{"id":62005,"date":"2011-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-graduate-wins-2011-walter-j-jensen-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"uri-graduate-wins-2011-walter-j-jensen-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/05\/uri-graduate-wins-2011-walter-j-jensen-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 graduate wins 2011 Walter J. Jensen Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t2010 graduate is only recipient of competitive national award<\/i> <\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 12, 2011 \u2013 When we speak in our native tongue, we have mannerisms that indicate our gender. 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna Marjorie Johnson wants to figure out if those communicative tendencies carry over when individuals learn a second language.<\/p>\n


\nThe South Kingstown native will head to Paris, France in October to research the topic, thanks to the Walter J. Jensen Fellowship for French Studies. Johnson \u2013 who earned degrees in French and philosophy from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2010 \u2013 won the Jensen Fellowship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society this spring. It is designed to help educators and researchers improve education in standard French language, literature and culture and in the study of standard French in the United States.<\/p>\n


\nAs the country\u2019s lone recipient, Johnson earned a $14,000 stipend that will allow her to pursue her master\u2019s degree starting in October at \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (the School for Advanced Study in Social Sciences) in Paris.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI love the French academic system, because it puts a lot of the planning on the students,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cStudents’ success in France is a function of their own motivation and effort.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nJohnson\u2019s research thesis is “Des am\u00e9ricains bilingues en France: la transformation de la parole sexualis\u00e9e,” or \u201cBilingual Americans in France: The Transformation of Gendered Speech.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cAll of us speak in a way that reflects our gender,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI am fascinated to explore why that is. Is it something that carries over when we learn a second language? Is it a product of how we are raised? I want to know how much of our speaking patterns are determined by the social expectations that surround us.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nJohnson studied in Quebec in the fall of 2008, and in Compi\u00e8gne, France in the spring of 2009.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI love French linguistics, French literature and art history, so the opportunity to study in Paris is very exciting,\u201d said Johnson, who taught several sections of French courses at 溏心vlog免费B站 this year. <\/p>\n


\nJohnson\u2019s parents speak French. Her father, Galen, is a professor of philosophy at 溏心vlog免费B站 and the director of the University\u2019s Center for the Humanities. Her mother, Becky, is a French and Spanish teacher at South Kingstown High School, as well as an accomplished violinist. Marjorie Johnson plays the piano and upright bass, and is an award-winning poet.<\/p>\n


\nIn a letter of recommendation she wrote for Johnson, Professor Cheryl Foster, chair of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Philosophy Department, praised Johnson\u2019s many talents.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMarjorie has distinguished herself as an unusually creative sort of intellectual, one whose approach to empirical matters always bears the stamp of her roots as a poet,\u201d Foster wrote. \u201cDespite her decampment to philosophy and linguistics, Marjorie Johnson will always have the soul of a poet. One can detect that in the way she has conceived her study of gendered patterns amongst native English speakers using French as a primary language. Leave it to a lover of art and words to query the structures by which our native presumptions about social identity become malleable under the influence of a different linguistic tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 graduate Marjorie Johnson won the 2011 Walter J.

\nJensen Fellowship and will spend two years studying in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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