From my pre-London linguistic life: MRöthlisberger's and my chapter on ditransitives (verbs like 'give' that take two objects) in British English dialects is finally out!

🚨 Come work with me at the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)! 🚨 #Minority #Minorities #MinorityLanguages #IntergroupRelations #Danish #Frisian #Romani #German #rstats #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #PsychologyOfLanguage #Research #Researcher #Hiring #Vacancy #JoinOurTeam #JobAd #JobSpec

📢 The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is hiring! ⁉️ Are you interested in researching #IntergroupRelations & #MinorityLanguages in the Denmark-Germany border region? 🔗 If so, this job may be for you: ecmi.de/fileadmin/reda… 📆 Deadline: 19.01.2024 #JoinOurTeam #Research #AcademicTwitter

Pleased to be giving a talk at a University with the same name as me 😅 (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

Christian Ilbury came to the English department Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 to talk about 'Dialect performance in TikTok' and it was AMAZING 🤩Thanks to all who were there!

Brand new journal is up and running benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop

I think today, March 3, has been designated 'speak #cockney day'

The Modern Cockney Festival 2024 is underway again with some interesting and fun events around all things Cockney. Check out this online talk tomorrow with linguists Chris Strelluf Christopher Strelluf, Jonnie Robinson and myself moderncockneyfestival.co.uk/is-cockney-dyi…

Modern Cockney Festival 2024: Here's the #LondonTalks interview I did with Andy Andy Green and Saif @avidartagency in the run up to last year's festival. londontalksresearch.co.uk/2023/03/02/the…

Don't forget it's National Pie 'N' Mash week in 6 days! To celebrate we'll be giving a free bottle chilli vinegar with all orders for delivery that week! londonpieandmashcompany.co.uk/pie-and-mash-m…

Introducing JLPop: a brand new journal with @JohnBenjamins for all research on language and pop culture. Please follow, share, and send us your papers on linguistic studies of film, TV, popular music, gaming, social media and more! First issue coming 2025. We are now live!

Short summary of the state of German academia today: Post-Docs in Germany: "If we don't become a professor within 6 years, we get kicked out of academia. Please change the law." German govt.: How about 4 years? #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG

The #ModernCockneyFestival explores why is the 300-year-old history of Black Londoners ignored or overlooked? Online event 6pm Tues March 26 with lloyd bradley Sweet Patootee Arts BLAM UK Find out more tiny.cc/dmzjxz #BlackLondoners #Cockney #London

If you are in Kiel in the summer term 2024, join our lecture series on 'language and pop music': Date: Tuesdays, 23.04.-09.07.2024 Time: 18:15 Place: Leibnizstraße 10, Room 225 Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 Language: German Talks by Dr. Johanna Gerwin Lisa Jansen Anika Gerfer GW Ulrich Hoinkes ...

My analysis of MLE discourse in 200 newspaper articles is out now, and it's open access! 'Learn Jafaikan in two minutes': Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers #MLE #enregisterment #Londondialects #Londontalks sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎶Almost sold out! 🎶 Grab the last tickets for A Sing-a-Long Celebration for Music Hall & Variety Day presented by Tom Carradine & friends! 🗓️ 16 May 🎟️: wiltons.org.uk/whatson/869-a-… 📷Claire Bilyard & James Millar

🗞️ Read all about it! 📝 Our former postdoctoral researcher Johanna Gerwin has published a paper exploring Multicultural London English as discussed in English newspapers 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Any linguists still out here? New paper about enregisterment, humour and the performance of English dialects and it's open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New paper out on #Cockney in 21st century #London and my #LondonTalks project The London Journal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…