And later, the next Language & Society Scotland (LASS) meeting on Language and AI: lasscotland.wordpress.com/events/

Looking forward to hearing about the amazing work being done on these topics.

For clarity, the slide is me critiquing the metadiscursive label "TikTok language" by demonstrating that most of that purported new register is actually just lexical features of AAVE (see Ilbury & Walcott, should be forthcoming soon)

I have students from NLP/AI PhD programmes, languages, literatures, visiting students, digital sociology, cognitive science...

Sociolinguistics is the future of linguistics, prove me otherwise.

This room is "EDI CAHSS meetings" inscribed in my mind. And I have exactly the same pictures cos the view is wild.

"YOU MUST HAVE A-LEVEL ENGLISH"

"You can't learn that English in a school!!!!!!"

If the far-right can't even agree what to be angry at, then how are they going to mobilise...

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Yeah I see it a *lot* in public facing articles and tbf, that's the language people in the world use, so fine.

But my beef is with a published article (not to be named!) that refers to "shifting between formal and informal speech styles" as code-switching 😬

Sure, both are types of intraspeaker variation *but* the terms originate from different traditions and carry distinct theoretical baggage from those traditions... 😬

I mean, I'd hope... But the 'one rule for them' mentality is something I encounter a lot 🫠

Speaking in a more formal way at work than at home = style-shifting. Switching between English and Mandarin = code-switching.

We have someone in management with the same idea... "We'll do less with less"...