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Call for Papers: The Doshisha University Institute for the Liberal Arts (Kyoto), in cooperation with the University of Bremen (Germany), is initiating the first colloquium for young researchers in the field of sociolinguistics. We invite graduate students, postdoctoral, and early-career researchers to participate in our colloquium and present their current work. The aim of the colloquium is to connect young scholars in the field of sociolinguistics (broadly imagined) and provide a supportive

This work explores the combined effects of social expectations and a speaker’s production characteristics on the perception of alveolar versus retroflex sibilants that are variably merged in Taiwan Ma...

We are delighted to welcome John R. Rickford, the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University.

Focus: Language data analysis and computing, with a particular emphasis on challenges in handling multimodal (text, audio, video) data. Description: As part of the 58th Annual Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, we are hosting a two-week course on the analysis of multimodal (text, audio, video) language data. This course will be taught by Drs Nina Markl and Charles Redmon in coordination with wider work on computational linguistics at the Institute for Analytics and Data Scien

“Hi, I'm Ruan Yuejiao, from Ho Chi Minh City!”: Digital raciolinguistic enregisterment and indexical hijack of the Vietnamese Mandarin accent

We are particularly interested in candidates with research expertise in cognitive linguistics, computational modeling, corpus linguistics, and/or neurolinguistics. The successful applicant will receive an independent lab space, startup funds, and housing accommodation support for three years.

The editors of Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguisticsare jointly sponsoring an online seminar on the theme of publishing in academic journals. This 60-minute webinar is intended to provid...

｢社會語言學是一門研究語言如何在社會脈絡中運作的學科。」Starr用一句話簡單明瞭地解釋了社會語言學的核心概念。他隨即補充道，其實有兩個更細緻的定義：「其中一種研究方式，是探討語言如何在社會脈絡中運作；另一種則是透過語言來研究社會世界。」前者強調語言結構加上社會變因，後者則以語言為工具，研究社會現象，Starr表示，不同學者會依據自己的興趣從不同的角度切入，有著不同的思考模式，而這也正是Starr...