i'm a #linguist and i love new words more than most people. tweeting about language change, gesture, and attempts to resist this mess we’ve made
Jul 18, 2018 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Last morning of #ICCG10, Alan Cienki will be speaking about multimodality and the analyses if utterances. I hear he might even have an example from a sign language in there 🤞
Cienki: where is your data coming from? people using language? or an old white man in an armchair looking at a book? 🔥🔥🔥 there is a dominant and implicit bias toward written language in linguistics that we need to cast off #ICCG10