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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 17d

Our paper on how phonetic resources help to coordinate laughter draws on cases of joint laughter from conversations in English, Spanish and Finnish. Here's a summary of some of our findings (which rely heavily on Chafe, 2007), along with acoustic records of a laughter bout in Spanish.

There are three main phases to laughter: the initiating pulse, the exhalation sequence, and a final inhalation (Chafe, 2007). Each phase has its own phonetic potential, with the exhalation sequence being the most complex.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 22d

Our paper with @marinanc.bsky.social and Jürgen Trouvain on Phonetic features in the management of laughter has just come out in Interactional Linguistics #phonetics #EMCA doi.org/10.1075/il.2...

Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter | John Benjamins

Abstract This paper investigates the phonetic and social organisation of laughter in spoken conversation. Building on conversation analytic research that highlights laughter as a complex interactional...

doi.org

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 29

There is freedom and relief in going underground while taking time to recover and regroup. Ready for new beginnings, working part-time, following along instead of leading and producing, and taking the pressure off myself for 6 months. Time to find the way back to myself.
See you around, Bsky.

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 29

😂😅

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · Aug 29

Choosing your #qualitative analysis.

A still from the Breakfast Club.

Bender = Foucauldian
Andrew = Thematic
Allison = Critical Discursive
Claire = IPA
Brian = EMCA

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 28

I don't know about a moral but you can trust me to go all mystical with this and yes, 5 and deer do go together quite interestingly apparently according to those "in the know".

Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 28

Was having a bit of a grumpy day and decided to go for a walk in the small local woods (only 10 mins away on foot from home!) while videocalling my mum, and we got the very rare sighting of 5 deer. If I hadn't gasped and screamed in excitement I would've taken a picture, but I scared them away.

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Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social · Aug 25

Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland.

On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social‬

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 28

Letting go of the useless scenarios of what could've been of my envisioned research career if I hadn't had to worry about precarity for so long and hadn't worked so hard to try to stay where I clearly wasn't meant to.
Live and learn. It'll take long, there'll be detours, but I'll bounce back.

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 28

End-of-job rituals:
The final payslip. The new autoreply. Email signature removal of an affiliation and position that once made me proud. The updating of websites and profiles. The forwarding address. The acquired wisdom that those who make the promises never have the power to make the decisions.

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 27

I've actually really enjoyed Destination X (far more than The Traitors) but they gave a big chunk of the game away on episode 1 and because I do know my airport codes (too many hours spent on Flight Radar 😅) I am positive I know what the final destination will be for the finale tomorrow 🫤.

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 27

The cringe factor is high with this one... Most of my classmates were 12 or 13 at the time so I figure their reception might have bern a bit more...puberty-y.

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 27

I did, however, absolutely love the Snap textbook series, which we covered in full. I can still remember the songs!

Cover of a 1980s English textbook called Snap

Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 27

OMG I've just found the videos my teacher used to play to us when I started learning English in Argentina. I was 8 or 9 (most of my classmates were a few years older). I know why we were never excited about the video sessions. I'm a bit shocked to watch it now.
youtu.be/PGiNjI1j2P4?...

Follow Me - Beginner Part 01

YouTube video by NonNativeSpeaker

youtu.be

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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌙 Want to help shine a light on safer cycling?

On 22 Oct 2025, communities across the UK will join mass Glow Rides as part of #MyRideOurRight

Host your own ride & be part of the movement for safer, visible cycling.

👉 cyclinguk.org/glow-rides

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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · Aug 27

Bursaries available for D/deaf or disabled people who would like to attend the DARCI Conference but are facing financial difficulties. Please share within your networks. It would be a shame for the bursaries to go unused forms.gle/65nzWy2QyGD5...

Bursaries Available. DARCI. Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries Conference. University of York, 10-12 September. Apply by 29th August 9am (UK).

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Amanda @amandabeloved.bsky.social · Mar 16

It sounds wild that a book about Burnout (also called “Burnout”by @enagoski.bsky.social and her sister, Amelia Nagoski, would bring joy, but it did. They even used a term called “joyfully ever after.” And that tickled me.

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Iira Rautiainen @iira.bsky.social · Aug 26

Heidi Puputti and I just published a paper in Human Studies, where we show how an embodied formation functions as a resource in organising joint work and facilitates joint accomplishment of the activity.

The paper is open access: rdcu.be/eBZjj

#EMCA

Negotiating and Coordinating Multimodal Resources to Build Embodied Choreographies in Civilian Crisis Management Training

rdcu.be

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sad and puzzling to see some departments shrinking and overloading colleagues, others with colleagues under threat of compulsory redundancy, while a couple of departments in the same institution are hiring *permanent* lecturers and a campus is being opened abroad. The joys of UK HE these days.

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · Aug 26

Super excited for this workshop at #SLE2025 in Bordeaux on "From Linguistics to Animal Communication and Back"

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Finally accepting it's actually nice that for the next few months I'll only wrap up existing projects. There's some relief in knowing I don't have the external or internal pressure to develop something new. Sounds like giving up, but tbh I've burned all my matches and can't run after stuff anymore.

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Marina NC @marinanc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Eek! I hadn't thought of announcing this here, thanks V.! I think the group was put together by @saulalbert.bsky.social .

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · Aug 26

Redundancies are brutal, but noticeable. What's less obvious are increasing zero hours contracts, hourly paid lectureships, 12 month contracts, working for free.

What used to be available to fairly pay a speaker is now the entire departmental training budget - liable to be cut at any point.

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Esa Lehtinen @esaleht.bsky.social · Aug 26

Call-for-papers: The International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference at the University Jyväskylä, 11–13 May, 2026. Theme: “Dialogic Matters: Exploring Materiality in Language, Communication, and Culture”. Deadline for abstracts 17 Nov 2025- www.jyu.fi/en/events/in...

International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference 2026

IADA 2026

www.jyu.fi

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Reaching the stage where Shut Up And Write isn't cutting it. Asking my university if they'll run a few Hand Over Your Phone And Descend Into The Pit sessions instead.

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