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[lingthusiasm]

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#linguistics #personality quiz #uquiz #quizzes #languages #langblr #language stuff #language learning #lingthusiasm #podcast

[allthingslinguistic]

May 2023: Spanish Because Internet, True Biz, and Word Magic

This month, I announced that there’s going to be a Spanish-language edition of Because Internet coming at some point in 2024! Spanish has been the translation that people have requested from me the most and I’m delighted that Álex Herrero and the other folks at Pie de Página are making it happen. The main episode of Lingthusiasm was Word Magic, in which we discuss the linguistics of the magical…

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#because internet #book #internet linguistics #lingthusiasm #podcasts #spanish edition #translations #tweets #twitter

[superlinguo]

New Open Access Publication: Communicating about linguistics using lingcomm-driven evidence: Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study

Films have behind-the-scenes commentary tracks, Lingthusiasm now has a behind-the-scenes research article (a DOI rather than a DVD).

This new Open Access article in Language and Linguistics Compass is an introduction to a variety of evidence-based practice from linguistics, education, and psychology we have drawn upon and further developed in the first seven years of creating Lingthusiasm. We introduce you to a lot of the ways we think about framing, jargon, metaphor and putting feeling into our favourite linguistics topics. We argue that this is not just the basis of our work on the podcast, but a way of formalising the contribution that lingcomm (linguistics communication) can make to the larger field of scicomm (science communication). We also share some results from our 2022 listener survey that illustrate how our audience is receptive to the work we're doing.

We hope that it provides a bit of an insight into how we do what we do, but also inspires other linguists to communication their research - whether that's in a 3 minute thesis competition, a blog post for your institution, or "trying out [lingcomm] explanations during relevant, natural occasions in local communities" (i.e., chatting with friends and family, which is where we come up with some of our best episode ideas!).

Abstract

Communicating linguistics to broader audiences (lingcomm) can be achieved most effectively by drawing on insights from across the fields of linguistics, science communication (scicomm), pedagogy and psychology. In this article we provide an overview of work that examines lingcomm as a specific practice. We also give an overview of the Lingthusiasm podcast, and discuss four major ways that we incorporate effective communications methodologies from a range of literature in the production of episodes. First, we discuss how we frame topics and take a particular stance towards linguistic attitudes, second, we discuss how we introduce linguistic terminology and manage audience cognitive load, third, we discuss the role of metaphor in effective communication of abstract concepts, and fourth, we discuss the affective tools of humour and awe in connecting audiences with linguistic concepts. We also discuss a 2022 survey of Lingthusiasm listeners, which highlights how the audience responds to our design choices. In providing this summary, we also advocate for lingcomm as a theoretically-driven area of linguistic expertise, and a particularly effective forum for the application of linguistics.

Citation

Gawne, L., & McCulloch, G. (2023). ‘Communicating about linguistics using lingcomm-driven evidence: Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study’, Language and Linguistics Compass, 17/5: e12499. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12499 [OA publication]

See also:

The Lingthusiasm website

LingComm website

#linguistics #language #lingthusiasm #research article #lingcomm #research #listener survey #jargon #metaphor #podcast #scicomm

[southeast-northwest]

giggling and kicking my feet reading this book??like hi? hello?? dude linguistics has always scratched my brain in such a!!! perfect way!! and ive found the time to read and got my hands on some second hand books and I've been getting through them like fuckkkk,,,,

i wish. i wish. id gotten the opportunity to study linguistics at a uni level. that'd be the dream..

in another life im an academic linguist. unfortunately in this life i like being able to afford food.

ANYWAY huge hype about Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. as soon as I finish reading this book I wanna check out her podcast @lingthusiasm

also!!! send me reccs of linguistics books (that are less than a few decades old if possible). as interesting as Pinker's thoughts are, it's kinda funny reading this guy say, in full confidence, that language is so complicated that computers will never be able to believably write anything resembling natural human communication. lol

#im so normal about this #linguistics #fuck it this can go on my yearning blog im yearning for a life where i can study linguistics frfr #love #yearning #lingthusiasm #because internet #gretchen mcculloch #special interest #idk broskis i think i should be paid a million dollars a day for just reading books that facinate me

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

#Lingthusiasm #poll #science #society & culture #language

[rvtar34]

Ok so, i was listening to @lingthusiasm 's determiner episode (it's very good btw) and they made me notice something i had never noticed but it's that when it comes to names, english is an anarthrous language (aka, it doesnt use the definite article "the")

What made me curious is how my native language, portuguese, does the exact opposite

While in english "The Arthur wrote this post" is an odd sentence, in portuguese "O Arthur escreveu esse post" would be the standard way to write it (it isnt as odd as the english one if you were to remove the article from the portuguese one, but it would still be a bit strange)

Now i am curious why that is

#rvtar ramble #linguistics #lingthusiasm #portuguese #english #grammar

[aturinfortheworse]

"The answer to all of our philosophical questions can be answered by the airport security people."

#lingthusiasm

[oficmag]

Book Rec: Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

Medium: Novel

Genre: Nonfiction

Tags/Content Warnings: Linguistics, Meme Analysis, Internet Lingo

Originally, I picked this book up as research for a project. From the preview, I knew two chapters in particular would be useful to me. I didn’t expect to read the whole book cover to cover in a day and start using the concepts basically daily. 

Because Internet is a charming, engaging analysis of the speech patterns developed On Here. Not just a list of internet terms for offline people to scoff at, not an outsider prescribing rules, but a genuine in-depth look at what purposes these ways of speaking serve by someone who clearly understands. I walked away from this book with an understanding of how communication must work differently online to even hope to convey half of an in-person conversation can.

That concept was especially thought-provoking as a writer—I have never been so aware of the limitations of the written word as I was after reading this book, nor so appreciative of the way language and our brains evolve as technology does. I cannot recommend this book—or the author’s podcast, lingthusiasm!—highly enough to anyone interested in the topic. 

You can find this book here.

Recommender: Anna | Art Director

#bookblr #recs #book recs #gretchen mcculloch #lingthusiasm

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (12-18 Jun 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 👂‍ The Under Dog and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot #4) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, David Suchet, narrator)

🥰 Lock, Stock and Peril (Lindenshaw Mysteries #6) (Charlie Cochrane, author) - still enjoying this Midsomer-Murders-but-queer series a lot

🥰 👂‍ Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot #12) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator) - this one is fun because it's Mr. Satterthwaite-meets-HP

😊 The Alpha and His King (Kincaid Pack #1) (Kiki Clark, author) - sometimes you just want an old-school wolfpack/alpha mate story with a heaping spoonful of angsty backstory

😊 👂‍ Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot #15) (Agatha Christie, author; Anna Massey, narrator) - good mystery puzzle, HP is a delight but you def gotta be braced for the period-typical colonialism/racism/misogyny.

🥰 Murder at the Country Club (Miss Underhay #9) (Helena Dixon, author) - continuing to enjoy this competently written & satisfying cozy series, plus the author spells discreetly correctly so that's just a bonus these days

💖💖 +46K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

why are we always stuck and running (from the bullets, the bullets) (inevitablemeow) - MCU: Stucky, 12K - just let the geriatric supersoldiers rest!

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

2022 Tony Awards - the highlights were definitely Ariana DeBose as host (absolutely delightful) and Joaquina Kalukango's incredible performance

Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration - overall entertaining but Marsha Warfield was def my #1 fave

Legends of Tomorrow - s6, e5-7

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Still Processing - When Your Neighbor’s the Highway

Desert Island Discs - Bradley Walsh, presenter and actor

You're Dead To Me - Frederick the Great of Prussia

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Places You Return To

Switched on Pop - Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making

99% Invisible #495 - Meet Us by the Fountain

Lingthusiasm - #69: What we can, must, and should say about modals

Ologies with Alie Ward - Dipterology (FLIES) with Bryan Lessard

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - LGBT+ Inclusion in Sports Media (with Jon Holmes)

Sidedoor - The Sex Lives of Giant Pandas

Still Processing - We Belong Together

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Garbage Goat

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Cincinnati Subway

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Divorce Colony

Hit Parade - Friends in Low Places

Shedunnit - Looking East

Song Exploder - Maren Morris "Humble Quest"

Strong Songs - "Silent All These Years" by Tori Amos

You're Dead To Me - Hatshepsut

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Gentle Latin Electronic

Ray Of Light [Madonna]

Company (2018 London Cast Recording)

Into The Woods: Original Cast

Shaun Cassidy

Six: The Musical (Studio Cast Recording)

Rebel Girls: '90s Visionaries

Recollection [k.d. lang]

Rob Zombie

Lizzo

Presenting Kate Bush

Presenting Gwen Stefani

Presenting Ariana Grande

Presenting Lady Gaga

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #i do love cozy mysteries but it's so hard to find ones that aren't annoying af #lindenshaw mysteries series #miss underhay mysteries series #hit parade podcast #strong songs podcast #song exploder #you're dead to me podcast #richmond til we die podcast #still processing podcast #atlas obscura podcast #sidedoor podcast #desert island discs #switched on pop podcast #99% invisible podcast #shedunnit podcast #ologies podcast #lingthusiasm #shaun cassidy #rob zombie #madonna #kate bush #k.d. lang #lady gaga #gwen stefani #lizzo #nothing but respect for my president #ariana grande

[thoughtportal]

In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch gets enthusiastic about new speakers and multiple generations of language revitalization in the Basque country with Dr. Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, who's an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach, USA, and a native speaker of Basque and Spanish. We talk about how Itxaso grew up learning Basque at school and from her parents, who'd learned it as adults as part of the Basque language revitalization movement, and how studying linguistics gave her names for her linguistic experiences and made her realize she wasn't alone. We also talk about a paper Itxaso wrote with several other multilingual linguists about how academia needs to stop searching for "unicorn language users", aka users of minoritized languages who perfectly match a monolingual majority control group. Plus: Basque language revitalization through punk rock, reggaeton, and more music recs

#lingthusiasm #podcasts #podcast #basque #language #language learning #language revitalization #linguistics #history #SoundCloud

[betterwithoutsense]

@lingthusiasm HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative IPA symbol pumpkin

#linguistics #lingthusiasm #ipa #international phonetic alphabet #pumpkin #jack o lantern #halloween

[allthingslinguistic]

August-September 2023: Etymology isn't Destiny merch and an academic article about lingcomm

My newsletter for August-September 2023: Etymology isn't Destiny merch and an academic article about lingcomm

I joined onto a fun project this month, Zach Weinersmith of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is running a Kickstarter for his book, The Universe: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness, and one of the bonus rewards is an audiobook of his other book, Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulenss. I’ll be the one reading the highly abridged sonnets, which I’m looking…

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#academic articles #bluesky #bsky #internet linguistics #interviews #kickstarter #lingthusiasm #mayan languages #podcasts #transcripts #tweets #twitter

[superlinguo]

Leading my best Ms. Frizzle life.

My collection of Lingthusiasm scarves in my office brings me so much joy. I love it especially when I can coordinate them with the topic of a lecture or workshop.

Left to right: Space Babies (blue galaxy scarf with astronaut babies), IPA characters (in white on black), Tree Diagrams (in black on cream), Kiki Bouba (in green on white)

For more Linguistics nerdniess you can wear, visit the Lingthusiasm merch page.

#Ms frizz #dr frizzle actually #lingustics #scarves #lingthusiasm

[hernymills]

did @allthingslinguistic just coin a gestural "i like your shoelaces" for lingthusiasm fans in the ergativity episode

#lingthusiasm

[nombinary-snax]

Linguists, lend me your learnings! I am really interested in linguistics but have little background in it. I feel very called to stay in healthcare and try to change the healthcare system so I am not likely to pursue a linguistics degree unless I have $50k lying around waiting to be used on something someday (unlikely).

I am looking for books, podcasts, webinars, etc that I can consume on my own schedule that would give me a good foundation in linguistics. Do you have recommendations?

#linguistics #lingthusiasm #language #Especially #Sociolinguistics #linguistness #Queer linguistics

[dropout-charlie]

currently losing my mind over the fact that gretchen has dark curly hair and lauren is the blonde - i was soooooo convinced it was the other way around, because their voices sounded like the opposite person to me

@lingthusiasm

#lingthusiasm #linguistics #podcast