Sylvia Sierra 🏔️
@sociolinguista.bsky.social
Interactional sociolinguist. Knowledge serf. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in identity, media, literature, art, music, history. Views expressed here are my own; you don’t want to know my employer’s views.
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Onondaga land
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Onondaga land
Anti-AI advertising era
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Anti-AI advertising era
end of semester happiness
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
end of semester happiness
this is so fucked (just all of it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_F...
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
this is so fucked (just all of it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_F...
me when I’m about to create a monster
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
me when I’m about to create a monster
Now reading!
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Now reading!
Went to see my Iraq war protest photos today at a local gallery exhibit! The one on the far right was not taken by me but you might recognize someone from behind artragegallery.org/the-stories-...
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Went to see my Iraq war protest photos today at a local gallery exhibit! The one on the far right was not taken by me but you might recognize someone from behind artragegallery.org/the-stories-...
Just surrounded by books by some of my favorite people
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just surrounded by books by some of my favorite people
attending Hanwool Choe's talk at Georgetown's linguistics department via Zoom 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
attending Hanwool Choe's talk at Georgetown's linguistics department via Zoom 🤩
sometimes I just stare at Systemic Functional Linguistics models for a little bit (in Altayari et. al 2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
sometimes I just stare at Systemic Functional Linguistics models for a little bit (in Altayari et. al 2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
snug in my office as the rain pours down
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
snug in my office as the rain pours down
Sampling one of the delights of Central New York: a grape pie
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sampling one of the delights of Central New York: a grape pie
it’s an article from The Guardian
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
it’s an article from The Guardian
And then here’s what comes after the part I originally excerpted, but again I’m not sure that’s really a paradox
October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
And then here’s what comes after the part I originally excerpted, but again I’m not sure that’s really a paradox
Ok I went back for more context and at the start of that chapter section he talks about paradoxes in a way that I think kind of makes sense, but actually I don’t think any of these are necessarily paradoxical. This might be a case of just misusing the word/concept?
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ok I went back for more context and at the start of that chapter section he talks about paradoxes in a way that I think kind of makes sense, but actually I don’t think any of these are necessarily paradoxical. This might be a case of just misusing the word/concept?
Sociolinguists, is this paragraph in the new Algospeak book accurate? I thought the paradox was that even though it seems like we are all sounding more similar, regional dialects are actually diverging increasingly? I can imagine there’s some nuance which admittedly is not a strength of this book
October 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sociolinguists, is this paragraph in the new Algospeak book accurate? I thought the paradox was that even though it seems like we are all sounding more similar, regional dialects are actually diverging increasingly? I can imagine there’s some nuance which admittedly is not a strength of this book
Excellent midterm presentation from one of my football players today on agonism in conversation among friends, for my intercultural comm class. You can imagine the fun we had with him reading out this excerpt 🤣 he did a great job!!
October 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Excellent midterm presentation from one of my football players today on agonism in conversation among friends, for my intercultural comm class. You can imagine the fun we had with him reading out this excerpt 🤣 he did a great job!!
TIL this poor dog was tortured by Alexander Graham Bell so we could eventually have the telephone…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
TIL this poor dog was tortured by Alexander Graham Bell so we could eventually have the telephone…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
Please enjoy this chickadee wearing a witch’s hat that I painted last night
October 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Please enjoy this chickadee wearing a witch’s hat that I painted last night
I don’t know when why or how I got this. It’s the only pen I seem to be able to find consistently in my office and it doesn’t work
September 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I don’t know when why or how I got this. It’s the only pen I seem to be able to find consistently in my office and it doesn’t work
This has me feeling like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This has me feeling like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations
My students are awesome 🥰
September 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
My students are awesome 🥰
I don’t entirely understand what this is but 💀
September 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I don’t entirely understand what this is but 💀
please excuse me while my RA and I just lose our minds trying to capture important phonetic detail in this transcript of everyday conversation
September 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
please excuse me while my RA and I just lose our minds trying to capture important phonetic detail in this transcript of everyday conversation
Linguistics movie night (first time viewing)
September 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Linguistics movie night (first time viewing)
I love museum people
abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
August 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I love museum people
abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...