In the spirit of the #InternationalWomensDay here's a thread of blogposts I have done over the years with eminent women of genre research holding center stage. All but one are "random" as gender-political statements. They are simply me being impressed by my female colleagues. 1/
I'll pick them up chronologically from my blog. When I first started blogging I had to pay my dues to the best genre blog around. 2/
Then, I wanted to suggest a set of reading texts in genre research for literary PhDs. Eight texts; five by eminent women. The spread mirrors the field just fine. 3/
Later I felt like writing a piece about high-impact studies. I picked THE dominant text in the field, Carolyn Miller's "Genre as Social Action" (1984). Specialists will know that there's really no competition here. 4/
Up next, a blog post about the apology as genre. The primary conversation partner simply had to be the author of the best genre blog around (see tweet 2). 5/
Later, an important volume of high-impact studies in genre research was published and I gave it a hat-tip. The editors were - unsurprisingly - two core researchers in the field, both women. 6/
Up next, the "political" piece mentioned earlier. The only one, I think, where gender came to play a major role in itself. It discusses the eminent women of genre research. It really wasn't terribly revolutionary. It just stated plain facts. 7/
A good friend in Bible Studies wrote a brilliant book about sacred eating as a genre. I wrote a blog post about it. The most fun you can get out of a hurting tummy - ever. 8/
Finally, last year I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to a discussion between two of the aforementioned eminent women. I was more than happy to oblige. Here's an exuberant blog post I wrote when the discussion was published. 9/
This is your daily reminder that you have millions of friends and allies in the EU.
Also, can I just repeat what a great favor you do your country. The government's visage as the face of Britain has been one of lording arrogance. You show the world that Britain has another face.
Interestingly the example provided by @MerriamWebster is in itself a case in point:
"Wherever French voters had turned, somehow there was still a neoliberal lording over them in the Élysée Palace, favoring the diktats of the European Union, the forces of unregulated markets, the juggernaut of globalization."
I have to tell you this little story about the best answer to the worst question I ever witnessed. It was two minute masterclass in educating stupidity. If only I could ever be that good. This is not strictly #ForeniscLinguistics, but it is something with language and law. 1/
I was at a public lecture about the concept of justice in the Danish legal system, and the lecturer was the Danish public Ombudsman at the time. Quite possibly the most silver-tongued person I ever met. 2/
Now, the function of the Ombudsman is literally the rule of law. And the Ombudsman's primary purpose is to protect citizens from legal, administrative, and broadly speaking public overreach. As such he is, of course [sigh], universally detested by the tough-on-crime crowd. 3/
#AnneFreadman is well known among #genre researchers for her insistence on seeing genre as a loose open-ended system of interrelations and differences. A key point in her understand is her presentation of what she calls "not-statement". 2/
The point is most easily made in an example. If I say "a refrigerator is not a deep freezer" the statement will almost always be more meaningful than if I say "a refrigerator is not a rhinoceros." 3/
"Many of them are very young, have little or no experience of government and, it’s perhaps fair to say, a greater degree of confidence in their own abilities than a more objective analysis would warrant."
"... for increasingly there are reports (£) of the resentment that experienced MPs and ministers (and, I would assume, senior civil servants) feel about the transparent contempt with which they are treated by the Vote Leave wunderkinds. ...
Bad enough to be subjected to that indignity by those who are competent; intolerable when it comes from those who are serial bunglers."
Hver gang min fireårige datter står og vasker hænder synger hun:
Vaske hænder
Raske venner
På med vand og sæbe
Væk med alt det slemme
Tommel ikke glemme
Før vi spiser
Når vi grisser
Og gør stort og tisser.
Hun har lært det i børnehaven, og hun bliver troligen ved med at vaske hænderne, indtil sangen af omme, og tomlen på begge hænder får også en tur på det relevante sted i sangen.
Nej, det er vel ikke en professionel håndvask, som kommer ud af det, men jeg kan godt love, at hendes hænder er betydeligt renere bagefter, end mine nogensinde blev det i fireårsalderen. Så #genren læredigt er virkelig kommet til sin ret her.
Ja, jeg ved godt, at det er en detalje, men den generer mig, så nu får I lige et udbrud af gnavenhed. Min undervisning er blevet flyttet fra de "gamle" lokaler på Københavns Universitet Amager til de nye. I disse lokaler er der ikke længere tavler, men kun whiteboards. 1/
Moderne tider dejligt og alt det der. Hvis ikke det lige var, fordi der nu er pøset så megen sprit på de tavler i disse #COVID19dk tider, at whiteboard-markerne ikke længere kan skrive på dem. 2/
Men man har vel ikke brug for tavlen så meget i disse PowerPoint tider? Jo. PowerPointen fungerer til forberedte fremlæggelser, men er bovlam til åbne drøftelser. Det er svært at gribe ideer i luften og lave et vellykket PP-slide ud af dem på stedet. 3/