Ryan Fountain
@ryfountain.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in English Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin, currently researching the language of competitive eating and food competitions.
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Right in time for #FoodAndCommunication4: our special issue "Focus on Language and Food" is out now with Anglistik 🤩 9 papers (and an introduction) that will make your foodie/linguistics heart happy. All of it open access: angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2... #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics 🍩
September 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Right in time for #FoodAndCommunication4: our special issue "Focus on Language and Food" is out now with Anglistik 🤩 9 papers (and an introduction) that will make your foodie/linguistics heart happy. All of it open access: angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2... #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics 🍩
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Second conference day about to begin, we are looking forward to talks by @larshinrichs.site, @heidevolkening.bsky.social, @ldpres.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @ryfountain.bsky.social and Chloé Thomas.
Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!
Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!
July 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Second conference day about to begin, we are looking forward to talks by @larshinrichs.site, @heidevolkening.bsky.social, @ldpres.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @ryfountain.bsky.social and Chloé Thomas.
Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!
Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!
The Ueber Cringe conference is nearly here! (July 7-9, Uni Heidelberg) I'll be giving a talk on "Uncouth Gurgitators"
More info here: uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber...
More info here: uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber...
UEBER CRINGE: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust
1751886000 days hours minutes secondsuntilTagung 07. – 09. Juli *** English Version below *** WISSENSCHAFTLICHE LEITUNG: Theresa Heyd (Heidelberg), Heide Volkening (Gr…
uebercringe.de
July 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The Ueber Cringe conference is nearly here! (July 7-9, Uni Heidelberg) I'll be giving a talk on "Uncouth Gurgitators"
More info here: uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber...
More info here: uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber...
It's warm out there people. Try to stay cool 🙏
July 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It's warm out there people. Try to stay cool 🙏
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Calls: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices
Calls: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices
The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice – people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic performances, interweaving foo
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May 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Abstract accepted for "Ueber Cringe: Ambivalent Affects and Everyday Aesthetics"
(Heidelberg University, July 7-9, 2025) 😁
I'll be speaking about the ambivalent 'cringe' of competitive eating-as-entertainment 🌭 from a linguistics perspective 🗣
#Linguistics #Cringe #LanguageAndFood #PhD
(Heidelberg University, July 7-9, 2025) 😁
I'll be speaking about the ambivalent 'cringe' of competitive eating-as-entertainment 🌭 from a linguistics perspective 🗣
#Linguistics #Cringe #LanguageAndFood #PhD
December 20, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Abstract accepted for "Ueber Cringe: Ambivalent Affects and Everyday Aesthetics"
(Heidelberg University, July 7-9, 2025) 😁
I'll be speaking about the ambivalent 'cringe' of competitive eating-as-entertainment 🌭 from a linguistics perspective 🗣
#Linguistics #Cringe #LanguageAndFood #PhD
(Heidelberg University, July 7-9, 2025) 😁
I'll be speaking about the ambivalent 'cringe' of competitive eating-as-entertainment 🌭 from a linguistics perspective 🗣
#Linguistics #Cringe #LanguageAndFood #PhD
R.I.P William Labov, an absolute G.O.A.T. He is one of the main reasons I became interested in linguistics and his work has had a huge influence on me and countless others.
#RIPBillLabov #g.o.a.t #sociolinguistics
#RIPBillLabov #g.o.a.t #sociolinguistics
December 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM
R.I.P William Labov, an absolute G.O.A.T. He is one of the main reasons I became interested in linguistics and his work has had a huge influence on me and countless others.
#RIPBillLabov #g.o.a.t #sociolinguistics
#RIPBillLabov #g.o.a.t #sociolinguistics
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One story about him that I loved was that he would deliberately not correct people on how to pronounce his surname, because he was interested in the variation
December 18, 2024 at 10:15 AM
One story about him that I loved was that he would deliberately not correct people on how to pronounce his surname, because he was interested in the variation
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How many of is walk taller, unashamed of our vernaculars, directly or indirectly because of him?
Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.
I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.
I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.
December 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM
How many of is walk taller, unashamed of our vernaculars, directly or indirectly because of him?
If you an Ausländer going through a visa process with your respective Ausländerbehörde in Germany, not all hope is lost. I received an email my Ausländbehörde (a famously inefficient one) - with an UPDATE. This is simply unheard of. Change is possible.
#PhD #Germany #Ausländer #stillhope
#PhD #Germany #Ausländer #stillhope
December 10, 2024 at 3:54 PM
If you an Ausländer going through a visa process with your respective Ausländerbehörde in Germany, not all hope is lost. I received an email my Ausländbehörde (a famously inefficient one) - with an UPDATE. This is simply unheard of. Change is possible.
#PhD #Germany #Ausländer #stillhope
#PhD #Germany #Ausländer #stillhope
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The grand season finale of the #OSSO (Online Selves-Self Online) digital talk series (org. with @coocho.bsky.social) is coming up on Dec 11: Don't miss Alex Georgakopoulou's talk on "Re-positioning Positioning Analysis for Stories and Identities Online"!
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#linguistics
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#linguistics
December 6, 2024 at 6:56 AM
The grand season finale of the #OSSO (Online Selves-Self Online) digital talk series (org. with @coocho.bsky.social) is coming up on Dec 11: Don't miss Alex Georgakopoulou's talk on "Re-positioning Positioning Analysis for Stories and Identities Online"!
forms.office.com/e/LVmB9NYtPh
#linguistics
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#linguistics
Finally finished writing my first abstract for a conference, my first book review has made it to the "in press" stage, and I'm making good progress on final transcriptions for my project. Really needed some tangible movement. #linguistics #phd #academiclife
December 6, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Finally finished writing my first abstract for a conference, my first book review has made it to the "in press" stage, and I'm making good progress on final transcriptions for my project. Really needed some tangible movement. #linguistics #phd #academiclife
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Ryan Starkey makes wonderful, well-researched maps about dialects and accents in Great Britain.
But sometimes he gets silly.
But sometimes he gets silly.
December 5, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Ryan Starkey makes wonderful, well-researched maps about dialects and accents in Great Britain.
But sometimes he gets silly.
But sometimes he gets silly.
December 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
From a Christmas market in Esslingen. They threw the whole English language on their sign. #linguisticlandscape #linguistics
December 2, 2024 at 8:26 PM
From a Christmas market in Esslingen. They threw the whole English language on their sign. #linguisticlandscape #linguistics
Celebrated #Thanksgiving a wee later. Aside from swapping turkey for chicken, we had most of the classics.
December 1, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Celebrated #Thanksgiving a wee later. Aside from swapping turkey for chicken, we had most of the classics.
I don't normally get hungry transcribing eating videos, but one got me today. There was a challenge with these mac and cheese tacos.
November 29, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I don't normally get hungry transcribing eating videos, but one got me today. There was a challenge with these mac and cheese tacos.
No turkey for Thanksgiving this year in Germany, but Franklin is doing his best impression. Detroit Lions on the TV. Mini lion here next to me. #Thanksgiving #cat
November 28, 2024 at 6:05 PM
No turkey for Thanksgiving this year in Germany, but Franklin is doing his best impression. Detroit Lions on the TV. Mini lion here next to me. #Thanksgiving #cat
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Save the date: next #BaFoLa lecture coming up on November 29, 12:30-13:30 CET. Ariana Gunderson will present on "Veganizing Language: Strategies for Plant-based Legibility in Germany". Official invitation going out via the mailing list soon, let me know if you'd like to join! #Linguistics
November 19, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Save the date: next #BaFoLa lecture coming up on November 29, 12:30-13:30 CET. Ariana Gunderson will present on "Veganizing Language: Strategies for Plant-based Legibility in Germany". Official invitation going out via the mailing list soon, let me know if you'd like to join! #Linguistics
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CfP: @coocho.bsky.social, @nounfraze.bsky.social, Dawn Archer & I are organizing a panel on "Influencer Discourse: Navigating the Spectrum from Positive to Negative Impact" at next year's ADDA conference (Tilburg, May 21-23)
More info on the panel @ www.diggitmagazine.com/adda-5-panels #linguistics
More info on the panel @ www.diggitmagazine.com/adda-5-panels #linguistics
November 27, 2024 at 2:35 PM
CfP: @coocho.bsky.social, @nounfraze.bsky.social, Dawn Archer & I are organizing a panel on "Influencer Discourse: Navigating the Spectrum from Positive to Negative Impact" at next year's ADDA conference (Tilburg, May 21-23)
More info on the panel @ www.diggitmagazine.com/adda-5-panels #linguistics
More info on the panel @ www.diggitmagazine.com/adda-5-panels #linguistics
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Do you study influencer discourse? Send your abstract to our ADDA panel! We’re interested in classic 🌹👓 influencers but also in the “dark side” of social media power-users
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CfP: @coocho.bsky.social, @nounfraze.bsky.social, Dawn Archer & I are organizing a panel on "Influencer Discourse: Navigating the Spectrum from Positive to Negative Impact" at next year's ADDA conference (Tilburg, May 21-23)
More info on the panel @ www.diggitmagazine.com/adda-5-panels #linguistics
More info on the panel @ www.diggitmagazine.com/adda-5-panels #linguistics
November 27, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Do you study influencer discourse? Send your abstract to our ADDA panel! We’re interested in classic 🌹👓 influencers but also in the “dark side” of social media power-users
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I'd like to know how common this is. I'd also like to suggest a Scottish version: "enshitetificaton"
#newwords
#newwords
Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.
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November 26, 2024 at 12:07 PM
I'd like to know how common this is. I'd also like to suggest a Scottish version: "enshitetificaton"
#newwords
#newwords
These posts from Major League Eating (MLE) are amazing. Back in July, for the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, they introduced all the competitors in this manner - they're sort of like baseball cards.
November 21, 2024 at 10:14 AM
These posts from Major League Eating (MLE) are amazing. Back in July, for the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, they introduced all the competitors in this manner - they're sort of like baseball cards.
This is Beard Meats Food, a highly popular eating entertainer from the UK. His post is a good example of a stereotypical view towards the US through a food-consumption lens, namely "woah huge portions."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-A...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-A...
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 AM
This is Beard Meats Food, a highly popular eating entertainer from the UK. His post is a good example of a stereotypical view towards the US through a food-consumption lens, namely "woah huge portions."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-A...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-A...