Abstract submission deadline extended!
We invite abstracts for papers for presentation at the in-person Annual Conference of the ALS held at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University from 2-5 December 2025.
Extended deadline: 15 July 2025
Notification of acceptance: 22 August 2025
#ALS2025
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The ALS Conference is held at Griffith University’s Gold Coast Campus, Southport, QLD, from 2 to 5 December 2025. We invite proposals for masterclasses and themed sessions at the conference.
Submit to: conf@als.asn.au by 1 May 2025
Decisions: 15 May 2025
Details: www.als.asn.au/Conference/2...
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Call for nominations: 2024 Talkley Award
The Talkley Award is presented each year to a particular piece or collection of linguistics communication produced by current ALS members (individuals or groups). The Award acknowledges that the discipline of linguistics needs champions to explain its relevance to Australia at large. The winning piece of lingcomm could be a video series, a conversation article, a media interview, a public lecture, a series of meme posts, etc. that has promoted linguistics in the public sphere or explained how linguistic evidence can be used to solve real-life language problems.
Please email your nominations (with a sentence or two explaining why the nominated piece should win this year's Talkley) to the ALS postgraduate representative Kate Charlwood
(katejc@student.unimelb.edu.au) and cc the president Bill Palmer (bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au). Deadline is 1 November 2024.
Members of the Australian Linguistic Society, the Talkley Awards are now open for nominations. Nominate a particular piece or collection of linguistics communication produced by current ALS members (individuals or groups)! #ALS2025
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Masterclasses and Themed Sessions
Masterclasses and Themed Sessions for Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2024
Australian linguists, we're running a themed session on linguistics undergraduate teaching at ALS in November! Looking forward to hearing your experiences!
als.asn.au/Conference/2...
Happy to be working with a team of absolute legends: Jill Vaughan, Rose Billington, Ksenia Gnevsheva & Jess Kruk
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The ALS is offering five scholarships and prizes to provide funding support of up to $5,000 for linguistics research students conducting research in any area of linguistics.
Deadline: 6 May 2024
Find out more here: www.als.asn.au/Pages/ALS/Gr...
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Hi there! Are you a graduate student in sociolinguistics who is an LSA member and wants travel funding to attend LSA's Annual Meeting in Philly this year? Consider applying for the Elizabeth Dayton Award! Open now til July 12! www.lsadc.org/elizabeth_da...
12.04.2024 14:45 — 👍 23 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
Did you know that the Australian Linguistic Society offers accreditation for qualified linguists? Find out more at als.asn.au/Accreditation
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Next Tuesday 2nd April I'll be giving a talk on language attitudes to Australian English @marcsinstitute.bsky.social Research Meeting. I'll be discussing how Australia's increasingly diverse population deals with the concept of an accent being linked to a national identity.
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Welcome to Bluesky, Australian Linguistic Society @auslingsoc.bsky.social
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Variationist Linguist interested in minoritised varieties, language repertoires, education & language change. Living on Anaiwan lands.
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黃吉贊 ~ Queer Cantonese advocate from Aotearoa & PhD researcher @ Canterbury, NZ. he/any
Computational Sociolinguist. Place ~ Identity ~ Language.
Fulbright 24/25 @ Champaign-Urbana, IL. Views my own.
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From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
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I post mostly about Linguistics and Tolkien | PhDing at @VUamsterdam about historical linguistics & North Halmahera langs | SilmariaPodcast | {female markers}
Delightfully acerbic, brazen, queer, pākehā, deeply curious about understanding our practices as Tangata Tiriti. through a colonial class lens. Honour Te Tiriti - return stolen land, dismantle colonial systems of power.
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming and Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian. Shitposty sinology. Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Linguist, long storyteller. Ask me about stuff, but flee immediately if I say “how much do you want to know about this?”
Linguist & cognitive scientist at CityU of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 PI @pamlab.bsky.social. Phonetics, phonology, speech, bilingualism, multilingualism, DEI. he/him 🇰🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈⛸🤸 Views my own ✌️
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Indigenous language technology. PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal. Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu.
My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men :: Te Whakatōhea, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi :: Mai i te awa ki te moana 🇵🇸 :: Ka ora tonu mātou ake ake ake
Christ follower, PhDing @uoftlinguistics.bsky.social (heritage languages, LVC, morphosyntax, Cantonese), editing and admining @enwiktionary.bsky.social, learning (about) languages. Prov. 3:5–6.
效基督、學語言、語言學。箴三5–6。
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Linguist researching Vatlongos language of Southeast Ambrym, Vanuatu
Applied linguistics researcher/aficionado; Senior Lecturer & Advisor in learning, teaching. Forest dweller 🌳🌱
Love: languages, learning, people, the environment, & #MuayThai 🥊
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Let Gaza live 🍉
Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.
Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change
Linguist & postdoc at QMUL, currently working on 'Autism in Affinity Spaces'
At work, I research critical discourse analysis, digital communication, autism & specific interests, online misogyny, manosphere. For fun, I play (TT)RPGs.
Geordie. she/her
Assoc/prof in linguistics in Tampere • interested in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, language on social media, manosphere discourse• owner of a malamute
Editor-in-Chief for Pragmatics & Society
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