Thomas C. Messerli (University of Basel / FHNW)

…performing Annie, the writers - hiding behind the historical Texas of their show - ciswash the episode by creating deus ex machina stage fright for Sheldon and transferring the performance to Jason Alexander‘s drama coach and into a humorous incongruity, For shame. 2/2

I have decided to finally give #youngsheldon a go, and for the most part I manage to look past the conservative values that dominate the show. But when I reached s1e16 where Sheldon turns to acting, I found it incredibly sad. Spoiler warning. While his parents try to discourage him from… 1/2

I just signed 1200 books for my local bookshop (The Golden Notebook in Woodstock NY) and normally I would go on Twitter to let people know. But I think I won't bother. If you see anyone who wants a book I signed please tell them about The Golden Notebook. Thank you.

I think we need to acknowledge that words, terms, lexical items (…) are generally truly meaningful only in context, which is true for “word”, “register”, “reification”, etc. I usually use style/register for a type of variation within the same language (understood as a prototype category.)

Thank you! We really did get some nice contributions.

Well, most scholars I know around me (I'm in Switzerland) did a two year masters and then at least a 4 year PhD. For Germany, I found average duration for PhD for 2011 on www.dzhw.eu/pdf/pub_fh/f.... It ranged from 4.3 in maths and psych to 5.1 in humanities back then (without MA).

1 gvprckvni 'you peel us' (picture of film over a tattoo being peeled off) 2 hääyöaie 'wedding night intent' (picture of two wedding rings)

Preparing some fun slides for the suprasegmental phonology section in tomorrows intro to linguistics class...

I wouldn’t say that 3 years is typical for Europe. And the main difference is probably that at least within humanities and social sciences, PhD candidates aren’t really positioned as students in Europe, but much more so in the US.

Paywalled, but sounds interesting. I’m curious also about the perhaps inadvertent USA-is-the-same-as-the-West vibe of the blurb (which is simply yet another angle for that particular DA class)

New here and realising I have never followed so many people I have not met in person on any social media platform. Curious to see how it will affect my digital bubble (and whether I will actually keep engaging in the long or even mid term).

Coming from the linguistic and (European) pragmatics side to this: I wouldn’t say JoP is applied, but it has a strong focus on empirical work and uses a broad understanding of pragmatics that essentially translates to situated language use. In my field, JoP is probably the most prestigious journal.

Thank you for clearing this up. I noticed my Seattle friends were using it, and wasn’t sure if it was a local or idiosyncratic thing.

Als nicht-Fan bin ich fast ein wenig stolz, dass ich das verstehe 😌.

“Pragmatics and Translation” is still fresh on bookshelves near you. Thanks to Miriam Locher and @coocho.bsky.social

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