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Dr. Taylor Jones

@thelanguagejones.bsky.social
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Language, culture, and conflict. PhD from U. Penn on regional accents in AAE. Consultant for cltrpnt. Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. Views mine; engagement is not endorsement.

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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Rereading Comrie on typology, and in the chapter on nominative/accusative vs ergative/absolutive languages, I’m wondering if it was strictly necessary for *every* example to be about domestic abuse. It’s literally “the man hit the woman and came here” “the woman was hit by the man and came here.”
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What scientific inquiry can be done w/out the words “equality,” “inequality,” “discriminate,” “minority,” or “majority”? Certainly nothing in STEM, you’ve ruled out algebra, linear or otherwise. Can you you build an electric car without talking about “polarization”? Asking for a granting agency
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I took a moment to compile some thoughts and memories of Bill Labov. He’ll be missed. Sex, Death, and Moral Outrage: remembering Bill Labov youtu.be/1hPpCD0orCU
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Sex, Death, and Moral Outrage: remembering Bill Labov
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Reading Bill Labov z”l discuss the respect afforded to the dead, and the ways we (sometimes) feel like we can still communicate with them, is an emotional rollercoaster.
A photograph of the book “the language of life and death: the transformation of experience in oral narrative” by William Labov, on a wooden table, next to a macchiato.
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“Man” historically meant “person” and “were” (as in “werewolf”) meant “man.” Now, it’s become so semantically restricted, that older fossilized forms are being replaced because they’re perceived as unnecessarily gendered. Language change is fascinating
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Prince was just doing philology
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I stopped using ChatGPT not just because it wastes two gallons of water per prompt (!) but also because I still have to just write whatever I asked for by myself.
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’m not an expert but I was under the impression christmas happens AFTER thanksgiving
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
New paper on the language of fake news with Bashayer Baissa and Matteo Fuoli doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is great company to be in!
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The entire book is like this. When the next generation says that singular they for a specific, named referent doesn’t feel unnatural, they grew up on this. And notice that it’s not a gender thing. If anything, it’s an animacy thing
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The entire book is like this. When the next generation says that singular they for a specific, named referent doesn’t feel unnatural, they grew up on this. And notice that it’s not a gender thing. If anything, it’s an animacy thing
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Dr. Taylor Jones @thelanguagejones.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello, world!
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