Catherine Laliberté 🍂
@catlaliberte.bsky.social
Dr. 🎓 LMU Munich 👩🏫 Sociolinguistics, (post) colonial varieties of English 🌎 stylistics, historical fiction 📺 Québécoise ⚜ she/her
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The journal is open to submissions as of today 🥳 If you are a teacher or researcher based at a German, Austrian or Swiss university, do not hesitate to talk to your students and colleagues about SREL.
My colleagues and I have created a journal for student work in English linguistics 🤓 Peer reviewed and open access!
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
Presentism as a digital language ideology in generative AI discourse
This paper gives a critical discourse-analytical account of presentism as a digital language ideology. It outlines how this ahistorical understanding of sociotechnical change centering the here-and-no...
benjamins.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
Exactlyyy
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Exactlyyy
Our first issue is coming along 🙌 We're actively looking for submissions
The first article of our first issue is available now!
Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel
Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣
Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel
Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣
Student Research in English Linguistics
srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de
October 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Our first issue is coming along 🙌 We're actively looking for submissions
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
Calls: Lexique - "Special Issue: Language, End of Life, Death, and Bereavement" (Jrnl)
Calls: Lexique - "Special Issue: Language, End of Life, Death, and Bereavement" (Jrnl)
Since the advent of transdisciplinary death studies in the 1970s, a plethora of research has been conducted in the humanities and social sciences on death-related issues, including end-of-life conditions and bereavement. This research has been undertaken in fields such as anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology (see for example Thomas 1975; Aries 1977; Baudry 1999; Boltanski 2004; Molinié 2006; Clavandier 2009; Despret 2015; Boltanski 2004). In linguistics, research has addr
dlvr.it
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Calls: Lexique - "Special Issue: Language, End of Life, Death, and Bereavement" (Jrnl)
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Calls: Parameters of Language Staging
Calls: Parameters of Language Staging
2nd Call for Papers:
The deadline to submit asbtracts for the Parameters of Language Staging (PLS8) conference has been extended from October 3rd, 2025 to October 17th, 2025.
The call for papers is available at pls8.sciencesconf.org.
This edition addresses the staging of discourse and the forms and functions of staged discourse, with a particular focus on spoken/multimodal data.
Our guest speakers are Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Gaëlle Planchenault (Simon Frase
dlvr.it
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Calls: Parameters of Language Staging
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
Confs: World Englishes on the Stage and Screen
Confs: World Englishes on the Stage and Screen
This symposium aims at bringing together researchers working on World Englishes (especially those focusing on varieties of English other than the “inner circle” varieties of the British Isles and North America) in staged and mediatized performances. While it cannot be said that such a perspective has hitherto been ignored in linguistic research (see Lee & Kachru 2006; Moody 2021), it is evident that pop cultural artifacts serving entertainment and recreational purposes, such as films and TV seri
dlvr.it
September 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Confs: World Englishes on the Stage and Screen
Neat graph crime in the flyer about the referendum on Munich's candidacy to host the Olympics 🙃
September 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Neat graph crime in the flyer about the referendum on Munich's candidacy to host the Olympics 🙃
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
Here's a site that searches scientific publications for phrases that indicate that the text was created by ChatGPT and pasted into the manuscript without checking (e.g. "Certainly, here are some recommendations..."). There are HUNDREDS of them, often without disclosure of AI.
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www.academ-ai.info
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www.academ-ai.info
Suspected AI – Academ-AI
Documenting the adverse effects of AI in academia
www.academ-ai.info
July 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here's a site that searches scientific publications for phrases that indicate that the text was created by ChatGPT and pasted into the manuscript without checking (e.g. "Certainly, here are some recommendations..."). There are HUNDREDS of them, often without disclosure of AI.
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www.academ-ai.info
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www.academ-ai.info
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Lukas Sönning's beautiful #ICAME46 slides can be found at: osf.io/fr476/ lots of important take-aways for effective (and aesthetic) data visualization!
Data visualization in corpus linguistics
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
osf.io
June 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Lukas Sönning's beautiful #ICAME46 slides can be found at: osf.io/fr476/ lots of important take-aways for effective (and aesthetic) data visualization!
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
What a treat to teach a class on language and sci-fi in my pop culture class today 🚀👨🚀🌌🖖 we read @catlaliberte.bsky.social @dianawengl.bsky.social and Melanie Keller's fantastic article on the sociolinguistics of Firefly and I got to show a lot of clips demonstrating code-switching in the series 🤓
May 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What a treat to teach a class on language and sci-fi in my pop culture class today 🚀👨🚀🌌🖖 we read @catlaliberte.bsky.social @dianawengl.bsky.social and Melanie Keller's fantastic article on the sociolinguistics of Firefly and I got to show a lot of clips demonstrating code-switching in the series 🤓
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
Dans le cadre du projet en linguistique LUDOCORP, Alice Ray de l'Université d'Orléans recherche des équipes de joueurs et joueuses de jeu vidéo pour enregistrer des sessions de jeu multijoueur, pour cerner les spécificités du "ludolecte" francophone.
Infos framaforms.org/appel-a-volo...
Infos framaforms.org/appel-a-volo...
May 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Dans le cadre du projet en linguistique LUDOCORP, Alice Ray de l'Université d'Orléans recherche des équipes de joueurs et joueuses de jeu vidéo pour enregistrer des sessions de jeu multijoueur, pour cerner les spécificités du "ludolecte" francophone.
Infos framaforms.org/appel-a-volo...
Infos framaforms.org/appel-a-volo...
If anyone at #RC21symposium would like an A4 poster to advertise @studentresearch.bsky.social at their institution, let me know 😉
The journal is open to submissions as of today 🥳 If you are a teacher or researcher based at a German, Austrian or Swiss university, do not hesitate to talk to your students and colleagues about SREL.
March 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
If anyone at #RC21symposium would like an A4 poster to advertise @studentresearch.bsky.social at their institution, let me know 😉
The mix of clapping and knocking at #RC21symposium brings me joy ☺ (I'm a clapper for some reason)
March 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The mix of clapping and knocking at #RC21symposium brings me joy ☺ (I'm a clapper for some reason)
Walton Goggins has a sunglasses brand called Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walton Goggins has a sunglasses brand called Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses
Now seems an appropriate time to recommend some books to know more about Caribbean people at the Panama Canal and beyond:
1/ "Dying to better themselves" (2014) by Olive Senior. I cherish that one because the focus in not solely on racism, death and disease, but on how people built community.
1/ "Dying to better themselves" (2014) by Olive Senior. I cherish that one because the focus in not solely on racism, death and disease, but on how people built community.
March 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Now seems an appropriate time to recommend some books to know more about Caribbean people at the Panama Canal and beyond:
1/ "Dying to better themselves" (2014) by Olive Senior. I cherish that one because the focus in not solely on racism, death and disease, but on how people built community.
1/ "Dying to better themselves" (2014) by Olive Senior. I cherish that one because the focus in not solely on racism, death and disease, but on how people built community.
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
Teensy extension for our Expanding Circles of English workshop at #ISLE8. (In case you were kicking yourself to have missed this). In Santiago de Compostela, early career travel bursaries available (separate application with the conference), and with fun people! 😃
Calls: ISLE 8 Pre-conference Workshop: Expanding Horizons – Expanding Circles – Expanding Englishes: Call for Papers:
- Extended Submission Deadline - 9 March 2025
Of the models proposed to capture the spread of and variation in English globally, Braj B. Kachru’s (1985) concentric circles model…
- Extended Submission Deadline - 9 March 2025
Of the models proposed to capture the spread of and variation in English globally, Braj B. Kachru’s (1985) concentric circles model…
Calls: ISLE 8 Pre-conference Workshop: Expanding Horizons – Expanding Circles – Expanding Englishes
Call for Papers:
- Extended Submission Deadline - 9 March 2025
Of the models proposed to capture the spread of and variation in English globally, Braj B. Kachru’s (1985) concentric circles model is not only the foundational framework. It continues,…
dlvr.it
March 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Teensy extension for our Expanding Circles of English workshop at #ISLE8. (In case you were kicking yourself to have missed this). In Santiago de Compostela, early career travel bursaries available (separate application with the conference), and with fun people! 😃
Nie vergessen, dass der Panamakanal von Menschen aus der Karibik gebaut wurde! Hunderttausende aus Jamaika, Barbados, Trinidad und Tobago, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia usw, von denen Tausende dafür gestorben sind.
taz.de/Blackrock-gr...
taz.de/Blackrock-gr...
Blackrock greift nach Panamakanal: Wall Street setzt Trumps Machtpolitik um
Nach Beschuldigungen der neuen US-Regierung gegen Panama kauft sich der US-Vermögensverwalter Blackrock zwei Häfen. Der US-Präsident feiert den Deal.
taz.de
March 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Nie vergessen, dass der Panamakanal von Menschen aus der Karibik gebaut wurde! Hunderttausende aus Jamaika, Barbados, Trinidad und Tobago, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia usw, von denen Tausende dafür gestorben sind.
taz.de/Blackrock-gr...
taz.de/Blackrock-gr...
Reposted by Catherine Laliberté 🍂
Das Ende meiner Zeit in der Wissenschaft ist absehbar: Ich bin nach wie vor befristet, ohne Entfristungs-Perspektive. Was das mit mir macht? Trauer & Frust sind inzwischen was anderem gewichen: Erleichterung. Denn ich hab es satt, dieses Leben unter Vorbehalt. Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss! #IchBinHanna
Wissenschaft jetzt, Leben später
Wenn ich an das Leben ohne Wissenschaft denke, das mir bevorsteht, dann spüre ich nun, mit fast 40, kaum noch Frust oder Trauer, sondern die Vorahnung einer tiefen Erleichterung.
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Das Ende meiner Zeit in der Wissenschaft ist absehbar: Ich bin nach wie vor befristet, ohne Entfristungs-Perspektive. Was das mit mir macht? Trauer & Frust sind inzwischen was anderem gewichen: Erleichterung. Denn ich hab es satt, dieses Leben unter Vorbehalt. Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss! #IchBinHanna
French TV has spoken on whether cheeseburgers and hot dogs are sandwiches 🙌🍔🌭
February 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
French TV has spoken on whether cheeseburgers and hot dogs are sandwiches 🙌🍔🌭