{"id":4400,"date":"2010-12-12T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2010\/12\/12\/call-me-dr-x"},"modified":"2010-12-12T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T20:22:00","slug":"call-me-dr-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2010\/12\/12\/call-me-dr-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Call me Dr X?"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2010\/12\/12\/how-should-students-to-address-professors\/comment-page-1\/#comment-341754<\/a>\u00a0– an interesting dicussion: should students call me Dr X (esp odd, my surname not being ‘X’) and I call them by their surname: ‘Oi Smith, what is meant by synthetic a priori? eh?<\/i>‘<\/span>

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Or maybe not.<\/span>

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I am kind of used to ‘You’ and ‘Dave’ – but the comments via the link really vary: let me quote a couple:<\/span>

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Maybe I\u2019m just cripplingly old-fashioned, but I cringe when I see some of my colleagues insist on having their undergraduate students call them by their first names<\/span><\/span>.<\/span>

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and<\/span>

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I find anything other than first-name address really awkward, but I think British students tend to gravitate to this as the norm anyway. American visitors on\u00a0JYA<\/span>\u00a0programs tend to be more formal, and even sometimes address me as \u201csir\u201d, which feels very weird indeed<\/span><\/span>

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(our visiting American [BCA] students sometimes do this – I rather like the implication of respect – but they soon learn….]<\/span>

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and<\/span>

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I\u2019m struck by the number saying they use last name only (if I read it right). In direct address, I find that exceptionally rude, unless the person using it is so close to me that I can take it as jocular. The only situation where I regard it as normal is among school-age boy<\/span><\/span>s.<\/span>

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Not sure it ever really feels awkward these days? If I refer to a colleague in a class – I am sure I use their first name. As in: don’t ask me, but am sure Roy will know<\/i>…..<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2010\/12\/12\/how-should-students-to-address-professors\/comment-page-1\/#comment-341754\u00a0– an interesting dicussion: should students call me Dr X (esp odd, my surname not being ‘X’) and I call them by their surname: ‘Oi Smith, what is meant by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name","category-title"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}