Come join us! Review begins immediately:2-year visiting assist. prof., "meaning and sentence-structure (broadly construed)…particularly interested in candidates who pursue interdisciplinary approaches", Linguistics, Northwestern University linguistics.northwestern.edu/about/open-p...
Enjoy these brilliant linguistic analyses of Harris, Walz and those other guys from their speaking styles during the debates www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...@mixedlinguist.bsky.social@kelsoharper.bsky.social
Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice presidential debates
The Department of Linguistics at Purdue will be holding a virtual Open House for prospective graduate students on Friday, November 1. My lab (the ExLing lab) will be among those presenting. See the link below for details and to register. cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis...
To clarify the process, we accept abstracts on a rolling basis from now until February 15. If you are interested in contributing to the special issue on gradience, send your abstract anytime and we can let you know fairly quickly whether we would like you to prepare a full paper.
@rpchaves.bsky.social and I are planning a special issue of Languages on a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. Please send us an abstract if you are interested in contributing a paper to this issue on gradience in syntax and semantics. linguistlist.org/issues/35/24...
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
Congratulations, Dr. Bisnath!
Yes Feb 15 is the deadline but we will accept them anytime and notify you quickly if we would like you to submit the full paper. Sorry that’s not very clear.
It finally happened, there was a sociolinguistic emergency on a plane! Two teens in front of me were arguing about whether the U.S had different dialects, so when we landed I apologized for eavesdropping and gave them a 2-min lecture on dialectology and how dialect is a political term 🤩
JEDI is an online community for journal editors across the social sciences focused on increasing open science policies, practices, and procedures at journals. Here's our new preprint introducing @dpjedi.orgdoi.org/10.31234/osf...
EXCELLENT by Rebecca Solnit: "The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media is that they worked hard to earn it." Did the media learn nothing from its disastrous coverage of Trump and Clinton in 2016? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The press is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating the true and the false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid