Language, Power, and Prestige w/ Professor Littlefield

What's the relationship between language and power? Why are dialects a gatekeeper? What exactly is sociolinguistics? Join me and Professor Heather Littlefield as we discuss the relationships between language and gender, race, ethnicity, economic opportunities, and power. Any study/paper/TedTalk/article/person she mentioned in the interview is linked below. Special thanks to Molly Herman, Lindsay Villone, Eleza Kort, and, of course, Heather Littlefield. 

Ted talk by John Baugh 

Further work by John Baugh 

Leaders with Lower Voices

Vershawn Young 

"Linguistic prejudice is one of the last widely socially acceptable ways to discriminate"

Bell Hooks on the Language of Power