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Lauren Hall-Lew
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Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · Oct 28
My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰
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#sociophonetics #sociolinguistics #linguistics #phonetics #semiotics #Peirce #indexicality #social #meaning #research #academic #academia #lecture #Arizona #SanFrancisco #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #English #professor #babyphotos
Professor Lauren Hall-Lew Inaugural Lecture
Professor Lauren Hall-Lew's Inaugural Lecture from 25th September 2024. Sociophonetic indexicality as a window onto language and society.
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𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂𝓟 @vandyke4ad.bsky.social · 3d
They would, wouldn't they?

Trump administration wants to deport five-year-old detained by ICE in Minnesota - Sky News
Trump administration wants to deport five-year-old detained by ICE in Minnesota — Sky News
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were taken into custody by immigration enforcement agents outside their home in Minneapolis on 20 January.
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 10d
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"Like many people who stutter, Oko never asks for pity. Still, he appreciates simple accommodations, such as a little extra time to speak, patient listening without finishing his sentences, and interactions that don’t make his stutter the center of focus."
“The words did not come out”: Nigerians who stutter navigate work in ‘speech centric’ professions - Minority Africa
Image Description: A close-up of a person’s lips slightly parted as if speaking. From the mouth, fragmented blue sound waves float outward like scattered shards of glass. In March 2020, the Nigerian I...
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 10d
Via @aclyu.bsky.social

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43355/...
Parsley
The Cane Fields There is a parrot imitating spring in the palace, its feathers parsley green1 Out of the swamp the cane appears to haunt us, and we cut it…
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10d
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 11d
There's a whole depressing list of them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of shibboleths - Wikipedia
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 11d
"Those who failed to correctly pronounce the trilled –r, as in the shibboleth perejil ‘parsley’, were deemed to be Haitian and, as a consequence, were murdered.”

Bullock & Toribio. 2014. "From Trujillo to the terremoto." Int'l Jrl of the soc. of lng, 227: 83-100.

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Parsley massacre - Wikipedia
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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 13d
Hard copies of my new OUP book with @lhlew.bsky.social have arrived! Kaz gives it five stars for being smooth, shiny, easy-to-hide-behind, and delicious #linguistics
a stack of 3 hard cover copies of the book Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory, edited by Jennifer Nycz and Lauren Hall-Lew as part of Oxford Surveys in Phonology and Phonetics. 3 copies of a hardcover book standing on their edges, with two cats nearby a tabby cat with his paw placed on a copy of a book titled Sociophonetics a tabby cat standing next to a copy of a book titled Sociophonetics and gnawing on the top corner

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 14d
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we must recognise signs that fascism is back www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/holo... #morningstaronline
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we must recognise signs that fascism is back
HOLOCAUST Memorial Day is always a solemn event. Commemorating the six million Jews, half a million Roma and Sinti and hundreds of thousands of gay, disabled or mentally ill people murdered by the Naz...
www.morningstaronline.co.uk

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Madame Simone @madame-simone.de · 14d
CN: suicide

I just stumbled across a wonderful website. If you're struggling with the world right now and looking for reasons not to just give up, read these letters.

www.reasonstostay.co.uk

Share please, someone might need it.
Reasons to Stay - Letters From Strangers
Reasons to Stay is a suicide prevention project reaching people at difficult moments through anonymous letters written by volunteers. Each letter on this site was written by a real person and delivere...
www.reasonstostay.co.uk

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you!

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 16d
Available today on Google Books! "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory" edited by me and @jennycz.bsky.social

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Sociophonetics
This book provides a critical overview of sociophonetic research and considers how the findings of this field illuminate and problematize a range of central issues in phonetics and phonology. The core...
books.google.co.uk

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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 16d
‪Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. ‬That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 18d
Hyphenated solidarity!!!

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 18d
et tu, Routledge?
A screenshot of a form online asking for someone's last name. The last name as a hyphen in it, between two names, and the form font is in red indicating an error. The error says: "Last Name contains invalid characters."

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LingComm @lingcomm.org · 18d
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences?

The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!

Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!

Details:
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#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences? Apply for a 2026 LingComm Grant! Due: April 30, 2026. Details at link in bio.

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 19d
Thanks for the tag, I'll share it!

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 21d
Please join me in supporting these women, this community, and the work of this exceptional sociolinguist. Use this link if you have trouble with the original one. Thank you 🙏
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23d
Armed Israeli settler gangs are attacking and ethnically cleansing Khallet Alsederah in Mukhmas, NE of occupied Jerusalem—burning homes, firing live ammo at families, leaving women and children wounded, trapped, and out of contact under Israeli occupation support

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Capybaron Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 24d
This is the problem with access journalism. These folks are not really journalists, they are courtiers spreading palace gossip. A journalist has an adversarial relationship with power because news is the stuff people in power don't want you to know about and they investigate that.
After ICE Killed a Woman, Too Many Newsrooms Chose Government PR Over Actual Journalism
In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday's shooting, anyone on social media could have independently verified that DHS was lying about what happened.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24d
Weekend timeline cleanse!

A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶

Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down

Dating ca. 475 BC.

📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺
Pottery drinking cup shaped like an animal’s head. The vessel is glossy black, featuring a rounded snout, raised eyes, and a handle. A red-digured banquet scene encircles the lower part. The cup is photographed against a plain light background

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 24d
Make no mistake: "Give ICE better training" = Give ICE more money

When politicians tell you shit like that, they're literally ignoring everything that's happening and arguing that ICE should get MORE money.

They've already done it for half a century with the cops.

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If Americans Knew @ifamericansknew.bsky.social · 24d
“Praise Allah, There Are Still People Like You”: Jeffrey Epstein Nurtured Israel-Emirates Ties Before Abraham Accords israelpalestinenews.org/praise-allah...
Jeffrey Epstein nurtured Israel-Emirates ties pre-Abraham Accords
Epstein leveraged his friendship with Emirati bigwig Sultan Sulayem to pitch Israeli investments to the UAE that paved the way for the Abraham Accords.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25d
Goodbye, academic freedom.

The newly selected dean of the University of Arkansas law school had her offer rescinded after conservative state legislators learned that she had signed onto "friend of the court" briefs challenging bans on trans athletes in sports.

arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Culture warriors cancel new U of A law dean before she started - Arkansas Times
Culture warriors claim the scalp of Emily Suski, the would-be law school dean whose legal opinion on transgender athletes seems to have offended Arkansas officials.
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 28d
"Death by Acronyms"

by James Stampfer

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Death by Acronyms v3
YouTube video by Homeless Network Scotland
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 28d
“Too often we fail to put humanity at the centre of the story. Some lives don’t fit neatly onto a spreadsheet.”

--Eireann McAuley, at the Homeless Network Scotland conference in December 2025
homelessnetwork.scot/2025/12/17/i...

#homelessness #houselessness #livedexperience #policy
It's Personal: the conference report - Homeless Network Scotland: we are all in
This year’s homelessness conference was the biggest yet, with more than 250 people joining us on each day at Perth Concert
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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 28d
Yes exactly! Every single semester 😩 Solidarity!!!

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 28d
This response is so much better than the “we should give ICE officials more training” that Dem leadership is trying to make happen. Cuts to your health care are being used to fund mothers getting shot in the face.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28d
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 28d
🫂

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 28d
Oh hugs!!

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 28d
sympathies and solidarity!!