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Books: World Englishes in the 21st Century: Rüdiger, Neumaier, Leuckert and Buschfeld (eds.) (2025)

Düsseldorf has a (very big and nice) public library right next to the train station and I think it's the best idea in Civil Engineering ever 😍.

Only 10 days left until the final abstract submission deadline – don't miss your chance to join us!

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It was great to see people I haven't met in a while, meet new people and put a face to names I have read multiple times 😁

Sylvanian families bunny figure dresses in a red polkadot nightgown and lying in a single wooden bed bed on its tummy. One of the arms is hanging down the bed and the figure seems to be staring at the camera. The room has white, soft carpet floor and dusty pink wallpaper.

I have sadly not taken any fotos, but this is basically me after two wonderful days of the second edition of Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (organised by @div-ling.org and @hhu.de). I am extremely grateful to the organisers and the students assistants, who have done an amazing job 💜

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits at the University of Stuttgart (1-year extension possible). Research topic is open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching obligations until Summer 2027, some light teaching after […]

My legacy: being the one that all students and former classmates text even years after leaving a university to ask about admin stuff.

Communication theories : critical concepts in media and cultural studies / edited by Paul Cobley : Paul Cobley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 4 v. : 24 cm

It's available to borrow here: archive.org/details/comm...

A big big thank you to all the students who participated in the workshop yesterday! 🤗✨

Last call: are you interested in the governance of emergent tech?

Come & work w/me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social

We are looking for 3 Post Docs in
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5

Deadline is June 15, 2025

Thanks!! 💜😁

Really excited to facilitate this workshop next week! 🤗

Qué lengua noble el alemán que nos da palabras tan buenas y necesarias como "Spaßgetränk" 🙏

I like languages and I like the way humans use them, I’m glad we have languages

Bild mit zwei regenbogenfarbenen Kreisdiagrammen. Über dem oberen Diagramm steht "was viele Leute sich leider weiterhin unter Pride vorstellen". Das Diagramm ist in Hälften geteilt, welche mit "Regenbogen" und "Paraden" beschriftet sind. Darunter die Überschrift des zweiten Diagramms: "was Pride tatsächlich ist". Dieses Diagramm hat 16 Teile, beschriftet mit: es ist okay, nicht geoutet zu sein, wenn das sicherer ist; Alltagstrott als wahres Ich; ein soziales Netz haben; sich frei fühlen; sich selbst lieben können; Diskriminierung durchstehen; Regenbogen; akzeptiert und respektiert sein; Gendereuphorie; junge queere Menschen beschützen; Kampf um gleiche Rechte; die ehren, die vor einem schon gekämpft haben (insb. PoC); sich in sich zu Hause fühlen; intersektionelle Bestätigung; queerer Sex; Feiern. Unter dem Diagramm steht "...und noch so viel mehr". Ganz unten ist angegeben, dass das Original von blessthemessy stammt; die übersetzte und angepasste Version von dmncschmtz.bsky.social.

Weils offensichtlich immer noch so viele nicht verstehen: das ist queer Pride.

Sí, un proceso continuo.

Veo dos opciones, o es una predicción a futuro (aún no empezó) o una suposición sobre el presente (puede ser que haya aumentado, pero no lo sé con seguridad).

CfP for the workshop “Queer Linguistics at the interface between grammatical and social structure”, which will take place as a part of the 49. Österreichische Linguistiktagung (Austrian Linguistics Conference, ÖLT) in Klagenfurt, Austria, from December 5 to 8, 2025.

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One chapter deserves special mention: it's based on the fantastic course work of my students in a class on gender linguistic methods @hhu.de.

In "Form identity & gendered associations", we explore how similar forms influence gender associations across L1/L2.

Huge thanks to my brilliant co-authors!

Theoretical and empirical basis for gender-fair language use: The case of Spanish Theoretical and empirical basis for gender-fair language use: The case of Spanish was published in Linguistic intersections of language and gender on page 173.

New chapter with @lvplo.bsky.social!! "Theoretical and empirical basis for gender-fair language use: The case of Spanish"
doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Linguistic intersections of language and gender Linguists have been interested in the relation of language and gender for a long time, yet only recently has the field diversified extensively in both its research questions and its methods. However, ...

🚨 Just published: "Linguistic intersections of language and gender" – an edited volume born from the very first edition of our conference of the same name!

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#linguistics #gender #openaccess

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Understanding (mis)gender(ing) and pronouns from a politeness theory standpoint Understanding (mis)gender(ing) and pronouns from a politeness theory standpoint was published in Linguistic intersections of language and gender on page 83.

"Linguistic intersections of language and gender. Of gender bias and gender fairness" is finally out! 🥰

Thanks to editors Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein and Viktoria Schneider 💜

@div-ling.org @dmncschmtz.bsky.social @hhu.de

🔗 My contribution:
doi.org/10.1515/9783...

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And they CHARGE for that?

Yes, we can all laugh at this, but it also demonstrates the entire point of the AI push: They want to make you dependent on it to inform you, and then control what it tells you. It’s why they buy newspapers and social media, too.

Elon is showing the billionaire playbook in the dumbest way possible.

Myths of meritocracy infiltrate many aspects of language learning.

For example, if you do not achieve "native-like" pronunciation, it was because you did not try hard enough (rather than the fact that few people can live up to such an unrealistic standard).

Dozent und TikTok-Star macht Video zum ESC - Deutschland Düsseldorf. Nach seinem erfolgreichen TikTok-Video bringt der Düsseldorfer Uni-Dozent „Phonobro“ am Montag ein neues Video zum ESC raus. Was hinter der Aktion

Dozent und TikTok-Star macht Video zum ESC

https://www.europesays.com/de/103727/

Düsseldorf. Nach seinem erfolgreichen TikTok-Video bringt der Düsseldorfer Uni-Dozent „Phonobro“ am Montag ein neues Video zum ESC raus.…#de #deutschland

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🎉 Registration now open!
Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender.

Date: 12-13 August 2025
Location: Düsseldorf @hhu.de & online
Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/

We look forward to seeing you there!

This is a screenshot of the front cover of the book. The top half contains the title, "Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor," and my full name, Vijay A. Ramjattan. The bottom half contains a multi-coloured speech bubble with multiracial hands reaching out to it from four corners.

My very first book is available for pre-order!

Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor.

Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R

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