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Rebecca Todd Garvin speaks with J. Nicholas Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025

J. Nicholas Garvin speaks with Rebecca Todd Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025

J. Nicholas Garvin speaks with Rebecca Todd Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025

Rebecca Todd Garvin speaks with J. Nicholas Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025

Since the time I was a PhD student, I've always found the annual #LinguisticLandscape workshop to be a welcoming, almost familial space. Where else can you enjoy a mother-son talk, like today's "Collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee" by Becky and Nick Garvin? ❤️ #LL16

We’re thrilled to have been nominated but we’re all the ##LinguisticLandscape workshop #LL16 in Essen so we’ll join by Zoom to see how our Handbook fares in the BAAL Book Prize

Jess Hampton closes her paper by performing the final verse of a poem in Romagnolo

This afternoon, Jess Hampton has bridged the distance between endangered languages - Romagnolo in her case - and recovery from crises: earthquakes, COVID-19, floods.

Jackie Lou stands at the podium in a lecture theatre below a screen reading ‘Why creativity? A micro self-nexus analysis’

At #LL16, you can hear a pin drop as Jackie Lou talks us through the crisis and creativity of COVID-19 in a beautiful and deeply personal reflection, bringing us back to discourse in place as a bedrock of #linguisticlandscape research

Máiréad Moriarty stands in front of two screens featuring citations from Levi-Strauss and Barthes

We’re at #LL16 in Essen and the first plenary speaker Máiréad Moriarty takes Levi-Strauss and Barthes to task for dismissing the value of the sea as a landscape

A dark blue, light blue and pink selection of banners containing the article title, 'Vernacular Mythologies: Instagram, Starbucks and Meaning-Making by Non-Elites at Paris Orly Airport.'

'Vernacular Mythologies: Instagram, Starbucks and Meaning-Making by Non-Elites at Paris Orly Airport' by @robjblackwood.bsky.social explores mythmaking by non-elites through networked language and semiotic practices of Instagram users. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/VM-Blackwood @livunihss.bsky.social

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Ahead of the weekend, #LinguisticLandscape publishes the article by Peltoniemi, Szabó & Hämäläinen on the intersection of tempo and presence in students' learning in #schoolscapes, based on their research in Finland

It's great to see @dmalinowski.bsky.social's review of Gorter & Cenoz's landmark overview (or 'panorama' to use their terms) of #LinguisticLandscape research. Review now published in OnlineFirst for the journal #LinguisticLandscape

Martin Goffriller opens his talk by showing the audience the river systems of Central Asia on a large map

At @liverpooluni.bsky.social Heritage Institute, the research seminar series of 2025 kicks off with Goffriller looking at archaeology & the built heritage of Lower Syr Darya in #Kazakhstan

Today, in the journal #LinguisticLandscape publishes online its first article of 2025, written by @theresaheyd.bsky.social & @janapithan.bsky.social, looking at the voices attributed, via signage, to artefacts in the public space. The authors look at 'talking' milk cartons, bins, trains, and more!

Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research: round seven Apply for funding to collaborate on arts and humanities projects with German research partners.

Here's an interesting funding opportunity with European partners: AHRC - Collaborate with German partners (up to £420k). For arts and humanities research projects. Applications must demonstrate added value of international collaboration to research www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #AcademicSky

With a fanfare, the journal #LinguisticLandscape leaps into its second decade with a new issue, featuring articles by Bruyèl-Olmedo, Pellanda, Wang & Yu, and Duman Çakır. And a couple of reviews to boot - what's not to like?