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Elizabeth Peterson
@lissu.bsky.social
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Linguist, dog lover, coffee drinker, into gardening, native of Utah, home is now Helsinki.
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jvaattovaara.bsky.social Johanna Vaattovaara @jvaattovaara.bsky.social · Apr 10
Englannin professorilta @lissu.bsky.social kysytään suomesta ja suomen professorilta englannista. Agricolan päivän tasapaino 😅
#proffahommat
April 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Why Swedish-speaking Finns are hoping to be sent to Eurovision by Sweden.

A fascinating read on the complexity of official languages and language attitudes within and across national boundaries.
March 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I have a few thoughts about Eurovision 2025, mostly because it overlaps with language attitudes in Finland www.elizabethpeterson.org/post/when-la...
When language attitudes collide with a chance at Eurovision
How a Swedish language song from Finland might make it to Eurovision ... representing Sweden. Ouch!
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March 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Fresh results from @lhekanaho.bsky.social @laifproject.bsky.social survey about language attitudes in Finland. Finnish people, you’ll want to see this! Not listing takeaways because … well, what do YOU think? Let us know! www.laifproject.org/post/mit%C3%...
Mitä suomalaiset ajattelevat englannista? LAIF-kyselyn alustavia tuloksia
Englannin kielen käyttö Suomessa ja englannin kielen vaikutus suomen kieleen herättää monenlaisia ajatuksia suomalaisissa. Kyselytutkimuksen osallistujat pitivät englantia monella tavalla tärkeänä ja ...
www.laifproject.org
February 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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UUSI BLOGI: Miksi tutkia kieliasenteita ja -ideologioita?

Tässä kirjoituksessa Laura Hekanaho pohtii kieliasenteiden ja ideologioiden merkitystä. Toivomme, että löydätte aiheen yhtä ajatuksia herättäväksi.

Linkki blogiin: www.laifproject.org/post/miksi-t...

#Kielitiede #Suomenkieli #Kieliasenteet
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Tietenkin siksi, koska ne ovat niin mielenkiintoisia! Helppo vastaus, mutta toki taustalla on monta muutakin syytä. Kieliasenteet ja –ideologiat kertovat paljon siitä, miten ihmiset suhtautuvat kielen...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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So what are you all doing next week? I’m hosting a conference on swearing. Seems appropriate blogs.helsinki.fi/swisca9hel/ #linguistics
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January 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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It’s a new year, it’s my birthday, and I just started my new position as Associate Professor of English linguistics @UniversityofJyväskylä. So please send me all the #linguistics love you can, and I send it right back at you.
January 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I’m just sitting here reading all the #languagelog tributes to Bill Labov and ugly crying. What a legacy.
December 19, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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A student stayed after class to give me the most amazing gift basket of homemade goodies, including these magnets. I LOVE them. We could totally sell these as merch at NWAV, Sociolinguistics Symposium, etc.
An image of 6 homemade, hand-drawn magnets. Magnet 1 shows a picture of a bottle with a label that reads "Prescriptivism repellent." Magnet 2 shows a drawing of a bored cat and reads "Sounds prescriptivist, but okay." Magnet 3 is a picture of a bottle of jam, with a label on the drawing reading "Sociolinguistics is my jam." Magnet 4 is written like a dictionary definition. It reads: "Sociolinguistics (noun) 1. Like normal linguistics, but cooler." Magnet 5 reads: "How many sociolinguists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Followed by a small drawing of a light bulb and the words "It varies." Magnet 6 shows this text: "Miss Ms Mrs Prof Dr, ACTUALLY"
December 10, 2024 at 5:40 PM
lissu.bsky.social
I am switching from a mostly university teaching to mostly research career. Here are my top 10 teaching “confessions” as I switch roles. Who can relate? www.elizabethpeterson.org/post/univers...
Confessions of a university lecturer
Today when I opened up my laptop, I began working on the final two in-class presentations I will offer as a lecturer at the University of Helsinki. For sixteen years, I have been a University Lecturer...
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November 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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I loved doing this interview and our discussion. And it is so great to get feedback on the textbook I wrote. Use it; it’s free thanks to Open Access funding!
brynnquick.bsky.social Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social · Nov 27
“Making Sense of Bad English” is such a fab resource for learning about and teaching language ideologies. I loved chatting with @lissu.bsky.social about what the Standard Language Ideology has to do with Santa Clause and why English spelling is so chaotic! www.languageonthemove.com/making-sense...
Making Sense of “Bad English”
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. This epis…
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November 27, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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Our Language Awareness and Ideologies in Finland project made this video on multilingualism at Helsinki’s famous herring festival! www.youtube.com/watch?v=odV_... It includes discussion questions for students. In three languages #suomi #linguistics #svenska
Multilingualism at Helsinki's Herring Market | Strömmingsmarknad | Silakkamarkkinat
YouTube video by LAIF Language Awareness and Ideologies in Finland
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November 8, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Live worm in my salad
September 11, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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This is not me complaining about language. This is me trying to understand what the quotation marks mean on these signs. Er, it’s the UK: the inverted commas. Minus points if your response includes complaints about apostrophes and the demise of grammar.
A sign at a beach reads “No swimming” in quotation marks, followed by other text which reads: between hello floats and slip. (Without quote marks on the latter text) Lots of beware of this and that on this sign, but my question has to do with the only text (out of a lot of text) to be in quotation marks: “ Persons enter Slipway at their own risk.”
August 19, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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I have been in Dublin for all of 10 minutes, and have already heard the f-word twice, and both from unexpected mouths: one an 8-year-old (or so) boy, one from an 80-year-old (or so) woman. Wow 🍀
August 14, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Reflecting on 20 years as an academic in Finland, plus some news on my future workplace. Thanks for everything, University of Helsinki! Next up, University of Jyväskylä 💫

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Celebrating 20 years of academic life in Finland -- and some news!
I didn't understand much about the Finnish higher education system back when I received a life-changing phone call during my daily work commute in Washington, DC. This was twenty years ago. The screen...
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August 8, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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For anyone who doesn't already know about it, check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social (and thank me later)
#Langsky
gretchenmcc.bsky.social Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Jul 4
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
July 5, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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One year of LAIF: What have we been up to? You can read all about it in this letter from the project PI @lissu.bsky.social www.laifproject.org/post/letter-...
Letter from the project PI: Round-up of year 1
Elizabeth Peterson, project PI, represented the LAIF project at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America in New York City in January 2024. The LAIF project is entering into its second ...
www.laifproject.org
June 26, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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Because "Life in a New Language" has 6 authors, we've started a podcast series where each author tells their side of the story: in Episode 1, Donna Butorac shares how her experience as an ESL teacher got her interested in the lives of migrant women
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Life in a New Language, Part 1: Identities
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is Part 1 of our new series devoted to Life in a New Language. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxford University Press. It is a…
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June 12, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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So excited that the long-awaiting new book co-authored by members of the Language-on-the-Move team as a data-sharing ethnography of migrants' language learning and settlement experiences will finally be out in June

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May 4, 2024 at 5:11 AM
lissu.bsky.social
Yesterday I was teaching about third wave linguistics. When I was discussing the Beijing yuppie study, someone raised their hand to ask me to what a yuppie is. And then most of the class concurred: yeah, what’s a yuppie? I didn’t quite recover, and still haven’t. The generation gap is REAL.
April 30, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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Was really lovely to do this podcast and talk about directive multilingual signs and the #LinguisticLandscape!
Thanks again to @languageonthemove.bsky.social, lots of other great episodes of their podcast too!
April 29, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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Feelgood view and photo, post sauna
April 27, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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We are very happy to host Dr Matt Hunt Gardner in Helsinki this week to hear about his fascinating work on pulmonic ingressive YUP. Fortunately he made it here, even after after I typed his name wrong on his airline booking. Hope you’ll be able to leave, @matthuntgardner.bsky.social 😘
Four linguists have dinner together in a swanky restaurant. They are smiling and clearly pleased with being linguists and having dinner together. There are three men with beards and a woman with no beard. The woman looks especially relieved because she just learned that she typed in the guest linguist’s name wrong on his airline reservation, but he still made it to Helsinki. Whew! Photo taken in Helsinki, Finland.
April 18, 2024 at 7:41 AM