Elisabeth Barakos

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word...

@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word....

Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Oh thank you!! 🤩 and yes, totally agreed on your points!

Now marking my cohort's papers which are original, exploratory and daring in terms of the topics researched. Thanks to my students for shaping this novel course together with me!

It was so much fun learning together about the affordances, challenges and futures of AI in linguistics, to cover topics like AI and language/culture bias, voice AI and sociolinguistic disparities, AI and translation, AI and ethics.

I had the privilege teaching a brand-new Master-level course on "Artificial Intelligence and Applied Linguistics" at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at this term. #AI #sociolinguistics #appliedlinguistics

Exciting research opportunity - Scottish Government CivTech Challenge 11.2, tackling the sparsity of useful, available data in Gaelic. Overcoming this is essential to build more robust and trustworthy Gaelic language technologies. £650,000 funding available
www.civtech.scot/civtech-11-c...

👀 I know …

Och! Diss-Kapitel haben sich frische Augen verdient ;-)

Don’t blame ChatGPT, blame society for paying women less than men!! That’s what ChatGPT actually reflects ;-)

Race Ethnicity and Education are advertising for a new editor-in-chief / team of editors: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia

conference poster with details, see https://uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber-cringe/

Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics:
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance

Kick-start to my marking season as of today: 3 full modules, with spread deadlines over the summer, 10 MA dissertation student theses in September. Plus a 9 yr-old in tow...and job applications yeahhhh. Did anyone say research or a care-free summer? Send good vibes and energy balls my darlings.

Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, ...

📖
@mpmilans.bsky.social
& I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm
🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social &
@peterbrowning.bsky.social
will present their chapters there
🌐 shorturl.at/5yo58

Liquid Languages Cambridge Core - African and Caribbean Language and Linguistics - Liquid Languages

Focusing on the multilingual Caribbean, this book examines ethnographic data and local performances of English to explore how language is constructed in discourse and via media practices.

Liquid Languages by Britta Schneider, Coming Soon

#LangSky #Linguistics

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Still buzzing from the fantastic #BAAL /@CambridgeUP Seminar on #GenAI in #AppliedLinguistics & #TESOL last Friday at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social!

Huge thanks to all speakers, poster presenters, our volunteers & everyone who joined us! 🙏

More updates coming soon: lnkd.in/eqtZhkpR

Wobei ich finde, dass es im dt. akademischen Raum wenig Diskussion zu Language and Social Class gibt (sei es im Edu-Bereich oder im Linguistik Bereich). Im Anglo-Bereich gibt es hier einiges einiges.

Ja!! Genau so ist’s. Und dazu brauchen wir endlich mehr bzw. wieder Forschung - class and (language) education

Oh I have an Osman at home as well!! Quite liked it.

He is so frightening!

Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.

🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

NEW #OA FROM 54(2)

"Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian" by Ruth Kircher, ‪@ethankutlu.bsky.social & @mirjamvellinga.bsky.social

#LanguageIdeology #MinorityLanguages #LanguageRevitalisation #NewSpeakers
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Hi Marián, ty for your interest. It’s (Forthcoming). Schwieter, J. W., & Dewaele, J-M. (Eds.). Multilingualism. Bloomsbury. Doesn’t seem to be on the web yet.

Proofing this one (finally 🥳) for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics volume “#Multilingualism” (Ed. Schwieter & Dewaele) with Charlotte Selleck

At the #edtechinnovate event today in London. Super interesting to learn about the most recent debates about the future of #edtech and #AI

Are these internal guidelines? Would love to read them. Each uni has different ones it seems. Ha.

Policy Roundtable (RISE UP & NPLD) Policy Roundtable: Bridging the Gap Between Language Policy Planning and Language Policy Making

Register now for our upcoming (hybrid) Policy Roundtable! 📆📣
At the event, we will explore a key challenge in the field of language policy: how can we bridge the gap between the language policies we design and the realities of implementing them on the ground?

Great guest talk today by Dr Kinga Kozminska (Birkbeck) about "Why does voice #AI listen with an accent and what can we do about it?" in my "AI and Applied Linguistics seminar". We learnt so much from Kinga's sociolinguistic+socio-phonetic expertise in approaching 'voice AI' #sociolinguistics

Here comes the infamous ‘z‘ cringe from my side whenever my first name is spelt wrong. 😑 but the wrong auto-complete is interesting because the (AI-powered) algorithm must surely have picked up on your correctly spelt name in your previous email
communications you’d think 🤔 .