Integrating Linguistics and Shakespeare: How Linguistic Concepts Can Illuminate Romeo and Juliet (034)
How can linguistic concepts—such as semantics (words’ meanings), discourse (people’s communications), and communicative burden (responsibility in effective communication)—help students explore the theme of truth in Romeo and Juliet? Ideas in this session can relate to any texts that invite conversations about multiple truths, perception, and rhetorical responsibility.
Organizer
Ms. Honey Santos teaches English at Peachtree Ridge High School in Gwinnett County where she teaches a variety of ELA courses and coaches cheerleading. She is currently working on her masters at Kennesaw State University.
Chris C. Palmer teaches and researches present-day and historical English linguistics. His publications cover a range of topics on word-formation and derivational morphology; historical sociolinguistics; and educational linguistics, including books on Teaching the History of the English Language (MLA 2019), Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom (Routledge 2019), and Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom (Routledge 2022). Much of his work has examined changes in the use and productivity of nominal suffixes in the history of English. More recently, he’s been studying teaching at the high school and university levels of language variation and change in both U.S. and global Englishes. He’s also interested in the language, literature, and culture of medieval England; the intersections of politics and language; and interdisciplinary connections between linguistics and writing studies.
Dr. Michelle D. Devereaux has taught English Education for twenty years as both a secondary English teacher and a university professor. Her teaching and scholarship focus on language studies in the secondary English classroom, highlighting how linguistic and sociolinguistic concepts can be integrated into existing curricula. She is currently the Director of English Education at Kennesaw State University.