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Today’s topic is of particular importance to me at this point in my budding career as a linguist, as I try to locate my place in the field. With everything I do, I try to keep the bigger picture in mind as much as possible and therefore sometimes I am in danger of wandering away from the main topic. However, today, more than usually, I think a…[Read more]

In this blog post, I wish to question two ideas of affordances granted by today’s technologies that are mentioned in chapter 3 of Deumert’s book: control over the presentation of self and anonymity. Although this may have been a little bit true back in the day of the old read-only internet and chat-rooms, the advancement of technologies seems to…[Read more]

Wednesday, September 28th 2016, 2pm, at Hunter College (68th St. and Lex. Ave), room 1242 HW (Hunter West), Professor Christina Zarcadoolas is breaking down Donald Trump’s speech in a talk series organized by Hunter Undergraduate Linguistics Association. Everyone is welcome!