32.3267, Featured University: University of South Carolina

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3267. Mon Oct 18 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3267, Featured University: University of South Carolina

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:36:20
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured University: University of South Carolina

 
We are in the middle of the LINGUIST List 2021 fund drive. If you are
interested how well we are doing, the updates can be seen here
https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/ The leader of our university challenge,
both in terms of amount of combined donations and the number of donors is the
University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina is home to one
of the lesser known but highly successful linguistic programs in the US. The
University of South Carolina itself started off in 1801 as South Carolina
College. It was 165 years later that the University established a Linguistics
Program, in 1965, with faculty mainly from the university’s Department of
English Language & Literature. Set up to grant graduate degrees only, U of
SC’s Linguistic Program awarded its first Masters degree in 1967 to Gerda
Petersen Jordan (1927-2007), who went on to earn a PhD in Comparative
Literature and serve as a professor of German for 20 years at this university.
The program’s first PhD recipient in 1970 was Alan R. Slotkin (1943-2020), who
went on to teach in the English Department at Tennessee Tech University until
his retirement.

 

At the time of Linguist List’s creation in 1990, the U of SC Linguistics
Program had participating faculty in English, Anthropology, and Foreign
Languages. A couple of the more well-known faculty from that time were Carol
Myers-Scotton and Marjorie Goodwin (the latter of whom currently teaches at
UCLA). Shortly thereafter, the Program expanded to include faculty from
Philosophy, Psychology, and Communication Sciences & Disorders, transforming
it into a true “interdepartmental discipline”. Doctoral students graduating
from the U of SC Linguistics Program have variously specialized in
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, psycholinguistics, second language
acquisition, and foreign language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the
program has had a solid record of mentoring its students and placing them in
the profession. 

 

We are grateful to the faculty and students of the Linguistics Program at the
University of South Carolina for their constant support over the years.
Please, if you have a chance, join them and support the LINGUIST List with a
donation: https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/






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