Teaching

Fall 2021


Spring 2022

    • LING 215 Bad Words (normally offered every Spring semester)

    • LING 750G Research in Sociolinguistics (requires instructor consent)


Planned for Fall 2022


(Note: My next sabbatical is planned for academic year 2023)


Planned for Spring 2024 (tentatively)

    • LING 215 Bad Words (normally offered every Spring semester)

    • LING 640G Issues in Linguistics -OR- 750S - Please let me know if there's a seminar you'd like me to offer. It does not have to be something I've offered in the past.


Planned for Fall 2024 (tentatively)


Other Courses

Unless otherwise noted, when and how often the classes are offered depends on student demand. Please let me know if you are interested in taking one of these, and please feel free to suggest classes that you would like me to offer instead.

    • LING 215 Bad Words

    • LING 347 Pidgin and Creole Languages

    • LING 410 Articulatory Phonetics

    • LING 415 / ANTH 413 Language and Gender

    • LING 416 Language as a Public Concern

    • LING 640S Introduction to Sociolinguistics (normally offered every Fall semester)

    • LING 640G Statistics for Linguistics (Prereq: experience working with quantitative data)

    • LING 640G Professional Issues in Linguistics (intended for students who will be ABD in 1-2 years)

    • LING 640G Tips for Success in Grad School and Beyond (intended for students in year 1-2 of the Ling MA or PhD program but open to anyone)

    • LING 750S Sociophonetics (Note: 640S is a prerequisite for this class)

    • LING 750S Social Factors and Sound Change (Note: 640S is a prerequisite for this class)

    • LING 750S Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages (Note: 640S is a prerequisite for this class)

    • LING 750S Sociolinguistic Variation in Small and Endangered Languages (Note: 640S is a prerequisite for this class)

    • LING 750S Sociolinguistics and Cognition: a graduate seminar on eye-tracking (co-taught with Amy Schafer)

    • LING 760G Methods in Language Conservation


Articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited volumes that resulted from work completed in some of these courses include:

  • Drager, Katie, Kate Hardeman Guthrie, Rachel Schutz, and Ivan Chik (2021). Perceptions of Style: A focus on fundamental frequency and perceived social characteristics. To appear in 2021 in Lauren Hall-Lew, Emma Moore, and Robert J. Podesva (Eds.) Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave. Cambridge University Press, 176-202.

  • Gao, Katie B. (2015). Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China. Language Documentation & Conservation, 9: 164-191.

  • Khairunnisa. (2021). Variation in Ampenan Sasak pronominal forms. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7(2): 120–141. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.20006.kha

  • Kirtley, M. Joelle, James Grama, Katie Drager, and Sean Simpson. (2016). An acoustic analysis of the vowels of Hawai‘i English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 46(1): 79-97. https://doi:10.1017/S0025100315000456


Other manuscripts resulting from work completed in some of these courses include:


Conference presentations based on work completed in these courses:

  • Belew, Anna 2015. Two 'pidgins', one attitude?: Comparing attitudes towards Cameroon Pidgin and Hawaii Pidgin English among Cameroonians in Honolulu. 8th World Congress of African Linguistics. Kyoto.

  • Berbusse, Laura and Mike Clauss 2010. Lomnak Majol. Paper presented at Foundation for Endangered Languages XIV. Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition. University of Wales: Trinity St. David, Carmarthen.

  • Breslow, Emma and Caroline Hendy 2021. Was the barmi a schemozzle?: A comparative study of Australian and American familiarity with Jewish English lexical items. Poster presented at NWAV49.

  • Drager, Katie, Bethany Kaleialohapau‘ole Chun Comstock, and Hina Puamohala Kneubuhl 2016. Ka puana pa‘a ‘ole: glottal stop variation in Hawaiian. Paper presented at the organized session "Documenting Variation in Endangered Languages" at the LSA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. in January.

  • Drager, Katie, Rebecca Clifford and Jennifer Hay 2011. The production and perception of a low back vowel merger. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40, Georgetown.

  • Drager, Katie, Rachel Schutz, Claire Stabile, and Bethany Kaleialohapau‘ole Chun Comstock. 2016. They say, 'he talk like one haole': variation and change among quotative verbs in Hawai‘i. Presented at the LSA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. in January.

  • Drager, Katie, Rachel Schutz, Ivan Chik, Kate Hardeman and Victor Jih 2012. When hearing is believing: Perceptions of speaker style, gender, ethnicity, and pitch. Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, January 2012.

  • Drager, Katie, Carly Salter, and Megan Macinkowicz 2010. Perceived style, sexuality, and pitch: An experimental approach. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, San Antonio.

  • Grama, James, M. Joelle Kirtley, Katie Drager, Sean Simpson and Rebecca Clifford. 2012. Language change in Hawai‘i: KIT, DRESS & TRAP in motion. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41. Bloomington, October 2012.

  • Hardeman, Kate. 2011. Foreigners speaking Chinese: Native Mandarin speakers' perceptions of Chinese as a second language (CSL) speakers. Paper presented at the 10th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia-Pacific Region. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

  • Hardeman, Kate 2011. Chuck Norris jokes: Representations of gender stereotypes in American society. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

  • Hooshiar, Kavon, Katie Drager, and Cassidy Copeland. 2016. Coronal stop deletion in Hawaiʻi English. Poster presented at the joint meeting of Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan in Honolulu, November/December 2016.

  • Jung, Heeyeong. 2011. Pitch and Gender: Presentation of a professional yet friendly teacher persona. Paper presented at The 7th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop, SOAS, University of London, June 2011.

  • Khairunnisa. 2021. Variation in Sasak referential expressions. Presented at NWAV-AP, Singapore.

  • Kirtley, M. Joelle. 2010. American military dialect. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society's Language Variation and Change in the United States and Canada 2010. Chicago, November 4-7, 2010.

  • Mawardi, Dzulfikri. 2012. Javanese language, Is it a falling legend? Paper presented at the 16th Annual Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

  • Odango, Emerson. 2012. A progress report on the development of language vitality surveys for minority language communities. UH Department of Linguistics Tuesday Seminar. Honolulu, April 2012.

  • Reddy, Anupama, Annika Topelian, J.ueWang and Katie Drager. 2021). Factors influencing modal+NEG contraction in Hawai‘i English. Presented at NWAV 49, Austin, October 2021.

  • Simpson, Sean. 2014. Phonetic cues to Localness in Hawai‘i English: Feature clusters influencing perception. Presented at NWAV 43, Chicago, IL.

  • Simpson, Sean, Katie Drager, James Grama, and M. Joelle Kirtley. 2014. Sound change in the back vowels of Hawai'i English. Presented at NWAV 43, Chicago, IL.

  • Waldrip, Aaron and Mary Walworth 2010. The Fua Le‘o Project: promoting self-publication in Polynesian languages. Paper presented at Foundation for Endangered Languages XIV. Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition. University of Wales: Trinity St. David, Carmarthen.


Teaching awards

2020 Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, UH Mānoa

2012 Excellence in Teaching, UH Mānoa College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature


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