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Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a co...

Pleased to share that the 2nd, revised edition of Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts will be available April 30, 2025! Lovely working with @jaceyhill.bsky.social and Sandra Wood on the revised version. www.routledge.com/Sign-Languag...

This episode is such a fascinating exploration into the role of #forensiclinguistics in examining legal cases and tackling miscarriages of justice.

#langsky #linguistics

Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand. Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zeala...

I struggle to self-promote and engage on my work and research, but this is one project I've been immensely proud of being able to share with the world. livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

Today is March 10, Tibetan Uprising Day. 66 years later, the conflict rages on, with language as a major frontier. Read more here:
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skibidi disco

JYU English seminars - 2024-25 Guest seminars in the 2024-25 academic year. Scroll down the page for abstracts. Please note: for accessibility purposes, all our talks have automated captions in English (both live and in the recordi...

📢Final talk in the 2024-25 @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English seminar series!📢

'Language, (in)securitisation of migration and counter-securitisation' (Birgül Yılmaz, University of Exeter, UK)

Tuesday 1 April, 15:00 EEST

See the abstract and register!👇 Go go go!👇
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YouTube video by Haymarket Books Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism

If you missed our conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine about Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDJ...

Finally, a future of hope after 54 years of a tyrannical dynasty in Syria We Syrians know this victory did not come easily. It is the result of years of sacrifices by martyrs, freedom fighters, and voices of activists who refused to be silenced.

We Syrians know this victory did not come easily. It is the result of years of sacrifices by martyrs, freedom fighters, and voices of activists who refused to be silenced.

Catspeak Selection: February 2025 Just a quick roundup of February 2025: everyday catwords, cats in art, cat supermeowdels. Linguistically speaking, we are dealing here with word formation (i.e. morphology). ➡️ Leave your catspeak fin...

Keith Hairball, Andy Purhol, and others. New post out now. The catspeak selection gives you examples of feline-inspired word formation #morphology #linguistics 🧪
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Lots can be said about Noam Chomsky's politics, but it's also worth noting that as a linguist, he contributed basically nothing to decades of linguistic research on justice, equity, language rights, or language endangerment and revitalization.

congratulations!! do you have a preprint available anywhere? excited to read this either way <3

For international followers: this thread is about how Māori teach our children to be confident, independent thinkers who challenge authority

And how this led to Hana-Rawhiti, the young Māori member of parliament who went viral last year for tearing the the treaty principles bill in the house.

New publication with @robertskinner.bsky.social from previous Justisigns project on investigative interviews with deaf suspects - analysing a case study with authentic data trans-int.org/index.php/tr...

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction There are some 60 languages spoken on the Tibetan Plateau. But harsh Chinese policies mean many minority languages may not be passed down to future generations.

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction.

‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens In this article, I build upon calls for an intersectional approach in sociocultural linguistic research – particularly in the context of language, gender and sexuality – which attends robustly to the...

I'm so pleased that this article is now out in the world! It's the first publication from my most recent project exploring intersectionality and marginalised identity construction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Teaching prep & reading Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal.” Brilliant & scathing critique of Power, colonialism, Zionism, the West, & more.
Releasing next week @haymarketbooks.org; preorder NOW! Mustread for westerners incldg pro-Palestine academics!🔥🤎🇵🇸

40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation Black History Month&nbsp;is not only a celebration of the&nbsp;rich history of Black&nbsp;life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder&nbsp;to engage every day with that history as we ...

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Eleanor Burke Leacock, Politics, Theory and Racism in the study of Black children

"A fundamental dilemma that has beset anthropology as a scientific discipline is that, while the societies and cultures that anthropologists have studied are predominantly those of oppressed people, the serious discussion and analysis of oppression itself has been taboo"--Eleanor Burke Leacock

NEW ISSUE 53(5): The Sociolinguistics of Hope

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very @soupdragonbea.bsky.social-coded!! excited to read <3

this has gotta be one of my favourite twitter accounts i have found so many delightful papers <3

Cartoon: my favorite SHIP dynamic: Degrammaticalization. Two figures, one big, with broad shoulders, smiling and reaching out to the other figure. The second figure is smaller and turning away. The first figure is described as follows: Noun: independent, strong, always there to provide a safe haven for suffix The second figure is described as follows: Ship: used to depend a Lot on Noun, now starting to do their own thing

I made a #linguistics meme about degrammaticalization

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Another world is possible if we fight for it

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my favourite book i <3 sociocatlinguistics