Thanks so much for such thoughtful review of our work!
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Thanks so much for such thoughtful review of our work!
Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "βGen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVEβ: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as βTikTok Languageβ π§΅
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blue and green cover of the book "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory", edited by Jennifer Nycz and Lauren Hall-Lew, published with Oxford as part of the Oxford Surveys in Phonology and Phonetics
π Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory (co-edited by me and @lhlew.bsky.social) is now available online at Oxford Academic! (print copies coming end of January) academic.oup.com/book/61815
New #OA article β¨
How do Taiwanese MPs use self-reference to navigate power and legitimacy? @tsunglunone.bsky.social explores how candidates with narrower electoral margins use formal bΔnxΓ to assert political legitimacy in his latest paper π buff.ly/Yll9c7B. What do you think?
Congrats to @tsunglunone.bsky.social on the publication of "From online parody to mainstream media: The remediation of mock Vietnamese Mandarin in Taiwan" always exciting to see a new paper on mock language in a new context!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live:
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6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
β±οΈ28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
π£ 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
π My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
This is a photo of one copy of my book on top of three other copies, with their spines facing toward the camera. The top book shows the cover of the book. Title: Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor Author: Vijay A. Ramjattan Cover Art: multi-patterned speech bubble with 4 arms of varying skin tones reaching toward it
I finally have physical copies of my book!
If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.
30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/workable-...
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social / @bloomsburyling.bsky.social
Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Working on this topic was a lot of fun!
Does anyone know the timeline of sociolinguistics symposium 26? Like when will they announce CfP and so on?
I had this wonderful opportunity to write a review for Michele Friedner's ethnography of cochlear implants in India for East Asian Science, Technology and Society.
Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How are social expectations employed in cases of mergers in progress? A study of #TaiwanMandarin #sibilants finds that merged speakers may be somewhat desensitized to acoustic cues, but they readily employ social cues in speech perception. #sociophonetics #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
I realised I'm only a data point for my university, when they talked about my FWCI in a meeting that was supposed to discuss a science communication website I'm running.
Join us for New Ways of Analyz(s)ing Variation 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice, and Peace at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Nov 6-8, 2025.
Abstracts due June 15.
nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
A reminder that John R. Rickford is visiting us (UoE, @schoolofppls.bsky.social) next week to give a talk on his book, 'Speaking my Soul'. Info and registration here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-r-ric...
...and we won audience choice for best poster!! So chuffed!! ππ»
Shout out to Gabrielle Hodge for telling me about the #betterposters movement.
Photo of Prof Lauren Hall-Lew standing with her poster at EMH2025
What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? π£οΈπ§ The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughtsβcome check it out! #EMH2025
Summer Schools: Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science
A call for papers for an edited volume on the language and linguistics of monsters/the monstrous.
Call for papers! I'm putting together an edited collection with @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social on "Monstrous Language": studies of the language of monsters, "others", and the in/unhuman.
Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.
A tour-de-force demonstration by sociophonetician @tsunglunone.bsky.social of how post-racial colorblind ideologies are violently racist: this time through the lens of Vietnamese immigrants in Taiwan.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#sociolinguistics #linguistics #racism #indexicality #TikTok
I feel researchers using machine learning should shift some of their focus to find acoustic biomarkers of dangerous politicians.
Fancy working in Taiwan? We're looking for a laboratory phonologist!
Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins.
Questions are welcomed!
fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...
This was a really engaging, interesting conversation and I thoroughly enjoyed being on the podcast. If you want to know why some people enjoy hating Richard Gere and what that has to do with language oppression, have a listen.
π How to Get Published β A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics!
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May 8, 2025 | β° 12β1 PM EDT | π» Online
π Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.
ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!
π Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5
@trinitycds.bsky.social The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcddublin.bsky.social is seeking an Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics. Could this be you?
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...