1/28/2024 0 Comments Linguist blogs![]() ![]() We also talk about things languages do with tones,įrom changing meanings of individual words to indicating grammatical List, floor-holding, emphasis, enthusiasm, and sarcasm, and howĭifferent languages use different shapes of intonation contours forįunctions like these. We talk about various meanings of intonation, such as question, Gawne get enthusiastic about tone, intonation, and the combination of In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren (high mā) and horse (low rising mǎ) in Mandarin, linguists call it Meaning of an individual word, such as the difference between mother Meaning of the whole phrase, such as rising to indicate a question inĮnglish, linguists call it intonation. Spoken languages can change the pitch or melody of words to convey Lingthusiasm: Episode 79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation! There’s also some of the Lingthusiasm origin story incorporated into it. I was disappointed to miss the LingComm23 events (but for the Very Nice Reason of there being a New, Small Person), and so I’m thankful that Gretchen took the time to share a written version of the plenary. In this opening plenary speech from the LingComm23 conference, my Lingthusiasm co-host Gretchen McCulloch looks at the big picture for what lingcomm could be in a very big-picture way. So when the organizing committee asked me to give this opening keynote, I started reflecting on what sort of effects can happen from a big talk in front of a whole bunch of people? What sort of things happen when someone gets in front of a big room and says, hey, this is important, these are the sorts of things that we could be collectively caring about? I was excited enough that on the last day of LingComm21, people resoundingly told me that we wanted this energy and this community to continue to exist.īut now, now that the LingComm conference is back, now that I’m not even on the organizing committee, now that I don’t even know what all’s on the program because I didn’t make it! Now that this project has been taking on a life of its own beyond any one individual person, beyond me - now I’m not just excited enough. I was excited enough that over a hundred people came and talked with each other and held panels and posters and meetups, that I met people from around the world and had deeper conversations with the people I already knew. I was excited enough that people were willing to give yet another online event a chance in 2021 after a year of lockdowns and too much Zoom. When I first had this idea, in 2020, I was excited enough that the organizing committee of Lauren Gawne, Jessi Grieser, Laura Bailey, and Liz McCullough (no relation) were willing to get on board. To create a space where, for once, we didn’t have to justify why lingcomm needs to exist in the first place, WHY it’s important and interesting and exciting for people to have access to accurate information about the linguistic world around them, and we could instead get on with more of the doing, figuring out HOW to make this vital lingcomm work flourish in the world. To take these conversations that happen at the margins and make them the focus of a whole event. To bring together all these people who are interested in lingcomm into a bigger conversation, into many panels and chances for people to meet. When I first had the idea for what if there was a whole conference about communicating linguistics to broader audiences, a conference that took advantage of the pivot to online that happened during the covid-19 pandemic, to bring together that one panel that sometimes happens about linguistic topics at conferences serving broader audiences and that one panel that sometimes happens about engaging the public at linguistics conferences. I was honoured to be invited to give the opening plenary talk of LingComm23, the second International Conference on Linguistics Communication. Filed under linguistics lingthusiasm survey survey 2022 gesture emojiĪllthingslinguistic: What we can accomplish in 30 years of lingcomm: Opening keynote of #LingComm23
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