Lauren Gawne
@superlinguo.bsky.social
Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Podiversary Felicitations!
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Podiversary Felicitations!
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
Excited for the approaching future where @edzitron.com's blog posts are 100% hyperlinked.
October 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Excited for the approaching future where @edzitron.com's blog posts are 100% hyperlinked.
Happy Unicode 17.0 Day!
Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year:
treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca
@jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown:
jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...
Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year:
treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca
@jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown:
jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...
September 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Happy Unicode 17.0 Day!
Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year:
treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca
@jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown:
jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...
Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year:
treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca
@jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown:
jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...
I appreciate life's certainties.
September 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I appreciate life's certainties.
Thanks. Very useful.
August 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Thanks. Very useful.
Happy #WorldEmojiDay! Here's a sneak peek at what's coming in Unicode 17.0 later in the year!
blog.unicode.org/2025/07/say-...
blog.unicode.org/2025/07/say-...
July 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Happy #WorldEmojiDay! Here's a sneak peek at what's coming in Unicode 17.0 later in the year!
blog.unicode.org/2025/07/say-...
blog.unicode.org/2025/07/say-...
The latest round of cuts at ANU include an outrageous plan to close the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC). ANU has forgotten its vital function as the national university.
Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
July 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The latest round of cuts at ANU include an outrageous plan to close the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC). ANU has forgotten its vital function as the national university.
Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Lovely to spend an evening listening to @emilymbender.bsky.social chatting with Kobi Leins about #TheAICon, and the weird technological moment that we find ourselves in.
July 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Lovely to spend an evening listening to @emilymbender.bsky.social chatting with Kobi Leins about #TheAICon, and the weird technological moment that we find ourselves in.
I've noticed 'unhinged' in my own lexicon and around me a lot in the last month or so, but apparently this is something that's been building for a couple of decades and only now hitting my perceptual filter.
June 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I've noticed 'unhinged' in my own lexicon and around me a lot in the last month or so, but apparently this is something that's been building for a couple of decades and only now hitting my perceptual filter.
Spending some time with my smart and funny parasocial friends @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social. The AI Con is a wonderfully sensible analysis of what's happening with tech hype today.
June 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Spending some time with my smart and funny parasocial friends @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social. The AI Con is a wonderfully sensible analysis of what's happening with tech hype today.
My boss made these for me, they sit on my desk and are useful for in-person meetings as well as online ones.
May 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My boss made these for me, they sit on my desk and are useful for in-person meetings as well as online ones.
Pleaaaaaase get humans to write your lessons instead of cheaping out with AI slop.
If you don't care enough about your product, why should I?
If you don't care enough about your product, why should I?
May 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Pleaaaaaase get humans to write your lessons instead of cheaping out with AI slop.
If you don't care enough about your product, why should I?
If you don't care enough about your product, why should I?
Gesture a Slim Guide is available with a 30% discount code (AUFLY30) on the global.oup.com/academic website - for the hardcover (and it looks like it works for the very cute softcover too)
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Gesture a Slim Guide is available with a 30% discount code (AUFLY30) on the global.oup.com/academic website - for the hardcover (and it looks like it works for the very cute softcover too)
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Poking around, it seems like it was specifically a golden age for now obscure units of milk.
April 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Poking around, it seems like it was specifically a golden age for now obscure units of milk.
First hour at #LingComm25 and I've already met a pelican at the beach and settling in for the first round of lighting talks.
April 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
First hour at #LingComm25 and I've already met a pelican at the beach and settling in for the first round of lighting talks.
Magical cheesemakers under capitalism:
March 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Magical cheesemakers under capitalism:
It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
March 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
One of my favourite moments on Crash Course Linguistics was when the production team took our script and ran with it in the best possible way, turning Bill Labov's sociolinguistic work into a video game quest.
Labov's work was scrupulous, guided by good moral principle and his legacy lives on.
Labov's work was scrupulous, guided by good moral principle and his legacy lives on.
December 19, 2024 at 5:58 AM
One of my favourite moments on Crash Course Linguistics was when the production team took our script and ran with it in the best possible way, turning Bill Labov's sociolinguistic work into a video game quest.
Labov's work was scrupulous, guided by good moral principle and his legacy lives on.
Labov's work was scrupulous, guided by good moral principle and his legacy lives on.
Samantha Rarrick on eyeblinks in Hawai'i Sign Language, and variation when the same people are using ASL. Eyeblinks with HSL are much lower than anything found in the sign language literature so far.
#als2024
#als2024
November 27, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Samantha Rarrick on eyeblinks in Hawai'i Sign Language, and variation when the same people are using ASL. Eyeblinks with HSL are much lower than anything found in the sign language literature so far.
#als2024
#als2024
Lauren Reed and a fabulous team of colleagues from Tilburg Uni with a study of response tokens (eg "mm hm") in five really diverse sign languages.
Overwhelmingly nodding and other non-manual. Parallel to spoken languages, a low effort turn. #als2024
Overwhelmingly nodding and other non-manual. Parallel to spoken languages, a low effort turn. #als2024
November 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Lauren Reed and a fabulous team of colleagues from Tilburg Uni with a study of response tokens (eg "mm hm") in five really diverse sign languages.
Overwhelmingly nodding and other non-manual. Parallel to spoken languages, a low effort turn. #als2024
Overwhelmingly nodding and other non-manual. Parallel to spoken languages, a low effort turn. #als2024
First plenary of #ALS2024 is Dave Briton, with an introduction to work on Falkland Islands English.
Early work in the 1980s noted it was remarkably unremarkable. More recent work by Dave and team shows interesting feature traces depending whether your migrating ancestors were Scottish or not.
Early work in the 1980s noted it was remarkably unremarkable. More recent work by Dave and team shows interesting feature traces depending whether your migrating ancestors were Scottish or not.
November 26, 2024 at 5:30 AM
First plenary of #ALS2024 is Dave Briton, with an introduction to work on Falkland Islands English.
Early work in the 1980s noted it was remarkably unremarkable. More recent work by Dave and team shows interesting feature traces depending whether your migrating ancestors were Scottish or not.
Early work in the 1980s noted it was remarkably unremarkable. More recent work by Dave and team shows interesting feature traces depending whether your migrating ancestors were Scottish or not.
So pleased my copy of The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet turned up 30 minutes before @geraldroche.bsky.social's conversation with Ruth Gamble!
November 15, 2024 at 4:27 AM
So pleased my copy of The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet turned up 30 minutes before @geraldroche.bsky.social's conversation with Ruth Gamble!