Last week, our colleague @ruth_kircher visited the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and gave a talk about the interconnectedness of #LanguageAttitudes & #SocialJustice. She also met with #ECMI advisory board member Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, who is based at the Academy 💬

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The core claim is a subtle one: criticising words themselves misses the point.

Language reflects social structures, but it doesn’t create them. Oxford’s sociolect no longer belongs to a narrow elite—it belongs to those who use it now.

#langsky #linguistics #slang #languageattitudes

Are you interested in #NorthFrisian sociolinguistics?
🗣️ You are warmly invited to this workshop!
📆 1st October
📍 Danish Library in Flensburg
👉 Attendance is free but registration is required: bit.ly/ECMI_Nordfri...
#MinorityLanguages #LanguageAttitudes #LanguageUse

Our fifth publication by Slemp (2021) looks at how people use and react to #genderinclusivelanguage in #Spanish on #Twitter. She made a survey after building her own #corpus and found generally favorable attitudes! wally.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/de...

#languageandgender #languageattitudes

Here's a clip of the #welsh #language being mocked in the #horror #film The Old Dark House back in 1932: "Even Welsh ought not sound like that." It seems exceptional that #languageattitudes towards Welsh have remained as positive as they are (Lee 2016) despite the sort of long-lived casual overt […]