Benjamin Weissman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1109068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Weissman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissman |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0799-8072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who is [not] expected to use singular them? Evidence from real-time language processing
This article presents the results of an experiment that investigates how knowledge of a speaker’s beliefs modulates people’s expectations of linguistic choices that person would make, specifically the use of the gender-neutral pronoun them to refer to a known and specific entity. As the use of gender-neutral pronouns is associated with more gender-progressive individuals, it was hypothesized that the use of them would be more surprising if coming…
Social meaning in reverse
Can an emoji be a lie? The links between emoji meaning, commitment, and lying
Uncivil Twitter
Using four tweets by Steven Salaita about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resulted in the retraction of his academic job offer in September 2014 as our case study, we investigate the role of Twitter in the shaping and reception of the controversial messages. Our analysis combines Gricean pragmatics with im/politeness and hate-speech research to reveal a complex layering of potential meanings stemming from what is linguistically encoded in e…
Meibauer, Jörg
Meibauer, Jörg
Uncivil Twitter
Using four tweets by Steven Salaita about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resulted in the retraction of his academic job offer in September 2014 as our case study, we investigate the role of Twitter in the shaping and reception of the controversial messages. Our analysis combines Gricean pragmatics with im/politeness and hate-speech research to reveal a complex layering of potential meanings stemming from what is linguistically encoded in e…
Can an emoji be a lie? The links between emoji meaning, commitment, and lying
Social meaning in reverse
Who is [not] expected to use singular them? Evidence from real-time language processing
This article presents the results of an experiment that investigates how knowledge of a speaker’s beliefs modulates people’s expectations of linguistic choices that person would make, specifically the use of the gender-neutral pronoun them to refer to a known and specific entity. As the use of gender-neutral pronouns is associated with more gender-progressive individuals, it was hypothesized that the use of them would be more surprising if coming…
Linguistics (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Communication and Language (2 works) · Gender Studies in Language (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works)