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- “A 19th Century Physician Answers Popular Yahoo! Inquiries: The ‘Is It Bad?’ Edition”Vollmer, Matthew (Ohio Edit, 2013-09-27)
- 21st Century Prose: We Like Words and Voices and That for Which We Have No NameVollmer, Matthew (2015-04-21)An invited essay describing the goals and mission of the University of Michigan's 21st Century Prose.
- "33rd Balloon"Vollmer, Matthew (2016-07-22)
- Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed wordsHay, Jennifer; Walker, Abby; Sanchez, Kauyumari; Thompson, Kirsty (PLOS, 2019-02-04)Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring whether access is facilitated by invoking more abstract social categories. We conduct four experiments, all of which combine an Implicit Association Task with a Lexical Decision Task. Participants sorted real and nonsense words while at the same time sorting older and younger faces (exp. 1), male and female faces (exp. 2), stereo-typically male and female objects (exp. 3), and framed and unframed objects, which were always stereotypically male or female (exp. 4). Across the experiments, lexical decision to socially skewed words is facilitated when the socially congruent category is sorted with the same hand. This suggests that the lexicon contains social detail from which individuals make social abstractions that can influence lexical access.
- "Academy Girls"Vollmer, Matthew (Moon City, 2014-03-01)
- The Action-Adventure Heroine: Rediscovering an American Literary Character, 1697–1895 by Sandra Wilson SmithReed, Ashley (Project Muse, 2019)
- "Advanced Placement, Essay #3, Free Response"Vollmer, Matthew (The Normal School, 2012-11-01)
- All of Us Together in the EndVollmer, Matthew (Hub City Press, 2023-04-01)
- "The Art of the Short Story: Helen Phillips and Matthew Vollmer"Vollmer, Matthew; Phillips, H. (LitHub, 2016-07-05)A conversation between writers Helen Phillips and Matthew Vollmer about writing short stories.
- Auteurist Socio-Cultural Critique: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight as Historical PresentGreene, Justin R. (2017)Twenty-four years and eight films into his career, differing arrays of people are still drawn to Quentin Tarantino and his films. When viewers encounter “written and directed by Quentin Tarantino,” there are certain expectations that accompany these words. In his classic essay “What Is an Author?,” Michel Foucault claims “that an author’s name is not simply an element in a discourse (capable of being either subject or object, of being replaced by a pronoun and the like); it performs a certain role with regard to narrative discourse, assuring a classificatory function” (107). Following Foucault’s thinking, I associate Tarantino’s name with a particular style or mode of filmmaking, because audiences, no matter the racial or gendered dynamics, have granted Tarantino the opportunity to explore his representation of America. Most recently, by immersing a predominantly white male American audience in his depictions of United States society and culture, Tarantino’s films confront white America’s perceptions and epistemologies of American history. Tarantino’s America is violent, seedy, and vulgar. His films take mainstream, white mainstream audiences into a world vastly different from their own comfortable spaces, through his use of traditionally unrelateable characters...
- Autism and RhetoricHeilker, Paul V.; Yergeau, M. (National Council of Teachers of English, 2011-05)By understanding the verbal and nonverbal manifestations of autism as a rhetorical imperative, a perspective that involves applying Krista Ratcliffe's concept of rhetorical listening, scholars can do much to dissolve the idea of otherness that appears in discussions of this topic.
- Black MagicVollmer, Matthew (2020)
- BlackoutVollmer, Matthew (2020-04-01)
- Blake and Rousseau on Children's Reading, Pleasure, and ImaginationWelch, Dennis M. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2011)
- "Blood Soup"Vollmer, Matthew (2017-07-12)
- Bloody Men: Masculine Violence in the Filmic Worlds of Quentin TarantinoGreene, Justin R. (2021-04)Nine films into a supposed ten film oeuvre, Quentin Tarantino has clearly established himself as a contemporary auteur in not only the U.S. but also throughout the world. Each rumor of a new Tarantino project elicits wild speculation about the narrative, the castings, and the release date. Fans and film critics alike seek out any piece of evidence that will develop the picture around Tarantino’s vision. His vision is purposeful, and he intends to craft films that reflect his interests, his ideologies, and his engagement with the larger discourses of society and culture. In a 2014 interview conducted by his friend and fellow director Richard Rodriguez, Tarantino defines the way he perceives his filmography: “A filmography is not a hit-or-miss thing. You have a vision. You have a voice. And each new film is your new conversation” (Tarantino, “Quentin Tarantino 2014 Interview…”). The authorial voice and the artist’s interaction with the world emerge as controlling ideas for Tarantino. In essence, his identity is built through his filmic art...
- A Book of Uncommon PrayerVollmer, Matthew (Outpost19, 2015-05-01)A Book of Uncommon Prayer collects everyday invocations from 60 acclaimed and emerging authors. Edited by Matthew Vollmer, and inspired by the Anglican original, the anthology spans a remarkable range of beliefs and inclinations, producing a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary concerns, from the heart-wrenching to the irreverent. All proceeds will benefit 826 Valencia, which is “dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their writing skills, and to helping teachers get excited about the literary arts.” (I conceived the idea, solicited work, made selections, arranged the pieces, edited and copy edited them, created indexes, wrote a preface, and contributed 9 selections to the manuscript.)
- "Brain Bank"Vollmer, Matthew (2016-09-16)
- "Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera"Vollmer, Matthew (2016-07-22)
- Bringing indexical orders to non-arbitrary meaning: The case of pitch and politeness in English and KoreanHolliday, Jeffrey J.; Walker, Abby; Jung, Mihyun; Cho, Esther (Ubiquity Press, 2023-02)In this study, we investigated whether the relationship between pitch and politeness is mediated through iconic relationships between pitch and other talker attributes, and whether these relationships can differ across languages. US and South Korean listeners completed a speaker perception task in which they heard utterances and rated the speaker on a number of attributes, including politeness. The pitch of each utterance was unmanipulated, raised, or lowered. The results confirm previous work suggesting that in Korean, lower pitch is associated with politeness, which contrasts with both the English results we find, and claims of a universal association between higher pitch and politeness (i.e., Ohala's Frequency Code). At the same time, the impact of pitch on attributes like perceived height, strength, and emotion are similar across listener groups: Speakers in higher pitched guises are heard as shorter, weaker, and more emotional. Like others, we argue that pitch can be associated, non-arbitrarily, with a range of meanings, but additionally appeal to orders of indexicality (Silverstein, 2003) to account for the similarities between the groups, as well as the differences. Our results are of significance for researchers looking at non-arbitrary meaning of acoustic cues as well as the acoustics of politeness, especially in interaction with polite registers in Korean.