Linguistics Alignment Chart
phonology LAWFUL GOOD applying rules to helpfully turn thoughts into words language documentation NEUTRAL GOOD helping preserve languages in the most suitable way PRAGMATICS CHAOTIC GOOD lots of different ways to communicate cooperatively semantics LAWFUL NEUTRAL formally representing meaning, whatever it may be phonetics TRUE NEUTRAL math sociolinguistics CHAOTIC NEUTRAL recording language variation in every form it takes syntax LAWFUL EVIL organizing linguistic units into structures needlessly filled with abstractions and gaps computational linguistics NEUTRAL EVIL using any tools necessary to help robots take over the world psycholinguistics CHAOTIC EVIL deceptive experimentation on human subjects with cognitively demanding tasks
A nine-panel Dungeons & Dragons-style alignment chart categorizes branches of linguistics from lawful good to chaotic evil. The joke assigns exaggerated moral personalities to academic fields: phonology is helpful, pragmatics communicates in chaotic ways, computational linguistics helps robots take over the world, and psycholinguistics conducts deceptive experiments. It is shared as a humorous reaction by linguistics students, especially when identifying with one particular subfield.
alignment chart / таблица мировоззренийblack background / чёрный фонnine colored panels / девять цветных панелейcyan border / голубая рамкаgreen border / зелёная рамкаyellow border / жёлтая рамкаblue border / синяя рамкаwhite border / белая рамкаorange border / оранжевая рамкаmagenta border / пурпурная рамкаgray border / серая рамкаred border / красная рамкаlinguistics labels / названия разделов лингвистикиEnglish text / английский текст
- @threedotssavetogallery / 5540 2024-10-17
- Template
- D&D alignment chart
- Type
- image
- Size
- 800×757 · 123.6 KiB
- Mood
- academic, ironic
- Language
- en
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