I'm thrilled to announce that this fall, I will join @NYCU_official as an assistant professor of phonetics ☺️. Thanks so much to everyone who have supported me in various ways throughout my job hunting journey! Super excited!!
I am one of over 35,000 people who have signed this https://t.co/8uRzcXaUNV petition to change the redressal system for survivors at Edinburgh. @EdinburghUni when are you going to apologise and commit to making change?
I am one of over 35,000 people who have signed this https://t.co/R5ogeBoOgl petition to change the redressal system for survivors at Edinburgh. @EdinburghUni when are you going to apologise and commit to making change?
50 YRS OF LANGUAGE, GENDER & SEXUALITY
The 3rd article featured in the language, gender, and sexuality subsection of our #OA 50th Anniversary Collection is Mary Bucholtz & Kira Hall's "Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research"
Read it free: https://t.co/H5p2YoUWIQ
my immediate reaction is would "Beijing Zoon Station" change to "Beijing DongWuYuan Zhan"? What's the point of having those pinyin letters underneath the Chinese characters, then?
Beijing residents noticed that metro station signs are being changed to replace the English word “station” with the pinyin “zhan.” Some say that it will confuse tourists. Beijing Metro said that the new translations are mandated by China’s latest regulations on place names.
The Stanford Department of Linguistics has an opening for a two-year Acting Assistant Professor specializing in phonetics/phonology (broadly construed to include interdisciplinary work): https://t.co/8regAIzTxH
Our department is running two searches for new faculty this year. One is a tenure-track position in syntax and the other is an open-rank position in phonology/phonetics. Research in interfaces, computational/experimental linguistics, or fieldwork is especially encouraged!
Finally published! The first part of my research looking at use of Scots in writing by Scottish politicians during the Union debates of 1707, using statistical analyses😊 #Scots#historicalsociolinguistics#18thcentury
Sixth Tone has kicked off its first “China Writing Contest,” seeking nonfiction submissions from writers around the world, to be judged by a globally acclaimed panel of journalists, writers, and anthropologists.
Check it out: https://t.co/MtDn4DPPvf
Women have complained about Prof Andy Orchard’s sexual behaviour & drunkenness for 20+ years.
He’s now Prof of Anglo Saxon, at the world’s top-ranking, university, Oxford & a successor to JRR Tolkien who held the same position when he was writing Lord of the Rings.
#NotOK
A two-year investigation by @AJIUnit reveals how British universities are failing to protect students from sexual harassment by their lecturers, allowing them to carry on teaching even where there are multiple complaints over many years.
#NotOK
Michael Rosen asks Professor Devyani Sharma about the latest research into accent bias in the UK. Which are the highest and lowest rated accents, and why does it matter so much? https://t.co/WRWdQi57lB
"As a language lover, I worry...that millennia-old dialects are vanishing under the influence of Mandarin...I worry that the way my grandparents speak will be forgotten, and what’s being forgotten is more than just a dialect, but a way of being."
https://t.co/YstCnjcrEB