New location for my work!

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Nic Subtirelu — Leave a comment

Dear readers, thanks for all of your support of linguistic pulse over the years. I worked on this blog as a graduate student, but stopped posting to it several years ago when I became overwhelmed with my faculty job. I intend to keep the site active indefinitely because the posts continue to be read and shared. I hope that you’ll continue to read and share!

However, I am excited to announce that I have started a new platform for my public scholarship. You can now find my writing at nsubtirelu.com. I have recently learned that I am autistic, and my writing will now focus on exploring neurodivergence.

I hope many of the readers of linguistic pulse will follow me to this new platform! All the best!

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Some thoughts about policing and race in the United States

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Nic Subtirelu — 1 Comment

Dear facebook friend,

It saddens me to say that I find your views concerning recent police killings of Black men and not unrelated anti-police violence to be racist. Sorry to use the r-word on you. I know how much being accused of racism angers you. I know because it angers me too. Somewhere along the way, I picked up a meaning of the word “racist” that boils down to “irrationally hateful”, “deplorably unenlightened”, or “willfully ignorant”. In some way, this makes sense, since, after all, much of what we think of as racism is transparently nonsensical and immoral. I think we’d all agree that someone’s worth is not found in their skin pigmentation. Read more ›

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Denying language privilege in academic publishing

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Nic Subtirelu — 3 Comments

If you’re an academic anywhere in the world, you’re probably under pressure to publish to make progress in your career or just to keep your job. Increasingly, you’re probably also under pressure to publish “internationally”. Thanks to the global dominance of English-speaking academia, “international” is more or less a euphemism for journals published in English. Faced with this requirement, academics from outside English-speaking countries like the US, the UK, Canada, or Australia have commonly reported that writing for publication in English is a source of disadvantage for them. Furthermore, they have been shown to be less successful at having their work published in these journals than those scholars residing in English-speaking countries. Read more ›

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Bashing Hillary Clinton’s voice: “Screeching”, “shrieking”, and “shrill”

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Nic Subtirelu — 19 Comments

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The past week has seen quite a bit of discussion of Hillary Clinton’s voice. As I wrote about last week, numerous people have called her “shrill“, a clearly gendered word. Nonetheless, the sexism behind such criticisms continues to be denied. Ben Shapiro, for example, wrote an article titled, “Yes, Hillary Clinton Is Shrill. No, It’s Not Sexist To Say So“, as if his perception of someone’s voice were purely a matter of objective reason. Read more ›

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‘Shrill’ women in politics

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Nic Subtirelu — 2 Comments

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The United States once again has the opportunity to elect the first woman as President, Hillary Clinton. Her chances of getting the Democratic nomination are quite strong. Not surprisingly then, there’s a lot of talk about women in politics.  Read more ›

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