We are pleased to announce the first ever interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago hosted by graduate students from different departments in the School of…
Ariel Pollock, student in the Department of Linguistics, has been selected as a recipient of the Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship for the academic year 2014-2015. The Office of International Affairs will be hosting the…
This weekend, the LICO Research Group at UIC co-hosted with Urbana-Champaign the 43rd annual meeting of New Ways in Analyzing Variation, the largest international conference on sociolinguistics. Many phonemes, morphemes, and processes were analyzed; three Festschrifts and awards…
Routledge’s five-volume collection Language Variation and Change: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, co-edited by Richard Cameron (Associate Professor of Linguistics) is now available. For more information, visit the Routledge website.
Linguistics/TESOL alumna Nic May has been accepted as a CaMLA (Cambridge University-University of Michigan Language Assessment) intern. This prestigious program accepts only one intern every year. Nic is a teacher and assessment specialist…
THE SOUNDSCAPES OF CULTURE February 27-28, 2014 The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics invites papers connected to this year’s overarching theme of sound, as well as papers based on all current…
Please join us in congratulating Jessica Williams, Professor in the Department of Linguistics, who has received the LAS Faculty Service Award. The LAS Faculty Service award recognizes exceptional service to the College. Recipients will have…
Congratulations to Richard Cameron on the publication of his new book: Bayley, Robert, Richard Cameron, & Ceil Lucas (eds.). 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Features of the book:…
WBEZ reporter Annie Minoff asks Richard Cameron, Head of Linguistics, for help with the question “Chuh Kaw Go, what do you really sound like?” Read the story here. Readers may also listen to–and record…