(III) Language Rights & Language Policy in Post-Colonial Societies: Higher Education in South Africa and the USA
Love that my job affords me opportunity to delve into such disparate topics — and to interact with people committed to science. If we persist, we will outlast those trying to silence us
Just getting back for a visit to U of Georgia where I gave three presentations in one day:
(I) Doing Phonetic Fieldwork
(II) Language, Place and Identity in Post-Colonial Societies: Three Case Studies from Afrikaans
Happy and humbled to be included in the 2025 class of fellows of the AAAS for "contributions to phonology and phonetics, distinguished service to the linguistics research community, and for the furthering of U.S.-Africa academic relations." Join the AAAS and advocate for science!
AGW5, 5-6 Sep. We're fully online and registration is free.Two days of research on Afrikaans linguistics with keynotes by Adri Breed and Paul Roberge.
Program available here: viva-afrikaans.org/.../inli.../...
And registration link here: umich.zoom.us/.../register...
Beautiful NPR story about recent SA tour by the UMich Symph Orchestra. It's long (45 mins) but captures the experience accurately. I am also quoted extensively at several places in ways that mostly portray me accurately. It was a moving and transformative experience to be part of this tour.
Today, I am proud both of being South African and American. There is good in both of these places, and this exemplifies the best of both. We have to engage and be together. That is how humanity moves forward. Two parts of my life coming together in the best possible way.
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Lab Manager position at the University of Michigan. Come join us as part of an active research community across many different labs (phonetics, computational, sign language, etc.)
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📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics!
📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online
🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.
ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!
🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5
In our old house that had floor vents, we also had one cat who did this. It meant that his belly was nice and warm, but the house not so much. He was big enough to just about block all airflow.
"Writing for Publication": Presentation in 2024 to Linguistic Society of Japan. Focus on academic publication in linguistics, but the general principles applies more broadly. Would love to hear additional perspectives, other advice you may give junior (or senior) scholars, etc.
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Just gave a talk to home department titled: "Language, Place and Identity in Post-Colonial Societies: Three Case Studies from Afrikaans." I feel like I have come full-circle in the last third of my career. My research has taken me back to my birth country and to the complexities of S Afr society.
Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW), 5-6 Sep, at UMich. AGW was founded in 2016 by a group of researchers in the Netherlands/Belgium/USA with the to make research on all varieties of Afrikaans accessible to international researchers. Join us in Ann Arbor in Sept!
viva-afrikaans.org/.../inli.../...
Lize Jansen van Rensburg Coetzee (on the right). April 17, 1968 to February 2, 2002. This was circa January 2002. I have loved deeply twice in my life — the first time was Lize,ended by cancer. The second is Gary and that still continues. Life is complicated. People are complex. Love is love.
Just published at Studies in Second Language Acquisition: doi.org/10.1017/S027.... It's another publication from our decade-long study of the Afrikaans-Spanish bilingual community in Patagonia.
🚨 The search is on! LSA is seeking a new Co-Editor for Language to begin in 2026. This pivotal role will shape cutting-edge linguistics research and reflect our commitment to advancing the scientific study of language.
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2025
📜 Learn more and apply: mailchi.mp/lsadc/journa...