Malwina Gudowska
@malwinagudowska.bsky.social
Author & Linguist. MOTHER TONGUE TIED: On Language, Motherhood & Multilingualism (Footnote Press, 2024); PhD researcher: emotions of mothers raising multilingual children; language & emotion. Motherlingual on Substack & Instagram. malwinagudowska.com
Paperback news for Mother Tongue Tied!
MTT is getting a refresh with a new colour combo for the paperback edition out February 26, 2026. Best of all, the PB is the perfect travel companion. Thank you @bonnierbooks.bsky.social & Footnote Press. Pre-order wherever you get your books.
MTT is getting a refresh with a new colour combo for the paperback edition out February 26, 2026. Best of all, the PB is the perfect travel companion. Thank you @bonnierbooks.bsky.social & Footnote Press. Pre-order wherever you get your books.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Paperback news for Mother Tongue Tied!
MTT is getting a refresh with a new colour combo for the paperback edition out February 26, 2026. Best of all, the PB is the perfect travel companion. Thank you @bonnierbooks.bsky.social & Footnote Press. Pre-order wherever you get your books.
MTT is getting a refresh with a new colour combo for the paperback edition out February 26, 2026. Best of all, the PB is the perfect travel companion. Thank you @bonnierbooks.bsky.social & Footnote Press. Pre-order wherever you get your books.
Today is the one-year anniversary of my book, Mother Tongue Tied. Thank you a million times to everyone who sent me a photo, bought a copy, recommended it, reviewed it, read it, told me it meant something to you & supported me & my work. Paperback news coming very soon with something new!
June 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today is the one-year anniversary of my book, Mother Tongue Tied. Thank you a million times to everyone who sent me a photo, bought a copy, recommended it, reviewed it, read it, told me it meant something to you & supported me & my work. Paperback news coming very soon with something new!
Also at a (western) Canadian airport: “it’s your choice”
May 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Also at a (western) Canadian airport: “it’s your choice”
Tell me you’re in a linguistics classroom…
May 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tell me you’re in a linguistics classroom…
London & nearby friends, very excited to be joining @michaelerard.bsky.social & Mel McEvoy to discuss the power of language at the beginning and end of our lives at #Backstory bookshop in Balham, May 22nd, 7 pm - save the date & please share
May 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
London & nearby friends, very excited to be joining @michaelerard.bsky.social & Mel McEvoy to discuss the power of language at the beginning and end of our lives at #Backstory bookshop in Balham, May 22nd, 7 pm - save the date & please share
In the comments over on Threads where accentism is sadly alive and too well over a question about varieties of French.
April 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In the comments over on Threads where accentism is sadly alive and too well over a question about varieties of French.
If you’re at #lincomm25, come see me at the poster presentation happening right now! @lingcomm.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you’re at #lincomm25, come see me at the poster presentation happening right now! @lingcomm.bsky.social
Frustrated with the headline using “speak” but glad to see @gretchenmcc.bsky.social quoted @financialtimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Frustrated with the headline using “speak” but glad to see @gretchenmcc.bsky.social quoted @financialtimes.com
Save the date: March 27th 10 a.m. GMT. I will post the link to the FB live closer to the date.
March 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Save the date: March 27th 10 a.m. GMT. I will post the link to the FB live closer to the date.
Discussing (heritage) languages with my football-obsessed 10-year old & loved this in one of his books. Learning the languages of your teammates & players as a manager can make everyone feel more connected, more at home as a new player & even maybe play better together.
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Discussing (heritage) languages with my football-obsessed 10-year old & loved this in one of his books. Learning the languages of your teammates & players as a manager can make everyone feel more connected, more at home as a new player & even maybe play better together.
One more in honour of the great William Labov, I mention his work in the intro to Mother Tongue Tied in the same paragraph as nipple shields & meconium because it is all “social”! (and was my life at the time).
December 18, 2024 at 12:42 PM
One more in honour of the great William Labov, I mention his work in the intro to Mother Tongue Tied in the same paragraph as nipple shields & meconium because it is all “social”! (and was my life at the time).
Signed some books at Nomad Books in SW London today! The feeling never gets old. Please support your indie bookshops this holiday season, they are pure magic!
November 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Signed some books at Nomad Books in SW London today! The feeling never gets old. Please support your indie bookshops this holiday season, they are pure magic!
Honoured to be chatting with the team from CIRCE Project EU this Friday on Instagram about my book, multilingual mothering, language,identity & emotions & their brilliant work on countering accent discrimination. Please join!
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Honoured to be chatting with the team from CIRCE Project EU this Friday on Instagram about my book, multilingual mothering, language,identity & emotions & their brilliant work on countering accent discrimination. Please join!
Honoured to be chatting with the team from CIRCE Project EU this Friday on Instagram about my book, mothering multilingual children, emotions & language and their brilliant work on countering accent accent discrimination. Please join if you can!
November 19, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Honoured to be chatting with the team from CIRCE Project EU this Friday on Instagram about my book, mothering multilingual children, emotions & language and their brilliant work on countering accent accent discrimination. Please join if you can!
They say don’t meet your heroes, or is it the author of your book’s epigraph - either way so glad I did. Amazing evening with #DeborahLevy at Southbank with @newstatesman.com, more to come about Levy’s “negotiating realities” in Motherlingual newsletter
October 24, 2024 at 10:49 PM
They say don’t meet your heroes, or is it the author of your book’s epigraph - either way so glad I did. Amazing evening with #DeborahLevy at Southbank with @newstatesman.com, more to come about Levy’s “negotiating realities” in Motherlingual newsletter
Dream realized of having my book in a bookstack in the company of so many amazing authors. Thank you to Zofia for posting this on instagram! Coincidentally, I saw the theatre adaptation of Ernaux’s The Years last week & the adaptation of Nelson’s Bluets earlier this summer, both in London.
August 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Dream realized of having my book in a bookstack in the company of so many amazing authors. Thank you to Zofia for posting this on instagram! Coincidentally, I saw the theatre adaptation of Ernaux’s The Years last week & the adaptation of Nelson’s Bluets earlier this summer, both in London.
Brilliant evening at Caper Bookshop in Oxford discussing MTT with @cateh.bsky.social - thank you all for the support!
July 3, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Brilliant evening at Caper Bookshop in Oxford discussing MTT with @cateh.bsky.social - thank you all for the support!
A shoutout to all the amazing independent booksellers! Signed copies of Mother Tongue Tied available at Nomad Books & Pages of Hackney in London. So much love for booksellers! You can request a copy of my book from your local bookshop and they will order it in for you. Support local!
June 24, 2024 at 4:02 PM
A shoutout to all the amazing independent booksellers! Signed copies of Mother Tongue Tied available at Nomad Books & Pages of Hackney in London. So much love for booksellers! You can request a copy of my book from your local bookshop and they will order it in for you. Support local!
Finished copies arrived! June 20th with Footnote Press.
June 11, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Finished copies arrived! June 20th with Footnote Press.
More early reviews of Mother Tongue Tied. Forever grateful for the authors who took the time to read.
June 6, 2024 at 8:29 AM
More early reviews of Mother Tongue Tied. Forever grateful for the authors who took the time to read.
The good/bad mother rhetoric in multilingual parenting from Mother Tongue Tied (out June 20th):
May 31, 2024 at 12:30 PM
The good/bad mother rhetoric in multilingual parenting from Mother Tongue Tied (out June 20th):
Early reviews of Mother Tongue Tied from authors I admire greatly. An honour to have my book called “empathetic”!
May 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Early reviews of Mother Tongue Tied from authors I admire greatly. An honour to have my book called “empathetic”!
On the early days of motherhood, mothering & language.
With just one month to go ahead of the publication date for “Mother Tongue Tied” (June 20th!) I will be sharing excerpts from the book:
With just one month to go ahead of the publication date for “Mother Tongue Tied” (June 20th!) I will be sharing excerpts from the book:
May 21, 2024 at 8:18 AM
On the early days of motherhood, mothering & language.
With just one month to go ahead of the publication date for “Mother Tongue Tied” (June 20th!) I will be sharing excerpts from the book:
With just one month to go ahead of the publication date for “Mother Tongue Tied” (June 20th!) I will be sharing excerpts from the book:
With just one month to go ahead of the publication date for “Mother Tongue Tied” (June 20th!) I will be sharing excerpts from the book, art work by artists I mention, reading lists and more on social media. If anything captures your curiosity, maybe pre-order?!
May 20, 2024 at 8:56 AM
With just one month to go ahead of the publication date for “Mother Tongue Tied” (June 20th!) I will be sharing excerpts from the book, art work by artists I mention, reading lists and more on social media. If anything captures your curiosity, maybe pre-order?!