(Socio-) Phonetics in the news
The Fresh Air interview of David Thorpe and Susan Sankin makes me look forward to Thorpe’s film, “Do I Sound Gay?” But Sankin’s suggestions that… Read More »(Socio-) Phonetics in the news
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Shifting your deictic center
In this guest post Anna Marie Trester, Director of the MA in Language and Communication (MLC) at Georgetown University, explains how the linguistic theory of… Read More »Shifting your deictic center
Arana: Good sociolinguistic conclusion despite questionable examples
Gabriel Arana recently published a defense of creaky voice at The Atlantic. He notes that recent criticism of young women’s use of creaky voice, or… Read More »Arana: Good sociolinguistic conclusion despite questionable examples
Variation in inflectional morphology
“Variable or non-standard realizations of inflectional morphology in English” sounds rather dry and academic, but the placement of suffixes within compound words or phrases can… Read More »Variation in inflectional morphology
Wikipedia and the Academy
Barbara Johnstone (2011) “Making Pittsburghese” and Timothy Messer-Kruse (2012) “The ‘undue weight’ of truth on Wikipedia” present very different views of scholar’s experiences with Wikipedia.… Read More »Wikipedia and the Academy
Year-end Roundup
In lieu of an inaugural posting as the in-coming digital content editor (it’s coming next year, I promise), enjoy this year-end roundup of ling-anth related… Read More »Year-end Roundup
Assistant Professor in English Linguistics in the School of English, The University of Hong Kong
Applications are invited for appointment as Assistant Professor in English Linguistics in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong.
Job Announcement, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University is pleased to announce one of two tenure-track positions in Sociolinguistics at the Assistant Professor level. We seek… Read More »Job Announcement, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University