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Wisconsin English, a Conversation with Joe Salmons

  • February 24, 2022
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Online

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Wisconsin English, a Conversation with Professor Joe Salmons


Thursday, February 24, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Online via Zoom or by Phone

Registration Required


This won’t be so much a presentation as a conversation: Professor Salmons will ask questions about how we think about English in the Badger State.  He will then lead a discussion about features people use and don’t use in speaking, about attitudes toward those features, about what makes English here distinct and the history of English in Wisconsin. 

This presentation will explore the kinds of English spoken in our state, including pronunciation, words and word forms, and grammar.  We’ll look at how key features of Wisconsin English have developed over time – and how remarkably recent they are – and how they are changing and becoming more distinct today.  Salmons will work to put our answers and comments into the context of how linguists think about those questions, including not just what we know but what we don’t know and what we’re working to figure out today.

Joe Salmons is the Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor of Linguistics in the UW-Madison Department of Language Sciences.  He also directs the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.  Dr. Salmons earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and his PhD in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Texas-Austin.


FREE TO PLATO MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE LINK TO ATTEND.  PLEASE REGISTER BEFORE THE EVENT STARTS. QUESTIONS CAN BE WRITTEN IN DURING THE EVENT.

As the lecture is online, you can use your computer or smartphone to access the lecture and see the speaker during the presentation. You will not be visible during the lecture, but you will be able to chat with the speaker by typing in your comments.

If you do not have a computer or smartphone you can also use your regular phone to dial a phone number and listen to the talk.

Questions? - contact lecture organizer,  Joy Cardin  cardinjoy@gmail.com


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