Sanne Lauriks
sannelauriks.bsky.social
Sanne Lauriks
@sannelauriks.bsky.social
Exploring the power of words, multilingualism, linguistic activism, academic communication, and the world at large. Publisher/Journal Manager Linguistics at De Guyter Brill.
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💚 Hate is never the answer.

📗 Learn how experts in #Linguistics and #Law can – and should – work together to explore the linguistic and legal underpinnings of #HateSpeech.
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it."
--- Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
#politics #history #HigherEd #science
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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FvD + FvD-afsplitsing hebben 15 zetels. Nazi's hebben 15 zetels.

Van Annabel 'mooie ovens' Nanninga tot aan Lidewij 'likeable' de Vos die gisteren remigratie (=deportatie) mocht opperen omdat de omvolkingstheorie al genormaliseerd is en schedelmeten geen reden is voor een cordon sanitaire.
October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Join us for our next LIP talk
We are delighted to welcome Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) for the third talk of the term.
Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
Date & Time: Tuesday 28th October, 1-2pm (UK time)
Location: MS Teams
Online link: lnkd.in/eyvGGc7G
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Genocide plegen: je mag meedoen
Genocide veroordelen: je mag niet meedoen.

Weten we dat ook weer.
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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🔍 What if Latin’s loss of vowel length, a change that shaped all of Romance, came not from stress shifts but from open-syllable lengthening leveling the field?

Loporcaro & Onorato argue just that in their new Open Access paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#Latin#Phonology#OAWeek#Langsky
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Nederland doet te weinig om vrouwen te beschermen tegen geweld, liet de Raad van Europa deze week weten. Wat niet helpt is dat media focussen op moorden gepleegd door een stalkende (ex-)partner, zegt femicide-onderzoeker Marieke Liem. ‘Dat geldt voor maar een kwart van de vrouwenmoorden.’
Femicide-onderzoeker: ‘Focus niet alleen op vrouwenmoord door (ex-)partners’
Na de moord op de 17-jarige Lisa gingen mensen massaal de straat op om een einde aan femicide te eisen. De moord werd daarmee op één hoop gegooid met een andere, veel vaker voorkomende vorm van…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Interested in literacy in multilingual contexts?

Consider joining this new international research network under the auspices of the World Education Research Association

www.languageonthemove.com/literacy-in-...
Literacy in Multilingual Contexts
The World Education Research Association (WERA) recently announced the launch of seven new International Research Networks (IRNs) and we are pleased to share that “Literacy in Multilingual Co…
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October 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Narrator: This is fascism.
October 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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🪄 We're bolstering our #AuthorServices with an expanded partnership with Academic Language Experts. As a De Gruyter Brill author, you'll receive preferential rates for ALE's editing and translation services to get your #research into shipshape before publication.
October 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🎉 Celebrating a remarkable milestone: 50 years of Communications!

This landmark issue features insights from leading voices and looks ahead to the future of the field (free access): www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

👉 Explore it, share it, shape the debate!

#Communication #MediaStudies
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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DeGruyterBrill celebrates their one year anniversary with a lovely event at the Boerhaave museum, with Ineke Sluiter commenting on the state of the academic world and that of publishing 🎈📚
September 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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🤖 AI in Academia – Gamechanger or Risk?
How often do you use tools like #ChatGPT, Perplexity, Highspace, or ResearchRabbit in your work? #AI can speed up data analysis, boost literature search, and spark new ideas, but it also comes with risks like hallucinations, stereotypes, and unreliable data.
September 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Kom naar de derde Rode Lijn-demonstratie op 5 oktober

Op zondag 5 oktober trekken we opnieuw massaal een Rode Lijn tegen Israëls genocide in Gaza. Na twee Rode Lijn-demonstraties in Den Haag is het nu de beurt aan Amsterdam.

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Kom naar de derde Rode Lijn-demonstratie op 5 oktober - The Rights Forum
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September 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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African novels are being translated to English in a bold new trend. We review Ignatius Mabasa’s The Mad
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#Africa #xl8 #literature #langsky
African novels are being translated to English in a bold new trend. We review Ignatius Mabasa’s The Mad
English readers can now encounter African novels as they were first imagined, in the rhythms of their own languages.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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August 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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😊 Happy authors, happy publisher!

🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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How does English spoken in Namibia differ from English spoken elsewhere?

💡 Find out in Gerald Stell’s new monograph: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110784336/html

#Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #EnglishLinguistics #WorldEnglishes #Multilingualism #Phonetics #Namibia
August 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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📚 Centuries of scholarship at your fingertips.
The De Gruyter Brill #BookArchives bring together more than 68,000 #digitized titles, some dating back to the 17th century. A valuable resource for anyone working with collections or #scholarship that requires long-term historical perspective.
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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“The law means nothing if the world looks away.”
August 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM