On positioning: Every time I do sociolinguistic fieldwork or conduct interviews, people assume I am a student 🙃 I could decide to be angry, and I am, at a structural/systemic level, but I think I also use it to my advantage to minimize inherent power hierarchies... Thoughts?
There's got to be a good #sociolinguistics paper about the sudden rise of three-letter symbols for places and geographically linked organizations among people who are not involved in the travel industry. Intuitively I suspect it has to do with the late-1990s decline of the travel-agency model and a concomitant rise in self-booked travel, but even if this is true it wouldn't explain the crossover to sports teams (and media), supermarket locations, bumper stickers, tourist apparel, etc.
One of the best masters dissertations I've ever had the pleasure of supervising is "Perception and production of singular They in British English" by Nadir Junco, now available online: https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/41355
"...reading time data indicates a significant demographic effect which has not been reported in previous studies..."
Die zweite Folge des #Register -Podcasts ist online! (created by @sfb1412 ).
In dieser Folge erklären Manfred Krifka und Tonjes Veenstra ihre Forschung zu Kreolsprachen und Register!
The slides for my invited lecture on “Whose Language Counts?” at the University of Groningen next Monday (27 Nov, 15:00-17:00) are ready (yes, always enough in advance to not be stressed ☺️)!
Join us onsite or online (meet.google.com/jfb-xucu-yvc) 🤩
The preprint of my paper on the language ideologies on gender-inclusive language of L2 speakers of German is available here: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04245878
It's still work in progress, and I'm looking forward to your comments!
Here is your reminder to submit an abstract for the working group “Evaluating register(s)” at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society #DGfS2024! Deadline: 25 August 2023. I’ll be an invited discussant at this one 😊
"All paws on deck! 'Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online' provides a feline twist on the linguistic analysis of online language variation.
Are there any cultures where people don't have names and refer to each other by relation only? Eg.
"Good morning, teacher"
"Honey, I'm home."
"Mother, get the gun."
"Team Leader please stop singing."
"Pharmacist what have you done?"
"I'm always impressed with you, Beekeeper."
@futurebird
Southern US English speaking people, especially Black folks /older generations, do this more than younger folks. There is a mix of friendliness within an acknowledged social hierarchy. Cuz or cousin, auntie, uncle, bruh or brotha, sis or sistah, honey, sugar, baby girl, sweetheart even for people unrelated by blood.
For Christians, sister or brother. #BlackFriday#BlackMastodon#sociolinguistics#hierarchy
Edited an article with the text "a HR meeting" and left the "a" intact. In Irish English the name of the letter H is aspirated: "haitch" rather than "aitch".
Sometimes the similarity of words from #Oriya / #Hindi to other languages surprises me, though I know it shouldn't because, you know, we are one people bound by, trade, war, spices, love. Don't even need to go to #Sanskrit.
When I first found out Óchi Chórnyje meant Eyes Dark, it made a deep sense to me.
Excellent presentation by prof. Catrin Norrby tonight about her previous project on conversational interactions in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland. Had not realised that "hi"/"hello" in Finnish is borrowed from Low German (moi/n)! Cf also letzeburgish "mojen". @linguistics #sociolinguistics