Martha Tsutsui Billins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Tsutsui Billins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha Tsutsui |
| FAMILY NAME | Billins |
| SIGNATURE | BILLINS M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fresno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8098-203X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who Listens to Linguistics Podcasting? A Survey of Lingthusiasm Listeners
Podcasting is now an established entertainment medium, and is a useful platform for content that can find a niche global audience outside of traditional broadcast media. Linguistics is one topic that benefits from this model of internet distribution. Linguistics podcasting can serve both educational and entertainment aims, with audiences that encompass non‐linguists interested in scicomm‐adjacent topics as well as linguistics students and educato…
Collaborative Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Reclamation
Traditional "endangered" approaches in linguistics tend to impose Western epistemologies of languages on marginalized Indigenous language communities such as the Ryukyus. Instead, by using a collaborative approach, we ask for a change of approach from research on the Ryukyus to research with/for the Ryukyus. This article is a reflective study of collaboration in particular cases. We aim to address the issues of relationality between communities a…
Pragmatic Consequences of Language Shift
This paper analyses the loss of politeness markers across three generations in the Ryukyuan Islands of Japan. Honorific registers are first lost in endangered languages, and last speakers of an endangered language often state that they avoid using the language to semi-speakers because they do not use polite registers. We give an overview of language endangerment, analyse how individuals reflect on politeness markers, and how language loss and the…
Collaborative Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Reclamation
Traditional "endangered" approaches in linguistics tend to impose Western epistemologies of languages on marginalized Indigenous language communities such as the Ryukyus. Instead, by using a collaborative approach, we ask for a change of approach from research on the Ryukyus to research with/for the Ryukyus. This article is a reflective study of collaboration in particular cases. We aim to address the issues of relationality between communities a…
Pragmatic Consequences of Language Shift
This paper analyses the loss of politeness markers across three generations in the Ryukyuan Islands of Japan. Honorific registers are first lost in endangered languages, and last speakers of an endangered language often state that they avoid using the language to semi-speakers because they do not use polite registers. We give an overview of language endangerment, analyse how individuals reflect on politeness markers, and how language loss and the…
Collaborative Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Reclamation
Traditional "endangered" approaches in linguistics tend to impose Western epistemologies of languages on marginalized Indigenous language communities such as the Ryukyus. Instead, by using a collaborative approach, we ask for a change of approach from research on the Ryukyus to research with/for the Ryukyus. This article is a reflective study of collaboration in particular cases. We aim to address the issues of relationality between communities a…
Who Listens to Linguistics Podcasting? A Survey of Lingthusiasm Listeners
Podcasting is now an established entertainment medium, and is a useful platform for content that can find a niche global audience outside of traditional broadcast media. Linguistics is one topic that benefits from this model of internet distribution. Linguistics podcasting can serve both educational and entertainment aims, with audiences that encompass non‐linguists interested in scicomm‐adjacent topics as well as linguistics students and educato…
Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Applied linguistics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Cognitive linguistics (1 work) · Communication (1 work) · Communication (1 work) · Computational linguistics (1 work)