Huge congratulations to my PhD student @lydiahursh.bsky.social, who just submitted her thesis @ceilteachomn.bsky.social on "Gendered Politeness in Medieval Irish 'tochmarca'", using sociolinguistic politeness theory to analyse speech in medieval Irish "wooing" tales. Brava, Lydia!
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
October 2, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Huge congratulations to my PhD student @lydiahursh.bsky.social, who just submitted her thesis @ceilteachomn.bsky.social on "Gendered Politeness in Medieval Irish 'tochmarca'", using sociolinguistic politeness theory to analyse speech in medieval Irish "wooing" tales. Brava, Lydia!
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
But relatedly I was messaging Matt about this earlier this week. What kind of shapes are we talking about for various sociolinguistic phenoms? And can we apply delicious math to them?
October 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
But relatedly I was messaging Matt about this earlier this week. What kind of shapes are we talking about for various sociolinguistic phenoms? And can we apply delicious math to them?
It seems kind of interesting that this keeps happening. My off-the-top-of-the-head guess is that it has something to do with prestige, in the sociolinguistic sense of the word
Maybe proper linguists have investigated it?
Maybe proper linguists have investigated it?
Prestige (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It seems kind of interesting that this keeps happening. My off-the-top-of-the-head guess is that it has something to do with prestige, in the sociolinguistic sense of the word
Maybe proper linguists have investigated it?
Maybe proper linguists have investigated it?
I'd say extended right dislocation, but with a null subject. (It's not fronting to me cos of verb in RB)
benjamins.com/catalog/eww....
(It's from a socio perspective, not syntax I'm afraid but very happy to discuss).
Looking at this kind of feature and more in English-speaking Wales right now)
benjamins.com/catalog/eww....
(It's from a socio perspective, not syntax I'm afraid but very happy to discuss).
Looking at this kind of feature and more in English-speaking Wales right now)
Right dislocation in Northern England: Frequency and use — perception meets reality
The process of right dislocation (RD) has long been recognized in English as a primarily vernacular feature available to speakers of all varieties, but concrete sociolinguistic discussion about its fr...
benjamins.com
September 30, 2026 at 8:52 AM
I'd say extended right dislocation, but with a null subject. (It's not fronting to me cos of verb in RB)
benjamins.com/catalog/eww....
(It's from a socio perspective, not syntax I'm afraid but very happy to discuss).
Looking at this kind of feature and more in English-speaking Wales right now)
benjamins.com/catalog/eww....
(It's from a socio perspective, not syntax I'm afraid but very happy to discuss).
Looking at this kind of feature and more in English-speaking Wales right now)
A lot of present media moralism/illiteracy of the kind this post is satirizing feels like:
'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' + influencer culture + non-intentional, non-ideal philosophical views of communication (including the meaning of sociolinguistic variation)
All very "epedemiological".
'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' + influencer culture + non-intentional, non-ideal philosophical views of communication (including the meaning of sociolinguistic variation)
All very "epedemiological".
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
September 29, 2026 at 5:48 PM
A lot of present media moralism/illiteracy of the kind this post is satirizing feels like:
'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' + influencer culture + non-intentional, non-ideal philosophical views of communication (including the meaning of sociolinguistic variation)
All very "epedemiological".
'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' + influencer culture + non-intentional, non-ideal philosophical views of communication (including the meaning of sociolinguistic variation)
All very "epedemiological".
“Now defunct living computer museum” feels like it could be my name in the right sociolinguistic context…
September 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
“Now defunct living computer museum” feels like it could be my name in the right sociolinguistic context…
seriously, though, when I was editing Polish-English for the linguistics journal I spent a LOT of time thinking about what to put into my English and what perfectly understandable phrases to leave alone. It's a real issue with real sociolinguistic ramifications.
September 25, 2026 at 12:50 PM
seriously, though, when I was editing Polish-English for the linguistics journal I spent a LOT of time thinking about what to put into my English and what perfectly understandable phrases to leave alone. It's a real issue with real sociolinguistic ramifications.
I don't think it's very recent and I don't think it has replaced using conjugated forms so much as it coexists with it.
One important sociolinguistic variable to take into account might also be that a lot of programmers in f
French-speaking context are not L1 French speaker.
One important sociolinguistic variable to take into account might also be that a lot of programmers in f
French-speaking context are not L1 French speaker.
has anyone written about the recent phenomenon of french people no longer conjugating their recent loanwords?
I've seen this a lot with English words, mostly in the context of online/computer stuff
I've seen this a lot with English words, mostly in the context of online/computer stuff
September 25, 2026 at 10:32 AM
I don't think it's very recent and I don't think it has replaced using conjugated forms so much as it coexists with it.
One important sociolinguistic variable to take into account might also be that a lot of programmers in f
French-speaking context are not L1 French speaker.
One important sociolinguistic variable to take into account might also be that a lot of programmers in f
French-speaking context are not L1 French speaker.
Ya en línea:
"La caracterización de personajes a través de la fonética en dos series televisivas cubanas"
"Se explora la fonética como elemento caracterizador en la narrativa audiovisual de ficción, específicamente en las series televisivas...
loquens.revistas.csic.es/index.php/lo...
"La caracterización de personajes a través de la fonética en dos series televisivas cubanas"
"Se explora la fonética como elemento caracterizador en la narrativa audiovisual de ficción, específicamente en las series televisivas...
loquens.revistas.csic.es/index.php/lo...
The characterisation of characters through phonetics in two Cuban television series | Loquens
Androutsopoulos, J. (2012). Repertoires, characters and scenes: Sociolinguistic difference in Turkish-German comedy. Multilingua, 31(2-3).
loquens.revistas.csic.es
September 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Ya en línea:
"La caracterización de personajes a través de la fonética en dos series televisivas cubanas"
"Se explora la fonética como elemento caracterizador en la narrativa audiovisual de ficción, específicamente en las series televisivas...
loquens.revistas.csic.es/index.php/lo...
"La caracterización de personajes a través de la fonética en dos series televisivas cubanas"
"Se explora la fonética como elemento caracterizador en la narrativa audiovisual de ficción, específicamente en las series televisivas...
loquens.revistas.csic.es/index.php/lo...
I’m confused how a sociolinguistic who studied linguistic variation comes out to be an ultra prescriptivist about the language people use to talk. Just unfortunate how the AI stuff really warps people’s minds. (That, or the fact that public intellectualizing makes people into caricatures.)
September 25, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I’m confused how a sociolinguistic who studied linguistic variation comes out to be an ultra prescriptivist about the language people use to talk. Just unfortunate how the AI stuff really warps people’s minds. (That, or the fact that public intellectualizing makes people into caricatures.)
Morning my Super Sociolinguistic Superstar Sarah!!💚💙🎶☕️🎸👏🏾😎👍🏾👊🏾
Freddy Crane: I'm The Cute One (Jack Cutmore-Scott)
Alt: Freddy Crane: I'm The Cute One (Jack Cutmore-Scott)
static.klipy.com
September 24, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Morning my Super Sociolinguistic Superstar Sarah!!💚💙🎶☕️🎸👏🏾😎👍🏾👊🏾
Our thanks to EURAC and Midas Science Blog for publishing our article on the Urgent need for a new framework for protecting global language diversity www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
"The loss of a language community’s capacity to regenerate itself is the sociolinguistic equivalent of habitat loss"
"The loss of a language community’s capacity to regenerate itself is the sociolinguistic equivalent of habitat loss"
Urgent need for a new framework for protecting global language diversity
The global loss of cultural and linguistic diversity requires a holistic focus similar to the global response to the ecological crisis. This article aims to summarise our comprehensive reality-based f...
www.eurac.edu
September 24, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Our thanks to EURAC and Midas Science Blog for publishing our article on the Urgent need for a new framework for protecting global language diversity www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
"The loss of a language community’s capacity to regenerate itself is the sociolinguistic equivalent of habitat loss"
"The loss of a language community’s capacity to regenerate itself is the sociolinguistic equivalent of habitat loss"
that is reliant on human perceptive division of the world, causal hypotheses, and consequent sociolinguistic construction (plus your tokenization algorithm); don’t interact like people (because they do not develop in a social environment or with social affordances, they’re a literal brain in a jar)/
September 24, 2026 at 12:47 AM
that is reliant on human perceptive division of the world, causal hypotheses, and consequent sociolinguistic construction (plus your tokenization algorithm); don’t interact like people (because they do not develop in a social environment or with social affordances, they’re a literal brain in a jar)/
I actually put a thing on Google Drive so it would be easy to share! Here are the slides for the talk I gave today at tbd/con on how basic sociolinguistic principles lead humans to have emotional reactions to AI (specifically chatbots) and what we do next with machines that language!
tbd:con presentation - Alpert AI Emotions Slides.pdf
drive.google.com
September 23, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I actually put a thing on Google Drive so it would be easy to share! Here are the slides for the talk I gave today at tbd/con on how basic sociolinguistic principles lead humans to have emotional reactions to AI (specifically chatbots) and what we do next with machines that language!
Ahhh I wish my sociolinguistic prof would do this 🤣
September 22, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Ahhh I wish my sociolinguistic prof would do this 🤣
Probably my favorite episode yet from what was already one of the best shows on YouTube. So much sociolinguistic goodness! Gonna be sharing this with everyone I know forever
New #MapMen episode!!! 🗺️
How many languages are there in the world? And can you put them all on one map? (No.)
youtu.be/hX21ctsGhNc
Share and enjoy!
How many languages are there in the world? And can you put them all on one map? (No.)
youtu.be/hX21ctsGhNc
Share and enjoy!
Why a Language Map of the World is Impossible
YouTube video by Map Men
youtu.be
September 21, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Probably my favorite episode yet from what was already one of the best shows on YouTube. So much sociolinguistic goodness! Gonna be sharing this with everyone I know forever
💬 My course, 'Sociolinguistics', now in its 4th year of running is again at capacity (110~ students) and enrolls students from programmes including NLP, languages, and psychology. This is an overview course designed to tackle the most pressing issues in Sociolinguistic Theory. 💻
September 21, 2026 at 8:46 AM
💬 My course, 'Sociolinguistics', now in its 4th year of running is again at capacity (110~ students) and enrolls students from programmes including NLP, languages, and psychology. This is an overview course designed to tackle the most pressing issues in Sociolinguistic Theory. 💻
Sometimes it’s just the hermeneutic thrill of reading about sociolinguistic variation in US Spanish, you know?
September 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Sometimes it’s just the hermeneutic thrill of reading about sociolinguistic variation in US Spanish, you know?
*i’m not a scholar or expert on the topic at all, but my sense is that contemporary sociolinguistic, ethnographic, even new archaeological genetic research on what the quacks once fetishized as “race” generally introduces terrible problems for these quacks and their ‘science’, so i think i was /
September 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
*i’m not a scholar or expert on the topic at all, but my sense is that contemporary sociolinguistic, ethnographic, even new archaeological genetic research on what the quacks once fetishized as “race” generally introduces terrible problems for these quacks and their ‘science’, so i think i was /
had a dream last night in which i finally understood what this diagram is saying... on multiple levels, alas
September 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
had a dream last night in which i finally understood what this diagram is saying... on multiple levels, alas
Titled Recontextualisation and the Emergence of Second-Order Indexicality, my dissertation explored the sociolinguistic process of recontextualisation.
September 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Titled Recontextualisation and the Emergence of Second-Order Indexicality, my dissertation explored the sociolinguistic process of recontextualisation.
‘proto-Indo-European’. sometimes it feels like the sociolinguistic equivalent of saying ‘because’
September 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
‘proto-Indo-European’. sometimes it feels like the sociolinguistic equivalent of saying ‘because’
Studying sociolinguistic framing needs open-ended, culturally situated queries. So we built a dataset: SQUARE consisting of 376k Subjective QUeries Across REddit, from 57 subreddits, mapped to 7 countries 🇮🇳🇰🇷🇹🇷🇨🇳🇷🇺🇵🇭🇺🇸 and 19 question categories (eg. food, movies, etc)
September 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Studying sociolinguistic framing needs open-ended, culturally situated queries. So we built a dataset: SQUARE consisting of 376k Subjective QUeries Across REddit, from 57 subreddits, mapped to 7 countries 🇮🇳🇰🇷🇹🇷🇨🇳🇷🇺🇵🇭🇺🇸 and 19 question categories (eg. food, movies, etc)