jordan c
@jordc.bsky.social
linguist (sem/prag, socio, historical germanic). canadian in berlin. she/hún/sie
Eine neue Folge unseres Linguistik-Podcasts "Registergeknister" ist da! Diesmal gucken wir etwas über den Tellerrand hinaus und betrachten wie der Begriff "Register" auch außerhalb der Linguistik angewendet wird. Wir besuchen einen Kirchenorganisten, der uns die Lage in seinem Fach erklärt.
Ein Blick über den Tellerrand (1): Register ziehen im klassischen Sinne - Registergeknister
Dies ist der erste Teil eines kleinen Exkurses, in dem wir den Begriff des "Registers" in anderen Bereichen betrachten wollen, um zu sehen, ob wir Verbindungen zu sprachlichen Registern ziehen können....
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October 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Eine neue Folge unseres Linguistik-Podcasts "Registergeknister" ist da! Diesmal gucken wir etwas über den Tellerrand hinaus und betrachten wie der Begriff "Register" auch außerhalb der Linguistik angewendet wird. Wir besuchen einen Kirchenorganisten, der uns die Lage in seinem Fach erklärt.
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Terms for the person who blows the shofar on #RoshHashanah: pros and cons
בעל תוקע
con:
- grammatically iffy
- hard to inflect for gender and number
pro:
- commonly used
בעל תקיעה
con:
- pedantic
pro:
- grammatically correct and straightforward
biggest pro:
- literally translates to 'blast master'
בעל תוקע
con:
- grammatically iffy
- hard to inflect for gender and number
pro:
- commonly used
בעל תקיעה
con:
- pedantic
pro:
- grammatically correct and straightforward
biggest pro:
- literally translates to 'blast master'
September 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Terms for the person who blows the shofar on #RoshHashanah: pros and cons
בעל תוקע
con:
- grammatically iffy
- hard to inflect for gender and number
pro:
- commonly used
בעל תקיעה
con:
- pedantic
pro:
- grammatically correct and straightforward
biggest pro:
- literally translates to 'blast master'
בעל תוקע
con:
- grammatically iffy
- hard to inflect for gender and number
pro:
- commonly used
בעל תקיעה
con:
- pedantic
pro:
- grammatically correct and straightforward
biggest pro:
- literally translates to 'blast master'
Heute gibt es eine neue Folge unseres Linguistik-Podcasts "Registergeknister" über experimentelle Phonetik! Was hat die Kleidung unserer Gesprächspartner*innen damit zu tun, wie wir mit ihnen reden? Der Titel lautet "Blazer oder Hoodie: Wie soziale Signale unser Sprechen formen".
Blazer oder Hoodie: Wie soziale Signale unser Sprechen formen. - Registergeknister
Was hat die Kleidung unserer Gesprächspartner*innen damit zu tun, wie wir mit ihnen reden? In dieser Folge sprechen wir mit den Forscherinnen aus dem Projekt C02 des Sonderforschungsbereichs. Sie...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Heute gibt es eine neue Folge unseres Linguistik-Podcasts "Registergeknister" über experimentelle Phonetik! Was hat die Kleidung unserer Gesprächspartner*innen damit zu tun, wie wir mit ihnen reden? Der Titel lautet "Blazer oder Hoodie: Wie soziale Signale unser Sprechen formen".
Hot off the presses: "Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic" (eds. Ulrike Demske and Barthe Bloom), available open access from Lang. Sci. Press! Including an article by yours truly on the history of the Icelandic aspectual system.
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Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic
| Language Science Press
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July 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hot off the presses: "Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic" (eds. Ulrike Demske and Barthe Bloom), available open access from Lang. Sci. Press! Including an article by yours truly on the history of the Icelandic aspectual system.
langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
New episode of our linguistics podcast (in German) 'Registergeknister' is live! This time it is about how people choose between two ways of saying 'the same thing' that differ in precision, e.g., do I say "12:57" or "1 o'clock" and what drives this?
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Wann genau ist genau genug? Wie unser Weltwissen sprachliche Entscheidungen beeinflusst - Registergeknister
In dieser Episode geht es um Bedeutung, um Höflichkeit und darum, dass wir oft variieren können, wie exakt wir etwas ausdrücken, z.B. wenn wir jemandem erzählen, wie viel etwas gekostet hat. Aber wovo...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New episode of our linguistics podcast (in German) 'Registergeknister' is live! This time it is about how people choose between two ways of saying 'the same thing' that differ in precision, e.g., do I say "12:57" or "1 o'clock" and what drives this?
registergeknister.buzzsprout.com/2227743/epis...
registergeknister.buzzsprout.com/2227743/epis...
Neue Folge unseres Podcasts REGISTERGEKNISTER. Psycholinguistik und soziales Wissen: Was im Gehirn vorgeht, wenn Register und Situation nicht zueinanderpassen? registergeknister.buzzsprout.com/2227743/epis...
Psycholinguistik und soziales Wissen: Was im Gehirn vorgeht, wenn Register und Situation nicht zueinanderpassen - Registergeknister
In dieser Episode erfahren wir etwas über Psycholinguistik. Mit welchen Methoden kann man untersuchen, was bei der Sprachproduktion und -verarbeitung im Gehirn passiert? Darüber sprechen wir mit Katja...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Neue Folge unseres Podcasts REGISTERGEKNISTER. Psycholinguistik und soziales Wissen: Was im Gehirn vorgeht, wenn Register und Situation nicht zueinanderpassen? registergeknister.buzzsprout.com/2227743/epis...
updated my academic website ( jordanchark.github.io
) with a little news; I will be defending my dissertation on november 13th! (inquire within if you'd like a zoom link/to attend in person)
) with a little news; I will be defending my dissertation on november 13th! (inquire within if you'd like a zoom link/to attend in person)
October 31, 2024 at 7:57 PM
updated my academic website ( jordanchark.github.io
) with a little news; I will be defending my dissertation on november 13th! (inquire within if you'd like a zoom link/to attend in person)
) with a little news; I will be defending my dissertation on november 13th! (inquire within if you'd like a zoom link/to attend in person)
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In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly!
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Make your theoretical syntax classroom more LGBTQ-friendly with these 5 quick tips!
Theoretical linguistics is not necessarily a space that excludes queer linguists outright — hell, we named our LGBTQ Linguistics award after Arnold Zwicky, a prolific syntactician (among othe…
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October 20, 2024 at 12:19 AM
In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly!
lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...
lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...
A new episode of our podcast Registergeknister is out! We discuss the topic of register in ancient Egypt with some colleagues from the institute of archaeology at HU Berlin. How were social relations reflected in language use back then? How do we even find out such a thing? (in German)
Linguistische Ausgrabungen: Wie spricht man mit dem Pharao? - Registergeknister
Wie untersucht man Register in einer Sprachstufe, die so weit zurückliegt wie das Altägyptische? In dieser Folge erklären uns Dina Serova, Silvia Kutscher und Frank Kammerzell vom Institut für Ar...
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October 22, 2024 at 11:21 AM
A new episode of our podcast Registergeknister is out! We discuss the topic of register in ancient Egypt with some colleagues from the institute of archaeology at HU Berlin. How were social relations reflected in language use back then? How do we even find out such a thing? (in German)
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June 18, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Here’s an important and well vetted gofundme for menstrual kits in gaza! please share!
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in the mood for a linguistics podcast? speak german?? check out registergeknister: registergeknister.buzzsprout.com our last two episodes are on acquiring academic registers in an L2 and studying historical variation in corpora of older english.
Registergeknister
Der Linguistik-Podcast des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1412 der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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June 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM
in the mood for a linguistics podcast? speak german?? check out registergeknister: registergeknister.buzzsprout.com our last two episodes are on acquiring academic registers in an L2 and studying historical variation in corpora of older english.
Funny/funnier/more funny/more funnier: how did English adjectives get so weird?? Our newest episode of Registergeknister (podcast) approaches this question; the answer lies in variation in middle English. We also discuss how historical linguists manage to do their work at all! (In German)
Von Rittern und Adjektiven: Wie untersuchen Linguist:innen Variation in historischen Texten? - Registergeknister
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February 12, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Funny/funnier/more funny/more funnier: how did English adjectives get so weird?? Our newest episode of Registergeknister (podcast) approaches this question; the answer lies in variation in middle English. We also discuss how historical linguists manage to do their work at all! (In German)
i'm on the production team for our research centre's podcast. ep 2 is out on pidgins/creoles and their role in research on language variation. check it out!
Sprachen aus dem Schnellkochtopf: Register in Kreols (Teil 1) - Registergeknister
Kreolsprachen sind ein Wunder der Linguistik. Innerhalb weniger Generationen entstehen diese Sprachen dort, wo Menschen ohne gemeinsame Sprache miteinander kommunizieren müssen. Unser Projekt A02
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December 15, 2023 at 11:40 AM
i'm on the production team for our research centre's podcast. ep 2 is out on pidgins/creoles and their role in research on language variation. check it out!
was starting to think that my internet sleuthing skills were getting rusty but nope: i tracked down and matched the signature of a 19th century galician rabbi for someone in a fb group in less than half an hour going on not a whole lot. now if only i could actually properly read cursive yiddish
October 4, 2023 at 11:59 PM
was starting to think that my internet sleuthing skills were getting rusty but nope: i tracked down and matched the signature of a 19th century galician rabbi for someone in a fb group in less than half an hour going on not a whole lot. now if only i could actually properly read cursive yiddish
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an rstats package for #linguistics glosses/examples agricolamz.github.io/lingglosses/
Introduction to lingglosses
agricolamz.github.io
October 4, 2023 at 6:03 PM
an rstats package for #linguistics glosses/examples agricolamz.github.io/lingglosses/
listening to some bislama and tok pisin radio stations this morning while working on a podcast episode about pidgins and creoles. 😍 definitely a challenging topic for linguistics communication: creolistics has such a complex history, ind. langs have radically diff. social contexts...
October 4, 2023 at 9:57 AM
listening to some bislama and tok pisin radio stations this morning while working on a podcast episode about pidgins and creoles. 😍 definitely a challenging topic for linguistics communication: creolistics has such a complex history, ind. langs have radically diff. social contexts...
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Are you a student doing research in linguistics? Come to ConSOLE at Queen Mary www.console32.com
ConSOLE32 | 32nd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe | London, United Ki...
ConSOLE is an annual conference for students of linguistics, with submissions accepted from PhD candidates, masters students, and advanced undergraduates. ConSOLE32 will take place in London from 17th...
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September 26, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Are you a student doing research in linguistics? Come to ConSOLE at Queen Mary www.console32.com
planning my trip to nice in a few weeks for semantics & philosophy in europe! excited to discuss collaborative work with my supervisors. we developed a typology of social meaning as a type of situationally-conditioned variation, prompted by the Q: when and how do logical and social meaning interact?
September 26, 2023 at 1:12 PM
planning my trip to nice in a few weeks for semantics & philosophy in europe! excited to discuss collaborative work with my supervisors. we developed a typology of social meaning as a type of situationally-conditioned variation, prompted by the Q: when and how do logical and social meaning interact?
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The SALT34 website, including the call for abstracts, is live! saltconf.github.io/salt34/
September 25, 2023 at 2:59 PM
The SALT34 website, including the call for abstracts, is live! saltconf.github.io/salt34/
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✨️⚠️ Heute! 📣✨️
Kommt am 06.09. zur Kundgebung
Unsere Selbstbestimmung zu Unseren Bedingungen! (18:00 vorm Bundestag)
Gegen Saunaparagraphen, Verfassungsschutzlisten, Gefährdung v. trans/inter/nb Geflüchteten übers Konstrukt "Geschlechtseintrag ändern um Abschiebung zu verhindern" usw. im Selbstbestimmungsgesetz.
Unsere Selbstbestimmung zu Unseren Bedingungen! (18:00 vorm Bundestag)
Gegen Saunaparagraphen, Verfassungsschutzlisten, Gefährdung v. trans/inter/nb Geflüchteten übers Konstrukt "Geschlechtseintrag ändern um Abschiebung zu verhindern" usw. im Selbstbestimmungsgesetz.
September 6, 2023 at 10:27 AM
✨️⚠️ Heute! 📣✨️