#sociolinguistics — Public Fediverse posts

In May, Ariba Khan successfully defended her doctoral thesis.

Congratulations! 🎉

For her doctoral research, she investigated the sociolinguistic situation of the state of Jharkhand. Her results show, among other things, evident social and linguistic inequality.

Read more in our series of interviews with #NewlyGraduatedPhDStudents: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/newly-graduated-phd-student-ariba-khan

#SocioLinguistics #Liguistics #Inequality #PhD #EarlyCareerScientists #RootsAcademy

Another reason why understanding how #multilingualism and socio-economic opportunities are distributed across urban space. A lot of my research has been about exploring these aspects from a geographical perspective.

The link is in Finnish, but the title roughly says "Large-scale study: Linguistic competencies are linked to slowing down the aging of the brain."

Keeping my fingers crossed for positive funding decisions 🤞🎓🔎

#UrbanStudies #Geography #Sociolinguistics
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000011627100.html

https://archive.org/details/pacific-languages-in-education

Pacific Languages in Education by France Mugler; John Lynch; Kasi Ielemia; Konai Helu Thaman; Greg R. Abare; Vilisi Balawa; Byron Bender; Richard A. Benton; Alfred Capelle; Terry Crowley; Vāvāō Fetui; Pamela Gentry; Apolonia Tamata; Ernest W. Lee; Sam Drilë Léonard; Iris Bella Lui; Afamasaga Mālia Mālaki-Williams; Vincent B. Manukayasi; Jeff Siegel; Mary L. Spencer; Winston Pukoki

Topics
#Micronesia, #Micronesianlanguages, #linguistics, #sociolinguistics, #Kanaky, #Kanaklanguages, #Marshallese, #MarshallIslands, #Ebon, #KajinM̧ajeļ, #Fiji, #Fijian, #NavosavakaViti, #Niuean, #koevagahauNiuē, #Niue, #Tonga, #Tongan, #LeaFakaTonga, #CookIslandsMāori, #Māori, #PapuaNewGuinea, #Papuanlanguages, #Melanesia, #MelanesianPidgin, #OntongJava, #Luangiua, #SolomonIslandsPijin, #Pijin, #tereoMāori, #Aotearoa, #Samoan, #Samoa, #GaganafaaSāmoa, #Bislama, #Vanuatu, #ReoMāohi, #Tahitian, #Kahiki

Following up on my #introduction: I'm keen to connect with people interested in #psycholinguistics, functional #linguistics, functional theories of #syntax, #CogPsy, #bilingualism, #multilingualism, #translanguaging, #CodeMeshing #DiscoursePragmatics, #sociolinguistics, #rhetoric and #composition (especially w/ an eye on mitigating barriers for multi-language non-English L1 scholars), #ComplexSystems, #HumaneTech, #LLM and #AI. Plus #cats, #transport, #travel and #music. 😺