What would a new month be without a new episode of our podcast?

In the newest one (no. 39), James McElvenny (Universität Siegen) talks to Ingrid Piller (@Lg_on_the_Move) about her new co-authored book 'Life in a New Language' (@OUPAcademic).

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/05/01/pod…

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Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) would have turned 86 #OTD ! 🎉

If you’re interested in the role she played in the history of conversation analysis it, our episode 37 has you covered!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/02/29/pod…

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#OTD 86 years ago, Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) was born 🎂 Sociologist and sociolinguist, one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis and an expert on sociolinguistic analysis of laughter. She also transcribed the Watergate tapes.

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#OTD 127 years ago, Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) was born 🥳 He started working as a fire prevention engineer but later developed an interest in linguistics. He introduced concepts like linguistic relativity, cryptotype, allophone or Whorf’s law.

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#OTD 135 years ago, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born 🎂 Philosopher of (among other things) language. He is known for having introduced (or popularised) the concepts of language games and family resemblances or the private language argument.

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א פריילעכן געבורצטאג! 🥳

To celebrate, think about all the dialects without an army and navy.

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If you want to learn more about Erminnie Adele Smith’s work and the study of North American indigenous languages in general, episode 29 of our podcast, an interview with Marcin Kilarski, is a good place to start.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/11/01/pod…

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Happy birthday, Lady Welby! 🥳

For everyone interested in her work on meaning and in particular on significs, episode 18 of our podcast is a great place to start!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/10/01/pod…

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Happy birthday! 🎂

Is there a better way to celebrate than to listen to our podcast on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and watch Penny Lee present her research into Whorf’s personal diaries?

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2023/04/01/pod…

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#OTD 188 years ago, Erminnie Adele Smith (1836-1886) was born 🎉 Linguist, geologist, and ethnographer focusing on the Iroquois language and culture. In 1877, she became the first woman elected to the New York Academy of Sciences.

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#OTD 187 years ago, Victoria Welby (1837-1912) was born 🥳 She studied linguistic signs and meaning in context and came up with the idea of significs. Her work had an influence on a group of Dutch scholars, the Signifische Kring.

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New post alert 🚨

Floris Solleveld (University of Bristol) writes about linguistic fieldwork in the Indonesian archipelago throughout the 19th century and specifically about the work of J. F. C. Gericke and Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk.

📰 hiphilangsci.net/2024/04/26/a-t…

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#OTD 130 years ago, Max Weinreich (1894-1969) was born 🎉 He was a dialectologist, sociolinguist, literary translator, and an eminent expert on Yiddish linguistics. He was also one of the founding figures behind the YIVO Institute (The YIVO Institute).

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Arranca la sesión de #histlx en I CILNOA (Salta) coordinada por Juan Antonio Ennis (@unlp) y Guillermo
toscano y García (@ILinguistica UBAonline)

En el I Congreso Internacional de Lingüística del Noa (Salta). La sección de #histlx comienza mañana 🤩
sites.google.com/view/cilnoa/in…
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Birthday wishes for and three texts about LW! 🥳

Maïa Ponsonnet on grammatical illusions
hiphilangsci.net/2013/09/18/no-…

Jon Orman on abuses of theory in linguistic thought
hiphilangsci.net/2018/04/12/the…

Jean-Michel Fortis on family resemblances and semantics
hiphilangsci.net/2015/10/13/fam…

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Vamos con la última sesión de la sección de #histlx en I CILNOA: Emma Gallardo Richards (@UABBarcelona) analiza la revista Resorgiment (1916-1972), una publicación argentina hecha por y para la comunidad catalana
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The Emergence of Syntactic Categories in the History of Linguistics: From Medieval to Modern Age (SiRe workshop 2024)
Palermo (Italia), 27-28.5.2024
prin2017-sire.eu/550-2/
La participación es gratuita pero hay q registrarse: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
¡Hasta el 30 de abril!
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Comienza la segunda sesión de #histlx en I CILNOA con la intervención de Sol Pérez Corti (CONICET Dialoga) sobre la relaciones intelectuales y científicas entre lingüistas alemanes y argentinos: F. Krüger y Berta Vidal de Battini
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Adam Schembri We happen to have two whole episodes on (among other things) J. R. Firth - episode 19 on the role of meaning in British linguistics and episode 20 on Firth, Malinowski and the London School with Jacqueline Léon.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/11/01/pod…

🎙️hiphilangsci.net/2021/12/01/pod…

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