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www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... #constructiongrammar #linguistics #Rhetoric #rhetorical

I did my homework. Very informative. Thanks ! @randyallenharris.bsky.social @hiphilangsci.bsky.social hiphilangsci.net/2024/11/01/p...

Photos featuring some of our proud UWaterloo English MA and PhD grads who received their degrees this Saturday. Congratulations!

The newly minted Dr. Kyle Gerber and sidekick. @uwaterlooarts.bsky.social @uw-english.bsky.social

Great new article by Geoff Pullum on Post, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar, written with his customary verve, depth, and precision. doi.org/10.1075/hl.0.... #histlx #Linguistics #LangSky

Episode 49 of our podcast is out 🤩 James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) interviews Fritz Newmeyer (University of Washington) about linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics. 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/01/p... #Histlx

A new podcast episode 🤩 Randy Harris (@randyallenharris.bsky.social) speaks with James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) about his recent book A History of Modern Linguistics. hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/15/p... #Histlx

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Calling all linguists, esp. corpus folks, and digital researchers, One of my students wants to research a grammatical cx on Twitter/X, but the Musk regime restricts searches. Would anyone who has Enterprise or Research access be willing to help? #linguistics #corpuslinguistics #academicbluesky

Once again: the GOP is a #fascist party. The CPC contains these elements. There is a tsunami of #reactionary politics on the horizon, because the weaponization of young men in particular goes largely unnoticed (because it's online). Crush them now, or we are in for generations of authoritarianism.

When a president promotes sadism and abuse you know that the abuses will quickly get worse. In a few short months the US has moved from kidnapping people off the streets to building concentration camps. There will be much darker days ahead. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...

I try to avoid commenting on US politics except unless it directly affects Canada (tariffs, 51st state horseshit), but this! Jesus! If this doesn't prove unequivocally that the Trump administration hates women then I don't know what proof is. www.science.org/content/arti...

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

#Trump #AgeofStupid

A podcast episode featuring some of the Rhetoricon Team (there was supposed to be a follow up, but--thanks Doug Ford!--the funding was cut & this turned out to be the very last episode of the Games Institute Podcast 🥲). But you get Sid & Emma & my wonderful team). open.spotify.com/episode/3Pcm...

Special 25th anniversary issue of POROI, reprinting a dozenish of its most influential articles. Very pleased to be between its covers with the likes of @leahcecc.bsky.social, @creekthinker.bsky.social, @rhetorologist.bsky.social, and @zoltanmajdik.bsky.social pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/issue/...

"coffee is only good when it is served in jim crow conditions"

Brilliant

Gleichschaltung is the word you're looking for, @theguardian.com

Trump is probably not capable of learning, per se, but it will be inescapable even to him that we are polite and congenial until we’re cornered. Then we’re badgers. The Mexicans are pretty tough as well. Vive le Canada! ¡Viva México! Wishing sanity and kindness returns to our US neighbours.

Biden's pardons attempt to inoculate people against political persecution. Trump's pardons reward people for violence, treason, and celebrating his cult of lies.

Am always thinking of the daily stormer style guide which @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social published, esp this section on lulz. www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-...

Hell yes.

This should haunt these folks for this rest of their lives.

Hard not to love this takedown. Extra props for mentioning Canada’s biggest embarrassment, Jordan what’s his name. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reminder (and date correction): The proposal deadline for RhetCanada's 2025 annual conference (online May 31 and at George Brown College in Toronto June 4-6) is Saturday, Feb. 1. We look forward to receiving your proposals! CFP: event.fourwaves.com/cssr2025/pages

Three linguists (I'm one of 'em!) 'coming up roses' in Broadway Buzz: www.broadway.com/buzz/205089/...

Gotta love ppl who work in book shops

Google AI having trouble with consistency. (Same search, literally seconds apart.)

Google AI having trouble with rhyme

The CFP for @RhetCan's 2025 annual conference is now available! The conference will take place online on May 31 and in person from June 4-6 at George Brown College (Toronto) in association with FHSS's Congress 2025. To register and submit proposals: tinyurl.com/mrx7hctv.

Volume 9 of Rhetor, the Journal of the Canadian Association for the Study of Rhetoric, is now available online. The issue features rhetoric-focused articles on a broad range of topics, from Construction Grammar to stand-up comedy, from pop music to optical weapons systems. rhetcanada.org/rhetor-9/

Check out this #CxG paper by two gifted undergrads: “Define Constructions Before Constructions Define You: Rhetorical Figures in the AB BEFORE BA Construction” rhetcanada.org/rhetor-9/

To paraphrase Haj Ross, #linguist folks, to study language with its aesthetics drained away is ultimately pointless. So get some aesthetics with @chloeharrison.bsky.social’s link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Another fascinating episode of the HiPhiLangSci podcast, this one featuring Judy Kaplan on the allure of universals. Among the surprises (for me) was that the growth of universalist linguistics in the latter 20th C was partially in reaction to racism and eugenics. hiphilangsci.net/2024/12/01/p...

Fixed it: Musk will use the‘Department of Government Efficiency’ for self-enrichment.

#OTD 167 years ago, Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was born 🥳 Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast are considered by some to be the perfect way to celebrate this occasion. 12: hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p... 13: hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p... #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes #LinguisticBirthdays

The Linguistics Wars! For episode 42 of our podcast, James McElvenny talks to Randy Harris (University of Waterloo) about the controversies surrounding the generative semantics movement in American linguistics of the 1960s and 1970s. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/11/01/p... #Histlx

I was spanked (fairly) on Twitter once upon a time for a description of language in Linguistic Wars that left out signing. I'd like to avoid that chauvinism in a new work, but I need terminology help. #signlanguage folks, please fill in the blank: speaker/hearer, writer/reader, signer/___ #asl #bsl

My review of an earnest book on figuration in Cognitive Linguistics, but mostly a long complaint about the figurative failings of that framework.

who has done good critical work on the topic of "AI for social good"? pls repost 🙏🏾