Matthew John Hadodo
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Matthew John Hadodo
@matthewjohnhadodo.bsky.social
PhD. Language & social meaning.

I like to explore people’s lived experiences with and through language.

Istanbul Greek
Rhode Island Englishes
Sociophonetics
Stancetaking and metapragmatics

Socialist. (Kick)boxer. Full lyric tenor. Scorpio x6
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Happy to share my new article in the Journal of Sociolinguistics as part of a thematic series on awareness. Open access!

I triangulate quant & qual. data from verbal guise with ethnography of the Istanbul Greek community. Results support an intersubjective model for the emergence of social meaning
Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment
This article uses mixed methods to establish how social meanings are situated in lived experiences. I test whether Greek listeners recognize features of Istanbul Greek (IG) and whether they associate...
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Happy to share my new article in the Journal of Sociolinguistics as part of a thematic series on awareness. Open access!

I triangulate quant & qual. data from verbal guise with ethnography of the Istanbul Greek community. Results support an intersubjective model for the emergence of social meaning
Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment
This article uses mixed methods to establish how social meanings are situated in lived experiences. I test whether Greek listeners recognize features of Istanbul Greek (IG) and whether they associate...
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February 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Proud to share on behalf of my co-editors Petros Karatsareas & Elena Ioannidou our new volume as part of Routledge's Critical Studies in Multilingualism Series. Greek in Minoritized Contexts explores how authenticity and identity are navigated in such settings.

More info: bitly.cx/YYITw
Greek in Minoritized Contexts: Identities, Authenticities, and Institutions
This volume examines constructions of Greekness and Greek-speakerhood in geographical and sociohistorical contexts where Greek speakers are minoritised, and Greek is not hegemonic. Authors explore the...
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December 9, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Reposted by Matthew John Hadodo
Grammar is not the “rules” you were taught in school. It’s what your brain does to make sense of the linguistic input it’s exposed to.

The “rules” you were taught are a hidden curriculum designed to maintain a social hierarchy. Before you learned them, you were already an expert at your language.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.
September 5, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Alright, just joined and trying to migrate from twitter/X to build a professional presence here.
November 14, 2024 at 12:07 PM