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Deadline is in approximately a week's time! Submit your abstracts soon!
09.07.2025 03:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An analysis of 16 Australian TV series (2012-2021) featuring Aboriginal characters and creatives explores how language is used to represent Aboriginal English, cultures, racism, and colonization. It offers insights often missing from mainstream media.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0726...
#AJL
30.06.2025 02:33 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A new study on earthquake narratives from NZ and Nepal reveals fascinating differences in how people use onomatopoeia and/or gestures. This shows how understanding multimodal descriptions is key to grasping the shared sensory experience of a story.
Read it here: shorturl.at/lHHCC
#AJL #Gestures
26.06.2025 03:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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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If you're working on linguistics / applied linguistics research, check out the research grants, scholarships and prizes, and publication support and conference attendance support on offer here: als.asn.au/Research-Gra...
Apply now!
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If you're working on linguistics and culture of Australian Aboriginal people, the Yitpi Foundation Awards and Grants-in-Aid are now open.
Deadline: 2 June 2025 (Monday)
Find out more here: yitpifoundation.org.au/grants/
07.05.2025 02:45 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Submit your abstracts for papers if you're presenting at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society held at Griffith University (Gold Coast) from 2-5 December 2025!
Deadline: 15 June 2025
Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2025
Find out more: www.als.asn.au/Conference/2...
19.05.2025 03:28 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
If you're working on linguistics and culture of Australian Aboriginal people, the Yitpi Foundation Awards and Grants-in-Aid are now open.
Deadline: 2 June 2025 (Monday)
Find out more here: yitpifoundation.org.au/grants/
07.05.2025 02:45 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The ALS Conference is held at Griffith Universityβs 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...
11.04.2025 08:19 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
An AI generated colorful image, trying to catch the eye of potential PhD students.
Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni!
Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity.
#linguistics #evolution #academia #phd
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
24.03.2025 02:13 β π 57 π 65 π¬ 7 π 3
Abstracts due 9th May!
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24.03.2025 07:55 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Queensland!
The project, βA universal aphasia battery for assessing language disorders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who speak traditional languages and creoles", is supported by an NHMRC grant,
Find out here: lnkd.in/gDpXBwkv
25.03.2025 06:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Why do some slang words stick while others fade? Most are fleeting (βbarnaclesβ for spectacles), some go mainstream (βpatterβ for talk), but a few stay fashionable (βcroakβ for die).
Read Burridge (2024) to find out more: doi.org/10.1080/0726...
#AJL #AusEng
10.02.2025 03:13 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
π£PSA: The Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative is seeking a language manager via SEEK.
View the job opening here: www.seek.com.au/Languages-Ma...
06.02.2025 06:17 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Featured in the special edition of Australian Journal of Linguistics, From "people's poetry" to "dustbin language": Slang in Australian English, read more about the progress of 'tucker' in Australian English by Clews (2025) here: doi.org/10.1080/0726...
#AJL #AusEng
31.01.2025 05:40 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 3
Apply for accreditation with the Australian Linguistic Society to become an Accredited Linguist! Accredited Linguists are entitled to use the post-nominal ALing.
Find out more here: www.als.asn.au/Accreditatio...
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Already a member of ALS? Renew your membership with us! If you haven't, join us now! ALS members enjoy a myriad of benefits (e.g. free subscription to the Australian Journal of Linguistics, membership rates at ALS conferences, etc.)
For more info: www.als.asn.au/Membership/J...
20.01.2025 00:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
πThe 2024 Rodney Huddleston Prize goes to Ilana Mushin, Joe Blythe, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear, Rod Gardner, Francesco Possemato, and Lesley Stirling for their article "Towards an Interactional Grammar of Interjections" published in the AJL.
See: tinyurl.com/jua455wk
#AJL
16.01.2025 06:26 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
PSA: We are now on LinkedIn! Join us there if you are on the platform too!
Link: www.linkedin.com/in/australian-linguistic-society-64bba7337
17.12.2024 00:23 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Euphemisms in the Japanese culture and language are often interwoven with values of indirectness, politeness and harmony. Sakaba and Habib's (2024) explore euphemistic verbs for Japanese shinu ζ»γ¬ βdieβ using corpus analysis and NSM here: doi.org/10.1080/0726...
#AJL
13.01.2025 00:56 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
PSA: We are now on LinkedIn! Join us there if you are on the platform too!
Link: www.linkedin.com/in/australian-linguistic-society-64bba7337
17.12.2024 00:23 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Slang terms see change through generations, but some of them stand the test of time. Which Australian slang terms are still used by young people today, and which terms are out of fashion?
Read Hughes (2024):
doi.org/10.1080/0726...
#AJL #AusEnglish
16.12.2024 02:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The unspoken rule of conversation that explains why AI chatbots feel so human
When we interact with a chatbot, deeply ingrained habits make us behave as if itβs a person.
Ever felt that the AI chatbot that you are conversing with sounds really human-like? @celesterl.bsky.social wrote an article on @theconversation.com drawing the link between Grice's cooperative principle and the success of Generative AI.
Read it here: theconversation.com/the-unspoken...
10.12.2024 04:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Prof Catherine Travis: "the authors call for more attention to be given to what it means to communicate well in a linguistically diverse society, to be more aware of the importance of inclusive communication."
Recap of launch #2 of Life in a New Language at @auslingsoc.bsky.social
02.12.2024 21:44 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
How does the Australian National Dictionary treat Australian slang words? Read Laugesen (2024) in the Australian Journal of Linguistics here: doi.org/10.1080/0726...
#AJL #AusEng
09.12.2024 00:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Final day of the #ALS2024 conference! Check out the programme for today, and the plenary talk this afternoon given by Prof. Virginia Yip from CUHK.
Link: als.asn.au/Conference/2...
29.11.2024 01:30 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Woman stands at the front of a classroom, in front of a screen with a slide showing ALS themed session "Law-and-Linguistics research: language, diversity and inclusion in law"
Thinking of my colleagues and friends currently attending @auslingsoc.bsky.social annual conference in Canberra!
Here's a photo of the fabulous Dr Alexandra Grey, leading a session on language and law
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Just one more day to go!
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DECRA fellow @unimelb. Non-Indigenous psycholinguist studying event representation, complex predicates, gesture, and acquisition of Pitjantjatjara. She/they
The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
Austronesian & Austro-Tai linguistics || Fudan University (ε€ζ¦ε€§ε¦) || PhD: University of Hawaiβi at MΔnoa || Editor: OLSP & PALI || he/him. https://linktr.ee/austronesianist
The American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of language in North America. Linguists, lexicographers, educators, students, enthusiasts, and more. https://americandialect.org/
Assistant Professor | Language and Social Interaction | Center for Language and Cognition Groningen | University of Groningen
Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, Multimodality, Pragmatic Typology
Sociophonetician in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Interested in language variation and change, phonetics, dialect (typology), ethnolects, life-span change, HawaiΚ»i, creoles, and prehistoric fauna. Proud papa. he/him
I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
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Linguist, lexicographer, broadcaster, editor, writer. Co-host of fun coast-to-coast US radio language show/podcast "A Way with Words." @waywordradio.org. +1 646 286 2260 grant@grantbarrett.com #linguistics #lexicography #etymology #podcasting #writing
Linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England, on unceded Anaiwan land. Focused on Australia, Southeast Asia, West Africa.
Researcher at The Australian Message Stick Project
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Linguist. Living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. Researching: Australian Indigenous languages, sociolinguistics, ethnobotany, decolonisation and epistemologies. Always was, always will be. Also post about other random stuff.
