June 28, 2018

Dictionary of 17th Century Terms for Homosexual Men

Based on The public representation of homosexual men in seventeenth- century England- a corpus based view by Helen Baker and Tony McEnery

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Celebrate the end of Hispanic Heritage Month by educating yourself on American employers’ relationship to Spanish-English bilingualism

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Dr. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist·

Levon: in rape trial context, listeners don’t downgrade women for credibility when they use uptalk, but raters do find women more credible when they testify before the male defendant. However, no order effects for men, and uptalk enhances men’s credibility and likeabilty #etap4

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Rob Drummond @RobDrummond·

It's fine to have linguistic preferences, but when preferences involve 'policing' other people's language, things get very unfair very quickly. Not everyone has the same access to these arbitrary conventions. Yes, this is lighthearted, but it fuels the misinformation. IMO obvs. https://t.co/WE2TvCDrG9

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