De wetenschap die taal bestudeert heeft in het Nederlands drie namen: taalkunde, taalwetenschap en linguïstiek. (Wat iedereen moet weten over taal, 11) neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/wat-...

It's out and #OpenAccess! Beyond Monolingual Views: The Language Ideologies of Multilinguals on Anglicisms in French and German in Critical Multilingualism Studies 🤩 journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/cms/article/...

Bo Burnham’s ‘Welcome to the Internet’ would be even more interesting now AI is polluting it even more.

Prachtig onzinnig. En het was nog tweetalig ook. Juist een mooie fluïde talige manier van de grens oversteken!

We need an economic system that doesn’t rely on having babies and going shopping.

Cool initiatief: Een Nederlandse vertaling van Pokémon Crystal (ook mijn favoriet als kind)

Woop woop!

Linguistics and slang at Eurovision! Malta had entered the song "Kant", which means "singing" in Maltese. The main hook of the song went "do, re, me, fa, so, suh, serving kant". There was an official complaint (probably the BBC), and now the song has been changed. Go to 1:00 to hear it.

Reminder: tomorrow is your last chance to submit an abstract for our panel on language and religion!

When I have more time on my hands I would love to write about language choice and the reception of those choices (e.g. dialects/minority languages) in Eurovision. I mean the song by Estonia this year is in Italian, English and Spanish? (It's amazing)

Cool linguistic project alert! How do language rules and judgments show up in popular culture? Dr. Emma Humphries is collecting examples of prescriptivism, and you can contribute your own example at this link: yourwrong.co.uk

The title of my next article is inspired by a song from Shrek the Musical, and no one can stop me. Well… maybe Reviewer 2 can. We'll see.

Just registered for @lingcomm.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to it.

So my PhD supervisors told me that references do not belong in conference abstract, but I see references in those abstracts all the time. What does academic Bluesky think?

It’s been accepted! Looking forward to presenting my paper on language ideologies and religious beliefs in a multilingual church in the Netherlands!

Agree. I think people are dying for reasons to put away their phone.

This would actually be great for me, as I use a dumbphone but I’d still love to listen to music on the go.

Vanavond bij het evenement ‘Welke taal spreekt Den Haag’ geweest. 18 sprekers van verschillende talen lazen een gedicht of tekst voor in hun moedertaal, en in het Nederlands als tweede taal. Veel van de teksten gingen over de zoektocht naar identiteit en verdriet en vreugde over het vaderland.

“Those who don’t know foreign languages know nothing of their own.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

linguistics pals, is there any critical work on the notion/term/concept/ideology of the "language barrier"? as in a critique of the framing of language as a border/wall/fence/etc 🐦🐦 #linguistics

Exciting news! We'll soon announce a call for a PhD position. The candidate should have an MA in Chinese and/or Japanese as a FL or similar. Topics include motivation for multilingual learning in old age, teaching multiple languages, and multilingualism in society—and other multilingualism topics!

Linguistic diversity in organizations is treated as a problem to solve rather than an inherent feature of any organization.

Me: I'm great at interviewing. Also me:

I really admire the work linguist Leonie Cornips is doing on communication of dairy cows. Very cool to come across this write up of her work by the BBC! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

Great initiative: a summer school for teachers on linguistic justice to reflect on their underlying negative assumptions regarding language varieties and how this can cause discrimination. ahead.mmu.ac.uk/2025/01/16/l...

Come join us at our panel at the EuARe in Vienna!

Do you work on religion and language? Join our panel at #EuARe2025 in Vienna this summer! In 'Access to the Divine', we explore the impact of language choices in religious practice, both historical and contemporary. Here's our abstract, let me know if you've got any questions! @evenelise.bsky.social

Is anyone able to access a chapter from The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology for me? I want to read the chapter on Missionization and Language by Lise M. Dobrin but none of my institutions have access to the digital version. #linguistics #sociolinguistics

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

I just can’t stop playing around with this English-accent guessing tool: start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser Making up weird accents to try to fool it. Most of the times it still hears I’m Dutch. 😂

Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)

Every time I send an abstract to a conference, I spend the day checking my email for a response, even though I know it could take months for them to decide. Please send help.

Language planning in action! www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...

The so-called multilingual perspective on translanguaging suggests that the core question up for debate is whether languages exist. But the question I am more interested in is how languages and the borders between them come to exist. Spoiler alert: colonialism plays a big part in that.

So are we really calling posts on Bluesky 'skeets'? I don't know it just sounds dirty for some reason.

Christian Uffmann wins linguist prof of 2024. This video is iconic. Definitely worth watching and I say this as someone who is terminally not interested in watching video content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...

All these advent calendars I see on my timeline makes me want to make a sociolinguistics advent calendar.

Doe. Het. Niet. @d66nl.bsky.social @henribontenbal.bsky.social @christenunie.bsky.social

#doehetniet. @d66nl.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social

On the way to Tampa for #AAA2024! FYI, the Linguistic Anthropology starter pack has a feed, which you can use to keep up with people skeeting from the conference (and beyond). go.bsky.app/MQijNGW

Big fan of this book!

Sociolinguists use linguistic variation to make sense of the world, and Lippi-Green explains brilliantly and passionately what that means for American English speakers. It's a textbook, but it's accessible and fun, and worth picking up even if you're only vaguely interested in sociolinguistics.

Today at a course on supervision, I learnt about this excellent tool called 'the research story', where you write a small story in fairytale format based on your thesis/paper/essay.

The presenters at this concert in the Netherlands use both Dutch and English, but without translation. Linguists call this receptive multilingualism. I’m curious if people know of other examples in different contexts where this happens?

Gisteravond bij de avond van de filmmuziek, ongelofelijk mooi. Muziek van Forest Gump, Gladiator, Interstellar, Conquest of Paradise, Game of Thrones…kippenvel.