📜 PhD funding at the University of Westminster through the Quintin Hogg Trust for 2027-28

Looking to pursue a PhD in #sociolinguistics (e.g. language variation and change; multilingualism; migration; home, heritage, and community languages), then do reach out

www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Soundscapes of Northumbria 4: “A certain indescribable inversion of cadence ...”
#linguistics #language #dialect #sociolinguistics #prosody #intonation #Northumbria #Newcastle #Sunderland #TyneandWear #Geordie

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW

"From Afro-American anthropology to the ethnography of literacy: Conversations with John F. Szwed" by Jamie Duncan

doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#Afro-AmericanAnthropology #UrbanEthnography #Sociolinguistics #Writing #Reading #Literacies

The ghosts of old morphology
#linguistics #language #dialect #sociolinguistics #morphology #northeastengland #Northumbria #Scots #tyneandwear #adverbs

Liadilla montando diapositivas con vídeo incluido. Deberían convalidar un título de técnico en audiovisuales.
#sociolinguistics #englishstudies @unedfilo.bsky.social

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia:
TRENDSETTERS October 2026 Column🖊️

Philippine Schools Overseas as meso-level facilitators of intergenerational circular migration
by Jeconiah Dreisbach

#UAE #PSOs #OFWs #Sociolinguistics
kyotoreview.org/issue-43/phi...

“Eeeeeee!”
#linguistics #language #dialect #sociolinguistics #wotd #pragmatics #northumbria #Mackem #Sunderland #tyneandwear

🔗 doi.org/10.4324/9781...
NEW! English-Medium Instruction in #Estonia: Policy Agendas and Ideological Tensions.
#EnglishMediumInstruction #EMI #HigherEducation #LanguagePolicy #Sociolinguistics #Estonia #Internationalisation #Multilingualism #AcademicPublishing #Routledge #InterculturalCommunication

Pleased to be serving as the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Sociolinguistics Strand Coordinator with @ Sara Hillman for AAAL 2027! A big thank you to all the reviewers for their time and thoughtful feedback.
#Sociolinguistics #AppliedLinguistics

We just found out that a relative’s nickname, a short form of their surname, also happens to be an ethnic slur in English. That explains why websites rejected it as a username. How do multilingual benchmarks account for that ambiguity? #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

How Listening Turns Into Labelling

We make surprisingly detailed judgements about people from their voices alone, & research suggests we do exactly the same thing with AI voices.

#ELT #TldrELT #AppliedLinguistics #Sociolinguistics #PronunciationTeaching #ArtificialIntelligence

Explore a new collection of #OpenAccess article highlights in #Sociolinguistics

All articles are free to read here🔗➡️ https://cup.org/3TESi3c

Soundscapes 3: “Gerrin!”
#linguistics #language #accent #dialect #sociolinguistics #Northumbria #Sunderland #Sunderlandafc

Ecossais méridional du nord de l’Angleterre (the ‘South Scotch of Northern England’)
#linguistics #language #OldEnglish #dialect #philology #sociolinguistics #Northumbria #Scots #Scottishborders #placenames #toponymy #Bonaparte

Soundscapes 2: [t] → [tj] → [ʧ] (or <t> → <ty> → <ch>) medium.com/@drmichaelpe...

#linguistics #language #accent #dialect #sociolinguistics #Northumbria