Heb echt wel 20 keer naar het nummer ‘Roma Fade’ van Andrew Bird geluisterd en naar meerdere mensen gestuurd om er achter te komen waar ik het nou van ken. En toen eindelijke die aha-erlebnis. Het zit in #Lubach als theme song.
Wel een lekker nummer.
De wetenschap die taal bestudeert heeft in het Nederlands drie namen: taalkunde, taalwetenschap en linguïstiek. (Wat iedereen moet weten over taal, 11)
neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/wat-...
It's out and #OpenAccess!
Beyond Monolingual Views: The Language Ideologies of Multilinguals on Anglicisms in French and German in Critical Multilingualism Studies 🤩
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/cms/article/...
Ik ben laatst naar het Esperanto museum in Wenen geweest! Klein museum, maar zeker een aanrader. Wil er nog een keer iets over schrijven, met name de religieuze gedachten achter de taal…
Bo Burnham’s ‘Welcome to the Internet’ would be even more interesting now AI is polluting it even more.
Prachtig onzinnig. En het was nog tweetalig ook. Juist een mooie fluïde talige manier van de grens oversteken!
We need an economic system that doesn’t rely on having babies and going shopping.
Wat een wind mijn kind!
En: Een zucht geeft lucht aan een hart vol smart.
2!
Linguistics and slang at Eurovision!
Malta had entered the song "Kant", which means "singing" in Maltese.
The main hook of the song went "do, re, me, fa, so, suh, serving kant".
There was an official complaint (probably the BBC), and now the song has been changed.
Go to 1:00 to hear it.
Reminder: tomorrow is your last chance to submit an abstract for our panel on language and religion!
When I have more time on my hands I would love to write about language choice and the reception of those choices (e.g. dialects/minority languages) in Eurovision. I mean the song by Estonia this year is in Italian, English and Spanish? (It's amazing)
Cool linguistic project alert! How do language rules and judgments show up in popular culture? Dr. Emma Humphries is collecting examples of prescriptivism, and you can contribute your own example at this link:
yourwrong.co.uk
The title of my next article is inspired by a song from Shrek the Musical, and no one can stop me. Well… maybe Reviewer 2 can. We'll see.
Just registered for @lingcomm.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to it.
So my PhD supervisors told me that references do not belong in conference abstract, but I see references in those abstracts all the time. What does academic Bluesky think?
It’s been accepted! Looking forward to presenting my paper on language ideologies and religious beliefs in a multilingual church in the Netherlands!
Agree. I think people are dying for reasons to put away their phone.
This would actually be great for me, as I use a dumbphone but I’d still love to listen to music on the go.
Twee vrouwen op een podium voor een scherm waarop staat ‘welke taal spreekt Den Haag?’. Een publiek kijkt geboeid toe.
Vanavond bij het evenement ‘Welke taal spreekt Den Haag’ geweest. 18 sprekers van verschillende talen lazen een gedicht of tekst voor in hun moedertaal, en in het Nederlands als tweede taal. Veel van de teksten gingen over de zoektocht naar identiteit en verdriet en vreugde over het vaderland.
linguistics pals, is there any critical work on the notion/term/concept/ideology of the "language barrier"? as in a critique of the framing of language as a border/wall/fence/etc
🐦🐦 #linguistics
Exciting news! We'll soon announce a call for a PhD position. The candidate should have an MA in Chinese and/or Japanese as a FL or similar. Topics include motivation for multilingual learning in old age, teaching multiple languages, and multilingualism in society—and other multilingualism topics!
Linguistic diversity in organizations is treated as a problem to solve rather than an inherent feature of any organization.
Shoot - I use the term 'transnational' a lot in my research. Should I avoid the term, or are you talking about other linguistic terminology?
A transcript of an interview that says: Eliana: Oh. He's great. Yeah, great. He's, uh, Bahamian from the Bahamas. EA: Nice. Eliana: He he passed away. EA: Oh. Um. Less nice.
Me: I'm great at interviewing.
Also me:
I really admire the work linguist Leonie Cornips is doing on communication of dairy cows. Very cool to come across this write up of her work by the BBC!
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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