Our Linguistics lecturers, Dawn Leslie, Elspeth Edelstein and Will Barras, had a super time today working with the S1s at St Machar Academy on several UKLO-inspired challenges. The pupils proved themselves to be formidable linguistics code-breakers in the making! 🤩

Published today from Oxford University Press – A HISTORY OF THE SCOTS LANGUAGE by Prof Robert McColl Millar University of Aberdeen
Covers the development of #Scots from its beginnings to the present; Scots historical phonology & morphosyntax; & the development of Scots lexis
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It's Open Day! Come and find us in the Elphinstone Hall.

Welcome to all prospective students to our first Open Day of the term!

Head to Elphinstone Hall to learn more about our course offerings and hear from our staff the passion and dedication that goes into each course.

#AberdeenUniversity #AbdnUni #AbdnUni LLMVC #OpenDay

Congratulations to all our graduating students today. We’re all very proud of you and wish you all the best for the future. (Here’s some pics of the ones we managed to round up…) #graduation 🎓🥳🧑‍🎓🎉🧑🏽‍🎓🍾👩🏻‍🎓

It's Offer Holder Day 2023!

Come along to Elphinstone Hall between now and 1pm to chat with our teams in Celtic and Anglo Saxon Studies, English, Film and Visual Culture, Linguistics, and Music.
There will also be talks from our languages teams!

#AberdeenUni #WeAreAbdn

Tomorrow at 1400 UTC (1600 Estonian time), Prof. Robert McColl Millar will be talking about language standardisation, exploring vernacular-inspired writing styles in late 18th century Australia (for the University of Tartu TÜling series). More info below: keel.ut.ee/en/content/tul…

For those of you who are interested in Scots language and/or Gaelic language issues, an important consultation event is being held on campus tomorrow (Wed 9th Nov). All are welcome! We hope to see some of you there!

Autumn approaches! 🍂 Students are on campus and the ivy on the Language & Linguistics hub (24 High St) is starting to turn red. We’re really looking forward to welcoming our students to classes next week and to our induction event for new students tomorrow @ 10am in Taylor A21.

Well done to all of our 2022 graduates (including those who we managed to catch up with today and those elsewhere)! We are so proud of you! We wish you all the very best for the future. Keep in touch! 🥳👩‍🎓🎓👨‍🎓🥳

Our colleague Dawn Leslie is finally having her graduation today more than a year after finishing her doctorate! Congratulations Dr Leslie! Aberdeen Uni LLMVC

📢 Calling all graduating students 📢:

We had some great dissertations this year and it would be wonderful for them to reach a wider audience. JoULAB is looking for submissions of undergraduate work. See below for more info… 👍

Our own Prof. Robert McColl Millar has been interviewed by the New Books Network 📚 British Studies podcast about his book ‘A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland’. You can listen to it here! 🎙🎧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scots #gaelic #scottishlanguage

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Dr Vincent Greenier ⁦Aberdeen Linguistics⁩ presenting on “Picturing” professional lives of expat English teachers ⁦The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University⁩ ⁦TourismENU⁩ #VMEresearch

The sun has been shining on the Linguistics building today… ☀️😍

The sun is out for the Offer Holder Open Day! ☀️ Come and see us at our stall in the Elphinstone Hall. Our next information session is at 3pm in New Kings 1.

I really enjoyed this talk with Ashley Douglas & Dawn Leslie I still find it hard to use Scots in formal settings & it was great to see these 2 women using Scot using throughout the talk. We need more stuff like this to help raise the status of Scots