A nice look back at Labov's "Department Store" study (one of the foundational sociolinguistic studies) by one of his last students. If you're a linguist or have learned about the study in a linguistics class, this is worth a watch. youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw?...

When research is largely written by AI, only to be read by AI, what "new knowledge" will actually mean anything? And will the effect that has on the publish or perish paradigm be a positive or negative thing?

This looks like it will be good, and something I'll need to share with my students.

#EMCA One of my 2nd year students mentioned in her homework about how she tried out a breaching experiment (in this case speaking in honorifics with her sister) and the reaction, and started diving deeper into the ideas. I'm such a bad influence sometimes, but I love it.

This is not only a wonderful eulogy of one of the most important pioneers of science and conservation, but also a great explanation of the complexities of knowing and coming to know in science. @hankgreen.bsky.social - you rock! youtu.be/d_FzzLeA6pk?...

Been listening to Fugazi's discography the last couple days, 1st time in a decade. Somehow it hits different than before. Amazing how things that either went over my head or didn't connect emotionally in a certain way back then is now. And of course discovering new things throughout. 1/2

there was a lynching on a college campus in Mississippi, but as of yet no major news outlet has picked up on the story because they are so far up a celebrity's ass that they can't recognize America's worst type of political violence that has been happening throughout the nation's history.

Another original - "Lambchop's Got Lead Poisoning". Been working on it for a few weeks, but unfortunately, it keeps being timely. Probably the heaviest thing I've ever recorded (full on with death metal growls) youtu.be/uks8EKmnisk

A new original song I'm calling "Silly Cliches About Silly Cliches". It came to me over the last couple of days, not as a reaction to what happened, but as a reaction to the cliches that inevitably get trotted out in the wakes of tragedies. youtu.be/ffjFTmawDxg

Something #EMCA folks should appreciate ...

This dude's constantly hittin' 'em outta the park. Modern day protest folk at its finest. youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4

I wasn't aware that Robin Lakoff had passed away. She opened up the field of linguistics to looking at gender, and thus has had a huge impact on everyone who looks at language through a critical lens in any way. ls.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...

Eye-opening (in a not-so-pleasant "well, shit, what I thought my reasonably well educated self actually 'knew' isn't true" sort of way). youtu.be/regpMUdl_QA

Original instrumental song I've been working on for a few weeks. The drums were played with my Yamaha FGDP-50 finger drums, and I like how they help create a better groove than programmed drums. youtu.be/Q6bUSdN9pZo

- it's a national holiday. - i'm still recovering and rest would be a good thing. ... so why do i still feel like i have to justify taking a day off to myself? the mental gymnastics that i feel compelled to go through when it's completely ok to take a national holiday off.

What the internet and social media has become:

Using this rainy holiday Monday to catch up on some needed sleep. Just woke up from a dream in which I seemed to be an active participant in a M*A*S*H episode (Trapper and Col. Blake era). Weird.

80 years.

One of the weirdest things I've had to teach myself while dealing with whooping cough is to be patient through those 10 - 30 seconds I can't breath, to remember that if I relax, I'll eventually get air back in. Not an easy thing to learn how to believe.

On NPR pages right now. I'm proud that they are saying specifically what the problem is, and are not capitulating.

Y'all, consider this a PSA. If you haven't had a TDAP (tetanus, diptheria, whooping cough) vaccine booster in a while, it's a great idea to get it. I didn't even know the boosters existed, but if I had it would have saved me from this "fun" that I'm experiencing now.

Sharing this not just because it has an important message, but because it's the kind of message that the GOP is actively trying to silence by cutting the funding that goes into PBS and NPR. youtu.be/HgVlYMOGXCI?...

watching Colbert's interview with Harris... just made me sad.

津波警報: www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.ht... 各地の満潮時刻・津波到達予想時刻も載っています.

This doesn't solve the "root causes", and indeed, is further removing constitutional protections and due process rights from yet another class of people who generally are not able to advocate for themselves. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A cute experience with my #EMCA seminar students over the last couple of weeks. One of the students had pointed out that I had a particular 口癖 (verbal tick) when speaking English - a really quick "yo".

In the US, foreigners were supposedly eating pets. In Japan, foreigners are supposedly eating cicadas. Seriously, no need for Trump to slap tariffs on Japan, because ahead of the election, all of the conservatives have imported MAGA talking points. I see rough seas ahead.

ICE has gone full on "show me the person, I'll show you the crime." Know who else did that? Every damned authoritarian regime in history.

One of my ゼミ students is working on DEI discourse using #EMCA, and is working towards putting together her literature review. Here she draws on Kitzinger, Whitehead, and Talmy and brings up an interesting question. Here it is, and my response...

Got a new Yamaha FGDP-50 finger drum machine and figured I'd test it out an oldie but goodie. youtu.be/OtnNRYlj6-g

Reminder: everyone, regardless of citizenship, has the right to due process. AND Concentration/Internment camps are bad, even if you give them a pithy name conservatives can giggle about.

Proud #EMCA teacher moment with my 4th year students: Me: "You might remember some data we looked at last year... Debbie...?" 2 Students: "Shelley...?" Another student: "What's the ↑de↓al." If you know, you know.

an instrumental song i've been working on youtu.be/u_nQaa_OGyY

The current US administration is trolling and joking about sending my family members and the family members of my friends to kill the family members of some of my other friends, or to die trying to do so. Fuck them and their trolling and jokes. It is no fucking laughing matter.

All-too topical adjacency pair of the day.

All this talk about whether Trump will get the US into another war made me notice something. American's have a really f'd up definition of war. Bombing the f*** out of the Houthi's wasn't war? What was it?

In class this morning, the idea of following along with song lyrics as a means to learn vocabulary and grammar came up. I mentioned that I did this in Japanese, and a student asks who I listened to. 1/4

Odd #EMCA #academic_milestone... One of my 4th year students is applying for graduate schools in order to do some research in Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics. While his thesis is in English, his research proposal for the applications is in Japanese.

Interesting, and necessary, research

In my Multilingualism in Japan course, one student asks: "Some cities use multiple languages on signs mainly to attract tourists... If the goal is to make money, not to support real language diversity, does this still count as genuine multilingualism? Or is it just marketing?"

Fulbright board resigns en masse www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Here's a way for Dems in congress to show that they're leading (specific for California, but also for everywhere else): Go lead sit-ins in the places that are facing unrest like LA. No grandstanding. Just a good old-fashioned sit-in. Show your solidarity.

A 4th year students wrote up an analysis of the hand washing scene in Snow White, focusing on gender and #MCA -- she even points out how Snow White "claims deontic authority" in holding the Dwarves accountable for not washing their hands and directing them to do so. #EMCA

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