Søren Sandager Sørensen

Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature (English unit) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is located in the research proje

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Hm, that's interesting!

but as linguists, we cannot stop working to establish minimal pairs...

We must study this and publish it in "Journal of Journals of Linguistics"

Let's make journals that are only distinct from previous journals by the capitalization!

There's a journal called "Linguistics", which is different from the journal "Journal of Linguistics". There's also the journal "Language" which is different from the journal "Languages". Obviously we need to establish the "Journal of Language" and "Journal of Languages" to finish this mess. 🐦🐦

Praat easily lets you remove sound, but not without messing up your annotations... I wish it was simple to just replace it with silence instead of complete removal 😭

I have a suuuuuuuper niche question about tense usage in Ancient Greek lexicography who do I know who might know stuff about this???? All pointers and bibliography suggestions greatly received!!! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Productive relaxation?

Is it just me or did the video guides on the Gailbot website break? I looked at them recently...

I hate the ICCA "registration" website already and I only wanted to see descriptions of the workshops

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teot...

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Travaux du cercle linguistique de Copenhague Vol. XVII The Theory of Presupposition Failure By Peter Harder and Christian Kock. Cover art includes a speech bubble with the phrase "When did you stop beating your wife?"

You can't convince me that these are the real names of the authors of this study. Harder & Kock (1976) isn't real.

Screenshot from Urban Dictionary definition for "Urban Dictionary Likes and Dislikes" They removed it because this website is now run by idiotic cunts apparently User1: Why can't I see the Urban Dictionary Likes and Dislikes? User2: Yeah what's up with the website, is it a bug? User3: No, this website has just gone to shit User1 and User2: Aw fuck that sucks, now it's unusable by KeepTheDamnSocksOn September 20, 2025 Link: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Urban%20Dictionary%20Likes%20and%20Dislikes

From around late July 2025, Urban Dictionary no longer shows an upvote/downvote count. Nobody knows why. It might just be a bug, or it may have been intentional.

The missing counts make the site unusable for slang researchers like me :-(

Are you teaching prescriptivism this year? If so, please consider introducing your students to YourWrong.co.uk. It could form part of a seminar activity or prep! I'd also be very happy to provide some corpus examples for a small analysis task. Just get in touch!

Casual reminder that the Tocharian B adjective meaning 'bad, evil' is yolo.

Emic and etic, maybe...

Bonus points if texts are in Norwegian/another scandinavian language

Do you know any good texts/quotes on conceptualizations of "language" or other notions somewhat related to #linguistics? Or any other kind of ideas/material to inspire teaching a class about Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics in a "language theory" course #emca 🐦🐦

The alternate spelling <pive> of the #Danish verb otherwise spelt <pibe> 'squak, whine' was added to the orthograpic dictionary last year. This better reflects common pronunciation. I'm not sure there are other <b>=[w] words that have both spellings? 🐦🐦

Abstract accepted for @icca2026.bsky.social !!!

First article of my PhD is published!

It examines how midwives raise the topic of violence in antenatal care. Using CA of 35 consultations, we show that asking about violence involves subtle, interactional work - not just delivering a question.

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"There will be one linguistics, or there will be none" (Haberland & Mey 1977) 😵

I'm getting error code "429 Too Many Requests" from the EMCAwiki :(

YOU can review our Grammar in Action book! Please do it!!! I want people's honest opinions!

No one has received any abstract decisions for ICCA, right?

A yellow tram, decorated with cartoon characters and a short text in the Glagolitic script

Glagolitic! On a tram!

Review: Typology: Otto Jespersen; Brett Reynolds, Peter Evans; Olli O. Silvennoinen (2025) SUMMARY This book, “Negation in English and Other Languages” (henceforth “Negation”), written by Otto Jespersen and edited by Brett Reynolds and Peter Evans with an introduction by Olli O. Silvennoinen, is a newly second edition of Jespersen’s 1917 classic. This edition makes this work more accessible, preserving its historical significance and enhancing its usability and applicability for contemporary readers. The editors’ contributions are significant. The new edition is supplemented wit

Review: Typology: Otto Jespersen; Brett Reynolds, Peter Evans; Olli O. Silvennoinen (2025)

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"fascinating, but not quantitative" - sounds like a parody of a review 😂