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Naomi T. (she/her)
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German Sociolinguistics at Leiden University 🌺🚲

mom • alumna Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald • sociolinguistics • gender • multilingualism • open science • she/her • http://mas.to/@BerLinguistin
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Who doesn't like a 1st of September which is also a Monday? 🥐☕👩‍💻
#BackToSchool #LastQuarter2025
chocolate croissant, espresso and glass of water on a wooden table with yellow flowers
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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* ☕☔🌼 *

rainy coffee day & encouraging phone call
grey skies & bright words
slow sip & fresh spark
espresso and biscuit on a wooden table with a mini bouquet of white and yellow wild flowers, view from above
July 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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And of course, our little companion joined us for some tummy time!
June 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Do you think my notebook is promising me too much after a quite interrupted night [WHERE GENIUS HIDES AMONGST THE DOODLES]? 🥱😇
June 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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summer treats 🌸🍪🌺🍹
June 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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some things do not change 🥐 ☕ 😇
#CoffeeGirl
espresso and croissant on a table, baby on the bank next to it :)
May 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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spring 🌸🐾
May 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Best view 😊
April 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Life lately 🐣☕🌸
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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First week as a family of four ❤️
March 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Happy Monday! My week starts with the final proofs of my paper “Becoming a speaker of German as an L1 French speaker: elite multilingualism as a means of distinction in a globalised world”, being ready to be put online! 🎉

I'll gladly send it over to you per email if you're interested 💌
ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of the relationship between language ideologies, elite multilingualism, and the identity of migrants with a focus on L2 speakers of German. Relying on interviews with the Francophone community in Berlin, I show that two main language ideologies circulate: language as a skill' vs 'language as an identity marker'. While these ideologies may seem opposite, I argue that both are in fact shaped by dominant language ideologies around German being hard to learn. Even if the argumentation differs, in both cases, becoming a speaker of German enables the interviewees to profile themselves as different from other non German-speaking communities. Both ideologies are a reaction to English as a dominant language that can be traced back to early metadiscourses on foreign language learning in French schools. Ultimately, I suggest that both positions correspond to elite multilingualism in which learning and using German works as a means of distinction in a globalised world.
January 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Happy New Year! 🎉 There will be quite a few changes for me in 2025, but the coffee pics will remain ☕ 🥐 😍

Wishing you energy, good vibes, and softness as we're entering a new *quarter* (😱) of the 2000s (some of us still remember how we expected everything to fall apart in 2000... 😉)
Coffee pic: laptop, planner, cup of coffee in a cozy café Coffee pic: journal, croissant, cup of coffee in a cozy café
January 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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🔓✅👐 Please share widely—to colleagues, data scientists, librarians!
December 20, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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📖📢🎉 Just in time to still be 2024 publications, two working papers on how to share sensitive interview data are out!

💡They are meant as a *practical*, *low-key resource* if you are:
- applying for grants & need a time/budget estimate;
- have data ready to be pseudonymized—where to start?
December 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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a little motivation to go through the last tasks of the year ☕💛
latte with heart shape in the foam cozy view from a coffee shop with laptop, latte, and candle
December 16, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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🌟 Morgen ist es soweit! 🌟
Ich halte eine Online-Präsentation zum Thema:
„Sprachideologien im Fokus: Reflexion & Praxis für den DaF-Unterricht“

📅 Anlass: DAAD-Regionaltreffen für Lektor*innen im Vereinigten Königreich
💻 Austausch, Inspiration und spannende Diskussionen garantiert!
Erste Folie mit Titelbild: Profilbildern von Köpfen in Schwarz, die jeweils eine Darstellung von Gehirnen enthalten. Die Gehirne sind unterschiedlich farbig und mit Symbolen wie DNA-Strängen und Schaltkreisen gestaltet, um Vielfalt und Technizität zu symbolisieren. Im Vordergrund steht eine Person in einem roten Pullover, die die Köpfe betrachtet. Der Hintergrund ist ein schwarz-weiß kariertes Muster.
December 6, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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wishing you a peaceful week ✨
#Leiden
view of the canals in the early morning, blue-grey-pink sky, a few birds
December 4, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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Ready to kick off an exciting journey at the Leadership Academy in Heidelberg, organized by the German Scholars Organization e.V. (GSO)!

Starting the day with a rare treat: an *uninterrupted* hotel breakfast. Parents, you know the luxury. 🥐☕✨

#LeadershipAcademy #LSA8 #MomOnAMission
Espresso, savory plate with tomatoes, mozzarella, cucumbers, a slice of cheese, sweet plate with jam, croissant, fruits, chia pudding
November 25, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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Treated myself to a late lunch to celebrate!
avocado toast and french fries
November 20, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Just finished the first version of a paper to be submitted for an edited volume on Digital Grammar Studies! Still have to cut a bit (arg), but so happy feeling that things are moving forward 😍
Naomi Truan Normen, Ideologien und Grammatik-Verständnis revisited Die Rolle digitaler Schreibpraktiken bei Deutsch-Lehramtsstudierenden Abstract -> ALT-Text aus dem Screenshot
November 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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last few weeks of 2024 😱 let's do this! 💪☕
red cup of coffee, croissant, notebooks on a table in a café
November 18, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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Monday motivation 🍂 💫
#Leiden
Trees in autumn colors (green, orange, yellow) reflected in the canal
November 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Happening tomorrow!
The image shows a playful scene of cartoon-style cats gathered in a social media-like environment, representing a Twitter community of francophone cats. The cats are grouped in a friendly, casual way, some looking at each other while others interact with smartphones or small laptops. The color palette is bright and inviting, with soft pastels and warm tones, and the cats are illustrated with a range of colors—gray, orange, black, and white.
November 3, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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This one (Reviewer 2!!) caught me off guard on a random Friday evening (usually not even reading my emails that late haha)!

Paper on the language ideologies of multilinguals on anglicisms in French and German coming out soon 😍
"Thanks for the manuscript, which I tremendously enjoyed reading. This is an exceptionally strong article with a solid theoretical base (Gal and Irvine's approach to language ideologies make a lot of sense), that is empirically sound (the methods section is very comprehensible), and has insightful and novel findings that highlight the importance of bringing in discussions of multilingualism and a contrastive approach into the study of language ideologies (the excerpts are chosen well and the interpretations are well laid out). The paper is structured very effectively and the writing style is very clear. I am very impressed with the quality of the paper and want to congratulate the author on this very strong and effective (and of course, incredibly interesting) manuscript. My recommendation is to accept the paper."
November 1, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Last work day before a little Fall break/reset! 🍂 💫
Let's do this 💪
Coffee and croissant on a wooden table
October 23, 2024 at 7:24 AM