Racialization as meaning-making: A multidisciplinary approach to race and language in the criminal legal system
Language Sciences Colloquium
Event Details
Date
Today, April 1, 2025
Time
4 p.m.
Location
475 Van Hise Hall
Description
Lecture by Sharese King, University of Chicago
Through a multidisciplinary approach drawing on discourse analytic, experimental, and computational methods, King illuminates how linguistic scholars can contribute to theorizations of race with a lens on courtroom language practices which reinforce several themes related to Black subjectivity including: Blackness as other; Race & place as unruly; and Black language as unclear, inarticulate, and incomprehensible.
Through a multidisciplinary approach drawing on discourse analytic, experimental, and computational methods, King illuminates how linguistic scholars can contribute to theorizations of race with a lens on courtroom language practices which reinforce several themes related to Black subjectivity including: Blackness as other; Race & place as unruly; and Black language as unclear, inarticulate, and incomprehensible.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jrsalmons@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.