Variations in language norms, feelings about grammar “correction,” where prescriptivism and descriptivism overlap — 🎶 these are a few of my favorite things 🎶 And they’re also just some of the topics Anne and I touched on in this episode.
Resources mentioned:
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19148870-fixing-english">Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History</a> (book) by Anne Curzan 
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4178979?casa_token=PIAY6-TwHwcAAAAA%3AxNCeQE39f9L6TZbL8bOigS3fNozgaWvNnEB4L9UzNVBCRKNL2i-nf35NBF5QLORMgv6rlLs5y9I75S-4sNJSACG1VciYNFaGfwWExNNMGlD0sBawfFWx&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents">Agreement, Default Rules, and Grammatical Viruses</a> (journal article) by Nicholas Sobin
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nOR2kRIhzIzx38vUondiwPL9lK7_caHmmKXTjZRSNv0/edit?usp=sharing">Episode transcript</a> by Graham Blair
 
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5. Dr. Janet Xing

Asking "What is linguistics?" and answering with what it looks like out in the world, starting with the linguists at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.