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#sociolinguistics

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Joshua McNeill

Here's a clip of the #Welsh #language being mocked in the #horror #film The Old Dark House back in 1932: "Even Welsh ought not sound like that." It seems exceptional that #languageattitudes towards Welsh have remained as positive as they are (Lee 2016) despite the sort of long-lived casual overt stigmatization that this clip suggests.

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #languageideology #languagecontact #Wales #England #UK

youtu.be/wk5EwkRPBiU

YouTubeThe Old Dark House (1932) - Joke at the expense of WelshBy Josh McNeill
Joshua McNeill

#TIL the term #yuppie, or at least the "yup" part, is an #acronym for "young #urban #professional". While the sort of people I interview in #rural #Louisiana for my #research are obviously not #yuppies -- I blame my lack of knowledge on the term on that -- a surprising number of these #francophones and #creolophones are white collar #professionals, specifically many are #teachers, #principals, and #lawyers.

#linguistics#etymology#lexicology
DiscourseNet

Check out our new Episode of the DiscoursNet Podcast #CriticallyLinked about Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana and 'Serving the White Order' –
with Amandine Kingambo, Lou Paquet, and Dounia Sabrallah.

Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana is a contemporary sociolinguist and a lecturer incultural and #PostcolonialStudies at the Open University of the Netherlands.
In today’s episode, we experiment with a slightly new format. Critically
Linked has 3 wonderful guests – Amandine Kingambo, Lou Paquet, Dounia
Sabrallah – all of them Bachelor students from UCLouvain Saint-Louis
Bruxelles coordinated by Prof. Thomas Jacobs. Amandine, Lou, and Dounia willbe hosting this edition of the podcast with a conversation about Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana’s thesis “Serving the White Order. Making Bilingual Security Workers in #Brussels.

funkwhale.it/library/tracks/17 #Sociolinguistics #DiscourseStudies

Ergative Absolutive

Hey, if you know #sociolinguistics and #phonetics, there's a beer-money job available at Glasgow University:

(don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print we see that it's 0.4 FTE).

jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/tutor-slash

This is a reasonable position if ALL of the following are true:

1) you do not have a better job and want an affiliation while looking
2) you want an academic career (ugh, why tho?)
3) You ALREADY live nearby.

(open to nearly-PhDs, too)

www.jobs.gla.ac.ukTutor / Lecturer in Phonetics and · University of GlasgowCollege of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Tutor / Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS)Vacancy Ref: 178252Salary, Grade 6/7, £33,48...
#linguistics#academicChatter
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Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith

@serpicojam Most of the arguments for "y'all" that I've seen over the past ten years are based on the perception that "you guys" is sexist. Weird that nobody in the article mentions that.

My dad was from Texas, and he maintained some of his accent, but I don't remember him ever saying "y'all." I think that's why I associate the word with the other aspects of Texas he rejected: racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and general intolerance.

#yall#linguistics#sociolinguistics
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Natasha Warner

Every year when we do our mandatory anti-discrimination online training, it requires us to click (twice, on the same question) saying that yes, it's OK to discriminate on the basis of a job candidate having a non-native accent in their English, even though the question implies that the candidate's English is probably just about proficient enough for the job. For the second year in a row, I just attempted to find out which office controls this thing, and wrote to them to ask them to change or delete this question. This time I offered that the Linguistics department will be happy to write them some better questions that actually teach about linguistic discrimination based on either racially-coded dialect or non-native accent. Last time I got a response along lines of "the question reflects what the law says." We'll see if I do better this year. Credit to @amyfou for pointing out to me last year how the question implied the L2 speaker's English actually was good enough, rather than not good enough, for the job. #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

Joachim Scharloth

This week I'm at the 20th Historical #Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) #conference in Bristol. I was first in Bristol 20 years ago for the Language History from Below conference, at which we founded #HiSoN (though not during the Sherry Reception, as is sometimes claimed). My colleagues Nils Langer, Wim Vandenbussche and Stephan Elspaß did all the work. Though my research interests have developed in a different direction, I am very impressed by how the conference has flourished!

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