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Dan Walter

@spracheistleben.bsky.social

Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at Emory University. Researcher in Second Language Acquisition with foci in Psycholinguistics, Language Pedagogy, and Morphosyntax. General interest in and love for anything and everything linguistics related

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Beyond xier: An Exploration of German Nonbinary Pronoun Usage and Discourse on Twitter | Gender and Language Abstract Neopronouns are new pronouns created to address perceived gaps in the standard pronoun system. In the German language, neopronouns have neither stabilized around norms of usage nor has any singular neopronoun risen to prominence over others. However, many sources available to educators and researchers in a US context have foregrounded the neopronoun xier based on a small number of resources. To address this possible misrepresentation in the current pedagogical and linguistic literature, we conducted a study on nonbinary pronoun usage by German speakers on Twitter. Our findings indicate several neopronouns in use, with they, xier, dey, and sier being the most frequent. Further analysis indicated that these pronouns are often used in different ways by different speakers. These results document the unstable nature of neopronouns in the German-speaking world and provide a foundation for future neopronoun research.

So proud of my undergrad for their work and their brave question in my German 101 class 4 year ago that started the project: "What pronoun should I use if I don't identify as male or female?" All I said was, "I don't know, why don't we find out together?"

utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

10.10.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scholarship Under Autocracy We Have Been Here Before

I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...

25.02.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 11
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Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German: Vol 0, No 0 <em>Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German</em> is a German education journal devoted to the improvement & innovation of teaching and learning German language & culture.

Very excited that the Special Issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German on trans and non-binary issues in the L2 German classroom is coming together! The full special issue will be released in the fall 25 issue but articles are coming out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17561221...
#linguistics

27.06.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German: Vol 0, No 0 <em>Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German</em> is a German education journal devoted to the improvement & innovation of teaching and learning German language & culture.

Very excited that the Special Issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German on trans and non-binary issues in the L2 German classroom is coming together! The full special issue will be released in the fall 25 issue but articles are coming out in Early View. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17561221...

27.06.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whose standard even 😜

22.06.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our magnificent bastard tongue by John McWhorter

28.05.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes, quizzes and drills. It's almost like they operate with no knowledge of how languages are learned and best taught...

20.05.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

UG, as originally theorized, does not exist. At some point, it will have been altered so much that it looks just like the Cognitive Science explanations for language, and the Chomskians will say, "See, we WERE right all along!"

15.05.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really like Cognitive Psychology and its Implications by John Anderson

14.05.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How are my fellow academics with kids holding up? Although I just got tenure last year, I'm feeling so exhausted managing my classes, service, and research with 3 young kids at home. This job gives me the flexibility to be there for them, but trying to be good at everything is frying my brain.

18.04.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Viral Good Trouble with Malicious Compliance Britt Boril smiled sweetly when addressing "Madam Chairman" of the Wyoming Legislature, who happens to be a man who now would very much like to choose his pronouns.

The word "pronoun" is undergoing some serious semantic drift

www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/viral-good...

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#linguistics

25.02.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not the borrowing of the word from another language that blocks the ge- prefix in dekorieren, but rather that no verbs in German that end in -ieren get the ge- (kontollieren - kontrolliert). Many borrowed verbs do get that morphology (gegooglt, geliked, etc...)

09.01.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

fragwΓΌrdig haha

04.12.2024 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You can now find three of the authors on bluesky!
@damianblasi.bsky.social
@asifamajid.bsky.social
@evangelia.bsky.social

04.12.2024 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, would love to be added.

30.11.2024 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd love to be added. I'll be helping to facilitate the ACTFL DEI listening session on Saturday and then presenting some work on innovative pedagogy in study abroad.

20.11.2024 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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