Entextualization

Automatic Closed Captions Using Eye Dialect

The captions generated for this video follow an inconsistent eye dialect- part of it is just classic speech misinterpretation, but there are a good few moments where it becomes clear that the captions are trying to transcribe within the singer's dialect. [Published on 12-11-2024]

Posted by Bose Hewitt on December 13, 2024

Tags:
Entextualization;
Southern English;
Accent

It Is Will Reopen

Photo of paper posted around Reed Campus saying "It Is Will Reopen," mocking the recent SOLAR outage and the text displayed on the error page. Expressive of general unhappiness with Reed admin recently. A bit prescriptivist. Michel de Certeau says that skyscrapers are the letters of a language/rhetoric -- graffiti is a reappropriation. Another example: https://www.instagram.com/p/C51qsw1SlYWZgpLj1SP56kpT61fF3ZmvaQel3s0/

Posted by Sam Pickett on April 17, 2024

Tags:
Entextualization;
Power;
Prescriptivism

When Slang Becomes a Slur

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg, who testified in the trademark trial over the name of the football team the Washington Redskins, argues that the term remains a slur and that the team name should be changed. [Published on 06-23-2014]

Posted by Kara Becker on June 25, 2014

Tags:
Entextualization;
American Indian;
Race,Ethnicity;
Slang;
Lexicon