David‐Antoine Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 6553437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David‐Antoine Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | David‐Antoine |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo ( [email protected] ) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9024-9077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ing in the #OED
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Alien’ vs. Editor
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Tête-À-Tête, Face-À-Face
Two decades have passed since Joseph Brodsky used his Nobel address to advance the idea that "aesthetics is the mother of ethics." Yet despite the increasing prominence of ethics in literary studies during this time, very little has been written to elucidate his claim. One thing the "turn to ethics" in literary studies has produced is a rise in popularity of Emmanuel Levinas among critics. The invocation of Levinasian responsibility, with its ref…
The Dating of the Norwegian leiðangr System
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The Dating of the Norwegian leiðangr System
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Tête-À-Tête, Face-À-Face
Two decades have passed since Joseph Brodsky used his Nobel address to advance the idea that "aesthetics is the mother of ethics." Yet despite the increasing prominence of ethics in literary studies during this time, very little has been written to elucidate his claim. One thing the "turn to ethics" in literary studies has produced is a rise in popularity of Emmanuel Levinas among critics. The invocation of Levinasian responsibility, with its ref…
Alien’ vs. Editor
This article discusses the changing ways in which the Oxford English Dictionary has recorded the vocabularies of ‘World English’—English as spoken outside of the British Isles—from the first to the present edition. Based on direct analyses of the coded text of multiple editions, it documents and compares the practices of successive editors, taking into account various contextual factors, such as editorial principles and policies, institutional re…
Ing in the #OED
Between 2018 and 2025, the social media platform Twitter, and its successor X, emerged as the most important source of language evidence in updates and revisions to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). At the start of 2026, Twitter/X accounted for over 5,200 evidentiary quotations in the dictionary, including first evidence for 213 new words and senses. Based on detailed analysis of the underlying XML-encoded data of several historical iterations…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · English language (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)