#linguist bsky, ... I have a shadow of a memory of a Labov story where he got in trouble (possibly at his industrial chemist job before going into academia) for having an issue of Workers World (or another similarly Communist newsletter) visible on his desk

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Another sociolx crowdsource: there is a commonly reformulation of Brown and Levinson’s face and politeness theory that is modern and heavily cited. I’ve only heard about it and never read it; I have a student working on this. Does this paper sound familiar to anyone?

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Children hold up a globe. Text reads: I'm advocating for multilingualism! 2025 Language Advocacy Days March 3 & 4 JNCL-NCLIS

Excited to attend #LAD25 in Washington, DC and advocate for multilingualism! 🌍 invt.io/1ixbrimmmt1

If anyone knows of any work in Tucson, Arizona or remote that would be of interest to a linguist, please let me know!

reached the phase of my experience with teaching in the #AI era where I'm seriously thinking how I can award extra credit for typos

LINGUIST List 35.1351 Jobs: Phonetics, Sociolinguistics: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California - Berkeley The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

I'm hiring a one-year postdoc in sociolinguistics/phonetics for next year (at Berkeley, with me)! Please share with your networks and students! linguistlist.org/issues/35-13...

A Brief History of the United States' Accents and Dialects Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns

This was a great read! Connecting current dialects to history and migration www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-br...