Louis Cotgrove
@leftyveggie.bsky.social
Corpus sociolinguist @ IDS Mannheim in digital youth language & digital infrastructure/Digitale Jugendsprache und digitale Infrastruktur.
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Louis Cotgrove
@leftyveggie.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube is now out 🎉🎉🎉
Open access here: doi.org/10.14618/ama...
Please buy it for your libraries here: buchshop.ids-mannheim.de/publikatione...
@idsmannheim.bsky.social #openaccess
Open access here: doi.org/10.14618/ama...
Please buy it for your libraries here: buchshop.ids-mannheim.de/publikatione...
@idsmannheim.bsky.social #openaccess
Absolutely pathetic decision from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social - staff suffer, students suffer
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Absolutely pathetic decision from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social - staff suffer, students suffer
Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...
archive.ph
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...
September 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Das volle Video zu den Top 10 Jugendwörter des Jahres. Ja, ich muss dringend zum Friseur 🖖
#jugendwort2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1T...
#jugendwort2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1T...
July 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Das volle Video zu den Top 10 Jugendwörter des Jahres. Ja, ich muss dringend zum Friseur 🖖
#jugendwort2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1T...
#jugendwort2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1T...
Heute Abend cringe unterwegs bei RTL RON (und später RTL) zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres. Das crazy...
Watch me live here um 18Uhr (danach in der Mediathek und auf YouTube verfügbar natürlich)
www.rontv.de/live/
Watch me live here um 18Uhr (danach in der Mediathek und auf YouTube verfügbar natürlich)
www.rontv.de/live/
RON TV - Livestream des RTL Regionalprogramms in der Metropolregion
Sehen Sie hier täglich Montag bis Freitags 18:00 Uhr - 18:30 Uhr RON TV im Livestream. RON TV ist das Regionalprogramm von RTL in der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. Hier erfahren Sie immer was in der Me...
www.rontv.de
July 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Heute Abend cringe unterwegs bei RTL RON (und später RTL) zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres. Das crazy...
Watch me live here um 18Uhr (danach in der Mediathek und auf YouTube verfügbar natürlich)
www.rontv.de/live/
Watch me live here um 18Uhr (danach in der Mediathek und auf YouTube verfügbar natürlich)
www.rontv.de/live/
✨Happy World Emoji Day✨
Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi...
Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...
Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi...
Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...
Digitale Revolution voller Missverständnisse - ORF Topos
Emotionen werden seit Menschengedenken in Symbole übersetzt. Aber in kaum einer Epoche haben Bildschriftzeichen die weltweite Alltagskommunikation so verändert und geprägt wie heute Emojis. Obwohl sic...
topos.orf.at
July 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
✨Happy World Emoji Day✨
Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi...
Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...
Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi...
Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...
Aaaand at the very next conference: "you can probably understand me better without the microphone haha 🤡"
Microphone training for #mennersofacademia when?
Microphone training for #mennersofacademia when?
A possible extension for linguistics conference bingo: "I don't need the microphone, you can all hear me, right?"
🙄🙄🙄
🙄🙄🙄
June 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Aaaand at the very next conference: "you can probably understand me better without the microphone haha 🤡"
Microphone training for #mennersofacademia when?
Microphone training for #mennersofacademia when?
Reposted by Louis Cotgrove
Join me and the other @ags-gbi.bsky.social and @wigsblog.bsky.social PG/ECA reps online next Tues (17th June), 5-6pm to hear about the types of careers that recent German Studies PhD graduates are pursuing beyond academia.
Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7
Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7
📯Aufgepasst alle #PGR und #ECA Mitglieder der AGS!
Next week, our brilliant PG & ECA reps, @katherine-calvert.bsky.social & Joe Prestwich, will be talking-alongside their @wigsblog.bsky.social counterparts-to recent German Studies PhD graduates about careers beyond academia...
Details below👇👇
Next week, our brilliant PG & ECA reps, @katherine-calvert.bsky.social & Joe Prestwich, will be talking-alongside their @wigsblog.bsky.social counterparts-to recent German Studies PhD graduates about careers beyond academia...
Details below👇👇
June 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Join me and the other @ags-gbi.bsky.social and @wigsblog.bsky.social PG/ECA reps online next Tues (17th June), 5-6pm to hear about the types of careers that recent German Studies PhD graduates are pursuing beyond academia.
Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7
Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7
Reposted by Louis Cotgrove
Come and discuss "s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of
iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" with @alexwillich.bsky.social @leftyveggie.bsky.social, Annelen Brunner, and me next year in Trier 👇
iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" with @alexwillich.bsky.social @leftyveggie.bsky.social, Annelen Brunner, and me next year in Trier 👇
June 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Come and discuss "s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of
iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" with @alexwillich.bsky.social @leftyveggie.bsky.social, Annelen Brunner, and me next year in Trier 👇
iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" with @alexwillich.bsky.social @leftyveggie.bsky.social, Annelen Brunner, and me next year in Trier 👇
🚨 New book alert 🚨
I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out...
Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out...
Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora
Specialized corpora of the language of Computer-mediated Communication and Social Media are increasingly vital for the analysis of the "unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in terms of speakers...
www.degruyterbrill.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🚨 New book alert 🚨
I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out...
Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out...
Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Reposted by Louis Cotgrove
Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)
Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)
(German version below)
s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven (Workshop at DGfS Trier, 24.-27.02.2026)
The workshop focuses on the formal and functional diversity of intensification, e.g. which strategies and constructions are used in linguistic expressions, in which contexts do they occur, as well as which semiotic elements can be intensified. Intensification is far more diverse than just lexicogrammatical phenomena, with phenomena occurring on on all communicative
dlvr.it
June 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)
A possible extension for linguistics conference bingo: "I don't need the microphone, you can all hear me, right?"
🙄🙄🙄
🙄🙄🙄
June 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
A possible extension for linguistics conference bingo: "I don't need the microphone, you can all hear me, right?"
🙄🙄🙄
🙄🙄🙄
Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia ✊
The German government still doesn't want to pay reparations (instead offering increased "development aid" - a neocolonial term), despite extracting reparations from the Ovaherero and Nama communities
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...
The German government still doesn't want to pay reparations (instead offering increased "development aid" - a neocolonial term), despite extracting reparations from the Ovaherero and Nama communities
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...
Namibia begeht erstmals nationalen Gedenktag für Opfer deutscher Verbrechen
Namibia begeht heute erstmals einen Gedenktag, um an die von Deutschen ermordeten Herero und Nama zu erinnern. Doch die Zeremonie wird überlagert von einem Streit zwischen den beiden Volksgruppen und ...
www.tagesschau.de
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia ✊
The German government still doesn't want to pay reparations (instead offering increased "development aid" - a neocolonial term), despite extracting reparations from the Ovaherero and Nama communities
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...
The German government still doesn't want to pay reparations (instead offering increased "development aid" - a neocolonial term), despite extracting reparations from the Ovaherero and Nama communities
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...
Reposted by Louis Cotgrove
For anyone who would like to hear me muse about #languages, #education, #linguistics and #penguins, a recording of my inaugural lecture is now available: youtu.be/VACFboUKp_U
Thank you very much to @grabill.bsky.social and @emmacayley.bsky.social for their wonderful introduction and response!
Thank you very much to @grabill.bsky.social and @emmacayley.bsky.social for their wonderful introduction and response!
Sascha Stollhans Inaugural Lecture: Watch your language!
YouTube video by Leeds AHRI
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
For anyone who would like to hear me muse about #languages, #education, #linguistics and #penguins, a recording of my inaugural lecture is now available: youtu.be/VACFboUKp_U
Thank you very much to @grabill.bsky.social and @emmacayley.bsky.social for their wonderful introduction and response!
Thank you very much to @grabill.bsky.social and @emmacayley.bsky.social for their wonderful introduction and response!
Reposted by Louis Cotgrove
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
Reposted by Louis Cotgrove
Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ...
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
Summer School 2025 - Universität Bielefeld
Die Sommerschule 2025 des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB 1646: „Linguistische Kreativität“) der Universität Bielefeld. Alle Termine und Informationen finden Sie hier.
www.uni-bielefeld.de
April 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ...
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
Time for TERF Island to sink into the North Sea (after I'm back from my holiday)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Watch as UK Supreme Court delivers ruling on definition of a woman - live updates
The verdict comes after a long-running legal battle between the Scottish government and a women's group.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Time for TERF Island to sink into the North Sea (after I'm back from my holiday)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Queere Beziehungen werden seit Jahren von Politiker*innen in D geothered...
Wie kann das so sein? 😲🤷 Ein paar linguistische Beispiele und Analysen findet man in unserem Artikel:
doi.org/10.46771/978...
Wie kann das so sein? 😲🤷 Ein paar linguistische Beispiele und Analysen findet man in unserem Artikel:
doi.org/10.46771/978...
FELIX MEINER VERLAG: ‚Othering‘ queerer Beziehungen in Plenarprotokollen des Deutschen Bundestags: Eine qualitative und quantitative Analyse
doi.org
April 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Queere Beziehungen werden seit Jahren von Politiker*innen in D geothered...
Wie kann das so sein? 😲🤷 Ein paar linguistische Beispiele und Analysen findet man in unserem Artikel:
doi.org/10.46771/978...
Wie kann das so sein? 😲🤷 Ein paar linguistische Beispiele und Analysen findet man in unserem Artikel:
doi.org/10.46771/978...
Reposted by Louis Cotgrove
'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a
April 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a
👉 INTENSIVIERE D1 LIFE 👈
Neue Veröffentlichung zur #Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation - Deutsche Sprache 1/25
dsdigital.de/ce/x1f621-x1...
Neue Veröffentlichung zur #Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation - Deutsche Sprache 1/25
dsdigital.de/ce/x1f621-x1...
March 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
👉 INTENSIVIERE D1 LIFE 👈
Neue Veröffentlichung zur #Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation - Deutsche Sprache 1/25
dsdigital.de/ce/x1f621-x1...
Neue Veröffentlichung zur #Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation - Deutsche Sprache 1/25
dsdigital.de/ce/x1f621-x1...