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This is the point I was trying to make a few weeks back about academics continuing to use that platform, although in somewhat more euphemistic terms...

Yeah I see it a *lot* in public facing articles and tbf, that's the language people in the world use, so fine.

But my beef is with a published article (not to be named!) that refers to "shifting between formal and informal speech styles" as code-switching 😬

Sure, both are types of intraspeaker variation *but* the terms originate from different traditions and carry distinct theoretical baggage from those traditions... 😬

I mean, I'd hope... But the 'one rule for them' mentality is something I encounter a lot 🫠

Speaking in a more formal way at work than at home = style-shifting. Switching between English and Mandarin = code-switching.

I realllllly wish people wouldn't use 'code-switching' interchangeably with 'style-shifting'. It's really hard to mark an essay that conflates the two when they cite a source that literally does the same thing 😭

We have someone in management with the same idea... "We'll do less with less"...

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

This is outrageous.

Academics/universities consistently take the high horse and ask 'what are we going to do about students using AI?!' when there's literally universities teaching courses with AI generated slides... Like come on.

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Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research!

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Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management Language technologies such as voice user interfaces, large language models and machine translation tools are embedded in an ever-growing range of digi…

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I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy
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Congrats!!! This looks great :)

I got it yesterday as a present for the endorsement 😁 Such a lovely book + I very much appreciate the design. Congrats - a massive achievement!!!!

Congratulations, Marah!!!! Excellent work :) We'll look forward to celebrating with you in a few weeks 🙌

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Researching Language and Digital Communication Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Routledge. The book is an introduction to research on l…

@christianilbury.bsky.social is another recent addition to the Starter Pack, and joined @brynnquick.bsky.social for an interview earlier this year to discuss his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide. A great discussion!
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EMC response to Curriculum and Assessment Review Report EMC's response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review, exploring its implications for English and Media teaching in secondary schools

Here's our response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review. We're v hopeful it holds out the possibility of real change in secondary English - more oracy, media, drama, proper language study + better GCSEs! englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...

Russell*

*7%* of the UK population is privately educated...

There's no figures that I can find for UK academia but I expect it to be extremely skewed...

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Some of these figures still shock me:

- 62% of Senior Judges went to a private school
- Social elites are 5 x more likely to have attended private school
- They are 5 x more likely to have gone to a Russel Group Uni and *21 x* more likely to have gone to Oxbridge

I'm leading a training session on class and classism for some tutors this week. Alongside my personal narrative (state-educated, first in family, mum with physical disability, dad = bus mechanic, w/c family from Hounslow), I'm drawing on the Sutton Trust report 'Elitist Britain 2025'.

The website also provides some basic information on accent bias and linguistic discrimination as well as suggestions for some possible interventions/strategies to tackle these issues. The website is open to all and all resources can be used freely (with attribution).

The website brings together a host of resources we've developed including:
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Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:

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Congrats! Amazing article -- looking forward to assigning this in class :)

New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:

My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture

3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible.
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Strong agree.

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