Sven Leuckert
sleuckert.bsky.social
Sven Leuckert
@sleuckert.bsky.social
linguist, long-distance runner, lover of horror
https://sites.google.com/view/svenleuckert
er/ihm || he/him
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See you in Koblenz! @sleuckert.bsky.social, Thomas Messerli and I are organising a pre-conference workshop "Corpus-Linguistic Approaches to Reddit" at #icame47 (copRe research group lives! copre.org)
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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It's a rainy and gray day, but the print copies of the sunshine book have just arrived and brighten up my day: "World Englishes and Social Media" edited with @sleuckert.bsky.social & Jakob Leimgruber @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/in/world-eng...
October 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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"A detailed look at non-canonical syntax in historical, register-based, and non-native English, drawn from cutting-edge case studies."

Non-Canonical English Syntax eds. ‪@sleuckert.bsky.social‬ &Teresa Pham | Out now & #OpenAccess

#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 #BookSky #OA

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September 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Linguistik trifft Gipfel: Ein Blick ins NEUE Alpenvereinsjahrbuch BERG 2026!

Wie haben wir Berge und das Bergleben in 140 Jahren Alpingeschichte beschrieben?
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#uniinnsbruck #uibk #philkultuibk #sprawiuibk #sprawi #linguistics
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Very rewarding to see the community engage with our edited volume "World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model". Review just published in Folia Linguistica: doi.org/10.1515/flin...
#WorldEnglishes #Linguistics
Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert, & Sarah Buschfeld, eds. 2025. World Englishes in the 21st century: new perspectives and challenges to the dynamic model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University...
Article Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert, & Sarah Buschfeld, eds. 2025. World Englishes in the 21st century: new perspectives and challenges to the dynamic model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Un...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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
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Ankündigung: Mein Beitrag "Expedition ins jungfräuliche Wortgebirge - Projekt 'Alpenwort': ein digitaler Schatz aus 140 Jahren Alpingeschichte" erscheint demnächst im neuen Jubiläumsjahrbuch des Alpenvereins BERG2026!
August 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The Call for Papers and Call for Workshops for ICAME47, May 26-30 2026 in Koblenz, Germany, now out
Submission deadlines 31 October 2025.

Calls and conference dates here: wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/

Conference email address: icame47@uni-koblenz.de
CFP -
Call for Papers | Call for Workshops Below you’ll find the Call for Papers and Call for Workshops, along with Word templates for both. Abstracts for Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Reports, Software Dem...
wp.uni-koblenz.de
July 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Cringe ist überall - weil in hohem Maße mit Konsum verknüpft.
Wer 'Cringe konsumieren: Weiblicher Exzess und Konsumgemeinschaften' mit @theresaheyd.bsky.social und @heidevolkening.bsky.social nachhören mag, hier die Aufzeichnung!
@kwi-essen.bsky.social
@uebercringe.bsky.social
#Litwiss
July 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Secret mission is not secret anymore! This Friday & Saturday, we revealed & celebrated the Festschrift for Edgar Schneider: "World Englishes in the 21st Century:
New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model". Published by @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-world-e...
March 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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In case you missed it (or want to watch it again): the #ISLE Expert Forum on "Studying Telecinematic Language" feat. Robin Queen, Monika Bednarek, Christian R. Hoffmann and Valentin Werner is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/lTROL8qG4sY #Linguistics #PopCulture
February 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Our very collaborative paper (no less than 8 authors!) has finally come out in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities:

“Digital debating cultures: communicative practices on Reddit”
It’s been a long road from the conference panel in 2022 to this…
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Digital debating cultures: communicative practices on Reddit
Abstract . Reddit as a platform for online forum interaction hosts various communities (subreddits), which give rise to specific digital communicative prac
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February 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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When all the panelists apart from you got the memo to wear red for the profile photo 😄

Don’t miss the next #ISLE Online Forum: March 19, 6pm CET, "Navigating Research Ethics - Focus on Digital Data"
#linguistics #ResearchEthics
@sofiaruediger.bsky.social @jaimackenzie.Bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Working on 'Expanding Circle' Englishes and fancy a trip to Santiago de Compostela this year? Jakob Leimgruber and I are hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ISLE8 (September 1-4) 🌎🌍🌏 Abstracts due end of February. #WorldEnglishes #Linguistics
(more info on the workshop topic in the next post)
January 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary is a material book (as well as online): doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Of special interest (at least to me): ch 10, “Illustrations in Dictionaries,” pp. 189–215
#Dictionaries #Illustration
@lynneguist.bsky.social @benzimmer.bsky.social
@petersokolowski.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Great cover, even better content, best co-author and -editor team! #LanguageAndPersuasion
I love that we got to choose the cover this time!

Our edited book “Manipulation, influence, deception” should be out any day now. I have a 20% discount code if anyone is interested 🙃
Best co-author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social 🥂
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December 5, 2024 at 1:14 PM