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Sharing again as she would love more participants! Thanks 😊 #accents #experiment Lang & Ling

Beautifully sunny yet brutally chilly on the picket line this morning. Solidarity with all those striking today! Essex UCU -- ucuessex.bsky.social #ucustrikes

We are pleased to announce that the 17th Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference (LangUE) will take place online on 8th June 2023. easychair.org/my/conference?… For more information, please visit our Call for papers: buff.ly/3kOlkvQ

Looking for HongKongers in the UK to please take part in a 10 minute survey! #HongKong #Cantoness #LanguageAttitudes

*The Babel Lecture 2023* Our lecturer this year is broadcaster, comedian and writer @robinince Book your (free!) seats for Robin's talk in Salford (UK) at bit.ly/3I3yc9L

Thanks Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), @[email protected] and Christian Ilbury for organsing a great #UKLVC14 in Edinburgh! Also managed a little explore the day after in beautiful sunshine, not quite up to Arthur's seat but still a lovely view 🌞

Speaking Mersea! Colin Reilly Teresa Poeta Dr Amanda Cole and Ella Jeffries have been working on a project documenting the language and identity of people from Mersea Island. #MerseaIsland #YoBoy #language #identity

♥️GoodGym GoodGym Colchester Getting to know the community, new people and helping out local charities. All thrown together with some physical activity. It's meant so much to me since moving to Colchester 5 and a half years ago. Get involved! 😊🥰🏃‍♀️ goodgym.org/v3

Maternity cover sociolinguistics post in our lovely department at Lang & Ling! Please share with anyone interested 😊 #sociolinguistics jobs.ac.uk/job/DBJ379/lec…

Calling for UK-based research participants! Help us understand patients' approach to hiring doctors in healthcare and your own experience of healthcare. 20-minute survey; one of ten £50 vouchers to be won. uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4I… Lang & Ling UofG English Lang & Ling #healthcare #nhs

“But really it’s not the way people speak that needs adjusting. It’s the way we as a society listen that has to shift.” Rob Drummond decodes accent prejudice theguardian.com/global/2023/oc…

So in Sunak's new Cabinet we have: - Environment Sec married to the exec of sewage-pumping water firm - Health Sec in charge of obesity married to CEO of major sugar firm - Foreign Sec tainted by Greensill lobbying scandal & isn't even an MP Sounds like "common sense" to me...

Discover language and dialect and the influence of Cockney on Essex. The latest Louder Than Words #Podcast explores sociolinguistics and language bias. Dr Amanda Cole and Ella Jeffries of Lang & Ling join the podcast in this fascinating episode. brnw.ch/21wEvkn

FYI: Linguistics under threat at the University of Kent: Colleagues and friends: Linguistics is going to be shut down at the University of Kent (UK). Some context below, but please take a look at this petition, consider signing, and share widely.… dlvr.it/T2ZTbb

Save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Subjects at the University of Kent - Sign the Petition! chng.it/5w5sSqGT via Change.org UK