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Jess Hampton
@jess-hampton.bsky.social
Socio/Ecological Linguist interested in social and environmental justice. Working on minoritised languages, ecological wisdom, discourse of migration and borders.

University of Liverpool #europeanscouser

Jesshampton.github.io
https://www.eumigrants.co.uk
We’re launching Languaging, a new wiki created to act as a collaborative space for embedding Linguistics in teaching.

Join us for the launch
Mon 3 Nov 4-5pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderscap...

Explore the wiki and share the event languaging.fandom.com/wiki/Languag...
Borderscapes Project: Embedding Linguistics in Teaching Toolkit
Learn how to incorporate linguistic concepts into your teaching with the Borderscapes Project Teaching Toolkit!
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October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Reposted by Jess Hampton
New submitted manuscript (pre-print) with Simone De Cia and @jess-hampton.bsky.social:

A vitality assessment of #Gallo-Romance of Northern Italy

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Based on the survey responses, we assign an overall status of “severely endangered” to this glossolect.
a close up of a cat 's face with big eyes and a red nose .
Alt: a close up of a cat 's face with big eyes and a red nose .
media.tenor.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Join us on 7th July for a hybrid workshop on Bayesian regression models for linguistics (and adjacent disciplines), led by @scoretta.bsky.social
A small number of travel bursaries is available to support PGRs and ECRs. Please share!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bayesian-r...
Bayesian Regressions for the Advancement of Linguistics
A workshop designed especially for PGRs and ECRs, but welcoming participants of all levels from linguistics and adjacent disciplines
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Day 28 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Incø l’é al dé d’la merla

Today is the first day of the blackbird. Looking forward to Spring 🌸

www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-l...
Giorni della Merla: Italy's legend of the blackbird and the last three days of January
One of Italy's best loved legends in winter revolves around a blackbird and the last three days in January, in a tradition known as 'i Giorni della Merla'.
www.wantedinrome.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Day 27 of #EndangeredLangChallange
(Late edition)

I grew up watching Japanese anime and every time I’d watch one on TV, my grandmother would ask:

Cus glie-ni chi scaramai lé?
What are those scaramai there?

I always thought that “scaramai” meant scribbles, thinking perhaps she couldn’t see well
January 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Reposted by Jess Hampton
Important new research out today concludes that English “water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause”. 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’
Researchers say companies have prolonged injustice and exaggerated cost of solving infrastructure problems
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Day 26 of #EndangeredLangChallange

When your younger sister doesn’t understand as much Emilian as you do mixups can happen.

Grandma: tin vot di pandør?
YS: yes, please
Grandma: proceeds to give her sliced tomatoes in oil and vinegar
YS: oh I don’t like tomatoes, I thought you meant pandoro
January 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Day 25 of #EndangeredLangChallange

items that can be found in the kitchen:

al buraz (towel)
e røsc (rubbish bin)
i føg (hobs)
la stova (range cooker, similar to an Aga)
la screna (chair)
e tavl (table)
e piat pera (plate)
e piat fond (bowl)
u savon (soap)
e bicer (glass)
di zocl d legna (logs)
January 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Day 24 #EndangeredLangChallange

Today I’m sharing a page from this Modenese-Italian dictionary showing the indicative and imperative for both auxiliary verbs

ia800402.us.archive.org/2/items/voca...
January 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Day 23 of #EndangeredLangChallange

A true story

Me: mum, can you make me tea?
Mum: makes me tea
Me: can you add lemon?
Me: can you add sugar?
Mum: adds both and brings it to me
Me: have you stirred it?
Mum: e pó sa vot ancara, c a t’al bova?
What else do you want me to do, drink it for you? 🫣
January 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reposted by Jess Hampton
Job in Norway for applied linguists out there! Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics (deadline 27 Jan). www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics (271768) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics (271768), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, January 27, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
January 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Day 22 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Tasked with looking at verb tenses and moods, I remembered how the subjunctive can be used for commands:

Nin fedi mia acsé!
NEG do.2PL.SBJV NEG like=this
do.2pl.su
January 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Reposted by Jess Hampton
For what it's worth, Google books has a nearly *hour-long* freebee of my audiobook (read by yours truly) up on YouTube.

You'll get the preface, the introduction, and most of Chapter 1, I think!

You can check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLC...
January 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Jess Hampton
Carter: The field of historical linguistics got to map out how sustained contact with Norman French helped transform Old English into Middle English. And the fields of sociolinguistics and contact linguistics are helping us understand how English works in Miami today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a018...
From Spanglish to ‘Miami English’: The Birth of a New Dialect in South Florida
YouTube video by FIU Insights
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January 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Day 21 of #EndangeredLangChallange

It’s review day so I take the opportunity to share this amazing video recipe. It’s in Italian, with English subtitles and some Ferrarese.

“Quant aiò immascià tùt al las acsì”
Once I’ve mixed it all I leave it as it is

www.instagram.com/reel/DFItkIK...
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January 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Day 20 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Task of the day: find news outlets in the language. As these don’t seem to exist for Emilian, I’ll share what my grandmother would say if she were here to see who the new US president is:

“Mo sa sbambozet? Rechia ben e va a fer dal pep!”
January 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Day 19 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Today was all about toponyms and what we can learn about the language through the etymology of place names.

I’ve always liked Zocca (1337), from zòca-> Lat soccus, meaning wood log/trunk. More specifically for Zocca, it was chestnut wood.
January 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Day 18 of #EndangeredLangChallange

On a day given for catching-up on our tasks, I took the chance to catch up with other aspects of my Modenese culture. I made crescentine (also known as tigelle) and found moments of mindfulness in working the dough.

As I kneaded, I felt her presence.
January 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Day 17 of #EndangeredLangChallange

My favourite phrase in Modenese?

At n’adré pó!
“You’ll find out!”

Always said in a threatening tone, of course. Because, what’s a grandmother’s advice for otherwise, right?
January 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Day 16 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Looking for cartoons and other resources targeted at children, today I realised that there’s nothing of the sort online for Modenese.

Time to add this type of output to future grant applications.

My nonna used to say: pitost che gninta, l’è mej pitost.
January 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Day 15th of #EndangeredLangChallange

Is there any music in Modenese?

Given that I analysed this rap song in Modenese as part of my PhD, I couldn’t not share it: youtu.be/b04xrR3EXNE?...

The full lyrics and translation into English can be found in the appendix of my paper doi.org/10.3828/mlo....
“(W)Rapping” Traditions into Modernity: The Negotiation of Emilian and Esperanto Identities in YouTube Hip-Hop Songs | Modern Languages Open
Modern Languages Open (MLO) is a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience.  It provides Interdisciplinarity across...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Day 14 of #EndangeredLangChallange

After a busy day, I don’t have much to give to the challenge but I will share this interesting image in Romagnolo (sister language of Emilian)

This is a razdora (housewife) rolling out pasta dough with a dripping nose.
January 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Day 13 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Kinship terms

Medra/mama = mother/mum
Peder/babbo = father/dad
Fjöl = son
Fjöla = daughter/
Fradel = brother
Surela = sister
Nona = grandmother
Non = grandfather
Nivod = grandson
Nipod = nephew
Nipoda = granddaughter
Nipoda = niece
Tsio = uncle
Tsia = aunt
January 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Day 12 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Nice and easy today! Sharing the days of the week in my grandmother’s variety:

Luntidé
Mertidé
Mercurdé
Zuvdé
Vègnèr
Sabet
Dmanga
January 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Day 11 of #EndangeredLangChallange

Today I focused on further developing my Notion page, collating all of the recipes and other resources that I’ve been discovering in the week.

I also found a calendar in Emilian from 2016 hiding in my office:

Znèr sòtt, gran per tòtt
January dry, wheat for all
January 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM