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Dave Sayers retweeted
🌍 How can Wales promote the Welsh language without unintended consequences like inequality and social division? @DaveJSayers proposes a "Doughnut Language Policy" to balance linguistic vitality with broader social wellbeing. 🧵👇lspjournal.com/post/doughnut…
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Language Problems & Language Planning launches a series of webinars! 19/12/2024 15:30 UTC “History of language policy and planning, and current and emerging trends” with David C. Johnson and J Darquennes. Free registration: tinyurl.com/mw8anzey, #languagepolicy, #weareUU
Dave Sayers retweeted
New publication out in @JournalofSocio1: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Check out the full issue.
Dave Sayers retweeted
New volume: Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss migrants learning Welsh! Thanks @jebsim & Sari Pöyhönen @routledgebooks #wsol #multilingualism #cymraeg
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I use a tie just because it restricts oxygen flow to the brain by up to 7 %, and I feel it would't be sporting for all the rest otherwise
In English studies, 'Inner Circle' countries = English is mostly a 1st language (e.g. US, Aus); 'Outer Circle' = mostly 2nd lang (e.g. India, Ghana).
I try to tell my students 'Inner Circle' happened by displacing/destroying whole populations. This passage helps that comparison.
Here's an incredibly important segment from one of Mushtaq Khan's papers explicitly critiquing AJR.
This is pretty dark reading, covering not only methodological flaws but also racism and the violent process of settler colonialism.
Link: eprints.soas.ac.uk/17299/1/G…
Halloween is coming. Do you wish the International Phonetic Alphabet was spoooOOOOooookier?
I present...
The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹 r.jyu.fi/IPAspooky
Free to use/adapt! @creativecommons
Repost or I'll send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟 🧠🍽️
Welcome welcome to the next @uniofjyvaskyla English seminar! 11 Nov 2024, 14:00 EET.
Venla Hannuksela, 'Minority and majority language schools as arenas for promoting political engagement: A case study from Finland'
Abstract & registration. 👇 Go go go!
r.jyu.fi/engseminars24-25
Dave Sayers retweeted
Writing a real out of office email would be:
“I will be out of the office until Monday, November 29, but I will be constantly checking email on my phone and additionally will have my work computer nearby”
Dave Sayers retweeted
NEWSFLASH: It's ok to do research with normative goals, actually. Everyone who says otherwise is supporting status quo power imbalances and inequality, which is, drum-roll, also a normative position, just a terrible one. 🤷♀️
Paper under question here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Next up in the 2024-25 @uniofjyvaskyla English online seminar series! Tues 8 Oct 2024 at 17:00 EEST:
Cecilia Gialdini: 'Language Policy Tools: The Multidimensional Linguistic Justice Index'
Abstract and registration. 👇👇Go go go!
r.jyu.fi/engseminars24-25
Top tip if former students/employees often ask you for references: ask them to draft it & send you for checking/signing. It's entirely honest, you can verify details. Still it saves you a lot of time, & allows them to emphasise specific details for each job/study place. Win win!
Also true for language. Every single generation has decried the sloppy slang of youth, imagining some prior linguistic purity before everything went awry.
