University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Sociolinguist Katie Drager
I Like Those Kinds of Sentences Where You Can Really See the Connections Between Languages
Katie Drager is a sociolinguistics professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and co-director of the Charlene Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies. She researches language varieties in Hawai‘i and New Zealand, and the ways in which social information and linguistic information are linked in the mind. Prior to taking part in the Zócalo/Daniel K. Inouye Institute “Talk Story” event titled “Will Pidgin Survive the 21st Century?,” which took place at Artistry Honolulu in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Drager sat down in the green room and shared her thoughts …
