Lex Konnelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 733013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lex Konnelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lex |
| FAMILY NAME | Konnelly |
| SIGNATURE | KONNELLY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0200-3112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Podcasting for justice in linguistics courses: Supplementary material
Podcasting for justice in linguistics courses
Podcasts are an immensely popular medium for news, documentaries, interviews, and many other genres. They are also an effective pedagogical tool, both as texts for learners to consume and as assignments for students to create. In this article we present findings from our students' experiences of creating podcasts in upper-level Language and Gender courses and reflect on the affordances and possible risks of this kind of project. We argue that pod…
AI hype in the classroom
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, especially generative tools based on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, raise critical concerns for academic integrity, for ensuring genuine assessment of student learning, and for equity. Public understanding of these tools is clouded by hype about their capabilities, as they are often treated as knowledgeable and even sentient, and thus suitable for any human task. Of particular concern for instru…
On the use of names and example sentences in the linguistics classroom
In addition to representing a main source of data in linguistic research, example sentences are a core vehicle for linguists in teaching a wide range of phenomena to our students. However, the content of these sentences often reflects the biases of the researchers who construct them: referents are typically given Anglocentric proper names like John and Mary , reflecting (at least implicitly) dominant white culture and conformity to heteronormativ…
Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of English that/ zero variation
Previous work has shown that stance—the way speakers position themselves with respect to what they are talking about and who they are talking to—provides powerful insights into why speakers choose certain linguistic variants, beyond correlations with macro-social categories such as gender, ethnicity, and social class. However, as stancetaking moves are highly context-dependent, they have rarely been explored quantitatively, making the observed va…
Towards an engaged linguistics: Nonbinary pronouns as a site of advocacy in research and teaching
The papers in this special issue address themes from They, Hirself, Em, and YOU 2019 (THEY 2019), a conference that brought together researchers working on topics relating to nonbinary gender in language, particularly in pronouns. The papers collected in this special issue provide an overview of the current state of research and practice on nonbinary pronouns as they are currently used in English, as well as connecting the current practices in En…
Transmedicalism and ‘trans enough’
While gender dysphoria is a real and acute distress for many transgender people, it is not universal, and it is experienced and oriented to in a myriad of ways. However, its status as a prerequisite for gender-affirming care can lead trans people to feel compelled to amplify its salience in pursuit of medical support. Through a critical discourse analysis of nonbinary healthcare narratives, this article traces the relationship between linguistic …
Both, and: Transmedicalism and resistance in non-binary narratives of gender-affirming care
While gender dysphoria is a real and acute distress for many transgender people, it is not universal, and it is experienced and oriented to in a myriad of ways. However, its status as a prerequisite for gender-affirming care can lead trans people to feel compelled to amplify its salience in their pursuits for medical support. Through a critical discourse analysis of non-binary healthcare narratives, I trace the relationship between linguistic pra…
Nuance and normativity in trans linguistic research
Whilenormativityhas been central to queer linguistic research, the emergent field of trans linguistics provides opportunities for greater nuance and elaboration on the concept. Drawing from interviews with non-binary people documenting their narratives of doctor-patient visits, I present a series of recounted interactional moments where what might be considered 'normative' is in fact a survival strategy, highlighting how we might view certain inv…
Gender diversity and morphosyntax: An account of singular they
As one of the primary means of constructing gendered identities, language is a matter of central concern to transgender people (Zimman 2018). In this paper, we present an analysis of non-binary singular they; that is, they as used to refer to individuals whose gender identity is not, or is not exclusively, masculine or feminine. Despite singular they’s widespread usage and long history in English, not all speakers judge this most recent innovatio…
Variation in subject doubling in Homeland and Heritage Faetar
This paper investigates subject doubling in Faetar, an endangered and understudied variety of Francoprovençal. Comparing Homeland speakers (i.e., speakers who were born and raised in Faeto) and Heritage speakers of the language (i.e., speakers who emigrated to Toronto, Canada after age 18, and their children), we find some striking differences. Our results show that subject doubling is grammatically constrained in the source variety: Homeland spe…
“The woman in the background”: Gendered Nouns in CNN and FOX Media Discourse
Linguistic democratization, the goal or practice of increasing social equity through language, has not figured prominently in corpus studies. However, corpus-based approaches present the opportunity to probe questions of unequal linguistic representation on a large scale, providing crucial insights into how actors are classified in public discourse, especially with respect to the representation of gender relations and inequity. This paper draws o…
Brutoglossia: Democracy, authenticity, and the enregisterment of connoisseurship in 'craft beer talk
I don't come off as timid anymore: Real-time change in early adulthood against the backdrop of the community
The period from ages 18 to 25 is sometimes called 'emerging adulthood' (Arnett , ) since it has come to be characterized by major life transitions. Linguistically, this means that lifespan change in the individual (Sankoff , ) might be particularly likely during these years (Labov : 447; Bigham : 533; Kohn : 20). Addressing a need for more real-time sociolinguistic research on early adulthood, we employ data from a panel study of a single speaker…
Nuance and normativity in trans linguistic research
Whilenormativityhas been central to queer linguistic research, the emergent field of trans linguistics provides opportunities for greater nuance and elaboration on the concept. Drawing from interviews with non-binary people documenting their narratives of doctor-patient visits, I present a series of recounted interactional moments where what might be considered 'normative' is in fact a survival strategy, highlighting how we might view certain inv…
Transmedicalism and ‘trans enough’
While gender dysphoria is a real and acute distress for many transgender people, it is not universal, and it is experienced and oriented to in a myriad of ways. However, its status as a prerequisite for gender-affirming care can lead trans people to feel compelled to amplify its salience in pursuit of medical support. Through a critical discourse analysis of nonbinary healthcare narratives, this article traces the relationship between linguistic …
I don't come off as timid anymore: Real-time change in early adulthood against the backdrop of the community
The period from ages 18 to 25 is sometimes called 'emerging adulthood' (Arnett , ) since it has come to be characterized by major life transitions. Linguistically, this means that lifespan change in the individual (Sankoff , ) might be particularly likely during these years (Labov : 447; Bigham : 533; Kohn : 20). Addressing a need for more real-time sociolinguistic research on early adulthood, we employ data from a panel study of a single speaker…
Brutoglossia: Democracy, authenticity, and the enregisterment of connoisseurship in 'craft beer talk
Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of English that/ zero variation
Previous work has shown that stance—the way speakers position themselves with respect to what they are talking about and who they are talking to—provides powerful insights into why speakers choose certain linguistic variants, beyond correlations with macro-social categories such as gender, ethnicity, and social class. However, as stancetaking moves are highly context-dependent, they have rarely been explored quantitatively, making the observed va…
I don't come off as timid anymore: Real-time change in early adulthood against the backdrop of the community
The period from ages 18 to 25 is sometimes called 'emerging adulthood' (Arnett , ) since it has come to be characterized by major life transitions. Linguistically, this means that lifespan change in the individual (Sankoff , ) might be particularly likely during these years (Labov : 447; Bigham : 533; Kohn : 20). Addressing a need for more real-time sociolinguistic research on early adulthood, we employ data from a panel study of a single speaker…
Gender diversity and morphosyntax: An account of singular they
As one of the primary means of constructing gendered identities, language is a matter of central concern to transgender people (Zimman 2018). In this paper, we present an analysis of non-binary singular they; that is, they as used to refer to individuals whose gender identity is not, or is not exclusively, masculine or feminine. Despite singular they’s widespread usage and long history in English, not all speakers judge this most recent innovatio…
Variation in subject doubling in Homeland and Heritage Faetar
This paper investigates subject doubling in Faetar, an endangered and understudied variety of Francoprovençal. Comparing Homeland speakers (i.e., speakers who were born and raised in Faeto) and Heritage speakers of the language (i.e., speakers who emigrated to Toronto, Canada after age 18, and their children), we find some striking differences. Our results show that subject doubling is grammatically constrained in the source variety: Homeland spe…
“The woman in the background”: Gendered Nouns in CNN and FOX Media Discourse
Linguistic democratization, the goal or practice of increasing social equity through language, has not figured prominently in corpus studies. However, corpus-based approaches present the opportunity to probe questions of unequal linguistic representation on a large scale, providing crucial insights into how actors are classified in public discourse, especially with respect to the representation of gender relations and inequity. This paper draws o…
Brutoglossia: Democracy, authenticity, and the enregisterment of connoisseurship in 'craft beer talk
Both, and: Transmedicalism and resistance in non-binary narratives of gender-affirming care
While gender dysphoria is a real and acute distress for many transgender people, it is not universal, and it is experienced and oriented to in a myriad of ways. However, its status as a prerequisite for gender-affirming care can lead trans people to feel compelled to amplify its salience in their pursuits for medical support. Through a critical discourse analysis of non-binary healthcare narratives, I trace the relationship between linguistic pra…
Nuance and normativity in trans linguistic research
Whilenormativityhas been central to queer linguistic research, the emergent field of trans linguistics provides opportunities for greater nuance and elaboration on the concept. Drawing from interviews with non-binary people documenting their narratives of doctor-patient visits, I present a series of recounted interactional moments where what might be considered 'normative' is in fact a survival strategy, highlighting how we might view certain inv…
Towards an engaged linguistics: Nonbinary pronouns as a site of advocacy in research and teaching
The papers in this special issue address themes from They, Hirself, Em, and YOU 2019 (THEY 2019), a conference that brought together researchers working on topics relating to nonbinary gender in language, particularly in pronouns. The papers collected in this special issue provide an overview of the current state of research and practice on nonbinary pronouns as they are currently used in English, as well as connecting the current practices in En…
Transmedicalism and ‘trans enough’
While gender dysphoria is a real and acute distress for many transgender people, it is not universal, and it is experienced and oriented to in a myriad of ways. However, its status as a prerequisite for gender-affirming care can lead trans people to feel compelled to amplify its salience in pursuit of medical support. Through a critical discourse analysis of nonbinary healthcare narratives, this article traces the relationship between linguistic …
Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of English that/ zero variation
Previous work has shown that stance—the way speakers position themselves with respect to what they are talking about and who they are talking to—provides powerful insights into why speakers choose certain linguistic variants, beyond correlations with macro-social categories such as gender, ethnicity, and social class. However, as stancetaking moves are highly context-dependent, they have rarely been explored quantitatively, making the observed va…
AI hype in the classroom
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, especially generative tools based on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, raise critical concerns for academic integrity, for ensuring genuine assessment of student learning, and for equity. Public understanding of these tools is clouded by hype about their capabilities, as they are often treated as knowledgeable and even sentient, and thus suitable for any human task. Of particular concern for instru…
On the use of names and example sentences in the linguistics classroom
In addition to representing a main source of data in linguistic research, example sentences are a core vehicle for linguists in teaching a wide range of phenomena to our students. However, the content of these sentences often reflects the biases of the researchers who construct them: referents are typically given Anglocentric proper names like John and Mary , reflecting (at least implicitly) dominant white culture and conformity to heteronormativ…
Podcasting for justice in linguistics courses: Supplementary material
Podcasting for justice in linguistics courses
Podcasts are an immensely popular medium for news, documentaries, interviews, and many other genres. They are also an effective pedagogical tool, both as texts for learners to consume and as assignments for students to create. In this article we present findings from our students' experiences of creating podcasts in upper-level Language and Gender courses and reflect on the affordances and possible risks of this kind of project. We argue that pod…
Linguistics (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies in Language (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Applied linguistics (5 works)