I realized I’ve been right all along to introduce where I work with “I’m a linguist in the comm & rhetorical studies department” at the risk of sounding like an ass by highlighting the linguist part, cuz the one time I didn’t do that this week the other person started going on about rhetoric

Went to a wonderful talk by my friend and SU colleague Junko Takeda today. I wish more academic events/talks were like this one!

I thought this was so interesting! I've definitely noticed this as a Syracuse transplant--people around here will refer to New York City as just "New York" which as King says, seems to minimize the distinction between here and there and reduce the ideological distance

excellent new article by Sharese King on African American Rochester "Hood Kid" identity performed via approximating a NYC BOUGHT vowel & other semiotic features: "In my hood: Scaling urban personae outside the urban center" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

great new article out by Anastacia Kurylo & Jessica Robles on the functions of stereotypes in conversation: "What do *they* do? Functions served by stereotypes communicated in conversation" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are there any documented languages that use a formal animacy hierarchy to distinguish theme and recipient in ditransitive double-object constructions? #linguistics

This is from May 2025 but still relevant. Recently I visited the town of Carrara to learn more about the anarchist history of the town and visited one of the marble quarries as well www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...

I’m sorry but why was AI needed for this? pompeiisites.org/comunicati/a...

Which show is better, Rome or Domina?

I fear I’m becoming one of those Roman Empire guys

When @ricksteves.bsky.social goes to Rome, he gets a thrill from walking on the same roads at the Romans. When I go to Rome, I get a thrill from walking on the same roads as Rick Steves

28,602 steps in one day is too many

I’ve had carbonara for dinner three nights in a row. I’m doomed

I reached new heights today when, after my partner ordered, I said with wine induced confidence “lo stesso” (the same), and the owner of the restaurant asked in Italian if I spoke Italian and I replied “un po” (a little) and he said in Italian “but your pronunciation is very good” and I said grazie

Grazie, Italia

in Rome and have developed a taste and a daily craving for carbonara. This does not bode well for when I go back home

I was just telling a story and started singing and was like ✍️ gotta tell @sociolinguista.bsky.social

my Italian reached new heights when I asked the guy making the sandwiches at a sandwich stand in Florence “signore, panino preferito?”

I think if little me could see pictures of me now, I would be very happy to see that I got my ears pierced, have long manicured nails, bangs, and that I got my teeth straightened out. I wasn’t really asking for a lot

You can submit to the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC) @jblacjournal.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wrote 1300+ words today, did laundry, did some yard work, and walked 12,000+ steps. I am very tired

"Most of the homecomers demonstrated a deep rejection of the language(s) which they were forced to speak or to learn during migration... the rejection of French is far stronger among those returning from migration than among those living in Mali... [they] aspired to use a 'pure' Bambara."

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

🙄 Once you see it, you can't unsee it

Astronauts must be so good at sleeping. That has to be something they select for. I wouldn’t get any sleep because I’d be like “OMG I’M IN SPACE”, which can’t be good for doing science.

more exciting new research from @christianilbury.bsky.social "Pronominal variation in interaction: The interactional function of man and bro" www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Basically it seems that any original idea you ever thought you had about conversation, either Goffman or Sacks already had it

currently obsessed with I, Claudius (1976)

does anyone know of any research on (awkward) silences in conversation, conversation falling into a lapse...how people might manage that...etc.?

I don't have too much experience (re)transcribing translated student conversations in Mandarin (with Japanese singing) but I'm pleased with this, and happy that I will have some multilingualism represented in this work and not just English. I know one of the other examples of singing is in Spanish

I found that rather than cursing while getting a rather painful SI joint injection, operatic singing is somehow a better coping mechanism for me, plus it makes everyone in the room laugh

I think a lot about this moment during the Jerry Rescue in Syracuse in 1851. This local rich guy had been persistently antagonistic to abolitionists. He was like, “Yeah slavery is wrong, but asking for immediate emancipation is too radical, and you guys are a bunch of hysterical lunatics.” …

I got it right this time. And if you’re wondering why there is still a Christmas tree up it’s because I live in Syracuse and there is snow in the forecast currently

I had to dig up this photo with text on it I made to remind myself how to order my pizza next time

my third book: Screaming in Conversation

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Woohoo! Great new open access piece out in Internet Pragmatics by Kendra Calhoun: “This is so Vine coded”: Genre, nostalgia, and strategies of multimodal intertextuality on TikTok www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...

It warms my heart to see some of my work on intertextual media references being applied by other scholars to study queer identities and queer communities; I didn't foresee this but I am so so happy about it!

so my current sabbatical writing cycle is basically go hard, write a lot, get too excited, then crash and burn with headaches and migraines, then take a few days off and start over again. Anyone else struggled with something similar? I keep trying to find balance but…

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

Just a reminder that this account just makes things up and presents them as news. It's lib fan fiction. Nothing from the Halfway Post is real. They pretend it's satire, but what is this even satirizing? What's the commentary? What's the joke?

First Sora now Meta, big tech asbestos finally getting its due

OpenAI shutting down Sora feels like knocking down the first domino

call for reviewers for the Language and Social Interaction division of NCA! If you are an expert in discourse analysis, conversation analysis, or related fields, I'd be grateful (as program planner) if you could take a few minutes to sign up as a reviewer by March 25! www.natcom.org/call-for-rev...

This quote still lives in my head rent-free

I knew my drum teacher would get all uncomfortable and awkward upon my reference to the band Mannequin Pussy but there was really no avoiding it

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

chapter of my book on singing in conversation just called “fuck ups”. so far I’ve come across two instances where people attempt to sing popular songs in other dialects/languages they don’t speak and these have made analysis very tricky 😆