Our panel on blue pragmatics is happening tomorrow! We’ll be exploring how people talk about the sea and planetary waters 🌊 Come join us #IPrA

I love The Mouth. The most creative journal I know.

This is Brisbane calling. Our Panel “Blue Pragmatics” will take place in two days: panel of linguists & communication scholars from all across the world, exploring al kinds of planetary waters! If you are near St. Lucia UQ, come join us at #IPrA

New paper: "Compound" and "incorporation" are technical terms, and many linguists seem to think that one needs theories of them before one can have proper definitions, but I don't think so – so I have gone ahead and proposed (retro-)definitions of these terms. journals.linguistik.de/zwjw/article...

📍Earlier today in the research group *Language, Culture and Transformative Practices*, Roskilde University, Denmark. A research group full of organised, playful and creative interactions - and thank you @GustavGaardbo for leading us in play today! #ideageneration #socially #sustainable #research

Autor des Buches "Postcolonial Semantics" (2024, De Gruyter), Carsten Levisen.

With the #DGfS2025 in full swing, it is a pleasure to reunite with our authors. Among them: Carsten Levisen (@levisen.bsky.social), the author of "Postcolonial Semantics. Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World" - now available in #OpenAccess!

🔗📖 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

*Idioms and Idiomaticity*, by Chitra Fernando. A lonely and forgotten, but superb monograph from mid-90s. Rediscovered it on my shelf. The ryebread, egg and coffee = nostalgia, atmosphere

🇬🇱Yesterday in our research group “Language, Culture & Transformative Practices”

📍A brilliant & highly topical and talk: Contact Zone Semantics in Kalaallit Nunaat by Stephanie Mašková (Griffith U)

⛰️ About words, people, landscape, #Kalaallisut, #Danish, nature, elevated places and much more!!

I have cravings after #scrivener my favorite writing program. But it crashed dramatically earlier this month, I almost lost my entire book manus. Yet, working in Word and Google docs is not the same. I wish, I dared to go back

I'm always eager to bring lots of interdisciplinary cogsci to students who might not otherwise hear these ideas, including work by @damianblasi.bsky.social, @asifamajid.bsky.social, @hugospiers.bsky.social, @glupyan.bsky.social, @levisen.bsky.social, and of course many folks not on here!

At the German-Danish border. 🚂🚃🚃🚃.

“The train has a technisch problem. We repeat: this train has a technisch problem”

#translanguaging #trains

Manipulation, influence, deception. Edited by Sofia Ruediger and Daria Dayter. Cambridge University Press

I love that we got to choose the cover this time!

Our edited book “Manipulation, influence, deception” should be out any day now. I have a 20% discount code if anyone is interested 🙃
Best co-author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social 🥂
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Reading now:

Section 3 👀: “A constructional approach to hell: The devil is in the schema”. 👹@steffenhoeder.de on “Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages” #constructiongrammar #devil

Sustainability? The word that saves our planet — or yet another Anglocentric imposition on global discourse?

#linguistics #sustainability #keywords

Podcast with Jilian Melchior (Helsinki) and myself. Download here:

blogs.helsinki.fi/linguisticsa...

Transnational Korean Englishes Cambridge Core - History of the English Language - Transnational Korean Englishes

"Transnational Korean Englishes" (co-authored with Alex Baratta) to appear with CUP as a #WorldEnglishes Element 🤩 Very proud of this little book! Just announced at www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Philantrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global South This article explores the impact of market-driven corporate philanthropy on educational institutions and their social actors, with a focus on how ideas of English and women’s empowerment become instit...

Sudha Vepa and I have something to say about philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women, particularly in global south settings like the one we examined. Article available in full-open access here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Sune Sønderberg Mortensen

Earlier today, at my research group “Language, Culture & Transformative Practices”

This talk 👇🏻 by Sune Mortensen:

**Linguistic Constructions of Sexual Abuse and Consent in Danish Rape Trials**

Extremely important research for both linguistics and society

#linguistics #discourse

Cover of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics, the cover is an image of von Humboldt

"By Humboldt's liberal reasoning, the state had no claims to intervene in internal affairs such as education, but existed solely to prevent harm to individuals or communities, with its responsibility for maintaining their welfare and security."

Out now (hardbound soon): Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages benjamins.com/catalog/cal.37 #CxG #NordicLanguages

On a Danish 🚂 🚃🚃🚃. Again. Writing about “landscape constructions” in Nordic languages. But I have come to somehow dislike this English word “landscape” and all other kinds of -scapes - and the spectator bias it represents 🖼️. #linguistics #CxG

Also 2024, with Zhengdao Ye and a group of amazing colleagues 🤩:

“The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives”

In the legendary “Pragmatics and Beyond New Series” 😊

benjamins.com/catalog/pbns...

2024, the year of my second monograph 😊. It’s called:

“Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in Multipolar World”, De Gruyter

And you can all read it, bc it is open access

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Carsten Levisen

Hello followers! Great to connect. I’m a linguist working on meaning, both in the “small” sense: the meanings of particular words and constructions, and the “big” sense: meanings we live by, linguaculture(s) and linguistic worldviews. forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/c... also aias.au.dk/aias-fellows...