Dave Sayers

Cheese consumer, sociolinguist, immigrant 🇬🇧 👉 🇫🇮

[LSP Policy Journal @LSPjournal]

🌍 How can Wales promote the Welsh language without unintended consequences like inequality and social division? @DaveJSayers proposes a "Doughnut Language Policy" to balance linguistic vitality with broader social wellbeing. 🧵👇https://t.co/2z1YAFaJfE

[Lucy Wood @Lucy_Jane87]

I have worked in Marketing for a long time & I just want to say the new Morrisons TV advert, the sung tag line 'more reasons to shop at Morrisons' DOESN'T FIT THE MELODY. I've been at home all week and it is driving me bananas

How did that get approved?!

[Dr. Michele Gazzola @MicheleGazzola1]

Language Problems & Language Planning launches a series of webinars! 19/12/2024 15:30 UTC “History of language policy and planning, and current and emerging trends” with David C. Johnson and J Darquennes. Free registration: https://t.co/nqySTmHuZn, #languagepolicy, #weareUU

[Iker Erdocia @Iker_Erdocia]

New publication out in @JournalofSocio1: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess https://t.co/Q7SIY0wLkd Check out the full issue.

[Gwennan Elin Higham @gwennanelin]

New volume: Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss migrants learning Welsh! Thanks @jebsim & Sari Pöyhönen @routledgebooks #wsol #multilingualism #cymraeg

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

@hmking_linguist @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter Before the viva RESIST temptation to start writing new stuff based on the thesis, or otherwise make corrections. It blurs your memory of what you actually wrote / are defending.

Also, balance accepting criticisms w/ reasserting your own authority (cos you are now an authority!).

[Janne M. Korhonen is moving to BSky & LinkedIn! @jmkorhonen]

I use a tie just because it restricts oxygen flow to the brain by up to 7 %, and I feel it would't be sporting for all the rest otherwise

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

In English studies, 'Inner Circle' countries = English is mostly a 1st language (e.g. US, Aus); 'Outer Circle' = mostly 2nd lang (e.g. India, Ghana).

I try to tell my students 'Inner Circle' happened by displacing/destroying whole populations. This passage helps that comparison.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Here's an incredibly important segment from one of Mushtaq Khan's papers explicitly critiquing AJR.

This is pretty dark reading, covering not only methodological flaws but also racism and the violent process of settler colonialism.

Link: https://t.co/sqQKcuin90

[Joel Willans @VFinnishProbs]

Today I learnt the Baltic Sea is a crocodile eating Finland.

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

Halloween is coming. Do you wish the International Phonetic Alphabet was spoooOOOOooookier?

I present...

The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹 https://t.co/r3DRIBDPtB

Free to use/adapt! @creativecommons

Repost or I'll send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟‍‍ 🧠🍽️

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

Welcome welcome to the next @uniofjyvaskyla English seminar! 11 Nov 2024, 14:00 EET.

Venla Hannuksela, 'Minority and majority language schools as arenas for promoting political engagement: A case study from Finland'

Abstract & registration. 👇 Go go go!
https://t.co/AXjlztv3sF

[Lucia Pacioli @LuciaPacioli]

Writing a real out of office email would be:

“I will be out of the office until Monday, November 29, but I will be constantly checking email on my phone and additionally will have my work computer nearby”

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

@sociolinguista Ask this on TeachLing! You can sign up here.👇✌️
https://t.co/wfPLuKGgk3

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

NEWSFLASH: It's ok to do research with normative goals, actually. Everyone who says otherwise is supporting status quo power imbalances and inequality, which is, drum-roll, also a normative position, just a terrible one. 🤷‍♀️
Paper under question here:
https://t.co/pRhY45Os8f

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

Next up in the 2024-25 @uniofjyvaskyla English online seminar series! Tues 8 Oct 2024 at 17:00 EEST:

Cecilia Gialdini: 'Language Policy Tools: The Multidimensional Linguistic Justice Index'

Abstract and registration. 👇👇Go go go!
https://t.co/9s1kkEVpZv

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

Top tip if former students/employees often ask you for references: ask them to draft it & send you for checking/signing. It's entirely honest, you can verify details. Still it saves you a lot of time, & allows them to emphasise specific details for each job/study place. Win win!

[Dave Sayers @DaveJSayers]

Also true for language. Every single generation has decried the sloppy slang of youth, imagining some prior linguistic purity before everything went awry.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

There's a certain kind of mindset, which we'll call "declinism," that asserts things are always getting worse. Remarkably, declinists always point to some period in history they believe was the ideal, but was, in fact, a period of decline for some other declinist.

[Tristan @AyoTristan]

Being "able bodied" is temporary, you will age, you will get injured, you will get sick and you will wish you fought more for the system to protect the vulnerable.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

The USA with Between 3 and 500 Edges