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Catherine Laliberté 🍂

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Dr. 🎓 LMU Munich 👩‍🏫 Sociolinguistics, (post) colonial varieties of English 🌎 stylistics, historical fiction 📺 Québécoise ⚜ she/her

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Nov 14

My colleagues and I have created a journal for student work in English linguistics 🤓 Peer reviewed and open access!

SREL @studentresearch.bsky.social · Nov 14

The journal is open to submissions as of today 🥳 If you are a teacher or researcher based at a German, Austrian or Swiss university, do not hesitate to talk to your students and colleagues about SREL.

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 8d

Calls: Parameters of Language Staging

2nd Call for Papers: The deadline to submit asbtracts for the Parameters of Language Staging (PLS8) conference has been extended from October 3rd, 2025 to October 17th, 2025. The call for papers is available at pls8.sciencesconf.org. This edition addresses the staging of discourse and the forms and functions of staged discourse, with a particular focus on spoken/multimodal data. Our guest speakers are Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Gaëlle Planchenault (Simon Frase

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 15d

Confs: World Englishes on the Stage and Screen

This symposium aims at bringing together researchers working on World Englishes (especially those focusing on varieties of English other than the “inner circle” varieties of the British Isles and North America) in staged and mediatized performances. While it cannot be said that such a perspective has hitherto been ignored in linguistic research (see Lee & Kachru 2006; Moody 2021), it is evident that pop cultural artifacts serving entertainment and recreational purposes, such as films and TV seri

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · 19d

Neat graph crime in the flyer about the referendum on Munich's candidacy to host the Olympics 🙃

A bar chart comparing the number of visitors to the Paris Olympics (11.2 million) to the number visitors to the Oktoberfest last year (6.7 million) and the estimated number of visitors to hypothetical olympic games in Munich (7.5 million). The bar supposed to represent 11.2 million is nearly as tall as the other two. The bars were cropped.

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Danny Kodicek (but, y'know, spooky) @dannykodicek.bsky.social · Aug 11

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Aug 6

Woop woop @dianawengl.bsky.social 🎉

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hey that's my book 😃 Cool

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · Jul 5

Here's a site that searches scientific publications for phrases that indicate that the text was created by ChatGPT and pasted into the manuscript without checking (e.g. "Certainly, here are some recommendations..."). There are HUNDREDS of them, often without disclosure of AI.
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www.academ-ai.info

Suspected AI – Academ-AI

Documenting the adverse effects of AI in academia

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Jun 21

Glad I get to stay a little longer and enjoy the sunshine 🌞 Ačiū #ICAME46 and Vilnius for the great week 💚

View of the Vilnius old town from Gediminas castle. Blue skies, red roofs and green park.

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Jun 20

I was not expecting to be tearing up at #ICAME46 today but hearing Alessia tell us about her efforts to change how the media talks about rape just about did it 🥲

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Jun 19

We are very well taken care of, culinarily speaking 😁 Today we had some of the famous "pink soup" (with beets and kefir) at lunch and I loved it 👌 Also, tap water is usually provided with fruit in it, just lovely! Also, Vilnius has 27 restaurants in the Michelin guide 👀

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · Jun 19

Lukas Sönning's beautiful #ICAME46 slides can be found at: osf.io/fr476/ lots of important take-aways for effective (and aesthetic) data visualization!

Data visualization in corpus linguistics

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Jun 18

Checking in on Bluesky from #ICAME46 👋 Having an excellent time so far in beautiful Vilnius

View of a red tower from a pretty cobbled street, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · May 28

What a treat to teach a class on language and sci-fi in my pop culture class today 🚀👨‍🚀🌌🖖 we read @catlaliberte.bsky.social @dianawengl.bsky.social and Melanie Keller's fantastic article on the sociolinguistics of Firefly and I got to show a lot of clips demonstrating code-switching in the series 🤓

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · May 28

How cool! ☺

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laeliaveron.bsky.social @laeliaveron.bsky.social · May 15

Dans le cadre du projet en linguistique LUDOCORP, Alice Ray de l'Université d'Orléans recherche des équipes de joueurs et joueuses de jeu vidéo pour enregistrer des sessions de jeu multijoueur, pour cerner les spécificités du "ludolecte" francophone.
Infos framaforms.org/appel-a-volo...

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · May 11

Une chandelle bien sûr 😌🕯

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Apr 25

That's the thing, he doesn't even use Excel but writes on glass like geniuses do 😆

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Apr 10

I hadn't seen that word in like 84 years 🙉

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thanks so much! 😃

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Mar 21

If anyone at #RC21symposium would like an A4 poster to advertise @studentresearch.bsky.social at their institution, let me know 😉

SREL @studentresearch.bsky.social · Nov 14

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Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Mar 21

The mix of clapping and knocking at #RC21symposium brings me joy ☺ (I'm a clapper for some reason)

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Mar 14

Walton Goggins has a sunglasses brand called Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses

Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social · Mar 7

4/ "Sovereign acts" (2017) by Katherine A. Zien. About the role of art and performance in Panama and the Canal Zone

Cover of "Sovereign acts: performing race, space and belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone" by Katherine A. Zien. On top of the cover there is a picture of people in traditional Panamanian dress dancing in front of the Panama Canal administration building. The lower half shows the title of the book framed by tall palmtrees.