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Elisabeth Barakos
@ellabarakos.bsky.social
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Austrian in London. Lecturer & Researcher @Vienna University & @IOE UCL Sociolinguistics | Applied Linguistics |Language in education and business | Elite multilingualism | Discourse Studies | Ethnography | Language Policy www.elisabethbarakos.com
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Nov 19
For anyone interested in #discourse and #sociolinguistics, reach out for a copy. :-)
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Verónica Pájaro @vpajaro.bsky.social · Nov 19
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
Screenshot from the book chapter
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 20d
Amazing! 😻
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Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social · 23d
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
The GRAND MULTI-LITERACY Event 2025 An online - live - free event for multilingual families and educators teaching multilingual students From Friday 19th to Sunday 21st September 2025 on YouTube: Library4Multilnguals
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Sep 3
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Sep 3
"Will future theses and papers feature disclaimers such as “drafted by ChatGPT — translated by DeepL — rephrased by Quillbot — spell-checked by Grammarly — images by MidJourney — all prompts available in Appendix A”? (Teubner et al. 2023)
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Sep 3
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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Karen Forbes @karenforbes.bsky.social · Sep 2
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....
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...
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Pernelle Lorette @pernellel.bsky.social · Aug 26
* 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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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · Aug 8
@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...
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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · Aug 8
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....
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Aug 8
Oh thank you!! 🤩 and yes, totally agreed on your points!
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Aug 7
Now marking my cohort's papers which are original, exploratory and daring in terms of the topics researched. Thanks to my students for shaping this novel course together with me!
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Aug 7
It was so much fun learning together about the affordances, challenges and futures of AI in linguistics, to cover topics like AI and language/culture bias, voice AI and sociolinguistic disparities, AI and translation, AI and ethics.
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Aug 7
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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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · Aug 5
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
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CivTech Challenge 11.2 — Gaelic language data sparsity — CivTech
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Aug 4
👀 I know …
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Aug 4
Och! Diss-Kapitel haben sich frische Augen verdient ;-)
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Jul 22
Don’t blame ChatGPT, blame society for paying women less than men!! That’s what ChatGPT actually reflects ;-)
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 20
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.
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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.
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · Jul 18
Race Ethnicity and Education are advertising for a new editor-in-chief / team of editors: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Sandra Jansen @sj2915.bsky.social · Jul 12
#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia
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Sandra Jansen @sj2915.bsky.social · Jul 12
Neues kostenloses Webinar:

Müde vom Wissenschaftsbetrieb? Zeit, über deine Zukunft nachzudenken
Wann: 04.08.2025, 11 Uhr
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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · Jul 2
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
conference poster with details, see https://uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber-cringe/
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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Jul 1
Kick-start to my marking season as of today: 3 full modules, with spread deadlines over the summer, 10 MA dissertation student theses in September. Plus a 9 yr-old in tow...and job applications yeahhhh. Did anyone say research or a care-free summer? Send good vibes and energy balls my darlings.
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Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà @mariarosagarrido.bsky.social · Jun 26
📖
@mpmilans.bsky.social
& I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm
🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social &
@peterbrowning.bsky.social
will present their chapters there
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Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future
This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, ...
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Jun 23
Focusing on the multilingual Caribbean, this book examines ethnographic data and local performances of English to explore how language is constructed in discourse and via media practices.

Liquid Languages by Britta Schneider, Coming Soon

#LangSky #Linguistics

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Liquid Languages
Cambridge Core - African and Caribbean Language and Linguistics - Liquid Languages
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Dr Celia Antoniou @celiagr.bsky.social · Jun 12
Still buzzing from the fantastic #BAAL /@CambridgeUP Seminar on #GenAI in #AppliedLinguistics & #TESOL last Friday at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social!

Huge thanks to all speakers, poster presenters, our volunteers & everyone who joined us! 🙏

More updates coming soon: lnkd.in/eqtZhkpR
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