Robert Blackwood
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Professor of French Sociolinguistics, Editor of Linguistic Landscape, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement & Partnerships at the University of Liverpool
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Since the time I was a PhD student, I've always found the annual #LinguisticLandscape workshop to be a welcoming, almost familial space. Where else can you enjoy a mother-son talk, like today's "Collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee" by Becky and Nick Garvin? ❤️ #LL16
Rebecca Todd Garvin speaks with J. Nicholas Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025 J. Nicholas Garvin speaks with Rebecca Todd Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025 J. Nicholas Garvin speaks with Rebecca Todd Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025 Rebecca Todd Garvin speaks with J. Nicholas Garvin in their joint presentation, "The collapse and transformation of Jefferson Street in Nashville Tennessee, USA," at the 16th Linguistic Landscape Workshop in Essen, Germany, on Thursday, September 4, 2025
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We’re thrilled to have been nominated but we’re all the ##LinguisticLandscape workshop #LL16 in Essen so we’ll join by Zoom to see how our Handbook fares in the BAAL Book Prize
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We're at #BAAL2025 in Glasgow and gearing up for the BAAL Book Prize announcement ceremony at 4pm.

Fingers crossed for a win for the fantastic Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes 🤞 @baal2025.bsky.social @robjblackwood.bsky.social

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This afternoon, Jess Hampton has bridged the distance between endangered languages - Romagnolo in her case - and recovery from crises: earthquakes, COVID-19, floods.
Jess Hampton closes her paper by performing the final verse of a poem in Romagnolo
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At #LL16, you can hear a pin drop as Jackie Lou talks us through the crisis and creativity of COVID-19 in a beautiful and deeply personal reflection, bringing us back to discourse in place as a bedrock of #linguisticlandscape research
Jackie Lou stands at the podium in a lecture theatre below a screen reading ‘Why creativity? A micro self-nexus analysis’
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We’re at #LL16 in Essen and the first plenary speaker Máiréad Moriarty takes Levi-Strauss and Barthes to task for dismissing the value of the sea as a landscape
Máiréad Moriarty stands in front of two screens featuring citations from Levi-Strauss and Barthes
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'Vernacular Mythologies: Instagram, Starbucks and Meaning-Making by Non-Elites at Paris Orly Airport' by @robjblackwood.bsky.social explores mythmaking by non-elites through networked language and semiotic practices of Instagram users. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/VM-Blackwood @livunihss.bsky.social
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REMINDER!

Early Bird registration for #LL16 ends today! Register here: www.conftool.com/ll16-ude/ind...
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Hi! We're new here, but we're so excited! Please tag us in any of your posts with the hashtag #LL16.
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It's great to see @dmalinowski.bsky.social's review of Gorter & Cenoz's landmark overview (or 'panorama' to use their terms) of #LinguisticLandscape research. Review now published in OnlineFirst for the journal #LinguisticLandscape
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At @liverpooluni.bsky.social Heritage Institute, the research seminar series of 2025 kicks off with Goffriller looking at archaeology & the built heritage of Lower Syr Darya in #Kazakhstan
Martin Goffriller opens his talk by showing the audience the river systems of Central Asia on a large map
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Today, in the journal #LinguisticLandscape publishes online its first article of 2025, written by @theresaheyd.bsky.social & @janapithan.bsky.social, looking at the voices attributed, via signage, to artefacts in the public space. The authors look at 'talking' milk cartons, bins, trains, and more!
Voices in the Linguistic Landscape | John Benjamins
Abstract This paper contributes to the emerging analytical framework of anthropo­morphized artifacts as part of Linguistic Landscapes. It describes and analyzes cases where signage, objects, or relate...
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Here's an interesting funding opportunity with European partners: AHRC - Collaborate with German partners (up to £420k). For arts and humanities research projects. Applications must demonstrate added value of international collaboration to research www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #AcademicSky
Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research: round seven
Apply for funding to collaborate on arts and humanities projects with German research partners.
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With a fanfare, the journal #LinguisticLandscape leaps into its second decade with a new issue, featuring articles by Bruyèl-Olmedo, Pellanda, Wang & Yu, and Duman Çakır. And a couple of reviews to boot - what's not to like?
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