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Joshua McNeillA few years ago I designed a <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> activity for students based on Purnell et al.'s (1999) and Baugh's (2015) findings on <a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguisticprofiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguisticprofiling</a>. Today I wanted to make sure it was still a relevant issue for them to discuss, and Kurinec & Weaver (2021) and K. E. Wright (2023) suggest that it still very much is. Fortunate for lesson planning, unfortunate for the world.<a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a>

Ergative AbsolutiveHey, if you know <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> and <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phonetics</a>, 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). <a href="https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/tutor-slash-lecturer-in-phonetics-and-sociolinguistics-lts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/tutor-slash-lecturer-in-phonetics-and-sociolinguistics-lts</a>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)<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a>

Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith<a href="https://mas.to/@serpicojam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@serpicojam</a> 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.<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/yall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#yall</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a>

Strong LanguageHow do attitudes to swearing differ in Australia, the UK and the US? New research by YouGov: <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/52557-how-do-attitudes-to-swearing-differ-in-australia-the-uk-and-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/52557-how-do-attitudes-to-swearing-differ-in-australia-the-uk-and-the-us</a><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/swearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#swearing</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/profanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#profanity</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a>

Natasha WarnerEvery 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 <a href="https://lingo.lol/@amyfou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@amyfou</a> 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. <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sociolinguistics</a>

MidsouthMouth.OctaviaKeats"Thought-stopping clichés" Wikipedia<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/cults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cults</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/CoersiveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoersiveControl</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/groups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#groups</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#culture</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9</a>

Stan CareyOn the blog, a review of the linguistics book 'New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research' <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/book-review-new-horizons-in-prescriptivism-research-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/book-review-new-horizons-in-prescriptivism-research-2024/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/prescriptivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prescriptivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnglishUsage</a>

Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟‍♂️Our article lead by the brilliant Hanna-Mari Pienimäki with <a href="https://fediscience.org/@tuomo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tuomo</a> received an award for being a <a href="https://vis.social/tags/TopViewedArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TopViewedArticle</a> in the Journal of <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sociolinguistics</a>.We explored the spatiotemporal and affective qualities of linguistic landscapes at three linguistically diverse neighborhoods in <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Helsinki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Helsinki</a>, <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Finland</a>. 📜 Read the article: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12633" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12633</a><a href="https://vis.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/multilingualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multilingualism</a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/LinguisticLandscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinguisticLandscape</a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/tutkimus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tutkimus</a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/forschung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forschung</a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/forskning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forskning</a>

The Miscellaneous LeninistA Philosophy of Language <a href="https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/1071ecb7-4853-4f3e-b1cb-0f640826f93c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/1071ecb7-4853-4f3e-b1cb-0f640826f93c</a>

The Miscellaneous LeninistMarxism After Marx | Gramsci: Language and Politics <a href="https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e419a81d-29ed-4cf4-8b2c-2afa9317bb71" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e419a81d-29ed-4cf4-8b2c-2afa9317bb71</a>

Joshua McNeillSpotted a (exaggerated?) representation of the <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Southernvowelshift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Southernvowelshift</a> in a <a href="https://h4.io/tags/HauntofFear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HauntofFear</a> issue c1950s: "can't" as [keɪnt] rather than [kænt].<a href="https://h4.io/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phonetics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/phonology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phonology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/dialectology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialectology</a>

That Word ChatPremiering today on YouTube:Kelly Elizabeth Wright joins <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThatWordChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThatWordChat</a> to discuss new words, language in flux, and why linguistic justice matters. Watch the full episode: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lexicography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lexicography</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sociolinguistics</a>

wzhkevinQuestion for <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> and <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> from an ex-linguist who never did any work outside Southeast Asia: Do we reckon current… relations between the US and Canada are likely to have any long-term sociolinguistic implications in Canada?Asking out of interest because anecdotally, I recall a Canadian friend telling me in 2019 that whenever abroad he tended to exaggerate stereotypically Canadian aspects of his speech, to avoid being mistaken for American. (Not sure it worked, though)

That Word ChatDue to an emergency, John Kelly can’t join us today. Instead, we’re welcoming sociolinguist and lexicographer Kelly Elizabeth Wright, who tracks emerging words for the American Dialect Society.She’ll share insights on linguistic justice, language trends, and why words matter.Join us: bit.ly/ThatWordChat <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lexicography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lexicography</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThatWordChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThatWordChat</a>

Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟‍♂️I just stumbled upon an interesting journal called Journal of Language and Discrimination. Seems like it has a bunch of good stuff on <a href="https://vis.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> and <a href="https://vis.social/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#segregation</a> in various contexts. Super-focused on <a href="https://vis.social/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> and <a href="https://vis.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a>, but clearly some room for <a href="https://vis.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geography</a> as well.Sadly, none of the articles I was interested in are OA, but I'll see if I can read some of them tomorrow, when I am connected to the university network.Also, how did I not know this journal existed?

Leah BobetFriendly fellow less-lapsed linguists: Is there a term for a sociolect that's organized around/has its shared traits in how its speakers use *affect* without that being gramatically encoded?I'm trying to think a thought over here and I was a little too much in lexical choice/syntax to ride this ride.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a>

Joshua McNeillAnother fun <a href="https://h4.io/tags/citationhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#citationhole</a> today: Susberry (2004) claimed that <a href="https://h4.io/tags/antimiscegenation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antimiscegenation</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#laws</a> were passed in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> after the <a href="https://h4.io/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilWar</a>. She cited Dubois & Melançon (2000) for this. However, the latter only talked about a CAMPAIGN to outlaw <a href="https://h4.io/tags/miscegenation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#miscegenation</a>, thus quoting a news article that they said was from "Le Moniteur" that they found in Domínguez (1986). BUT, Domínguez got the quote from Le Carillon, whose name even appears in D&M's translation of the quote.<a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#race</a>

Stan Carey"To understand the relationship between patriarchal society and the language of its members is to begin to understand the nature of power" —Jane Mills<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JaneMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JaneMills</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a>

Joshua McNeillAnd another citation hole: Referencing a <a href="https://h4.io/tags/discriminatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discriminatory</a> law aimed at free people of color in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a>, Susberry (2004) cited Gehman (1994) who actually described the law(s) completely differently and cited Schweninger (1989), Blassingame (1973), and Tregle (1992), one of whom may or may not have actually cited the damn law(s) directly.<a href="https://h4.io/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a>

Joshua McNeillMore on how poor citations can be: Susberry (2004), writing about <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Whites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Whites</a> and White <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Creoles</a> unifying after the <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> Purchase to dominate all people of color, cited G. R. Daniel (1992). That chapter, which was a useful analysis of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#race</a> itself, made literally no mention of Louisiana nor Creoles. This is why I'll always be an advocate for regularly citing page numbers regardless if people think that's "grad student style" or not.<a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a>

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