As space is carved out by the federal judiciary for open prejudice, the position of the linguist is further politicised. May our work - our dissents - sound with the same languages they seek to silence.

The brick-by-brick dismantling of US citizens’ rights is a project whose accomplishment is built in part on the ways we delegitimise the everyday practices of communities when they diverge from those of the majority. Now, legal protections extend to the policing of language systems & their speakers

For Language Policy, Prof. Christine Helot and I review Prof. Florence Bonacinca-Pugh's edited volume Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research.

Language Policy as Practice is available at: lnkd.in/eiSPkY_H

Read our review at: rdcu.be/ezXL8

En effet, dans ce cas-là il s’agit surtout d’une expression qui n’entretient pas un véritable lien avec la religion et qui signifie avant tout quelque chose d’imprévisible

^ Nous sommes déjà deux candidates sur Bluesky à constater un problème sur Odyssée : un dossier déclaré irrecevable sans notification, sans justification et sans interlocuteur. Quelles actions sont possibles ? @academiacarnet.cpesr.fr

And in other collaborative LL news, Christine Hélot and I review Gorter & Cenoz’s (2024) Panorama for Language Problems and Language planning. Access through Benjamins below or request a copy from me at [email protected]

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Looking forward to #LL16 where I’ll be talking about de/re-landscaping Paris for the 2024 Olympics (with my bsky-less colleague Peiru Bai).

After Musk’s Twitter takeover, I read heaps of takes to the tune of “this is why you don’t study just one platform”. But when scholars will want to study the post-Musk migration and the work of consensus-building about new platforms, Twitter research will be integral to interpreting these phenomena

For everyone who has done or is actively working on TT research - this work is valid and valuable. It is through papers like these that we will be able to gain an understanding (and a diachronic perspective) of how platforms, platform use and the creator economy evolve over the long term.

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This article takes a first step at blending some of the theories driving current research in Internet research with the work of linguistic and semiotic landscapes, while maintaining a sociolinguistic orientation.

The article is available on Benjamins from me directly at [email protected]

Very happy to report that my latest article, “Authorship, ownership, and ethics in data field discourse on Instagram: New perspectives for online linguistic landscapes” is out now in the journal of Linguistic Landscape.

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