{"id":63,"date":"2017-12-20T00:13:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/?p=63"},"modified":"2018-11-16T03:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:04:53","slug":"professor-natalie-schilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/speakers\/professor-natalie-schilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Natalie Schilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Natalie Schilling<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgetown.edu\/\">Georgetown University<\/a>, Washington DC, USA<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf we approach language not as grammarians \u2013 as guardians of proper usage\u2013but as scientists\u2013as linguists\u2013then we need to study human language as it really is, not how we think it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Natalie Schilling is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She specializes in the study of language variation and change and how it is shaped by, and helps shape, social factors such as regionality, ethnicity and gender. She is particularly interested in stylistic (i.e. intra-speaker) variation and forensic linguistics. She directs the department\u2019s ongoing sociolinguistic investigation of Language and Communication in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area (LCDC), as well as Smith Island Voices, a real and apparent time study of the endangered dialect community of Smith Island, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/languages-linguistics\/sociolinguistics\/sociolinguistic-fieldwork\">Sociolinguistic Fieldwork<\/a>\u00a0(2013, Cambridge University Press), co-author (with Walt Wolfram) of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1405112662.html\">American English: Dialects and Variation<\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0edition\u00a0(2016, Wiley-Blackwell), and co-editor (with J.K. Chambers) of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470659947.html\">The Handbook of Language Variation and Change<\/a>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>edition (2013, Wiley-Blackwell).\u00a0Her audio-video course <em>English in America: A Linguistic History<\/em> is part of The Great Courses lecture series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof Natalie Schilling is an Ian Gordon Fellow and her attendance at iMean6 is supported by The Ian A. Gordon Fund and Victoria University Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Natalie Schilling Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA \u201cIf we approach language not as grammarians \u2013 as guardians of proper usage\u2013but as scientists\u2013as linguists\u2013then we need to study human language as it really is, not how we think it should be.\u201d Biography Natalie Schilling is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She specializes in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}