My Language Experience

Описание: Come a-linguisting with me as I tell you all about my personal experience(s) with language and linguistics!

1.) I'm currently an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University - Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages:
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~linguist/p...

2.) I did my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin - Department of Linguistics:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/ling...

3.) You wanna read my dissertation? There's a link to it on my RESEARCH page: http://dsbigham.net/research.html

4.) I was a undergrad (for five years) at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - Department of Linguistics:
http://cola.siu.edu/linguistics/
(and Department of English... I have two BAs fwiw, #humblebrag)

5.) Check out my Regional Accent Meme Challenge video:
   • Regional Accent Meme  

6.) James Murray, the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mu...)

7.) Check out my Queer Linguistics video:
   • Queer Linguistics  

8.) Big Freedia is amazing.

9.) Gay Pride in Italy

10.) Lil Abner comics have a history of interesting language use. Dennis Preston wrote a paper about it:
Preston, Dennis R. “The Li’l Abner syndrome: Written representations of speech.” American Speech 60, no. 4 (1985): 328-336.

11.) Hamlet.

12.) My Blog, though not very frequently updated anymore (maybe I'll get back in the swing of things in 2015), can be found here:
http://dsbigham.net/blog

13.) My page on Slate's Lexicon Valley blog:
http://www.slate.com/authors.ds_bigha...

14.) Soy Peggy Hill. Los estudiantes son mis amigos.

15.) "I'm a linguist not a polyglot." is a little meme I made to go with a post on my blog about the "cherished assumptions" of linguistics. You can read it here:
http://dsbigham.net/blog/2013-10-21_m...