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  • ASHLEY WAGNER
  • PERFORMER
    • SINGER
      • Music
      • Videos
    • ACTOR
    • PHOTOS
  • COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • Twelfth Night
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Original Songs and Arrangements
  • ABOUT
    • Resume
    • Press
    • Wedding
  • WRITING
    • Favorites
    • Disney Blog
    • Phoenix in Paris
    • Academic
    • Music & Theatre
    • Blog
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  • 🌟 Countdown ’til Christmas 🌟
  • ASHLEY WAGNER
  • PERFORMER
    • SINGER
      • Music
      • Videos
    • ACTOR
    • PHOTOS
  • COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • Twelfth Night
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Original Songs and Arrangements
  • ABOUT
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    • Press
    • Wedding
  • WRITING
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  • Academic

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020 / 2 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics. This assignment comes from my General Linguistics summer course and was a collaboration with Sara Grzywacz. We created a proposal and preliminary mock-up for a preschool storybook that includes strategically designed questions and activities built into the text of the story to help caregivers of all kinds prepare their children for school, in an entertaining and appealing way. Below, I’ve shared our presentation for our design. Though we were only able to touch on this in our presentation, our research is informed by work from Shirley Brice Heath (1982), Frederick Erickson (2004), William Labov (2006), and Rosina Lippi-Green (2012). The story we’ve used is Disney’s Cinderella…

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    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019
  • Academic,  Music & Theatre

    My Fair Lady: Full Performance

    26 August 2020 / 2 Comments

    For today’s #WeeklyWednesday, I’ve combined all of the edited clips into the full version of my #NYU Master’s recital character study of Eliza Doolittle from Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady” 💜🎓 I hope you enjoy watching our 30-minute performance in its entirety! Whether this is your first time viewing it or you’ve already watched my full recital performance – thank you! – I really appreciate your supporting my work! It was so fun to work on this with my incredibly talented colleague-friends! They are: Tyler Dobies as Henry Higgins; Nyla Watson as Col. Pickering; Minque Taylor as Mrs. Higgins and Costermonger; Adelle Blauser as Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. Eynesford-Hill, and Costermonger; and…

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    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020
  • Academic

    Multimodal Microanalysis: Scattergories! Video Clip

    20 August 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics: Multimodal Interaction Analysis. Professor: Frederick Erickson. It was a great privilege to work in a small group setting with the seminal scholar Frederick Erickson! Our course centered on learning to transcribe and microanalyze video – a complicated task, due to the immense amount of visual and auditory information captured through this medium. If you’ve ever wondered how researchers might represent data from video, keep reading! Here, I’m presenting my final project, which not only shows you my final product, but also walks through my process for developing this multimodal transcription. The video is from a game of “Scattergories,” in which my mom, fiancé, two cats, and…

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    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019
  • Academic

    “It’s pretty hard”: Stance and Dialogicality

    20 August 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics. [Sharing below a short paper from Discourse Analysis: Conversation, applying Du Bois (2007) to my data. My conversation data recording and transcripts are available here.]            According to Du Bois’ (2007) definition, “it’s pretty hard” is an expression of stance, and arriving at its meaning and interactional significance can only be achieved through identification of the participants involved, the object discussed, and the utterances that led to this remark.             Du Bois writes, “[i]n taking a stance, the stancetaker (1) evaluates an object, (2) positions a subject (usually the self), and (3) aligns with other subjects” (163). This predicates that stance acts include more than one subject…

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    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020
  • Academic

    Conversation Shaping: The Impact of Questions on Conversational Direction

    20 August 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics. [Sharing below a short paper from Discourse Analysis: Conversation, applying Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974) to my data. My conversation data recording and transcripts are available here.]            In a pioneering article describing the way conversational turn-taking is structured, Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974; referred to as SSJ throughout) detail fourteen “facts” (700) found to occur in natural conversations, which govern the composition and procurement of speech turns. The focus of this paper concerns certain “turn allocation techniques” (716) employed by a current speaker to select the next speaker (SSJ’s twelfth fact). In particular, I will examine the use of question-answer adjacency pairs, the first part of…

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    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019

    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020
  • Academic,  Writing

    Biscotti/Highlander Transcription

    20 August 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics. Discourse Analysis: Conversation. [The recording and transcriptions below correspond with several short papers shared on my site. I’ve also provided commentary related to the transcription process itself, as I worked with three ways types of formatting: play script, column, and quasi-musical score.] Conversation Excerpt: Play Script Transcription             This was my debut transcribing an excerpt of this length, genre (natural speech), and with myself as a participant. Though I could relate to much of what Bucholtz (2007) and Ochs (1979) described, it was primarily from a conceptual standpoint, rather than that of an active practitioner. I found it both fun and challenging; at times, it was…

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    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019

    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020
  • Academic

    Linguistic Landscapes of Inclusion

    12 August 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics. [Sharing below a recent assignment from my General Linguistics summer course, where we were asked to observe and analyze certain elements of our linguistic landscape (because of COVID-19, much of this moved online).] Linguistic landscapes concern the language we see and hear around us every day – from official sources to advertisements to graffiti and personal conversations. From my professor: “Linguistics landscape study involves the systematic investigation of public language and how it may illuminate such sociolinguistic concerns as language and power, language and immigration, language and globalization, language maintenance and shift, language and politics, language and economic factors, and language and cultural, interpersonal, and personal…

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    Multimodal Microanalysis: Scattergories! Video Clip

    20 August 2020

    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020
  • Academic

    Schegloff (1982) and Listener Backchannels

    22 April 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Hi, everyone! Today’s #WeeklyWednesday is a presentation I gave recently for a Linguistics course in Discourse Analysis of Conversation at Georgetown University. I hope you enjoy seeing some of what I’m working on there! READING APPLIED: Schegloff (1982) “Discourse as an interactional achievement: Some uses of ‘uh huh’ and other things that come between sentences” Key Points: * Conversation is an “achievement” * Listener behavior influences speakers    “‘Back-channel’ actions” (74)        – Consider in context        – Two generalizations: 1. Show that recipient understands that a turn is not finished and consents to the current speaker’s continuation (“continuers,” 81). 2. Waive an opportunity for repair, such…

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    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019
  • Academic,  Favorites

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020 / 1 Comment

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics: Multimodal Interaction Analysis. [Assignment prompt: for a day on campus, keep track of your reactions to ambient smells, in differing spaces outside and inside campus buildings.  Draw a map that identifies especially pleasant/satisfying smells and especially unpleasant/disturbing smells. Discuss the sites of these olfactory experiences and your reactions.] Monday morning, January 13, 2020: I disembark the Metrobus on the street level below the main lawns of Georgetown’s campus and begin slowly walking downhill toward the Walsh Building. The streets are nearly empty of pedestrians and automobiles in operation. I detect mild scents of earth and dirt, but mostly notice that the air feels thick in my nostrils. It surprises me that…

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    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019

    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019
  • Academic,  Favorites,  Music & Theatre

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019 / 0 Comments

    New York University, 2019. Today’s #WeeklyWednesday is the full, live performance of my #NYU Master’s recital! It’s been a lot exciting and fulfilling work to put together this program and to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it! The first half comprises solo sets of some of my favorite musical theatre pieces and a few Neapolitan songs (which I fell in love with when living in Naples, Italy, years ago…). “I Have Confidence” begins at 1:15 Neapolitan set, at 4:55 Unexpected love set, at 16:35 Adventure and longing set, at 25:00 The second half (at 34:00) is a character study of Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady! It…

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    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020

    Multimodal Microanalysis: Scattergories! Video Clip

    20 August 2020

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020
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