Comments on: Guest-blogging and deadlines

By: dong_mei

dong_mei — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:37:07 +0000

Sometimes those browsers just read your writings and feel resonate and enjoy the reading.

Maybe time is not always enough for them to write down their feeling.

By: Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:51:13 +0000

I guess it’s hard for many people outside the academic circle to critically reflect on langauge-related social issues which they may consider as ‘common sense’.

All the best with your blog. I’ll be an active visitor and a guest-blogger soon…

By: Sei Watanabe

Sei Watanabe — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:24:01 +0000

In regard to your suggestion long time ago, Kimie, I did not think you were serious. Sorry if you were.
I can tell you this, the word “fashion” is treated as trend. So this does not apply to everybody in the world. (and it shouldn’t do either) If you are not interested in trend, no point of fashion. So our market being a lot shallower than you think. I do not recommend to anybody.

But the word “fashion” is something you create in another word, individuality rather than trend, so I think if you are happy with what you wear and also comfortable, I think that is fashion to you and others.

I think of fashion as part of me, other people put priority to other things so I can suggest coordinate of clothing individually but never to mass people.

My website is just creating the talking point , connection and also giving inspiration to people never to suggest what is good or bad.

It might be interesting to research on fashion followers. I think there are difference in young to old, male to female maybe where they live, too.

By: Kimie

Kimie — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:15:00 +0000

I just read this excellent book chapter by Aneta Pavlenko on academic writing and valuable tips for how to work with editors. In it, she talks about how her editor’s prodding helped her with one of her first major publications (see p. 188 on).

http://astro.temple.edu/~apavlenk/pdf/The_Priviledge_of_Writing_as_an_ImmigrantWoman.pdf

I’ve always admired her work since my phd years, but having read this particular paper, now she’s my personal hero…

By: Kimie

Kimie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:29:11 +0000

See, Ingrid, that’s where Sei and her team of experts come in at http://www.yshlondon.com/?mod=11 – making fashion not a worry but a joy for us(right, Sei?;-)! Btw, fashion seees to be one of these areas only few sociolinguists have gone in….any interesting research projects/publications on fashion, language and identity???