Christy Bird
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics Office: South Hall 3515
University of California, Santa Barbara Phone: (805) 893-3776
South Hall 3607 Fax: (805) 893-7769
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100 E-mail: christylbird at yahoo dot com
 
OFFICE HOURS (Spring 2009): Wednesday 3-5
 
TEACHING SCHEDULE
Spring 2009
Linguistics 132: Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Instructor: Christy Bird
TAs: Janie Lee & Carrie Meeker
MWF 1:00-1:50, Chemistry 1171
Course Website
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sociocultural Linguistics, Language and Identity, Humor Studies, Rurality, Applied Linguistics, Socio-Phonetics, French, Japanese and English Discourse
 
RECENT PROJECTS
"I'm Almost Afraid to Tell This": Risk and Performance in Formulaic Joke Telling in Interaction"
The Prosody of Joke Openings: Formulaic Jokes in Interaction
Women Can't Tell Jokes: Ideology in Interaction
Hillbillies of Santa Barbara: The Linguistic Performance of Rural Identity
 
CURRICULUM VITAE [PDF]
 
FAVORITE LINKS
Peter Ladefoged's Phonetics Website
Interactive Sagittal IPA Website
Eddie Izzard's Homepage
Cute Overload
 
My little boy