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How people talk while playing video games 

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How people talk while playing video games 

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I am thinking about researching the talk people use while playing video games. I have noticed that the conversation between the person/people playing and watching can be very one way and it is interesting to see when people choose to use code switches and language altercations. The words they choose to use can also be interesting or made up.
kbuckle4@uvm.edu

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I am interested in researching how the topic/flow of conversation changes as the size of group increases and decreases and how the role of the active participants change. I’ve noticed that when I interact with my sisters we tend to go towards certain topics more  with all of us participating equally but when I am with my whole family we just tend to listen to our parents talk.

Another thing that's related is how the topic of the conversation influences the language that is being spoken.
tlhakha1@uvm.edu

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How people talk in different academic settings

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How people talk in different academic settings

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Im thinking about doing my paper on how students talk in breakout room, in person classes, in class discussions, working with friends etc. and using style as the theory in the paper to see what people use from their "tool box" in the different settings
kjamalfi@uvm.edu

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Many of my friends (including me) speak more than one language. However, the default language of choice, even among those that are multilingual in the same languages, is almost always disproportionately English. I have a similar linguistic relationship with my parents, in that I only speak English to my dad and only speak Polish to my mom, even though we all speak both fluently. I was always curious as to what made language preference in conversation among multilingual people so lopsided to one language over others. One could write it off as simply being a question of cultural or national pride, or an attempt at maintaining proficiency in those other languages, although I feel there is more to it than just that, especially, for example, when the default conversational language is English in a group full of perfectly fluent French speakers (using my friends in this example).
atlibby@uvm.edu

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How people get off the phone with people they don't want to talk to

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How people get off the phone with people they don't want to talk to

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I want to look into how people use language to hang up the phone, specifically hanging up the phone with people they don't want to be talking to. I think there's certain phrases or ways people say things to end calls with people they don't want to talk to and I want to see if I can find patterns amongst them.

chess@uvm.edu

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I'm in the UVM kayaking club, and spend a lot of time in the white water community. I've noticed that among my friends a lot of times bragging is often done through the form of a joke making fun of people who brag explicitly (like through sarcasm, etc). If you brag explicitly too much it can be seen as rude. What's interesting is that I don't notice the same types of jokes in other friend groups. I want to look at why this is and how people use jokes to convey pride and accomplishment in a more polite way than outright bragging. Is this something that happens just in the uvmkc or does it happen in other parts of the white water community? What about other groups?
fiona.haverland@uvm.edu

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Sharing language patterns among friends 

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Sharing language patterns among friends 

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Since coming to school this year and moving in with my 4 other roommates I have noticed that we keep stealing and borrowing each other's language patterns and pieces of lingo and integrating them into our own speech patterns. We start to all talk the same, using the same phrases, until no one really remembers who started using the phrase first. I'm interested in studying how these patterns work, and what they indicate about the relationship between me and my roommates. Why do we copy each other's speech? What does this say about our affinity for each other?
swolfe1@uvm.edu

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I'm an anthro/jazz performance double major, so I was thinking about ways to combine the two topics. Jazz cats have a very specific way of speaking, and I think it would be interesting to look into that. I have many professors with decades of jazz experience, one of whom is from the Bronx. It would be fun to set up a conversation between some jazz cats. I'll even get the chance to test my knowledge. -Irene
ichoi@uvm.edu

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Patterns of language when giving advice and/or listening to peers

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Patterns of language when giving advice and/or listening to peers

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I feel like when it comes to helping others with our words, there is a whole new set of linguistic rules and strategies. I'm interested in researching how people act when giving advice/offering comfort/simply listening to peers during serious, personal conversations, and what factors affect how they respond (I feel like with the pandemic during this past year, I have been having a lot more deep conversations about mental health with friends and family). How does the age or gender of the participants affect how they give advice and/ore comfort? (Ex; speaking to a therapist vs a friend vs a mother). What kind of body language is appropriate or commonly used in these types of talks? How does the setting of the conversation affect how it proceeds? (ex: over facetime vs in person, public vs private setting).
cijackso@uvm.edu

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Profanity uses in public OR how people answer the phone 

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Profanity uses in public OR how people answer the phone 

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I'm not entirely sure how to start this, but I might just sit with my friends and tell them I'll be recording the context and how often they swear (so they know what's happening) and what that says about the evolution of profanity (look at historical and other studies on profanity)

or, call various people in my family, friends, and some businesses to see how they answer the phone
amduff@uvm.edu

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Pulling down mask as emphasis in conversation

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Pulling down mask as emphasis in conversation

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I've noticed among conversations with strangers, different conversational circumstances can trigger people to pull down their mask. Sometimes people do it if they're very excited about what they're saying, or if they get misheard multiple times, etc. I'm not sure if this is good idea though, or what exactly I want to measure yet...

Enzo.Boone@uvm.edu

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I work a lot in university organizations like admissions and Orientation, and how I feel about those departments aside I have noticed an interesting pattern with how we (the students) use our language in vs. out of meetings with our supervisors. The way we word our ideas to our peers outside of work is MUCH different and we make use of speech and language we would never use in a work meeting. But then bringing back that same idea to our supervisors for processing, all new language is used. This could depend on the age or student status of the supervisor (Graduate student or professional/salaried staff?) or even if it is just someone who has been in the organization longer. There is also a very specific kind of social difference between how i personally interact with my admissions friends versus, my casual/non-work friends and how I personally speak there as well.
mawillia@uvm.edu

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Similar to the Shankar reading, I've noticed that I and a lot of my friends perform ~pejorative~ stereotypical language uses associated with peer groups we belong to (e.g. groups of all girls, groups of all minorities), even though we wouldn't "naturally" talk that way when not in those groups (and most of us barely proficiently speak another language). Some stuff on the way we want others to perceive our identity, and the way we perceive our own identities through performative language use? (livanick@uvm.edu)

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Something I am thinking of  looking into is how the "terms of endearment" men use for their friends (ie dude, bro) vs. the ones women use for their friends (ie babe, beautiful, ect.) play into shaping toxic masculinity. Does the language men use with one another shape the distances they hold each other at?
Esther.Demag@uvm.edu

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emily.manetta@uvm.edu