Right in time for #FoodAndCommunication4: our special issue "Focus on Language and Food" is out now with Anglistik 🤩 9 papers (and an introduction) that will make your foodie/linguistics heart happy. All of it open access: angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2... #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics 🍩

Second conference day about to begin, we are looking forward to talks by @larshinrichs.site, @heidevolkening.bsky.social, @ldpres.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @ryfountain.bsky.social and Chloé Thomas. Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!

The Ueber Cringe conference is nearly here! (July 7-9, Uni Heidelberg) I'll be giving a talk on "Uncouth Gurgitators" More info here: uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber...

It's warm out there people. Try to stay cool 🙏

#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #DigitalPalates 🍽

Abstract accepted for "Ueber Cringe: Ambivalent Affects and Everyday Aesthetics" (Heidelberg University, July 7-9, 2025) 😁 I'll be speaking about the ambivalent 'cringe' of competitive eating-as-entertainment 🌭 from a linguistics perspective 🗣 #Linguistics #Cringe #LanguageAndFood #PhD

R.I.P William Labov, an absolute G.O.A.T. He is one of the main reasons I became interested in linguistics and his work has had a huge influence on me and countless others. #RIPBillLabov #g.o.a.t #sociolinguistics

One story about him that I loved was that he would deliberately not correct people on how to pronounce his surname, because he was interested in the variation

How many of is walk taller, unashamed of our vernaculars, directly or indirectly because of him?

If you an Ausländer going through a visa process with your respective Ausländerbehörde in Germany, not all hope is lost. I received an email my Ausländbehörde (a famously inefficient one) - with an UPDATE. This is simply unheard of. Change is possible. #PhD #Germany #Ausländer #stillhope

The grand season finale of the #OSSO (Online Selves-Self Online) digital talk series (org. with @coocho.bsky.social) is coming up on Dec 11: Don't miss Alex Georgakopoulou's talk on "Re-positioning Positioning Analysis for Stories and Identities Online"! forms.office.com/e/LVmB9NYtPh #linguistics

Finally finished writing my first abstract for a conference, my first book review has made it to the "in press" stage, and I'm making good progress on final transcriptions for my project. Really needed some tangible movement. #linguistics #phd #academiclife

Ryan Starkey makes wonderful, well-researched maps about dialects and accents in Great Britain. But sometimes he gets silly.

Eating-pie-as-a-meal season is come. #holidayfood #teamdescriptivism #teamfun

From a Christmas market in Esslingen. They threw the whole English language on their sign. #linguisticlandscape #linguistics

Celebrated #Thanksgiving a wee later. Aside from swapping turkey for chicken, we had most of the classics.

I don't normally get hungry transcribing eating videos, but one got me today. There was a challenge with these mac and cheese tacos.

No turkey for Thanksgiving this year in Germany, but Franklin is doing his best impression. Detroit Lions on the TV. Mini lion here next to me. #Thanksgiving #cat

Save the date: next #BaFoLa lecture coming up on November 29, 12:30-13:30 CET. Ariana Gunderson will present on "Veganizing Language: Strategies for Plant-based Legibility in Germany". Official invitation going out via the mailing list soon, let me know if you'd like to join! #Linguistics

CfP: @coocho.bsky.social, @nounfraze.bsky.social, Dawn Archer & I are organizing a panel on "Influencer Discourse: Navigating the Spectrum from Positive to Negative Impact" at next year's ADDA conference (Tilburg, May 21-23) More info on the panel @ www.diggitmagazine.com/adda-5-panels #linguistics

Do you study influencer discourse? Send your abstract to our ADDA panel! We’re interested in classic 🌹👓 influencers but also in the “dark side” of social media power-users 🐦🐦

I'd like to know how common this is. I'd also like to suggest a Scottish version: "enshitetificaton" #newwords

Tschüss #Bayreuth. The ominous green Deutsche Post building is always here to see me off.

These posts from Major League Eating (MLE) are amazing. Back in July, for the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, they introduced all the competitors in this manner - they're sort of like baseball cards.

This is Beard Meats Food, a highly popular eating entertainer from the UK. His post is a good example of a stereotypical view towards the US through a food-consumption lens, namely "woah huge portions." www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-A...

The next Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (aka GURT) is on Language and Food 🤩 so much for a 'niche' topic 🙃 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #Linguistics www.eventbrite.com/e/gurt-2025-...

A new #LatestInResearch by @ryfountain.bsky.social is available on the Language on Food Instagram channel. This installment: discourses of novel foods in Singapore by Keri Matwick #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #Linguistics www.instagram.com/p/DAGqTLLq8i...

Check out our Instagram! Small update on attending ISLE2024 in Freiburg :)

Happy to report that planning for season 7 of #BaFoLa is complete! Check out the fantastic line-up for the Bayreuth Food and Language Lectures this winter: www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/en/BaFoLa/ Full program (incl. talk titles) coming soon! #LanguageAndFood #Linguistics

The Language and Food team posted some summer reading recommendations over at Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/C-ID2RQqoXI/ Have a look if you're still searching for a foodie read for the beach/balcony/swimming pool/couch/etc. #LanguageAndFood #FoodNovels

Some may feel exhausted by political discourse, but dull it is not. Take, for example, this from a Harper's Weekly Review (4 June) on North Korea's sending trash-filled balloons into South Korea: "Kim Jong-Un's sister called the balloons 'sincere presents to the goblins of liberal democracy.'"