Joy P. G. Peltier
Dr. Joy P. G. Peltier is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Linguistics Program and Department of English Language and Literature. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan and her BA and MA in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia. She is a Black scholar of African American and Caribbean descent.
Dr. Peltier’s work centers on high-contact and minoritized languages, such as Creoles like Kwéyòl Donmnik, as well as on multifunctional and discourse-pragmatic elements, such as pragmatic markers (e.g., Kwéyòl èben ‘well’, English well, French bon ‘well’). She is also passionate about the inclusion of minoritized languages in linguistics pedagogy and research and is engaged in a collaborative project centered on the linguistic and professional experiences of Black faculty in the language sciences.
Alongside corpus analyses and experimental methods, Dr. Peltier turns to metalinguistic surveys and interviews with language users to carry out her research. These interactions have deepened her appreciation for how language users’ histories, attitudes, and ideologies with respect to topics like race, colonization, education, and religion are intertwined with how they approach their own language varieties and language practices.
Dr. Peltier’s work connects her with her linguistic heritages, and she views her scholarship as an opportunity to spark ah-ha moments about varieties and features of language that are stigmatized or overlooked.
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Email address: jpeltier@mailbox.sc.edu