User:Ictsoleb/sandbox

Notes on Interactional Sociolinguistics Page
Stub, basically, but difficult to expand - highly specific field. Perhaps more examples? Links to other Wiki pages about different subsections of linguistics?

Articles to Edit
Interactional sociolinguistics - flesh out the different aspects of it, add more cross-references and names of researchers

Spanish language in the United States - add a subheading for Spanish in Kansas

Category:Spanish-language radio stations in Kansas - add more stations to the list

Spanish in Kansas
Spanish has been spoken in the state of Kansas since at least the early 1900s, due primarily to several waves of immigration from Mexico. This began with refugees fleeing the Mexican revolution (c. 1910-1920). There are now several towns in Kansas with significant Spanish-speaking populations: Liberal, Garden City, and Dodge City all have Latino populations over 40%. Recently, linguists working with the Kansas Speaks Project have shown how high numbers of Spanish-speaking residents have influenced the dialect of English spoken in areas like Liberal, and other parts of southwest Kansas. There are many Spanish-language radio stations throughout Kansas, like KYYS in the Kansas City, KS area, as well as various Spanish-language newspapers and television stations throughout the state. Several towns in Kansas boast Spanish/English dual language immersion schools, where students are instructed in both languages for varying amounts of time. Examples include Horace Mann Elementary in Wichita - named after the famous educational reformer - and Buffalo Jones Elementary in Garden City, KS - named after Charles "Buffalo" Jones, a frontiersman, bison preservationist, and co-founder of Garden City.

Interactional Sociolinguistics
in into, after 2nd sentence: It is one of the ways in which linguists look at the intersections of human language and human society; other subfields that take this perspective are language planning, minority language studies, quantitative sociolinguistics, and sociohistorical linguistics, among others.

Notable Practitioners of Interactional Sociolinguistics

 * Gregory Bateson
 * Dwight Bolinger
 * Penelope Brown
 * Wallace Chafe
 * Frederick Erickson
 * Erving Goffman
 * John J. Gumperz
 * Adam Kendon
 * Robin Lakoff
 * Stephen Levinson
 * Deborah Tannen
 * Andrew Pawley
 * Ron Scollon