⭐️ HAPPY NEWS ⭐️
Starting in March 2023, I will be appointed as Assistant Professor of German Sociolinguistics at
@LUCL_Leiden
! I am immensely grateful for the opportunity & looking forward to the new position.
Here to Leiden looking like a postcard during my campus visit 🌺🚲
#linguistweets
#lt1515
Today we’re talking about a new phenomenon on the Francophone Twittersphere: people behind Twitter accounts of cats talking like a cat, as if they were a cat. For English, we know it as Lolspeak/Kitty Pidgin: it’s a Special Internet Language Variety. 1/
Woooowww!! My paper on “French-speaking cats on Twitter as an enregistered variety and community of practice” has been published with Internet Pragmatics under a CC BY 4.0 license (meaning *everyone* can read/download it for free) 😻 I hope you ENJOY it 🤩
Coming soon: my paper on French-speaking cats on Twitter—how they write, what they find wonderful/annoying, how they support each other, build a community of practice, and finally how they reinvent Twitter as a creative, free, and friendly corner of the Internet 😻
#CatsOfTwitter
I really wish more academics would realize that time boundaries (making sure we have breaks at events, classes finish on time, evenings/weekends are protected, we don't expect answers to non urgent emails in 24 hours) are about INCLUSION & not a nice extra, but the strict minimum
Hey academics, can we please stop saying how it will be a super productive time now that we can (well, have to) stay at home and just acknowledge that the whole situation is emotionally and intellectually extremely challenging?
@AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#Covid_19
Anglophone cats are known for their baby voice + specific ortho, gramm & lex features. Francophone cats combine a childlike code AND a formal register. Both features create the sociolinguistic persona of cats as ambivalent animals… who made it into the newspaper! (trad: ALT) 2/
Just received the proofs of our paper, “Navigating the German school system when being perceived as a student ‘with migration background’: Students’ perspectives on linguistic racism”, co-authored w/ Martina Oldani, a teacher at a German school. Very excited to see it out soon 🤩
[THREAD] Is Twitter only about self-promotion? Academics, if you want to give it a try and don't know where to begin / don't feel comfortable with the idea of promoting your work, here a few (unorganized, but we'll be fine) tips.
#AcademicTwitter
#PhDChat
@AcademicChatter
Conclusion: not an artificial or constructed language (as some Tweeps say) but a sociolinguistic style (as
@SutterlinKatz
argues).
This study shows how people integrate to digital networks by adopting the (perceived) norms of core members of the community of practice 6/6
En ce
#8Mars
, un fil linguistique sur les représentations sociales genrées induites par l'utilisation du masculin générique à partir de l'article de Brauer et Landry (2008), "Un ministre peut-il tomber enceinte ? L’impact du générique masculin sur les représentations mentales".
I explored 100 Twitter accounts of cats. My hypothesis was that very few, pivotal accounts are leading sociolinguistic change and the dissemination of pragmatic and sociolinguistic norms of use—one of them being
@SutterlinKatz
, self-established & recognized as such (trad: ALT) 3/
Today is the day: My book, “The Politics of Person Reference”, is out! 🎉
I closely examine British, German, and French parliamentary debates, and show how the third person (‘some’, ‘one’, etc.) can be used to target both absent and present participants.
I am very excited about this one. And proud!
“Whose language counts? Native speakerism and monolingual bias in language ideological research: Challenges and directions for further research”
#OpenAccess
& looking forward to your (critical!) comments ☺️
Coming soon: my paper on French-speaking cats on Twitter—how they write, what they find wonderful/annoying, how they support each other, build a community of practice, and finally how they reinvent Twitter as a creative, free, and friendly corner of the Internet 😻
#CatsOfTwitter
Oui c'est à cause que je suis un très bon chat très drôle très spirituel avec la syntaxe très idiosyncrasique qu'elle tend même à faire le sociolecte en d'autres termes je suis une influenceuse langue éwi
It’s my first official day as an Assistant Professor of German Sociolinguistics at
@LeidenHum
🤩 I’m so so happy and grateful to be where I am 😍
Hi from Leiden being cute and ready for the spring 🌷🦢
Happy to share that I've been awarded funds from my university to hire 2 to 3 research assistants for 6 months 🥳 We'll work together on interview data in French on language ideologies and multilingualism.
I'll advertise a post soon, but if you're interested, drop me an email!
Typical for cats is fake politeness, graphematic variation around phonetic elision & ‘that’-constructions that become so salient that new accounts adopt only THIS feature to become part of the community and not the full range of features + not in the same syntactic position 5/
Cats display a rich interplay of lexical features, but very few are used ONLY by cats:
- euphemisms: la grande sieste (‘the big nap’ = the death)
- formal register: prédater (‘predate’), prestance (‘stature’), outré / scandaloutrage (‘outraged’), even used as a
#Hashtag
4/
It's been a hell of a year with many ups & downs and emotional rollercoasters, as academia knows too well. So here is my happy “I'm delighted to share” moment: Next semester I'll be a Junior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
@wiko_greifswald
& I'm beyond excited! 🤩
So, yes, rejections are part of the job, and at least you tried, and you put yourself out there, and it doesn't have to say anything about the quality of your work, and it's not only about you, etc.
And still. It hurts. Today, it really hurts.
[THREAD] I'm starting a (collaborative?) thread on academic life: writing, organizing, archiving, resting, enjoying. One tip per day until 31 Dec 2020. No amazing productivity hacks or big secrets but just some tiny things that make life colorful ✨ Share yours as well!
OMG IT WORKED 😭😭😭 (2 days later)
Our paper ”The view from within: Gendered language ideologies for multilingual speakers in contemporary Berlin” has just been accepted with minor revisions in the Journal of Sociolinguistics and I'm literally crying and shaking 🔥🤩
We have a cover! I proudly present 🤩
Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives, co-edited by Esther Jahns and me!
All papers are already online ahead of print, but not in the right order 🙈
Lernt neue Person kennen:
- „Und, was machst du?“
- „Ich arbeite an der Uni.“
- „Oh, voll cool, was studierst du?“.
Jedes. Mal.
Cool, eine Frau in Academia zu sein.
„AbEr EiNEn IGeL kaNn mAN niCHt aNfaSsEN!“
Na, habt ihr Lust, euer grammatisches Wissen aus der Schule zu dekonstruieren?
@DennisDressel
und ich nehmen euch gerne auf die Reise mit und zeigen euch, was die Sprachwissenschaft dazu zu sagen hat:
Alles, was man anfassen kann, schreibt man groß, sagt die Lehrerin.
Den Igel also schonmal nicht. Der ist zu stachelig zum Anfassen, sagt das Kind.
Ok, es wird ein langer Weg zur richtigen Rechtschreibung.
*denkt weinend an sonne, mond und sterne
Can't believe this is happening:
Just got invited for a keynote at the Collège de France (chaire Migrations et Sociétés). At the Collège de France. One of the professors “a pris un vif intérêt à vos travaux” (“has taken a keen interest in your work”).
I am 🤩🥰😱😱😱
Parents (working in academia): What are your best tips to handle the new huge mental load coming with children & keep up with your to-do list with no burnout? Apart from accepting a messy house, going to bed early, and letting go of expectations 😉 I appreciate new perspectives!
I'm very honored, proud & excited to share that I've been awarded the Open Science Research Data Award of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in the category “reuse of data” for my work on parliamentary debates in
#OpenAccess
!
“Prejudiced listeners cannot hear what a person has to say, because accent, as a mirror of social identity and a litmus test for exclusion, is more important.” (Lippi-Green 1994: 167)
My dad—who speaks English perfectly w/an Indian accent—filed a police report in response to a hit & run.The report notes that there was a “language barrier” b/n the officer & dad. This was so upsetting to my father that he asked me to go to the police dept & have them…1/3
This
#linguistweets
thread is getting far more attention than I would have ever have suspected (thank you), so if you’re...
- a cat & want to share *anything* with me
- a linguist working on the syntax of ‘que’ in French
- a scholar working on Lolspeak
... please write me! 🤩
Today is my mom's birthday and I got her flowers delivered, so when a wonderful bouquet arrived at my house this morning, I got very confused & thought I messed it up 😭 But no, it's my amazing institute encouraging me to keep going as I was SO close with the grant rejection 🥺
Waking up this morning to discover that a journal I'm a guest editor for sent automatic emails to reviewers on my behalf (signed with my name!!), without me knowing, telling them to drop the reviews because they are late (?!).
Feeling all the feels: 😳😤😬🫣😳🤬🤢😭😱😲🤬🤬🤬
First day going to the university
@LeidenHum
to settle in as I’ll begin my job as Assistant Professor of German Sociolinguistics
@LUCL_Leiden
in a week! Also my first time wearing a jacket again since the interview with maternity leave in between 😉 Excited to see everyone! 😊
In einer Rundmail an Mitarbeitende an meiner Uni heute:
„Soziale Kontakte wurden stark eingeschränkt, die Umstellung auf die Online-Lehre und Homeoffice wurde für einige von Ihnen zu einer Belastung.“
EINIGE. Nicht für alle, nicht mal für viele, implizit aber: NUR für einige.
Es ist mir eine enorme Freude & Ehre, zu den Preisträger*innen des studentischen Lehrpreises für engagierte digitale Lehre
@UniLeipzig
zu gehören. Monate danach—immer noch so schön 🤩 Für die tolle Mitarbeit & ihr großartiges Engagement bin ich den Studierenden unfassbar dankbar!
Today I got that one email that changes everything, the one that gives you hope and perspective, the one that says “hell yeah!!”. I CAN’T WAIT TO SHARE THE NEWS WITH YOU 😍😍😍
A new awareness campaign in Berlin targets racism against Muslims, here with a focus on linguistic racism through accents: “The French accent is sexy, the Arabic one suspicious. For real? Prejudices never are the answer.”
I am very, VERY excited to share the free download link to our paper, “Navigating the German school system when being perceived as a student ‘with migration background’: Students’ perspectives on linguistic racism”, with Martina Oldani as a first author!
I had a bike accident. I got lucky (helmet and no car involved) but my right hand wrist was broken (yes, I’m right handed), my ribs heavily bruised, and my other hand and knee hurt. I’m fine and grateful, but I still might need an operation, and good vibes really help 😊
@MamanBCBG
Et je vous traduis enfin cet exemple trop mignon en allemand :
Deux enfants d'environ deux ans font connaissance dans le bus à plusieurs sièges de distance :
- « Ta maman s'appelle aussi maman ? »
- « Oui, la tienne aussi ? »
- « Ouiiiiii »
Et les yeux qui brillent 🤩
Yeeyyy! Endlich mal ist es mir auch passiert: Absage für ein Berufungsverfahren 2,5 Jahre danach erhalten 🙌
Mittlerweile gab es in Holland zwischen Bewerbungsfrist und Jobangebot 4 *Wochen* (mit zwei Runden Interviews und umfangreichem Campus Visit dazwischen) 💫
One male professor, one male BA student, a workshop with lots of unknown faces, same question: And so, what is your PhD about?
None of them showed even the slightest embarrassment, nor considered apologizing when they understood their mistake.
I'M SO FUCK*** TIRED OF ACADEMIA
Very excited to share that my first publication for 2022 will be in the Journal of Pragmatics, one of my favorite journals in the field! 🎉
And... wait for it: This is what Reviewer
#2
writes: “Dear author, you have now carefully revised your article and I am happy with it now.”
so I've been told that it's actually an okayish video and that I should share it, so while I'm completely freaking out here I am because, you know, stepping out of your comfort zone huh?
Today is the day: My book, “The Politics of Person Reference”, is out! 🎉
I closely examine British, German, and French parliamentary debates, and show how the third person (‘some’, ‘one’, etc.) can be used to target both absent and present participants.
Somehow there was so much going on lately that I barely had time to think of it, but I'm happy to let you know that my contract at
@LeidenHum
has now been made permanent! 🤩
I am currently working on 3 funded projects with the university & excited about many more collaborations!
⭐️ HAPPY NEWS ⭐️
Starting in March 2023, I will be appointed as Assistant Professor of German Sociolinguistics at
@LUCL_Leiden
! I am immensely grateful for the opportunity & looking forward to the new position.
Here to Leiden looking like a postcard during my campus visit 🌺🚲
If you think talking as your pet is a new or purely Internet phenomenon, well... NOT AT ALL!
Historian Katherine Grier (2006), cited by Maddox (2021: 3333) found that in the 19th century already, “individuals wrote letters to each other in their pets’ voices” 1/5 ⬇️
#linguistweets
#lt1515
Today we’re talking about a new phenomenon on the Francophone Twittersphere: people behind Twitter accounts of cats talking like a cat, as if they were a cat. For English, we know it as Lolspeak/Kitty Pidgin: it’s a Special Internet Language Variety. 1/
When / How you did you realize you loved linguistics?
For me it was quite late in my studies in a stylistics class, when I saw linguistics getting applied to literature 🔥 (before that I enrolled in my program to study literature)
Mid-February my mom's cat, who regularly spent some time on the balcony, never came back. I was visiting at the time, and my mom and I were devastated. He was only 7 months old.
But... Do you know what happened today? My mom received a phone call, Voyou is alive & coming home! 😻
Very excited to share that my paper on gender-inclusive language and how it is perceived by multilinguals has just been accepted!
🌈 „In Deutschland wird es weniger diskutiert“: Sprachideologien über geschlechtergerechte Sprache aus der Sicht von L2-Sprechenden des Deutschen 🌈
The introduction to our Special Issue is out!
“Introduction: Language ideologies—again? New insights from a flourishing field”, by Esther Jahns and me,
#OpenAccess
!
I will write more soon to present all the papers
#LingComm21
has been an amazing conference so far, and while everyone has been sharing screenshots of the amazing digital space the organisation team has created for us, I also want to reflect on why this works so well for me and how our next online conferences can look like ⬇️
Today is the day! Our paper with Martina Oldani, “The view from within: Gendered language ideologies of multilingual speakers in contemporary Berlin” is out in
#OpenAccess
in the Journal of Sociolinguistics:
I'm both very excited 🤩 & a bit stressed 😊
Post-grant rejection is pre-grant application. Don't ask me where I find the strength to apply again, not sure if it's courage or stubbornness 🙃
Anyways, wish me LUCK (because I'm more and more convinced that once you got proper reviews, it's mostly a matter of luck) 🤞
“I would really like to speak a little more like a German”—weird way to refer to your way of speaking if you’re already German, isn’t it? Well, for the German-Turkish women aged 16-23 we interviewed in Berlin-Kreuzberg, it is, in fact, quite usual. ⬇️
#linguistweets
#TW1615
I have arrived at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
@wiko_greifswald
where I’ll be a Junior Fellow this winter term!
The highlights so far are:
1) I have a balcony in my apartment AND office!
2) There is a DISH WASHER — there, I said it, I feel like an adult 🤩
More soon 😉
It's been a hell of a year with many ups & downs and emotional rollercoasters, as academia knows too well. So here is my happy “I'm delighted to share” moment: Next semester I'll be a Junior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
@wiko_greifswald
& I'm beyond excited! 🤩
Leider hat mir gerade
@c_drosten
mitgeteilt, dass er die Auswertung des Infektionsschutzgesetzes für die Bundesregierung und das Parlament nicht weiter begleitet. Das ist ein schwerer Verlust, weil niemand könnte es besser.
Today is my 3-year PhD defense anniversary! 😍 What a ride, people. But so happy to be where I am and excited for hopefully many more years of learning, teaching, reading, writing, thinking to come! 🌺 [ALT]
📢 It is now time for the thread I announced on our Special Issue in the European Journal of Applied Linguistics, co-edited by Esther Jahns and me, with many papers in
#OpenAccess
📚
💫 Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives 💫
This is it.
Acknowledging that
#AcademicWriting
is messy, emotional, physical, personal, gendered. That you're not a failure even if you don't write every day, not even every week, and not only because we're in the middle of a pandemic.
#AcademicChatter
I am very, VERY excited to share the free download link to our paper, “Navigating the German school system when being perceived as a student ‘with migration background’: Students’ perspectives on linguistic racism”, with Martina Oldani as a first author!
I'm thrilled to share that my paper published in the Journal of Pragmatics, “(When) Can I say Du to You? The Metapragmatics of Forms of Address on German-Speaking Twitter”, is available for download free of charge until April 🎉 No sign up or registration.
The International Twitter Conference on Linguistics is coming back for its third edition!
#Linguistweets
You can submit your abstract until October, 5:
The conference itself will take place on Twitter on December, 5: Who is in? 😍
Higher ed in 2022 in France & Germany: Same crushed hopes, same precarity, same absence of perspectives, and mobbing and harassment at every corner. Yeyyy 🤡 [ALT]
#IchBinHanna
#IchBinReyhan
@doc_scholz
In Junge Frau, am Fenster stehend, Abendlicht, blaues Kleid von Alena Schröder ist die Hauptprotagonistin Doktorandin in Literaturwiss in Berlin. Dabei werden viele (sehr problematische) Aspekte (z.B. Betreuung bzw. Verhältnis zum 'Doktorvater', Gender-Bias, etc.) thematisiert.
I am now signing the copyright form for the paper “‘I am a real cat’: French-speaking cats on Twitter as an enregistered variety and community of practice” to be published in Internet Pragmatics!
Very excited to get the cats' reactions on this one 😻🙀😽
Four years ago today, I submitted my 712-page long (😳) dissertation, for it to be read by seven (!) committee members from France, Germany, and Switzerland, just as the semester was about to begin with four entirely new courses to teach. Feeling a bit sentimental 🤓🥰
One of the hardest things in academia is to know how to stop. And then to actually do it. Today I spontaneously decided not to attend the plenaries at
#IPrA2021
. Did I experience intense decision fatigue and FOMO? Oh yes. Am I very much enjoying my cake and coffee? Also yes.
Almost 9 months after giving birth, an international move, landing a new job, teaching + grading a new lecture with 120+ students, making it to the final round of a big grant, with almost no daycare, back to the yoga studio 💫 Making it a priority now, academic writing can wait.
Very, very excited to announce that our paper “Navigating the German school system when being perceived as a student ‘with migration background’: Students’ perspectives on linguistic racism” co-authored with Martina Oldani will be out in Linguistics and Education SOON! 😍
Und da ich ja zufälligerweise über die Pragmatik und Semantik von u.a. Quantifikatoren promoviert habe, hier ein kleiner Hinweis: „Einige“ sind die anderen. „Einige wie ich“ geht natürlich, in der Tat aber kaum: Es handelt sich um eine argumentative Strategie zur Distanzierung.
Last days to download my paper, “(When) Can I say Du to You? The Metapragmatics of Forms of Address on German-Speaking Twitter”!
Free of charge for 3 more days (but there will be an author's version on an
#OpenAccess
repository after that, of course).
Little reminder: As an author, you're *ALWAYS* allowed to upload the author's version of your text to an open repository, before, during, or after peer-review, NO MATTER what the journal policy says! Your text is yours & remains yours, go share it with the world! 🙏
#OpenScience
You've written a paper, especially in the humanities and social sciences, and you're not sure where and when you're allowed to publish it in
#OpenAccess
? This mini thread on
#OpenScience
is for you,
#AcademicTwitter
! 🤓🔓
Excited to share that I'll go to
@univgroningen
for the first time on 27 Nov! Thrilled to have been invited by
@Josh_Prada
to talk language ideologies, multilingualism, gender-inclusive language 🔥
You can also join online: 💻
Today I have written the very first draft of the very first page of my very first book. The first sentence —for now—: "Imagine that you are coming home after a long trip."
Ready to turn this dissertation into a book! 📕
#phdchat
This is one of these exciting weeks: A paper I really care about—on linguistic racism and the German school system—, co-authored with a teacher, Martina Oldani, has just been accepted for publication by Linguistics and Education subject to a final round of very minor revisions 🤩
@lapsyrevoltee
Les Pieds sur terre est l'un de mes coups de cœur. C'est doux, poétique, sans jugement, sans explication, juste des voix, des petits bouts de vie, des personnes qui (se) racontent, s'émeuvent, se sont parfois perdues, parfois jamais retrouvées. C'est beau.
This week I'll send the final proofs of my first monograph to my editor 🤩 In a few weeks, my book, The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and French, will be out in the world!
Very excited to share that I will receive an education innovation grant for a new teaching project at
@UniLeidenNews
@LeidenHum
on “A journey into Sociolinguistic Fieldwork: Exploring German Presence in Leiden and The Hague”. Stay tuned! 🤩
I'm not sure how to say this & how to come back from what happened, but I feel this is important: I haven't been feeling like myself lately. I had another surgery under general anesthesia. If I owe you an email, need an extension, or forget things, please bear with me. To 2022 ✨
Very happy and excited to be talking at
#LingComm21
, the International Conference on Linguistics Communication! Join us in April (19-23) for “a small, highly interactive conference featuring a mix of beginner and advanced panels”!
#SciComm