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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say
Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say
Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say
Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say
Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/476603/ New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say #CulturalLinguistics #dialects #Éire #IE #Ireland #JamesBurridge #Language“weatherMap” #LanguageChange #LanguageEvolution #LanguageMapping #LinguisticPatterns #RegionalAccents #Science #sociolinguistics #StatisticalPhysics #UniversityOfPortsmouth #WordSpread
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A comment on my post describes users of this slang as lazy simpletons with a limited vocabulary. (I was having none of it.)
I see linguistic shortcuts – abbreviations and the like – more as efficiencies. They're the verbal equivalent of desire paths, which no one sees as "lazy".
But the characterization shows the social baggage that language has accumulated. It's a scapegoat for broader anxieties and prejudices.
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What the fuck? Dude can't even bring himself to say "culture."
Hey. Dimwit! The habit of smiling is not acquired upon American naturalization, nor is it distributed by Customs and Immigration Services. It's acquired through FUCKING CULTURE.
Whiteness, folks. It bleaches all away and leaves only emptiness and hunger. Stop fucking feeding it.
In-fucking-credible the lengths people will go to redefine words because they can't fucking conceive of "white" not being "default."
P.S. BTW, research shows Americans developed the habit of smiling in order to appear non-threatening to out-group members. It's what happens when you live in—despite how shitty we sometimes are about it—one of the most pluralistic cultures on the planet. So erasing its history erases the efforts we have made to coexist with folks with whom we share nothing in common.
Imagine that. Fuck this guy and his whole white website.
#Sociolinguistics #AmericanCulture #Pluralism #WhitenessStudies #CulturalHistory #StructuralErasure #TheAmericanSmile #Coexistence #WhiteIsPoison #WhiteDeath
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**Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks**
"_Our findings show that Americans use fuck most frequently, while Australians least frequently but they are highly creative with spelling variants of the word._"
Laitinen, M. et al. (2025) 'Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks,' Lingua, 320, p. 103931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103931.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Swearing #SocialMedia #Sociolinguistics #Academia
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Interesting piece on why accents can change in adulthood, touching on geography, identity, prestige, intelligibility, professional status, and other social forces [gift link]
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/accent-dialect-acquisition/685124/?gift=V3O2UvvjYxV4cxnKzA_IbBDJc5q7hrirBd06BY_HL7E#language #sociolinguistics #accents #dialect #LanguageChange #linguistics #TaylorSwift
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Interesting piece on why accents can change in adulthood, touching on geography, identity, prestige, intelligibility, professional status, and other social forces [gift link]
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/accent-dialect-acquisition/685124/?gift=V3O2UvvjYxV4cxnKzA_IbBDJc5q7hrirBd06BY_HL7E#language #sociolinguistics #accents #dialect #LanguageChange #linguistics #TaylorSwift
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Interesting piece on why accents can change in adulthood, touching on geography, identity, prestige, intelligibility, professional status, and other social forces [gift link]
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/accent-dialect-acquisition/685124/?gift=V3O2UvvjYxV4cxnKzA_IbBDJc5q7hrirBd06BY_HL7E#language #sociolinguistics #accents #dialect #LanguageChange #linguistics #TaylorSwift
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Interesting piece on why accents can change in adulthood, touching on geography, identity, prestige, intelligibility, professional status, and other social forces [gift link]
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/accent-dialect-acquisition/685124/?gift=V3O2UvvjYxV4cxnKzA_IbBDJc5q7hrirBd06BY_HL7E#language #sociolinguistics #accents #dialect #LanguageChange #linguistics #TaylorSwift
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Interesting piece on why accents can change in adulthood, touching on geography, identity, prestige, intelligibility, professional status, and other social forces [gift link]
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/accent-dialect-acquisition/685124/?gift=V3O2UvvjYxV4cxnKzA_IbBDJc5q7hrirBd06BY_HL7E#language #sociolinguistics #accents #dialect #LanguageChange #linguistics #TaylorSwift
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@benjamingeer @NilaJones @ShaulaEvans
Part of the explanation is that pronunciations have changed (diverged) over time, whereas spellings have been slower to change. For example, Old English, Old French, Old High German and Latin all had apical trilled [r], but words with that sound came to be pronounced various different ways. So the present-day variation is not totally random. Also, within each language there are other factors leading to a certain amount of variation. Variation and change are always with us, so it's unwise to expect constancy and uniformity in pronunciation and other aspects of language. -
...And a minor sociolinguistic note: I don't think anyone but an FT columnist would say "I remember sitting next to a managing director on a business flight." Most normal humans beings would say something like "I was sitting next to an executive." #sociolinguistics
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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
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If this is an accurate quote, it's an odd example of what linguists call "hypercorrection" from Mr. President. He senses that the subjunctive is being used here ("his name not be mentioned"), but he screws it up. #sociolinguistics #hypercorrection
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X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books
https://youtu.be/TElWjeFmtl4?si=j3zYZNRVbJFASxEw
#日本語 #japaneselanguage #japanese #learning #linguistics #sociolinguistics #youtube
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Haverford College is looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of #Linguistics, with a primary specialization in #Sociolinguistics, secondary specialization(s) open -> www.haverford.edu/provost/news...
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Ten years ago today, for my #linguistics class at Saint John's, I published this compilation of people saying "theater" in English:
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Check out our new Episode of the DiscoursNet Podcast #CriticallyLinked about Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana and 'Serving the White Order' –
with Amandine Kingambo, Lou Paquet, and Dounia Sabrallah.Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana is a contemporary sociolinguist and a lecturer incultural and #PostcolonialStudies at the Open University of the Netherlands.
In today’s episode, we experiment with a slightly new format. Critically
Linked has 3 wonderful guests – Amandine Kingambo, Lou Paquet, Dounia
Sabrallah – all of them Bachelor students from UCLouvain Saint-Louis
Bruxelles coordinated by Prof. Thomas Jacobs. Amandine, Lou, and Dounia willbe hosting this edition of the podcast with a conversation about Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana’s thesis “Serving the White Order. Making Bilingual Security Workers in #Brussels.https://funkwhale.it/library/tracks/17987/ #Sociolinguistics #DiscourseStudies
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Hey, if you know #sociolinguistics and #phonetics, there's a beer-money job available at Glasgow University:
(don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print we see that it's 0.4 FTE).
https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/tutor-slash-lecturer-in-phonetics-and-sociolinguistics-lts
This is a reasonable position if ALL of the following are true:
1) you do not have a better job and want an affiliation while looking
2) you want an academic career (ugh, why tho?)
3) You ALREADY live nearby.(open to nearly-PhDs, too)
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@serpicojam Most of the arguments for "y'all" that I've seen over the past ten years are based on the perception that "you guys" is sexist. Weird that nobody in the article mentions that.
My dad was from Texas, and he maintained some of his accent, but I don't remember him ever saying "y'all." I think that's why I associate the word with the other aspects of Texas he rejected: racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and general intolerance.
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@serpicojam Most of the arguments for "y'all" that I've seen over the past ten years are based on the perception that "you guys" is sexist. Weird that nobody in the article mentions that.
My dad was from Texas, and he maintained some of his accent, but I don't remember him ever saying "y'all." I think that's why I associate the word with the other aspects of Texas he rejected: racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and general intolerance.
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@serpicojam Most of the arguments for "y'all" that I've seen over the past ten years are based on the perception that "you guys" is sexist. Weird that nobody in the article mentions that.
My dad was from Texas, and he maintained some of his accent, but I don't remember him ever saying "y'all." I think that's why I associate the word with the other aspects of Texas he rejected: racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and general intolerance.
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@serpicojam Most of the arguments for "y'all" that I've seen over the past ten years are based on the perception that "you guys" is sexist. Weird that nobody in the article mentions that.
My dad was from Texas, and he maintained some of his accent, but I don't remember him ever saying "y'all." I think that's why I associate the word with the other aspects of Texas he rejected: racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and general intolerance.
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@serpicojam Most of the arguments for "y'all" that I've seen over the past ten years are based on the perception that "you guys" is sexist. Weird that nobody in the article mentions that.
My dad was from Texas, and he maintained some of his accent, but I don't remember him ever saying "y'all." I think that's why I associate the word with the other aspects of Texas he rejected: racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and general intolerance.
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AI, Power and Sociolinguistics [pdf]
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Been seeing this linguistic tic more and more in the past decade or so: the use of a sort of grandiose "you" instead of "I" in this context. I first noticed it in interviews in sports and financial reporting, but I'm now seeing it everywhere. Even Bernie Sanders. #linguistics #sociolinguistics
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Every year when we do our mandatory anti-discrimination online training, it requires us to click (twice, on the same question) saying that yes, it's OK to discriminate on the basis of a job candidate having a non-native accent in their English, even though the question implies that the candidate's English is probably just about proficient enough for the job. For the second year in a row, I just attempted to find out which office controls this thing, and wrote to them to ask them to change or delete this question. This time I offered that the Linguistics department will be happy to write them some better questions that actually teach about linguistic discrimination based on either racially-coded dialect or non-native accent. Last time I got a response along lines of "the question reflects what the law says." We'll see if I do better this year. Credit to @amyfou for pointing out to me last year how the question implied the L2 speaker's English actually was good enough, rather than not good enough, for the job. #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics
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On the blog, a review of the linguistics book 'New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research' https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/book-review-new-horizons-in-prescriptivism-research-2024/
#books #BookReview #linguistics #sociolinguistics #research #language #prescriptivism #EnglishUsage
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Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing / The Conversation
Un bell'aticolo sul Principio di Relatività Linguistica, formulato da Whorf negli anni '30.
Languages don’t just allow us to communicate – they also shape our perception of what surrounds us, and ourselves.
#Whorf #Sapir
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The first #ArtificialFriday of 2025 is happening next week!
👩💻 Our speakers are Bettina Migge from Dublin, Ireland and Jose Belda Medina from Alicante, Spain.
Bettina will talk about #Sociolinguistics and #Digital and #AI Technologies, while Jose will dive into the topic of how AI might transform #languagelearning.🕑 The colloquium will take place 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵, 𝟮-𝟰𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗘𝗧 via Zoom
You can register with Nina Kalwa via email or on our Artificial Friday website
👉https://artificial-friday.de/en/english/ -
The first #ArtificialFriday of 2025 is happening next week!
👩💻 Our speakers are Bettina Migge from Dublin, Ireland and Jose Belda Medina from Alicante, Spain.
Bettina will talk about #Sociolinguistics and #Digital and #AI Technologies, while Jose will dive into the topic of how AI might transform #languagelearning.🕑 The colloquium will take place 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵, 𝟮-𝟰𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗘𝗧 via Zoom
You can register with Nina Kalwa via email or on our Artificial Friday website
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"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanismhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641
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"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanismhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641
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"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanismhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641
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"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanismhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641
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"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanismhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641
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A sociolinguistic note on h-dropping from Raymond Chandler
More on "haitch" in this post: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/an-aitch-or-a-haitch-lets-ear-it/
#phonetics #linguistics #RaymondChandler #accents #sociolinguistics #language #aitch #speech #reading
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Just two more weeks until the online colloquium #ArtificialFriday starts with its sixth rendition! 👩💻
We are excited to hear international perspectives on #linguistics and #AI, looking into #scicomm, #journalism, #language, #sociolinguistics and writing with #GenAI from international researchers 🇿🇦 🇩🇰 🇦🇺 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 🇪🇸 🇨🇭
You can register with Nina Kalwa via email at [email protected] 📧
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My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Professor+Lauren+Hall-Lew+Inaugural+Lecture/1_upsi58yk
#sociophonetics
#sociolinguistics
#linguistics
#phonetics
#semiotics
#Peirce
#indexicality
#social
#meaning
#research
#academic
#academia
#lecture
#Arizona
#SanFrancisco
#Gaelic
#Gàidhlig
#Scots
#English
#professor
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The Embodiment Section of #Anglistiktag2024 saw a great (& funny!) talk by Theresa Heyd & Ines Bencsik on the #Sociolinguistics of cringe in #onlineCommunication, incl Emoji usage. What's your most-used emoji to express #cringe? 💀, 😬, 😂... 😭...?
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Wow! 🥳🎊 I received a copy of a book we wrote a chapter for with @tuomo and Hanna-Mari Pienimäki.
It's one thing to see one's own work published on a website, but another feeling when you can hold it in your hand.
If you're interested in #multilingualism #sociolinguistics #UrbanStudies and #LinguisticLandscapes check out this book. Relevant also for #UrbanGeography #HumanGeography #GIScience and #multimodality 🤓
The #OpenAccess book is available here: https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/e/10.21435/sflin.24/
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@AnnaAnthro BREAKING: Man who moved to another country as a teenager adopts accent features of new home, code switches!
In this interview, the voice he uses while answering questions still has Jamaican accent features. I'm guessing if he ever goes back to the yards in Kingston he uses some form of patois...
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #patois #AAVE
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/1239078696/shaggys-real-voice
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Interested in regional governance in Africa? Have a look at the #CfP for the MIASA Conference "Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Policy and Sustainability"!
Deadline: 24 March 2024.
Place: University #OmarBongo, Libreville, Gabon.#AfricanStudies #Anthropology #Sociology #History #LawStudies #PeaceStudies #ConflictStudies #sociolinguistics #EconomicStudies #MIASA
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Interested in regional governance in Africa? Have a look at the #CfP for the MIASA Conference "Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Policy and Sustainability"!
Deadline: 24 March 2024.
Place: University #OmarBongo, Libreville, Gabon.#AfricanStudies #Anthropology #Sociology #History #LawStudies #PeaceStudies #ConflictStudies #sociolinguistics #EconomicStudies #MIASA
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Interested in regional governance in Africa? Have a look at the #CfP for the MIASA Conference "Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Policy and Sustainability"!
Deadline: 24 March 2024.
Place: University #OmarBongo, Libreville, Gabon.#AfricanStudies #Anthropology #Sociology #History #LawStudies #PeaceStudies #ConflictStudies #sociolinguistics #EconomicStudies #MIASA
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Interested in regional governance in Africa? Have a look at the #CfP for the MIASA Conference "Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Policy and Sustainability"!
Deadline: 24 March 2024.
Place: University #OmarBongo, Libreville, Gabon.#AfricanStudies #Anthropology #Sociology #History #LawStudies #PeaceStudies #ConflictStudies #sociolinguistics #EconomicStudies #MIASA
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Interested in regional governance in Africa? Have a look at the #CfP for the MIASA Conference "Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Policy and Sustainability"!
Deadline: 24 March 2024.
Place: University #OmarBongo, Libreville, Gabon.#AfricanStudies #Anthropology #Sociology #History #LawStudies #PeaceStudies #ConflictStudies #sociolinguistics #EconomicStudies #MIASA