Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle

Out now! Rutten's Historical Sociolinguistics | With detailed explanations of core concepts, this is the first introduction to historical sociolinguistics based on multiple languages.
Find out more: ☑️ https://cup.org/4jg540r

The first talk of the term will take place this week on Thursday 23rd October at 4pm (note the later start), by Dr Amanda Cole. It will be hybrid, both in-person and online.
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We're pleased to announce four talks this term. For more details, see our website: cambridgesocioling.wixsite.com/mysite/events
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Our Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies book series publishes independent volumes concerned primarily with exploring peripheralized ways of framing and conducting language studies in both the Global South and Global North.

Find out more here: buff.ly/Gyuf88i

📢 Do you use AI tools in research + academia?

Survey for scholars working on language in society - please also consider participating if you do NOT use AI technologies.

Complete (15 min) & share by Sept 14 🙏https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/FW27T97

Iker Erdocia, Britta Schneider & Bettina Migge

🚨 New article now in early view

✍️ Maria Khachaturyan, George Moroz & Pé Mamy explore how speakers navigate grammar in multilingual settings.

Find out more about how Mano and Kpelle speakers are sensitive to contact-induced grammatical variation here 👉 buff.ly/vY6cn8z

This term there will be two talks.
9th May: 'Language ideologies in education: insights from Galicia'
16th May: 'How can historical linguistics matter to speakers today, and why are street names important?'
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I am on the look out for linguistically diverse picture books. Specifically, books that integrate multiple languages - not as bilingual picture books, but as part of the general narrative. (Bonus if they include more than two languages, but not requirement!) #langsky Please share!

Hurrah!!!!!! Thanks to Jeroen Darquennes for leading the way and for the work from De Gruyter Brill to see this into print!

YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project Our Language Was Born on the Water

"Languages like #Gullah and Tut are not broken languages, but languages forged as a means to survive. A means to preserve our spirit."

In this video, Ashani Coviello reflects on how she's reclaiming the knowledge, #languages, and power of her ancestors - and passing these on to her daughter.

Calls: Sociolinguistica: European Journal of Sociolinguistics (Jrnl) Sociolinguistica: European Journal of Sociolinguistics is a peer-reviewed journal comprising two issues per year and covering a broad range of topics related to individual and societal language use, the social conditions of language use and the impact of language on social structures. Building on the 35-year strong history of Sociolinguistica: International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics, it seeks to spearhead debates on the future of macrosociolinguistics in contexts worldwide, and now w

Calls: Sociolinguistica: European Journal of Sociolinguistics (Jrnl): Sociolinguistica: European Journal of Sociolinguistics is a peer-reviewed journal comprising two issues per year and covering a broad range of topics related to individual and societal language use, the social conditions of…

⏰ Remember: Our Call for Proposals for Theme Series is still open!
Have an idea that pushes the boundaries of sociolinguistics? Submit your proposal and shape the conversation. 🔗 buff.ly/4htwZs5

Do you speak other languages at home? This will not hold your child back at school It is common for parents to worry about raising a child to be multilingual. They may wonder, am I harming my child’s English if I speak another language at home?

Do you speak other languages at home? This will not hold your child back at school theconversation.com/...

All: Emeritus Professor Jeff Siegel: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on March 8, 2025 of Jeffrey Alan Siegel, Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia.

Jeff held a Bachelor degree from Cornell University, an MA from the…

SLCVC2025 Conference

Deadlines for abstracts for the first ever Sign Language Contact, Variation and Change conference at @unibirmingham.bsky.social is 30 March!

sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

Join us online on Friday 14th March at 3pm GMT for our next talk:
Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age by Adrian Leemann (Bern).
To sign up and receive the link, please register here: forms.office.com/e/S5fUnGBgjj

Review of my book 'Reconceptualising Power in LP' by David C. Johnson (published in Language Problems & Language Planning last week) @langpolicy.bsky.social
@camsocioling.bsky.social

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Join us online on Friday 28th February at 3pm GMT for our next talk:
Onward Migration and Heritage Languages: The Case of 'New Italians' in England by Francesco Goglia (Exeter).
To sign up and receive the link, please register here: forms.office.com/e/S5fUnGBgjj

I have been invited to give a talk on globalising multilingualism research at the University of Graz on March 6 from 17:00 to 18:00 local time (18:00-19:00 in Helsinki).

The talk is hybrid, all welcome! More info and the Zoom link are available here: lnkd.in/ePXVZiij

🤔💬 How do beliefs about a language register shape reactions to its features? Do people with strong or weak beliefs respond more intensely?

📖 Find out in @kathrynck.bsky.social’s new #OpenAccess paper!

🔗 Read here: https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12691

#Sociolinguistics #Awareness #EarlyView

Finding ‘Kape’: How Language Documentation helps us preserve an endangered language Some languages in the world are facing extinction rapidly. Language Documentation helps us to safeguard and preserve them.

Finding ‘Kape’: How Language Documentation helps us preserve an endangered language

theconversation.com/finding-kape...

Nothing says linguistics in 2025 is a problematically divided field in the UK more than having major conferences on sociolinguistics, general linguistics, and applied linguistics all on during the same week at three different locations across the UK.

Primary teachers to be trained to teach foreign languages over several years Pupils to learn French, German or other languages from third class onwards

Meanwhile in Ireland: "It is critically important that Irish children have the opportunity to learn foreign languages from an early age" 👌👏 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Aboriginal message sticks are a fascinating insight into a complex system of written communication Aboriginal message sticks are hand-carved wooden objects traditionally used to send messages across long distances, complemented by oral messages.

Aboriginal message sticks are a fascinating insight into a complex system of written communication

theconversation.com/aboriginal-m...

After 7 years as #JSLX Book Reviews and Social Media Editor I am stepping down and Andrea Sunyol (UCL) will take over this role in 2025. I wish her all the best 💫

➡️ We have just published the last 2024 episode of #JSLX Conversations with Penny Eckert & Emma Moore:

🌐 shorturl.at/dELrU

We're pleased to announce that we're organising four online talks on sociolinguistics this term. Details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
Register here: forms.office.com/e/S5fUnGBgjj

"Whatever direction linguistics may take, I hope that more and more linguists will engage with the social issues that spring from linguistic diversity." -- William Labov (2016: 596)

#linguistics #Labov #social #justice #sociolinguistics

Part of a new special issue on the sociolinguistics of hope.