Tsung-Lun Alan Wan

Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live:
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions

lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.

This is a photo of one copy of my book on top of three other copies, with their spines facing toward the camera. The top book shows the cover of the book. Title: Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor Author: Vijay A. Ramjattan Cover Art: multi-patterned speech bubble with 4 arms of varying skin tones reaching toward it

I finally have physical copies of my book!

If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.

30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:

www.bloomsbury.com/ca/workable-...

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social / @bloomsburyling.bsky.social

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Working on this topic was a lot of fun!

Does anyone know the timeline of sociolinguistics symposium 26? Like when will they announce CfP and so on?

Calls: 1st Kansai Sociolinguistics Colloquium

I had this wonderful opportunity to write a review for Michele Friedner's ethnography of cochlear implants in India for East Asian Science, Technology and Society.

Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Linguistic experience and social factors in speech perception: the case of merged speakers of Mandarin sibilants This work explores the combined effects of social expectations and a speaker’s production characteristics on the perception of alveolar versus retroflex sibilants that are variably merged in Taiwan Ma...

How are social expectations employed in cases of mergers in progress? A study of #TaiwanMandarin #sibilants finds that merged speakers may be somewhat desensitized to acoustic cues, but they readily employ social cues in speech perception. #sociophonetics #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...

Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.

Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)

I realised I'm only a data point for my university, when they talked about my FWCI in a meeting that was supposed to discuss a science communication website I'm running.

Join us for New Ways of Analyz(s)ing Variation 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice, and Peace at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Nov 6-8, 2025.

Abstracts due June 15.

nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu

John R. Rickford: Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language We are delighted to welcome John R. Rickford, the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University.

A reminder that John R. Rickford is visiting us (UoE, @schoolofppls.bsky.social) next week to give a talk on his book, 'Speaking my Soul'. Info and registration here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-r-ric...

...and we won audience choice for best poster!! So chuffed!! 🙏🏻

Shout out to Gabrielle Hodge for telling me about the #betterposters movement.

Photo of Prof Lauren Hall-Lew standing with her poster at EMH2025

What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? 🗣️🧠 The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughts—come check it out! #EMH2025

Summer Schools: Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science Focus: Language data analysis and computing, with a particular emphasis on challenges in handling multimodal (text, audio, video) data. Description: As part of the 58th Annual Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, we are hosting a two-week course on the analysis of multimodal (text, audio, video) language data. This course will be taught by Drs Nina Markl and Charles Redmon in coordination with wider work on computational linguistics at the Institute for Analytics and Data Scien

Summer Schools: Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science

A call for papers for an edited volume on the language and linguistics of monsters/the monstrous.

Call for papers! I'm putting together an edited collection with @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social on "Monstrous Language": studies of the language of monsters, "others", and the in/unhuman.

Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.

A tour-de-force demonstration by sociophonetician @tsunglunone.bsky.social of how post-racial colorblind ideologies are violently racist: this time through the lens of Vietnamese immigrants in Taiwan.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#sociolinguistics #linguistics #racism #indexicality #TikTok

I feel researchers using machine learning should shift some of their focus to find acoustic biomarkers of dangerous politicians.

Fancy working in Taiwan? We're looking for a laboratory phonologist!

Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins.

Questions are welcomed!

fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...

This was a really engaging, interesting conversation and I thoroughly enjoyed being on the podcast. If you want to know why some people enjoy hating Richard Gere and what that has to do with language oppression, have a listen.

📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics!

📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online
🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.

ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!

🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5

@trinitycds.bsky.social The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcddublin.bsky.social is seeking an Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics. Could this be you?

universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

This is a screenshot of the volume cover. The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, & Vijay A. Ramjattan The cover art shows a green balloon with "kein mensch ist illegal" written on it.

The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice.

It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:

shorturl.at/gDhJA

語言如何映照身份——Hall-Lew與Starr的社會語音學對話（上） - 言來如此 Lingsights ｢社會語言學是一門研究語言如何在社會脈絡中運作的學科。」Starr用一句話簡單明瞭地解釋了社會語言學的核心概念。他隨即補充道，其實有兩個更細緻的定義：「其中一種研究方式，是探討語言如何在社會脈絡中運作；另一種則是透過語言來研究社會世界。」前者強調語言結構加上社會變因，後者則以語言為工具，研究社會現象，Starr表示，不同學者會依據自己的興趣從不同的角度切入，有著不同的思考模式，而這也正是Starr...

Last December @rlslinguistics.bsky.social and I visited @tsunglunone.bsky.social at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) and were interviewed by a linguistics student. Here's a summary!
lingsights.tw/articles/61

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #academia #research #findings #language

If you're still on Facebook, follow our science communication website - Lingsights! The website has a button to the English version. International followers will make my life easier due to some KPI of internationalization, & I mean, our content is good!

www.facebook.com/share/18AjUa...

QICC Conference on Queer Identities in Contemporary China

Ashley Xing and Han Shutong (two of my PhD students) are organizing a timely interdisciplinary conference on 'Queer Identities in Contemporary China' (QICC) on 7th April.

Abstracts can be submitted until Feb 15 below. It's free to attend:

English: qicc5.wordpress.com
Mandarin: shorturl.at/Vt6l8

Pride in Asia Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - Pride in Asia

Another fantastic new Element in the Cambridge Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality series - Pride in Asia by Ben Rowlett, Pavadee Saisuwan, Christian Go, Li-Chi Chen and Mie Hiramoto. Free to read for next 4 weeks! @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

First publication of my ongoing project - Raciolinguistics and Vietnamese migrants

In this article, I look at a male Taiwanese influencer who has mocked a Vietnamese accent of Mandarin in his fictional character of a Vietnamese female migrant spouse, which sparked racial controversy.

In memorial, Sherry Ash talks about the time that Bill Labov and a colleague carefully designed an experiment to analyze drunk speech…so they drank a shot of whiskey, read a passage, & recorded it, repeatedly. Unsurprisingly, the paper was never published, but it was methodologically sound! #LSA2025