Dr Elisabeth Barakos
@ellabarakos.bsky.social
Austrian in London. Lecturer & Researcher @IOE UCL (@ucl.ac.uk) & @Vienna University
Sociolinguistics |Applied Linguistics |Language in education and business | Multilingualism | Discourse Studies | Ethnography | Language Policy
www.elisabethbarakos.com
Sociolinguistics |Applied Linguistics |Language in education and business | Multilingualism | Discourse Studies | Ethnography | Language Policy
www.elisabethbarakos.com
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In our new chapter “Discourse: A map in constant redrawing” (coming out in Flubacher & Del Percio’s “Critical Sociolinguistics. Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments”), @ellabarakos.bsky.social Juan E Bonnin and myself map the development of discourse studies in Critical Sociolinguistics. DM for copy
For anyone interested in #discourse and #sociolinguistics, reach out for a copy. :-)
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fellow linguistics pals, in case you missed it, this is where we’re at right now at Essex
if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university
if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university
In light of the university’s plans for structural change, we want to reassure our students that the proposal to cut nearly 50% of staff in the Department of Language and Linguistics will not impact their modules for the remainder of this academic year.
January 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM
fellow linguistics pals, in case you missed it, this is where we’re at right now at Essex
if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university
if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university
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NEW on Wonkhe: Understand the REF changes through the lens of money and bureaucracy bit.ly/48NzTVA
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: Understand the REF changes through the lens of money and bureaucracy bit.ly/48NzTVA
Essex shutting a whole campus. Wild! 😳
It’s so sad to see what is happening to higher education, especially at this time when so many crises intersect, where the world would really need more rather than less emphasis on education; time and space for learning and dialogue, and expertise. Depressing.
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Essex shutting a whole campus. Wild! 😳
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Those of you using academia.edu may want to opt-out of #AI use on your profile. . .
It's actually quite simple!
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky 🗣💬
support.academia.edu/hc/en-us/art...
It's actually quite simple!
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky 🗣💬
support.academia.edu/hc/en-us/art...
How do I opt out of AI?
If you do not wish to have any AI-generated content on your profile, opting out is easy. We want to make sure everyone on Academia has control over how our AI features interact with your work.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Those of you using academia.edu may want to opt-out of #AI use on your profile. . .
It's actually quite simple!
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky 🗣💬
support.academia.edu/hc/en-us/art...
It's actually quite simple!
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky 🗣💬
support.academia.edu/hc/en-us/art...
Joining the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s conference today on “Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI” - really excited to talk about a new line of research and to learn from colleagues who grapple with #AI and #power in language education #appliedlinguistics
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Joining the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s conference today on “Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI” - really excited to talk about a new line of research and to learn from colleagues who grapple with #AI and #power in language education #appliedlinguistics
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Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
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solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
I have noted the word “foundry” keeps popping up increasingly in the #discourse of #AI development in tech but also in #education and design. A term originally associated with metalworking, it’s about creating, melting, moulding, and building something from raw (materials) aka data in modern times
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I have noted the word “foundry” keeps popping up increasingly in the #discourse of #AI development in tech but also in #education and design. A term originally associated with metalworking, it’s about creating, melting, moulding, and building something from raw (materials) aka data in modern times
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As organiser of the Language, Interculturality and Literacy (LIL) Hub Seminar Series @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, I’m happy to invite you to our next hybrid talk on 19th of November with Dr. Daniel Lam from the University of Glasgow.
@danielmklam.bsky.social
@danielmklam.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As organiser of the Language, Interculturality and Literacy (LIL) Hub Seminar Series @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, I’m happy to invite you to our next hybrid talk on 19th of November with Dr. Daniel Lam from the University of Glasgow.
@danielmklam.bsky.social
@danielmklam.bsky.social
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New research published in @languageeducation.bsky.social, available open access here (tinyurl.com/bdf262jp) and a short thread on the work below. Many thanks to the reviewers & editors for their feedback and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding support.
July 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New research published in @languageeducation.bsky.social, available open access here (tinyurl.com/bdf262jp) and a short thread on the work below. Many thanks to the reviewers & editors for their feedback and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding support.
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"We urgently need language education...that enables citizens to speak effectively and fluently to each other and to people of the world..." writes Profs Norbert Pachler and Zhu Hua, 'in eager anticipation' of the Curriculum and Assessment Review's final report.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
Rethinking language education: evidence for England’s Curriculum and Assessment Review
Language education in school has significant transformational potential in terms of learners’ right to a well-rounded education and the enhancement of their life chances… (read more)
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
October 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
"We urgently need language education...that enables citizens to speak effectively and fluently to each other and to people of the world..." writes Profs Norbert Pachler and Zhu Hua, 'in eager anticipation' of the Curriculum and Assessment Review's final report.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
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Interested in #multilingualism, #literacy, & #languages?
Check out The Grand Multi-Literacy event this coming weekend :)
It's free, online & features talks from researchers, educators, parents, authors & more!
Talks are recorded, so you can catch up after if you prefer!
#langsky 💙📚 #Kidlit
Check out The Grand Multi-Literacy event this coming weekend :)
It's free, online & features talks from researchers, educators, parents, authors & more!
Talks are recorded, so you can catch up after if you prefer!
#langsky 💙📚 #Kidlit
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Interested in #multilingualism, #literacy, & #languages?
Check out The Grand Multi-Literacy event this coming weekend :)
It's free, online & features talks from researchers, educators, parents, authors & more!
Talks are recorded, so you can catch up after if you prefer!
#langsky 💙📚 #Kidlit
Check out The Grand Multi-Literacy event this coming weekend :)
It's free, online & features talks from researchers, educators, parents, authors & more!
Talks are recorded, so you can catch up after if you prefer!
#langsky 💙📚 #Kidlit
Hi hivemind, what do your student seminar papers or dissertations look like right now regarding AI disclaimers? Do students acknowledge AI use and list tools used (like a tick-box exercise)?
September 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hi hivemind, what do your student seminar papers or dissertations look like right now regarding AI disclaimers? Do students acknowledge AI use and list tools used (like a tick-box exercise)?
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Very happy to see this paper come out which builds on our work on multilingual identity @camedfac.bsky.social 😊 It's open access so free to download - brief overview in thread below ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Willingness to identify: an exploration of the factors that influence secondary school students’ willingness to identify as multilingual
For decades researchers have debated the criteria for identifying someone as multilingual; however, little is known about how individuals, and particularly school-aged students, subjectively identi...
www.tandfonline.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Very happy to see this paper come out which builds on our work on multilingual identity @camedfac.bsky.social 😊 It's open access so free to download - brief overview in thread below ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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* Paper hunt* At the last ISB conference, someone (I can't remember who!) mentioned a study on the fact that L2 speakers might use scales differently than L1 speakers (similarly to the idea that cultural background affects the use of extremes in scales).Who can help me find this paper?
August 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
* Paper hunt* At the last ISB conference, someone (I can't remember who!) mentioned a study on the fact that L2 speakers might use scales differently than L1 speakers (similarly to the idea that cultural background affects the use of extremes in scales).Who can help me find this paper?
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@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social
Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social
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Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I had the privilege teaching a brand-new Master-level course on "Artificial Intelligence and Applied Linguistics" at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at this term. #AI #sociolinguistics #appliedlinguistics
August 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I had the privilege teaching a brand-new Master-level course on "Artificial Intelligence and Applied Linguistics" at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at this term. #AI #sociolinguistics #appliedlinguistics
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Exciting research opportunity - Scottish Government CivTech Challenge 11.2, tackling the sparsity of useful, available data in Gaelic. Overcoming this is essential to build more robust and trustworthy Gaelic language technologies. £650,000 funding available
www.civtech.scot/civtech-11-c...
www.civtech.scot/civtech-11-c...
CivTech Challenge 11.2 — Gaelic language data sparsity — CivTech
www.civtech.scot
August 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Exciting research opportunity - Scottish Government CivTech Challenge 11.2, tackling the sparsity of useful, available data in Gaelic. Overcoming this is essential to build more robust and trustworthy Gaelic language technologies. £650,000 funding available
www.civtech.scot/civtech-11-c...
www.civtech.scot/civtech-11-c...
Don’t blame ChatGPT, blame society for paying women less than men!! That’s what ChatGPT actually reflects ;-)
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Don’t blame ChatGPT, blame society for paying women less than men!! That’s what ChatGPT actually reflects ;-)
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Race Ethnicity and Education are advertising for a new editor-in-chief / team of editors: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
July 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Race Ethnicity and Education are advertising for a new editor-in-chief / team of editors: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Neues kostenloses Webinar:
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Wann: 04.08.2025, 11 Uhr
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Wann: 04.08.2025, 11 Uhr
Wo: Zoom
Kosten: Kostenlos
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July 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics:
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics:
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance