Every time I learn new name signs —e.g. during my UCL visit hosted by @gab_hodge— I’m struck by how they…
Linguists will know John Benjamins as one of the nicer academic publishing houses, not quite so terrible as Elsevier or…
One of the key tasks scientists need to master is how to manage bibliographic information: collecting relevant literature, building a…
TL;DR: every other day. Read on for details. Many scientists use Google Scholar to find papers, get alerts about new…
Just out in Glossa, the premier open access journal of general linguistics: Dingemanse, Mark. 2018. “Redrawing the Margins of Language:…
In late 2011, I defended my PhD thesis and submitted two papers on ideophones. One to Language and Linguistics Compass,…
Here are some insights from J.R. Firth in 1935 that offer an interesting early outlook on language use in social…
Two duck-related ideophones exist in varieties of Ewe, spoken in Eastern Ghana: a simple kpakpa imitating the sound; and a form dabodabo that…
Een hele eer: de redactie van New Scientist heeft me geselecteerd voor hun top 25 van talentvolle jonge wetenschappers. Er…
Making and breaking iconicity was the theme of a plenary lecture I gave at the 6th conference of the Scandinavian Association…
Here’s the abstract for the keynote lecture I’ll be giving at the 11th Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature in…
Ideophones —vivid sensory words found in many of the world’s languages— are often described as having little or no morphosyntax.…
Natural conversations are a great source of data for all sorts of linguistic research. Linguists and conversation analysts usually study…
A while back some low quality citations started showing up on Google Scholar. They had titles like “CHAPTER 2 draft — email xyz@ab.edu”…
We have a new paper out. It’s actually been available since February in an online-first version, but for those of…
Note: I prepared this posting in August 2015, when PLOS ONE was due to publish a paper by us and I wanted…
We have a new paper out in Language: Dingemanse, Mark, Will Schuerman, Eva Reinisch, Sylvia Tufvesson, and Holger Mitterer. 2016.…
Summary: Google Scholar is useful, but its inclusiveness and mix of automatically updated and hand-curated profiles means you should never…
Just out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: a review paper by yours truly with Damián Blasi, Gary Lupyan, Morten Christiansen and Padraic Monaghan. It…
New paper out: Folk definitions in linguistic fieldwork. In which I discuss a procedure that is part of many field…