Interactional sociolinguist. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in language, culture, identity, media, music, art, literature, history.
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Sylvia Sierra 🏔️
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I want to get a bust of Livia Drusilla and make a shrine to her, and then when people come to my house and say “who’s that” I can say that’s Livia Drusilla the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus, I worship the cult of her
I found this to be a fascinating little article in this weekend’s Financial Times Life & Arts section, on the soft power behind video games
Three of my doctoral students have new papers in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA)! 🧵 #linguistics 1) "Sounding Black, looking White: Perceptions of racial identity in pop music" by Abby Killam
I have expired
that feeling when one of your favorite former students follow requests you on Instagram 🥰
he thought he outmaneuvered me by pointing out that I write in academic language! little does he know I contain multitudes
Don’t mind me just arguing with someone on LinkedIn about academic language being racist
The only real New Yorker is the participant in my 2023 paper who uses authenticating epistemic stances to legitimize his claims to knowledge and thus his New Yorker identity, while also denaturalizing others’ rights to knowledge & their claims to NY identity 🙃 www.sylviasierra.com/wp-content/u...
Follow this tutorial if you’re a linguist and you want to save yourself from hours of manual transcription! Click the link below to learn more about using automatic speech recognition to transcribe linguistic data.
github.com/yeungpinghei...
Obsessed with this article on ancient Roman shit-talking eidolon.pub/take-that-c8...
