Faculty Lecture Series - Linguistics

    Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM until 6:00 PMPacific Standard Time UTC -08:00

    Led by Professor Bob Kennedy, investigate how linguistic structure adapts to particular communicative contexts in the Sports industry, such as media accounts and interactions among participants. This lecture will cover the usage of language in organized sports, with analysis at lexical, morphological, syntactic, and phonological levels, and in relation to discourse context. 

    Bob Kennedy is a Senior Continuing Lecturer in Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 2005. His specialties include phonology (the analysis of sound patterns of languages) and sociolinguistic variation (in particular the study of regional variation in North American English), and he is author of a textbook, Phonology: A Coursebook and co-editor for a current series of publications, Cambridge Elements in Phonology. At UCSB, he teaches a wide range of upper and lower division courses, including numerous offerings like Intro to Linguistics and Language in Society that satisfy General Education requirements. Among his upper division slate, he regularly teaches Regional Varieties and Dialects of English and Language and Sports.



     
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