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Research Paper and Advocacy Statement Linguistic change can be seen as a surface marker for much deeper societal change or even transformation. When there are linguistic controversies over words, it is a sign that people on all sides of the issue see potential threats to their closely held values, beliefs, customs, and cultural practices. Exploring linguistic change is really exploring human culture. For your major project in this course, you will investigate one example of linguistic change. It can be a single word or a phrase. Or the one example may include a group of terms (e.g. looking at the history of how several terms for the same thing came and went, or looking at a cluster of preferred modern terms for an older set of terms), but they must all be part of one example of linguistic change. Your topic of investigation must be socially significant, and although this topic tends to be serious, it doesn’t have to be. People must care about it, and there must be published opinions about it. You yourself must form an opinion on it, if you don’t already have one when you start your investigation. You will produce two documents: a research paper and an advocacy plan of action.
1. The research paper Your paper will investigate the history of the linguistic phenomena you are focusing on. Your purpose is to educate your readers on the deeper issues that lie behind the change, and persuade us to agree with the stand you take on the issue. Your audience is our class as a whole, people who know less than you about the topic you’re telling us about. The paper will include these elements: a. evidence of the status quo (linguistic data) and, if applicable, evidence of the change in progress b. evidence that the change is socially significant (primary sources, not necessarily scholarly) c. inclusion of
2 language analysis tools chosen from Ngram, Voyant, and the OED d. discussion of the deeper issues that underlie the change (using 6 scholarly sources from at least two academic disciplines), including at least one counterargument e. your own stance on the topic, backed up by arguments referencing sources you’ve introduced us to in the paper already, or new sources (can be scholarly but are not required to be).
