics and intersectionality—to reveal how hegemonic ideologies shape the listener's subjectivity.
Related papers/projects:
IN PRESS in Language Science Press
Language attitudes in Liguria: Effects of gender on the perception of Genoese (find paper here)
In Journal of Experimental Phonetics XXXI
Influence of orthography in production and perception of /b/ in US Spanish
IN PREPARATION:
Assessing bias towards US Spanish: Effects of language education
linguistic anthropology
I analyze discourse as a context-specific, social practice that is informed by social structures of power. I am especially invested in uncovering how hegemonic ideologies undergird "appropriate" language use in public sphere. Relatedly, much of my work uses a [feminist] critical discourse analytical praxis that explicitly critiques how oppressive processes of naturalization and normativization are products of the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy (see hooks 2000).
Related papers/projects:
PUBLISHED in Journal of Language and Discrimination (5)2
Sorry, Not Sorry: Ted Yoho’s Infelicitous Apology as Reification of Toxic Masculinity
IN PREPARATION:
Right-wing surveillance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's linguistic repertoire
educational linguistics
The ideological 'standard' language as a model for learning promulgates a monolithic falsehood that excludes language variation as an inherent component of language. I believe that an inclusive language program strives to dismantle these [neo]colonial conceptual-izations of language that historically and presently marginalize entire communities of practice.
Related papers/projects:
PUBLISHED in L2 Journal, (13) 1
A raciolinguistic perspective of language programs and departments
UNDER REVISIONS for Linguistics and Education
Language departments as neocolonial inhibitors of language decolonization praxis
IN PREPARATION:
Unsettling the deficit perspective in Italian sociolinguistic research: A discourse-historical approach