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nounfraze.bsky.social
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@nounfraze.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer in Linguistics @ Man Met Uni, UK. I teach & research: corpora, gender, sexuality, videogames & online misogyny. Own views only. Usually in the gym 🏳️‍🌈 he/they
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nounfraze.bsky.social
On the day of my PhD viva, I couldn’t find any breakfast that didn’t make me feel ill. I finally had the nicest American pancakes before and felt much better. Every year since, I’ve had American style pancakes on November 5th as a mini-tradition. Here’s to my viva-versary 🥰
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
nounfraze.bsky.social
a sign that says there 's only 365 days left till next halloween on it
Alt: a gif from The Nightmare Before Christmas saying that says there 's only 365 days left till next halloween on it
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November 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Today is #InternationalPronounsDay —and we have set ourselves the almost impossible task to select two literature tips from the many fantastic queer linguistic publications on pronouns. Although we would argue that queer linguistics can be done on any level of linguistic analysis, #pronouns...
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Feeling beefy (also, come through arm veins)
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
nounfraze.bsky.social
This thread has really made my day. It’s so lovely and validating seeing someone clearly read (with a lot of care) a paper that’s really close to my heart - and not only that, just *getting* what exactly what I was trying to say. I’m so appreciative! ❤️🥰🥰
October 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Before we start teaching next week, I’m going to treat myself tonight to my first take away (I.e., order-in) since New Year’s Eve. Nice little treat before the inevitably intense 11 weeks. Now just to decide what to treat myself to…
September 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Satire but great to show people why FL is important!
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 19
Ok this was funny.
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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dcmjournal.bsky.social
@katebarber.bsky.social has studied legitimization through hyperlinks in blog posts.
🟦Data is taken from 5 blogs dealing with s€xuAl violence.
🔷Links are classified as different types of anchor text.
🔵Technological affordances are evidential resources
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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lucyjones.bsky.social
📢Join us on the IGALA Executive Committee! 📢

Nominations are open NOW for President-Elect, Secretary, Comms Officer or Treasurer. Apply before the end of Sep to help inform the shape and direction of the International Gender and Language Association.

Just let me know if you have any questions!
IGALA logo heads a white document with the text: The time has come to elect a new Executive Committee for IGALA! This is an exciting moment for the association, as we continue to grow (with membership numbers higher than ever) and look ahead to developing more international networks. The work of our community is vital in these times of renewed global oppression and marginalisation against queer and trans people, and as misogynistic discourse continues to thrive. We are currently soliciting nominations for the following 2-year-term Executive Committee positions: (1) President-Elect: This officeholder assumes the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and shall succeed to the office of President at the expiration of the term as President-elect. The President shall be the presiding officer of the Association, and shall succeed to the office of Past President at the expiration of the term as President. Normally a President's term will run for two years, i.e. from one biennial IGALA Conference to the next. (2) Secretary: This officeholder shall maintain records of meetings and decisions, call and run elections, and post minutes of public meetings and results of elections to the Membership at large. The Secretary shall also maintain the membership list, in consultation with the Journal editors. (3) Communications Officer: This officer manages the mailing lists, the website, our social media properties, advises the Board about communications strategy, and ensures consistency of voice in IGALA communications. (4) Treasurer: The Treasurer has charge of the financial records of the Society. They shall submit a financial/budget report once a year, at the IGALA Executive e-meeting, and shall submit a report on the Association's activities and finances to the membership at the open Association business meeting held at each official IGALA conference. Nominate yourself before September 30th via: tinyurl.com/igalaself
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Having been secretary for… too many years… I’m also happy to answer any questions applicants might have!
lgas-baal.bsky.social BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social · Sep 6
For info on how to become the BAAL SIG new secretary see here ⤵️

#BAAL2025
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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coocho.bsky.social
A reminder that Frazer's talk starts in half an hour! Here is the Zoom link:
tinyurl.com/talkddi
(please use a recognisable username)
@ylvabiri.bsky.social @lulind.bsky.social #DDIAFinLa #OSSO 🐦🐦🐦
Frazer Heritage (Manchester Metropolitan University) Caveman Theories, Modern Misogyny: Evolutionary Psychology in Incel Fora This talk explores how incel communities (i.e., misogynistic communities of men who want to, but do not, have sexual/romantic relationships with women), draw on evolutionary psychology within their online interactions. Evolutionary psychology is a discipline that seeks to explore psychological behaviours, with the view that these are adaptations which are the result of ancestral problems - most notably those which have stemmed from sexual needs and behaviours. There is, understandably, a significant body of feminist critique of evolutionary psychology. I take the position that evolutionary psychology is inherently anti-feminist, misogynistic, and queer-phobic. I also take the view that many of the findings from evolutionary psychology are based on unfounded claims and are tantamount to pseudo-science. Using methods from corpus linguistics, I demonstrate that incels use pseudo-science associated with evolutionary psychology when discussing, for example, "mating preferences". The data demonstrate that such language is often used to justify misogynistic (and racist) world views . Given that the ontological underpinnings of evolutionary psychology are misogynistic and anti-feminist, this also has implications for work exploring the behaviours of incels (see Lucy et al., under review). This paper ends by discussing a clear issue around the impact of evolutionary psychology in relation to investigating incels: namely, how research funded by the UK government has employed an evolutionary psychological perspective that has normalised such misogynistic worldviews, and provided justification for these ideologies to be propagated.
September 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Excited to give a talk as part of the Online Selves - Self Online series tomorrow. Thank you for the invitation @coocho.bsky.social!

My talk is titled "Caveman Theories, Modern Misogyny: Evolutionary Psychology in Incel Fora" - and addresses how pseudoscience normalises misogyny.

Abstract below ⏬
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Had a lovely time catching up with a friend and colleague in Liverpool today. Treated myself to my favourite food after 😍😍😍
September 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Having a chat with someone today about this paper, so thought I would re(tweet? Skeet? Idk what the verb is)
nounfraze.bsky.social Frazer Heritage @nounfraze.bsky.social · Jul 31
📣🎉 Genuinely so happy to share my new article in The Journal of Pragmatics 🎉

My paper is titled "Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames" and can be accessed here (Open Access!) 👇👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames
Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the languag…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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corpusling.bsky.social
9/9 2025 Online guest lecture by Melissa Kemble on Exploring gendered representations of sexuality and ethnicity in the Australian sports media: A corpus-based analysis of Aussie Rules and Rugby League Details. Details:
sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/u...
sydneycorpuslab.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Being the secretary for @lgas-baal.bsky.social was a wonderful experience. If you’re interested in applying and have questions, please do feel free to DM!
lgas-baal.bsky.social BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social · Sep 3
We are looking for a new secretary!

our huge thanks go to @nounfraze.bsky.social who has been a wonderful secretary for many years!

Info here⤵️
September 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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piotr-j.bsky.social
Delighted to share the details of my forthcoming book:

www.routledge.com/Autism-in-In...
Autism in Interaction: (Un)masking and Impoliteness
This book seeks to build further links between (im)politeness research and autism by countering prevailing notions in pragmatics around autism and media portrayals of autistic characters through the l...
www.routledge.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
nounfraze.bsky.social
Went into Manchester Museum yesterday to see the fantastic George House Trust HIV exhibition. Right next to it was another passion of mine - linguistics! Featuring the brilliant @manchestervoices.bsky.social project
August 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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jackfifield.uk
Manchester City Council should not be allowing private security to block access to public rights of way www.reddit.com/r/manchester...
From the manchester community on Reddit: Dubious behaviour by Manchester Pride
Explore this post and more from the manchester community
www.reddit.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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salinacuddy.bsky.social
I am very excited to announce the release of my first article! In this I explore the interaction of gender identity, sexuality, and participation in women's football.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
For the love of Sporty Spice: the interaction of gender, sexuality, and sport in /s/ production
While research into the interaction of language and sexuality is becoming increasingly widespread, there is still little sociophonetic sexuality work that considers female speakers and much of the pre...
www.degruyterbrill.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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pgcb.bsky.social
FYI

linguistlist.org/issues/36/24...
LINGUIST List 36.2452 Confs: Panel at the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
August 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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genderedform.bsky.social
Day 3 of #Lavlang31 and in November, @lucyjones.bsky.social is gifting us with her brilliant work on language and lgbtq+ group, through an intersectional lens! We are lucky to be in this room and to hear the key theoretical points about it! 🦩💜
August 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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genderedform.bsky.social
Bill Leap is closing #lavlang31 and we are agreeing, in this safe space, to fight back what's happening outside this space. TOGETHER, as a community of humans and scholars.
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM