Yet as @johannagerwin.bsky.social’s own interviews demonstrate, cockney remains a potent cultural identity a in the 2020s, both among those who speak in or whose parents spoke in a cockney dialect, as well as across a broader range of Londoners, including from minority backgrounds.

We’re going to be starting with @johannagerwin.bsky.social’s article ‘The Persistence and Revival of Cockney: Language and Identity in Twenty-First-Century London’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had ‘a good rabbit’ with the lovely Dr. Johanna Gerwin in Hamburg, whom I got to know a couple of years back when helping with her research for the cockney language. A researcher for English Linguistics, the work that Johanna does is fascinating. @johannagerwin.bsky.social

A new issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now available (benjamins.com/catalog/jlpo...), featuring contributions as shown below. We invite submissions (including interdisciplinary ones) on a rolling basis- see the JLPop website for further information: benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop

And suddenly it's done...manuscript of my book about #LondonTalks research is finished, and doubles as Habilitation (German post-doc qualification)

We talked to @johannagerwin.bsky.social about MLE in this episode – how the media represent it, how that can be analysed, and what we can learn from it all about language discourses: open.spotify.com/episode/1IwA...

This is followed by 'The Persistence and Revival of Cockney: Language and Identity in Twenty-First-Century London', by @johannagerwin.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

New paper out on my London Talks (www.londontalksresearch.co.uk) research! #Cockney #London www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oooh! Lovely copy on my desk this am with an AMAZING array of pieces eg Judy Simons on war novels, Nicolas Tredell on consciousness in fiction, @jessonthestreet.bsky.social on Notts Stylistic Toolkit, Wendy Lennon on Shakespeare, @johannagerwin.bsky.social on MLE & much more!

And we've also got a discussion of the recently published paper, 'Learn Jakaikan in 2 Minutes' by @johannagerwin.bsky.social before we go to the source and talk to Johanna about her paper and the ways in which MLE has been enregistered in the UK press - perfect for some Lang Discourses revision.

Here's @johannagerwin.bsky.social on media representations of MLE.

New paper out on enregisterment, humour and the performance of English dialects, and it's open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...