Experimental sociolinguist and lexicographer Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright will consider censorship both from the perspective of an individual language user, navigating their social environment, and from the perspective of local & legal language policies. Wright will present findings which demonstrate users are aware of the direct indexation of the majority of their daily linguistic choices to potent & omnipresent Standard language ideologies. Such awareness makes all language use relevant for success across linguistic markets and often marks non-normative identity performance as unintelligent, crude, or even criminal. Wright will invite consideration of what a general preference for assimilationist linguistic production portends for the future of free speech and for the future of linguistic scholarship.
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