Joshua Raclaw                          Dept of Linguistics - Ph.D. Student                           Culture, Language, & Social Practice                          Women and Gender Studies                         University of Colorado at Boulder

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My research interests are located within sociocultural linguistics, especially interdisciplinary approaches across sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and conversation analysis. Within 'formal' linguistics I'm interested in issues of language change and language contact, phonological theory, and discourse pragmatics. I also have strong research interests in feminist and queer theory, courtship and marriage practices, and both anthropological and sociological approaches to the study of gender and sexuality. My work focuses broadly on issues of language and identity, as well as styles of computer-mediated discourse and the conversation analysis of English. My interests in the former focus largely on how speakers orient to discourses of compulsory monogamy and heterosexuality in talk. To this end i've previously looked at the language practices at work in the construction and presentation of what some theorists have termed a 'homonormative' identity; my current work looks at discourse and polyamorous practice, community, and identity, as well as the broader relevance of monogamy to gender performativity. Within conversation analysis, I'm interested in how speakers do repair, do reference to persons, and mark dispreferred utterances in both spoken and computer-mediated discourse. I'm also interested in the relevance of dialectal variation to studies of grammar and interaction, and variationist approaches to computer-mediated discourse analysis.

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