People / Graduate Students, Language and Identity, Sociolinguistics, Language and Gender
Sarah Harris
German - Doctoral Candidate
Research Areas
Sociolinguistics; morphology; grammatical gender and its effects on speakers; gender-inclusive language, and its effects on social perception; gendered representations in media
Departments:
German
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Specialty areas
Language and Identity, Sociolinguistics, Language and Gender.
Biography
Sarah Harris is a doctoral candidate studying Germanic Linguistics. She received her BA in Linguistics from Dartmouth College in 2011 and her MA in Germanic Literature from NYU in 2014.
Her interests include language and identity, specifically as it relates to gender-inclusive language in German. Her dissertation concerns gender marking on persons in media, with a focus on the generic masculine and its effects on the reader.