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Stanford news: Jane Shaw and Sarah Ogilvie
From the January/February issue of Stanford magazine, “Breaking Holy Ground: New dean and professor Jane Shaw continues her career of firsts in a field steeped in history and tradition” by Sam Scott: A...
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Stanford news: the Sunday NYT
Two Stanford linguistics stories in the Sunday (January 18th) New York Times: Tyler Schnoebelen at the American Dialect Society meetings, Will Leben on product naming. The Word of the Year. In the...
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Academic freedom
In the January/February issue of Stanford magazine, “Watch Your Words, Professor: In 1900, Jane Stanford forced out a respected faculty member. Was he a martyr to academic freedom or a racist gadfly...
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A phonologist’s cartoon
A cartoon for phonologists, by a phonologist, Stephanie Shih (posted here with permission): A pun on the organic of organic farming and the organic of the technical term homorganic in phonology. The...
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The entrepreneur gets an honorary degree
For Graduation Day (which is, in fact, today at Stanford), a wry Doonesbury in which Chris Simm, a dropout from Walden College and a business success, comes back to get an honorary degree (along with...
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A medal for pronoun case
In today’s Stanford News, a report by Dayo Mitchell, “The projects conducted by the winners of the 2016 Firestone and Golden medals and the Kennedy Prize represent the breadth of the undergraduate...
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Books from Stanford
Recent books from Stanford-connected authors, some my colleagues, some my former students (so I have warm feelings). Two in sociolinguistics / educational linguistics, one on the (gasp)...
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At the art museum
In collecting material for blog postings on recent exhibitions at the Cantor/Anderson galleries at Stanford, I came across a staff page with an excellent photo of Matthew Tiews, Associate Vice...
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On the fierce femininity of drag queens
Linguistics news from Stanford: the public portion of a PhD oral exam, next Monday, 6/19/17, 3-4:15: Jeremy Calder, Handsome Women: A semiotics of non-normative gender in SoMa, San Francisco. Drag...
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For Eve V. Clark
… two recent cartoons, one a Rhymes With Orange with a notable verbing of a noun, the other a One Big Happy with a child coping with an unfamiliar word: (#1) (#2) These on the occasion of Eve’s...
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Earth Dean
A brief note on a personnel change at Stanford, announced in the Stanford Report this morning: (#1) The new Earth Dean, with lilies-of-the-valley (and a purple calla lily) Geologist Stephan Graham has...
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LGBT news from Stanford
(A posting delayed by assorted computer upheavals at my house and a monster cold, which has caused me to sleep 11 hours a day. In any case, LGBT news bulletins, but no sex at all.)) News from Wednesday...
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An abstract for a Stanford linguistics dissertation to be defended this coming Monday (March 19th): Teresa Pratt, Affective sociolinguistic style: an ethnography of embodied linguistic variation in an...
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The sociolinguistics of Chicano English sh/ch in ‘El Barrio’
Sitting in my queue since last June, when Isla Flores-Bayer defended her Stanford linguistics dissertation. First, an informal announcement from John Rickford, one of Isla’s advisers (lightly edited by...
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Glycoscience in the Royal Society of London
… and, oh yes, women. In the Stanford Report (the daily faculty-staff news release) yesterday, a bulletin (by Kate Lewis) from the School of Humanities and Sciences, “Carolyn Bertozzi elected to Royal...
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If I might interrupt…
Jason Adam Katzenstein in the New Yorker — from a 1/11/18 posting on my blog, “The triumph of confidence over expertise” Happening on Friday: a PhD oral dissertation defense by Katherine Hilton: What...
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DJ is chaired at Stanford!
Yesteday’s hot news from my little corner of academia, a message from my Stanford linguistics colleague Beth Levin announcing that Dan Jurafsky … has just been appointed to an endowed chair, the...
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The Rickford plenary address
Tomorrow at Stanford, John Rickford is doing a dry run for his plenary address at the NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) conference later this month: Class and Race in the Analysis of Language...
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Variationist sociolinguistics: NWAV 47
Coming in a few days (October 18th-21st), NWAV 47 at NYU: Already noted on this blog, in my 10/2 posting “The Rickford plenary address”, with the abstract for my Stanford colleague John Rickford’s...
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A book for the professor
On Facebook yesterday, this message from the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University, my excellent colleague John R. Rickford: Last night (Oct. 20), I...
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