On Feb. 18, Dr. Su Yeong Kim, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, discussed her hopes for the future of language brokering among children in immigrant families. Scripps Presents hosted Kim for the Marion Jane Memorial Lecture.
Tag: Linguistics
John McWhorter on Wokeism and linguistic prescriptivism
John McWhorter, New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguistics professor, spoke at the Athenaeum on Jan. 26 about linguistic prescriptivism, a phenomenon in which people create terms like “Latinx” and “BIPOC.” He argued that such terms do not effectively produce social change.
Disney meets linguistics in Pitzer professor Carmen Fought’s new book
Pitzer linguistics professor Carmen Fought and Pitzer alumna Karen Eisenhauer PZ ’13 recently published their book, “Language and Gender in Children’s Animated Films.”
Wuss poppin’: Clown memes — the modern fool’s gold
Pop culture columnist Nadya Siringo Ringo SC ’21 talks the trend of clown memes and what it says about the newest generation of internet users. “Nowadays, the clown isn’t a subject but rather a reflection of the fools we see in ourselves and others. The memes capitalize on the universality of mistakes and false hope — they rebuff viewers for striving toward something that leads to worthless results but validates them at the same time,” she writes.