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Joshua Bousquette

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Associate Professor of Germanic Studies & Linguistics
2016-2018 Lilly Teaching Fellow
Research Interests:

I teach courses in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, working primarily within the Germanic family of languages. My research seeks to better understand the social factors and typological tendencies affecting language change; and the social, economic and community factors that affect language shift, particularly in heritage communities.

Recent publications include an article published in Language Learning on language death, co-authored with Mike Putnam; the chapter on Germanic in The Indo-European Languages (Routledge, 2017), co-authored with Joe Salmons; and two special issues of Journal of Language Contact (11.2 & 11.3, 2018), which I co-edited with Joshua R. Brown.

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Events featuring Joshua Bousquette
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As language shift progresses, a heritage language can change its orientation from communicative to symbolic for the heritage language community. The change toward a broadening of the symbolic uses of the language is a hallmark of the post-vernacular

Articles Featuring Joshua Bousquette

by Katherine Hoovestol

Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Joshua Bousquette for being awarded the prestigious Willson Fellowship for Fall 2021 by Franklin College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Georgia, and UGA's…

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