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multilingual cities: Honolulu
Living in Hawai’i now for a good chunk of time, Honolulu to be exact, I’ve become somewhat familiar with the multiple languages I hear around me on a daily basis. Languages like Cantonese, Korean,...
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Joe Bennett on Chavspeak
“…what is important about chavspeak is not how it works to stylise any existing variety but how it works to suggest an extreme classed variety – how it foregrounds classed stereotypes ahead of all...
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Gregory Bateson and thinking ecologically about language
“What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you?” - Gregory Bateson, from Mind and Nature Each year I choose one scholar...
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A few blogging lessons learned after two years of leaky grammar
There’s been a whole blogging phenomenon that’s exploded over the past decade or so, and according to Wikipedia, the accumulated-knowledge-bucket of the human race, there were around 160 million blogs...
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Awakenings: The Romantic Science of Oliver Sacks
After one week of treatment (and on a dose of 2 gm. L-DOPA daily), Mrs B. started talking -quite audibly for the first time in many years, although her vocal force would decay after two or three short...
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Language Notes # 31: Linguistic Relativity: Sapir-Whorf or Boas-Jakobson?
Interviewing an aboriginal elder by the name of Djalalingba in Australia’s Northern Territory, David Quammen, a “Balanda” or white guy, attempts to gain some insight into the connection the Yolngu...
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Babel
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a polyglot community that’s been slowly growing over the past few years and that I’ve been following a bit from time to time. And not too long ago, a book...
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Mixed methods?
I came across an interesting longitudinal study on Americans studying abroad in China, which especially caught my eye when I read the abstract stating… “This article is part of a longitudinal study of...
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Language Notes # 28: Impulses of Franz Boas
I’ve been trying to read a bit outside of my usual language-encrusted box. I don’t think I’ve managed to stray too far though…even when I try to take a break from ‘language stuff’ for a while, it keeps...
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‘Coping’ with language learning throughout history
John H. Schumann, an SLA ‘heavyweight’ as some have referred to him, recently published an article in the journal Language Learning (an open access special issue you can read, no university affiliation...
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Dreaded questions…
There’s a blog I like to check out from time to time whose stated mission is: To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room...
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On Penelope Eckert’s “The Meaning of Style”
“I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.” –William Labov This post is a bit of an...
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AAAL Conference Dallas 2013
Didn’t think I’d be coming to Texas anytime soon. I try not to stray too far from the ocean when I travel, but academic conferences provide you with the opportunity to be suddenly whisked away to new...
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