Jonathan Kasstan
@jrkasstan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in French and Linguistics, Westminster | Research on language in society | Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics | Research Notes Editor, Journal of French Language Studies.
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Jonathan Kasstan
@jrkasstan.bsky.social
· Jun 20
🔓 An inter-pandemic project that has *finally* appeared! We propose a community-based model of digital #language #revitalization for #Francoprovençal that can be applied to other minoritized contexts. #edusky #langsky muse-jhu-edu.uow.idm.oclc.org/pub/24/artic... @languageonthemove.bsky.social R/T!
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📚 Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory (co-edited by me and @lhlew.bsky.social) is now available online at Oxford Academic! (print copies coming end of January) academic.oup.com/book/61815
January 5, 2026 at 3:13 PM
📚 Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory (co-edited by me and @lhlew.bsky.social) is now available online at Oxford Academic! (print copies coming end of January) academic.oup.com/book/61815
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Do I have an expert on Hakka in my timeline who could check potential loans?
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Do I have an expert on Hakka in my timeline who could check potential loans?
My inbox is heavy. I hope that my replies will find you well #TheDayBeforeTomorrow
January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
My inbox is heavy. I hope that my replies will find you well #TheDayBeforeTomorrow
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hmmm if anyone at York is working on a longitudinal dialect contact & place identity study at their uni (or might be interested in collaborating on one w/an international colleague) I'd like to talk 😁
Lots going on here, including accent prejudice, and the availability of places for students from the north of England to “stay local” when (northern) English Russell Group universities attract a large percentage of high-achieving students from the south.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back
Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southerners
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
hmmm if anyone at York is working on a longitudinal dialect contact & place identity study at their uni (or might be interested in collaborating on one w/an international colleague) I'd like to talk 😁
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Good thing we've been delegitimizing research on colonial history or postcolonial power relations those past years. Otherwise we'd need to deal with qualified explanations of what it means when a country uses military force to occupy and "run" another country for economic gain and political control.
Trump at his press conference on the #Venezuela invasion just now:
"We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. We don't want someone else to get in and we have the same situation."
"We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. We don't want someone else to get in and we have the same situation."
January 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Good thing we've been delegitimizing research on colonial history or postcolonial power relations those past years. Otherwise we'd need to deal with qualified explanations of what it means when a country uses military force to occupy and "run" another country for economic gain and political control.
A lovely group of folks !
The That Word Chat annual Words of the Year panel discussion is on 13 January, and you can register now to attend on Zoom.
www.thatwordchat.com
www.thatwordchat.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
A lovely group of folks !
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Sauron wants to see Frodo succeed.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Sauron wants to see Frodo succeed.
That there @tonythorne007.bsky.social features in this @economist.com Christmas special #linguistics
December 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
That there @tonythorne007.bsky.social features in this @economist.com Christmas special #linguistics
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The LSA Awards Committee is excited to announce John Rickford as the winner of the 2026 Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award!
John Rickford is Stanford University professor of Linguistics, emeritus & was LSA President in 1985. Join us in celebrating at #LSA2026! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
John Rickford is Stanford University professor of Linguistics, emeritus & was LSA President in 1985. Join us in celebrating at #LSA2026! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The LSA Awards Committee is excited to announce John Rickford as the winner of the 2026 Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award!
John Rickford is Stanford University professor of Linguistics, emeritus & was LSA President in 1985. Join us in celebrating at #LSA2026! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
John Rickford is Stanford University professor of Linguistics, emeritus & was LSA President in 1985. Join us in celebrating at #LSA2026! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
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bit of a long shot: does anyone have recommendations for short-term (2-4 weeks) intensive english courses for adults in the UK?
i can recommend lovely towns to my friends who were asking but I don’t know which companies/schools are good
i can recommend lovely towns to my friends who were asking but I don’t know which companies/schools are good
December 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
bit of a long shot: does anyone have recommendations for short-term (2-4 weeks) intensive english courses for adults in the UK?
i can recommend lovely towns to my friends who were asking but I don’t know which companies/schools are good
i can recommend lovely towns to my friends who were asking but I don’t know which companies/schools are good
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Language champions from 18 countries will be joining the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program - and we have just TEN DAYS left to raise funds for their grassroots #languagerevitalization projects!
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
Raise to Revitalize
Support Global Indigenous Language Revitalization
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December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Language champions from 18 countries will be joining the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program - and we have just TEN DAYS left to raise funds for their grassroots #languagerevitalization projects!
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?
A return to sense! Huzzah!
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A return to sense! Huzzah!
I can only surmise that JK Chambers signed this to troll the others #linguistics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Linguists call out Canada's Carney for 'utilizing' British spelling
A group of linguists are asking Prime Minister Carney to ditch British English in official documents, saying it is a matter of
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I can only surmise that JK Chambers signed this to troll the others #linguistics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Job alert!
3 tenured research positions at CNRS, France with one preferably in philosophy of language
Get in touch with a lab for more information
#linguistics
www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...
3 tenured research positions at CNRS, France with one preferably in philosophy of language
Get in touch with a lab for more information
#linguistics
www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...
www.legifrance.gouv.fr
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Job alert!
3 tenured research positions at CNRS, France with one preferably in philosophy of language
Get in touch with a lab for more information
#linguistics
www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...
3 tenured research positions at CNRS, France with one preferably in philosophy of language
Get in touch with a lab for more information
#linguistics
www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...
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HESA put the academic staff numbers in 23-24 in Essex at 1560, and given voluntary severence schemes it's likely to be lower now, so this is at least 2/3rds of all academic staff in Essex receiving risk of redundancy letters.
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
HESA put the academic staff numbers in 23-24 in Essex at 1560, and given voluntary severence schemes it's likely to be lower now, so this is at least 2/3rds of all academic staff in Essex receiving risk of redundancy letters.
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review... nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...
Current issue - Linguistic Society of New Zealand
Te Reo is the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand (ISSN 2703-4135). The words Te Reo are the Māori term for ‘the language’ or ‘language’. The Journal is published annually and has been ru...
nzlingsoc.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review... nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...
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"Data without generalization is just gossip" Chambers quoting Persig in this insightful little read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"Data without generalization is just gossip" Chambers quoting Persig in this insightful little read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗓️ 🎄Calendrier de l’Avent (en) marseillais
Chaque jour jusqu'à Noël, je vous explique un mot du français de Marseille : étymologie, sens, usages spécifiques, évolution, aspects sociolinguistiques…
Le marseillais, c’est du français… de Marseille.
Allez zou, ça part de là 👇🏼🧵
Chaque jour jusqu'à Noël, je vous explique un mot du français de Marseille : étymologie, sens, usages spécifiques, évolution, aspects sociolinguistiques…
Le marseillais, c’est du français… de Marseille.
Allez zou, ça part de là 👇🏼🧵
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview
And now this! www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
And now this! www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
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You know you're working in Finland when the room booking system includes a sauna - or indeed, a meeting room with a sauna!
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You know you're working in Finland when the room booking system includes a sauna - or indeed, a meeting room with a sauna!