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Linguist 150: Language in Society

Spring 2016


  • Voices of California: Stanford Linguistics' ongoing dialectology field research project
  • Links to Prescriptivism in Media Examples
    • Tyler: Bill Flanagan of the grammar police on 'I' and 'me'
    • Julian: Should 'impact' ever be used as a verb?
    • Caroline and Malina: The uptalk epidemic
    • Frankie:10 words you've probably been misusing
    • Vanessa: Why you put on an American accent when you sing
    • Emma: The Comma Queen
    • Hannah: Standard English is a professional choice
    • Anna: The case for y'all
    • Austin: Correcting the use of Japanese honorifics
    • Lance: Ax or Ask?
    • Yesid: Are you saying these words correctly?
    • Aurora: Things Americans say wrong
    • Evan: Pidgin speakers in the workforce
    • Alfred: Learning to speak English like an American
    • Spencer: Words we should stop using in 2016
    • Marika: Young women, give up the vocal fry
    • Avery: Trump's grammar just below 6th grade level
  • The 'Secret of Southernisms' - Benjamin Walker on Colbert (thanks, Emma!)
  • On Swearing - Potts, Christopher (2007) The expressive dimension. Theoretical Linguistics
  • The Science of Emoji
  • Key and Peele demonstrate style-shifting and audience design (thanks, Malina!)

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