Beyond xier: An Exploration of German Nonbinary Pronoun Usage and Discourse on Twitter | Gender and Language Abstract Neopronouns are new pronouns created to address perceived gaps in the standard pronoun system. In the German language, neopronouns have neither stabilized around norms of usage nor has any singular neopronoun risen to prominence over others. However, many sources available to educators and researchers in a US context have foregrounded the neopronoun xier based on a small number of resources. To address this possible misrepresentation in the current pedagogical and linguistic literature, we conducted a study on nonbinary pronoun usage by German speakers on Twitter. Our findings indicate several neopronouns in use, with they, xier, dey, and sier being the most frequent. Further analysis indicated that these pronouns are often used in different ways by different speakers. These results document the unstable nature of neopronouns in the German-speaking world and provide a foundation for future neopronoun research.

So proud of my undergrad for their work and their brave question in my German 101 class 4 year ago that started the project: "What pronoun should I use if I don't identify as male or female?" All I said was, "I don't know, why don't we find out together?"

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Scholarship Under Autocracy We Have Been Here Before

I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...

Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German: Vol 0, No 0 <em>Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German</em> is a German education journal devoted to the improvement & innovation of teaching and learning German language & culture.

Very excited that the Special Issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German on trans and non-binary issues in the L2 German classroom is coming together! The full special issue will be released in the fall 25 issue but articles are coming out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17561221...
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Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German: Vol 0, No 0 <em>Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German</em> is a German education journal devoted to the improvement & innovation of teaching and learning German language & culture.

Very excited that the Special Issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German on trans and non-binary issues in the L2 German classroom is coming together! The full special issue will be released in the fall 25 issue but articles are coming out in Early View. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17561221...

Whose standard even 😜

Our magnificent bastard tongue by John McWhorter

Ah yes, quizzes and drills. It's almost like they operate with no knowledge of how languages are learned and best taught...

UG, as originally theorized, does not exist. At some point, it will have been altered so much that it looks just like the Cognitive Science explanations for language, and the Chomskians will say, "See, we WERE right all along!"

I really like Cognitive Psychology and its Implications by John Anderson

How are my fellow academics with kids holding up? Although I just got tenure last year, I'm feeling so exhausted managing my classes, service, and research with 3 young kids at home. This job gives me the flexibility to be there for them, but trying to be good at everything is frying my brain.

Viral Good Trouble with Malicious Compliance Britt Boril smiled sweetly when addressing "Madam Chairman" of the Wyoming Legislature, who happens to be a man who now would very much like to choose his pronouns.

The word "pronoun" is undergoing some serious semantic drift

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It's not the borrowing of the word from another language that blocks the ge- prefix in dekorieren, but rather that no verbs in German that end in -ieren get the ge- (kontollieren - kontrolliert). Many borrowed verbs do get that morphology (gegooglt, geliked, etc...)

fragwürdig haha

You can now find three of the authors on bluesky!
@damianblasi.bsky.social
@asifamajid.bsky.social
@evangelia.bsky.social

Hi, would love to be added.

I'd love to be added. I'll be helping to facilitate the ACTFL DEI listening session on Saturday and then presenting some work on innovative pedagogy in study abroad.