Final Project Presentations for SLAV/LING 075 in Fall 2003

Linguistic "Modernization" in Iran (Powerpoint + audio/video clips) by Heide Iravani
Linguistic Variation in the Middle East (Powerpoint) by Jason Gabriel and Kevin Flowers
Does the Decline of the Jewish Language Contribute to the Decline of Judaism Itself? (Powerpoint) by Lauren Wolf
The Congo War (Powerpoint) by Jack Kimball
Basque-ing away (Powerpoint + audio/video clips) by Rachel Chan (see this link to Rachel's web page)
The Roma in Bulgaria (Powerpoint) by Milena Mihaylova
Hispanics in the United States: Two Points of View (Powerpoint + audio/video clips) by Colby Day and Gretchen Hutter
Russian Immigration to Asheville, NC (Film) by John Kunza and Angelica Matthews
Tito's Language Policy (Powerpoint) by Colin Dietch
Andalucian Sociolinguistics (Powerpoint) by Peter Hart
Aboriginal Languages in Australia (Powerpoint) by Elsa Bledsoe
Three Dialects of North Carolina (DVD) by Varsha Samaroo, Akilah Ensley, and Lee Huggins
What You Take with Your Language: An Examination of the Reaction People Have as They Immerse Themselves in a New Culture and Language (DVD) by Lane Abernathy
Does a Chinese Language Exist? (Powerpoint) by Stanley Yau
Language and National Identity Following Immigration (Powerpoint) by Laura Hibberd
Language Policy and Racial Attitudes of Afrikaans (Powerpoint + audio/video clips) by Yoon Hie Kim and Jee Lee
Language and the Internet: Netspeak (Powerpoint + audio/video clips) by Angela Hornack and Kimberly Bergman
Oral Traditions through Music (Powerpoint) by Brian Carroll, Megan Kauffman, and Laura Wright
Deafness in America (Powerpoint) by Laura Gibson
The Languages of Georgia (Powerpoint + audio/video clips) by Rafael Gonzalez
The Evolution of Singlish (DVD) by Jessica Bonnem and Lauren Ghiloni
The Effect of Refugee Camps on Afro-Ethnic Languages (VHS) by Misty Piekaar
Proving the Concept of Linguistic Fatalism Wrong -- The Hebrew Language (Powerpoint + posters) by Jennifer Balva
The Language of Numbers (Webpage) by Jeff Kite
Language and Nationalism in Ireland (Powerpoint) by Shelly Carver
"Cymraeg and Gaidhlig" by Sarah Martin and Sandra Tsung
The Montagnards (Powerpoint) by Evan Connell
Kosovo: A Contested Land (DVD) by Michael Johnson
Teaching English in Thailand (Powerpoint + pictures, maps) by Erin Scharling
The Kurdish Situation (Powerpoint) by Eric Stone

Final Project Presentations for SLAV/LING 075 in Fall 2004

Sean Marimpietri & Montgomery Morris, "Identity in Hip-Hop Performance: Sounding out the Differences"
Chris Horvat & Jane Hudson, "English & French in Canada: Different Languages, Different Nationalisms, Different Nations?"
Matt Kregor, Brian Rose, Kira Battle, "Ainu Peoples of Hokkaido, Japan"
Jordan Mendenhall, "The Transylvanian Saxons"
Ryan Cosper & Michelle Landin, "Pidgins", medium: powerpoint and audiolink
Tripp Tuttle, "Gàidhlig in Cape Breton"
Jennifer DeCurtis, "What Happened to Ladino? The Language and Its Ties to Jewish History and Nationalism"
Rebekah Sharpe and Ingrid Smith, "The Distinct Variety of English on Ocracoke Island"
Nick Armstrong & Alex Lewis, "The Development of African American English and Possible Diglossia in North Carolina"
Dolph Mintz, "Basque Use of Internet for Language Proliferation"
Adrienne Edwards, Doug Whitfield, Mario Piergallini, "English Spelling Reform", medium: powerpoint & handout
Joseph Dong-hun Han, "Compare and Contrast of North Korean and South Korean"
Brad Mu, "American Pop Culture and Chinese Learners of English"
Brad Rogers, "The Cherokee Language"
Nick Ajumobi, "English in Japanese pop lyrics"
Steven Lundeen, "Taboo Language in the Media"
Maria Pruszynska, Olivia Lysakowski, Jennifer Burkey, Patrick Stephenson, Peter Trezise, "English vs. French in Diplomacy"
Zach Sayers, Alex Morgan, "Can One Be Genuinely Accepted into a Culture Other than the Culture of One's Birth?"
Blannie Cheng, Kristen Anderson, Cristina Velez, "Qui'che Mayan"
Katie Barber, "Old Church Slavonic and the Common Slavic Identity"
Daniel Tifft, "The Characteristics and Origin of the Vermont Dialect of English"
Megan Somerday & Rachel Franklin, Part I "Bilingualism and the Issues Confronting Spanish-Speaking Immigrants"

Final Project Presentations for SLAV/LING 075 in Spring 2006

Asherel Blount, "Haitian Creole vs. French in Haiti: How Language Divides a Nation"
William Gerichten, "Min kao min vs. min kao han"
Jonathan Edwards, Nancy Kerr, "The Language of National Socialism"
Patrick Watkins, The Lumbee Language
Rebecca Pardue, Danielle Wiley, Larissa Zhurakovskaya, "Discrimination against Russian Speakers in the Post-Soviet Baltic States"
Geoffrey Bridges, Colin Simpson, "Politics of Land Ownership: A Case Study of the Sámi People"
Joey Horne, "‘CELEBRATING’ A MULTIETHNIC HERITAGE WITH THE SUPPRESION OF LANGUAGE" (small, downloadable version; Version from Joey's website
Claire Merlin, "English and French in Canada, eh?"
Ashley Coffey, "Mountain Speech: It Ain’t for Ignoramuses"
Levi Turner, "The Language Policies of the Soviet Union"
Kathryn Daly, "Intiq Churin: Children of the Sun"
Kellin McKinney, Stephanie Wallace, Carolyn Yang, "Nationalism in Taiwan"
Hasan Abdullah, Caroline Gartshore, "INDIA: Language"
David Brown, "Before the Rain Continued: A Further Study of Macedonia and the Albanian Minority"
Karen Feagin, "Nos ta papeando!: Pidgins, Creoles, and the Situation of Papiamentu"
Cally Harris, "Nationalism in Chechnya"
Courtney Godwin, Carrington Skinner, "Whose Language is it Anyway?: Afrikaans in South Africa"
Kaitlin Horst, Rachel Nye, "Kurdish Linguistic Policies"
David Apple, Dara Fickes, Jay Patel, "How has colonialism led to multilingualism in Africa?"
Daniel Andres, "Röstigraben"
Victoria Melvin, "The Roma in the Czech Republic"
Jeremy Purser, JiYoon Seo, "Hangul: Language Reform in Korea"
Brooke Gottlieb, "The Decline of Aboriginal Languages in Australia"