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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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November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Conservatives: the Party that deplores aspiration. #edusky
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
On language laws in the Hermit Kingdom - via @economist.com #linguistics
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
September issue of @jslx.bsky.social is out with some very touching contributions @lhlew.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social #linguistics
September 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
#Hansard in the news! #linguistics
September 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
End of an era! AOL remarkably still exists and, even more remarkably, still offers dialup. #obsolecencesky
August 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
@economist.com are hiring an intern in London
July 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Evidence for the cognitive advantages of #bilingualism may be inconclusive, but it’s still a superpower! #edusky #langsky #mflsky #linguistics
July 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Pourquoi la soupe à grimace @medericgc.bsky.social ? 😂 #AFLS2025
July 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Lol #Turboscribe you try telling #Basque or #Breton speakers that they should be pegged to those flags...
July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🔓 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!
June 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Well this was fun! Tonight I was responding to the #CVC14 Q&A following a recorded plenary by N. Nagy on "Heritage Language Variation and Change Outreach Fun". We introduced the revitalization initiative #FPGlobal! Curious? You can read more in an OA paper in #Language this month! #edusky #langsky
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Interesting exchange in @economist.com on India and #WorldEnglishes - Hard to get into Schneider or any other theory in so few words but one reviewer might add ‘expand here’ #linguistics #langsky #edusky
June 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This Wednesday 4PM online at the Westminster Forum for #language and #linguistics, Spyros Armostis (University of Cyprus) will be talking about efforts to create a writing system for #Cypriot #Arabic. All welcome! #langsky #edusky

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April 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Starmer’s approach to the tariffs has very Mark and JLB vibes
April 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happening now in the Westminster #Linguistics research seminar! us02web.zoom.us/j/89653330152
March 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@economist.com reckons HoCs speeches have been getting shorter over time, which they seem to want to pin on the advent of social media video features...
February 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Join us for Wednesday's Forum for Language and Linguistics Research Seminar, 16h00: Rachael Gilmour (QMUL) will present a talk titled “Listening at the border”:

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February 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
*Exactly*! This from @wonkhe.bsky.social 👇
February 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It’s undisputed that international students in HE subsidise home students and contribute to the economy (i.e “growth”). What I still don’t understand though is why they are counted in migration figures here when other states do not.
February 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Join us this week at the Westminster Forum for Language and #Linguistics Research seminar: on Wednesday 4PM Hannah Gibson (Essex) will be presenting work from her team's massive variation in #Swahili project!

All welcome. Following link: us02web.zoom.us/j/89653330152
January 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The Christmas ed of the @economist.com contained a chart showing every object that has ever existed in the universe. Now, this isn't my field of science, but, a glaringly obvious omission from this chart was ... the bottom of the washing basket (or it doesn't exist) www.economist.com/interactive/...
January 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Why can't we have more multilingual posts from @wonkhe.bsky.social ! This was fun this morning:
January 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This needs replicating in the UK 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 27, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Oh good Darren is a Chair. A sympathetic and sensible voice in the room!
December 17, 2024 at 10:03 PM