Tsung-Lun Alan Wan
@tsunglunone.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Linguistics at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
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Congrats to @tsunglunone.bsky.social on the publication of "From online parody to mainstream media: The remediation of mock Vietnamese Mandarin in Taiwan" always exciting to see a new paper on mock language in a new context!
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From online parody to mainstream media: The remediation of mock Vietnamese Mandarin in Taiwan
This paper investigates how Ruan Yuejiao—a drag parody of a Vietnamese migrant spouse created by Taiwanese influencer A-Han—becomes remediated from be…
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November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Congrats to @tsunglunone.bsky.social on the publication of "From online parody to mainstream media: The remediation of mock Vietnamese Mandarin in Taiwan" always exciting to see a new paper on mock language in a new context!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live:
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live:
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
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🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
September 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
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I finally have physical copies of my book!
If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.
30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/workable-...
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social / @bloomsburyling.bsky.social
If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.
30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/workable-...
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social / @bloomsburyling.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I finally have physical copies of my book!
If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.
30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/workable-...
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social / @bloomsburyling.bsky.social
If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.
30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/workable-...
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social / @bloomsburyling.bsky.social
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Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Working on this topic was a lot of fun!
NEW ON FIRSTVIEW
"“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other" by Hsi-Yao Su, @tsunglunone.bsky.social, Wan-Hsin Ann Lee
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#Indexicality #LgIdeology #TonalVariation #Enregisterment #LanguagePolicing #Metapragmatics #Taiwan
"“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other" by Hsi-Yao Su, @tsunglunone.bsky.social, Wan-Hsin Ann Lee
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#Indexicality #LgIdeology #TonalVariation #Enregisterment #LanguagePolicing #Metapragmatics #Taiwan
“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other
doi.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Working on this topic was a lot of fun!
Does anyone know the timeline of sociolinguistics symposium 26? Like when will they announce CfP and so on?
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Does anyone know the timeline of sociolinguistics symposium 26? Like when will they announce CfP and so on?
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Calls: 1st Kansai Sociolinguistics Colloquium
Calls: 1st Kansai Sociolinguistics Colloquium
Call for Papers:
The Doshisha University Institute for the Liberal Arts (Kyoto), in cooperation with the University of Bremen (Germany), is initiating the first colloquium for young researchers in the field of sociolinguistics. We invite graduate students, postdoctoral, and early-career researchers to participate in our colloquium and present their current work. The aim of the colloquium is to connect young scholars in the field of sociolinguistics (broadly imagined) and provide a supportive
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June 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Calls: 1st Kansai Sociolinguistics Colloquium
I had this wonderful opportunity to write a review for Michele Friedner's ethnography of cochlear implants in India for East Asian Science, Technology and Society.
Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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June 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I had this wonderful opportunity to write a review for Michele Friedner's ethnography of cochlear implants in India for East Asian Science, Technology and Society.
Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How are social expectations employed in cases of mergers in progress? A study of #TaiwanMandarin #sibilants finds that merged speakers may be somewhat desensitized to acoustic cues, but they readily employ social cues in speech perception. #sociophonetics #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Linguistic experience and social factors in speech perception: the case of merged speakers of Mandarin sibilants
This work explores the combined effects of social expectations and a speaker’s production characteristics on the perception of alveolar versus retroflex sibilants that are variably merged in Taiwan Ma...
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April 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
How are social expectations employed in cases of mergers in progress? A study of #TaiwanMandarin #sibilants finds that merged speakers may be somewhat desensitized to acoustic cues, but they readily employ social cues in speech perception. #sociophonetics #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
UM | NWAV53
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May 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
I realised I'm only a data point for my university, when they talked about my FWCI in a meeting that was supposed to discuss a science communication website I'm running.
May 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I realised I'm only a data point for my university, when they talked about my FWCI in a meeting that was supposed to discuss a science communication website I'm running.
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Join us for New Ways of Analyz(s)ing Variation 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice, and Peace at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Nov 6-8, 2025.
Abstracts due June 15.
nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
Abstracts due June 15.
nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
UM | NWAV53
nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
April 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Join us for New Ways of Analyz(s)ing Variation 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice, and Peace at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Nov 6-8, 2025.
Abstracts due June 15.
nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
Abstracts due June 15.
nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
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A reminder that John R. Rickford is visiting us (UoE, @schoolofppls.bsky.social) next week to give a talk on his book, 'Speaking my Soul'. Info and registration here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-r-ric...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-r-ric...
John R. Rickford: Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language
We are delighted to welcome John R. Rickford, the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University.
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April 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A reminder that John R. Rickford is visiting us (UoE, @schoolofppls.bsky.social) next week to give a talk on his book, 'Speaking my Soul'. Info and registration here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-r-ric...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-r-ric...
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...and we won audience choice for best poster!! So chuffed!! 🙏🏻
Shout out to Gabrielle Hodge for telling me about the #betterposters movement.
Shout out to Gabrielle Hodge for telling me about the #betterposters movement.
What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? 🗣️🧠 The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughts—come check it out! #EMH2025
April 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
...and we won audience choice for best poster!! So chuffed!! 🙏🏻
Shout out to Gabrielle Hodge for telling me about the #betterposters movement.
Shout out to Gabrielle Hodge for telling me about the #betterposters movement.
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What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? 🗣️🧠 The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughts—come check it out! #EMH2025
April 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? 🗣️🧠 The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughts—come check it out! #EMH2025
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Summer Schools: Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science
Summer Schools: Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science
Focus: Language data analysis and computing, with a particular emphasis on challenges in handling multimodal (text, audio, video) data.
Description:
As part of the 58th Annual Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, we are hosting a two-week course on the analysis of multimodal (text, audio, video) language data. This course will be taught by Drs Nina Markl and Charles Redmon in coordination with wider work on computational linguistics at the Institute for Analytics and Data Scien
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April 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Summer Schools: Analysing Multimodal Language Data for Quantitative Social Science
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Call for papers! I'm putting together an edited collection with @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social on "Monstrous Language": studies of the language of monsters, "others", and the in/unhuman.
Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.
Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.
April 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Call for papers! I'm putting together an edited collection with @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social on "Monstrous Language": studies of the language of monsters, "others", and the in/unhuman.
Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.
Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.
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A tour-de-force demonstration by sociophonetician @tsunglunone.bsky.social of how post-racial colorblind ideologies are violently racist: this time through the lens of Vietnamese immigrants in Taiwan.
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#sociolinguistics #linguistics #racism #indexicality #TikTok
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#sociolinguistics #linguistics #racism #indexicality #TikTok
“Hi, I'm Ruan Yuejiao, from Ho Chi Minh City!”: Digital raciolinguistic enregisterment and indexical hijack of the Vietnamese Mandarin accent | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
“Hi, I'm Ruan Yuejiao, from Ho Chi Minh City!”: Digital raciolinguistic enregisterment and indexical hijack of the Vietnamese Mandarin accent
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April 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A tour-de-force demonstration by sociophonetician @tsunglunone.bsky.social of how post-racial colorblind ideologies are violently racist: this time through the lens of Vietnamese immigrants in Taiwan.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#sociolinguistics #linguistics #racism #indexicality #TikTok
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#sociolinguistics #linguistics #racism #indexicality #TikTok
I feel researchers using machine learning should shift some of their focus to find acoustic biomarkers of dangerous politicians.
April 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I feel researchers using machine learning should shift some of their focus to find acoustic biomarkers of dangerous politicians.
Fancy working in Taiwan? We're looking for a laboratory phonologist!
Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins.
Questions are welcomed!
fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...
Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins.
Questions are welcomed!
fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...
【徵聘專任老師】Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Laboratory Phonology/Phonetics – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University – 外國語文學系 外國文學與語言學碩士班
We are particularly interested in candidates with research expertise in cognitive linguistics, computational modeling, corpus linguistics, and/or neurolinguistics. The successful applicant will receive an independent lab space, startup funds, and housing accommodation support for three years.
fl.nycu.edu.tw
March 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Fancy working in Taiwan? We're looking for a laboratory phonologist!
Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins.
Questions are welcomed!
fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...
Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins.
Questions are welcomed!
fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...
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This was a really engaging, interesting conversation and I thoroughly enjoyed being on the podcast. If you want to know why some people enjoy hating Richard Gere and what that has to do with language oppression, have a listen.
Our latest episode is out now! We talk Language Oppression in Tibet with Dr. @geraldroche.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...
Language Oppression in Tibet - The Vocal Fries
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Gerald Roche, Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University, about his new book, The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, language oppr...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This was a really engaging, interesting conversation and I thoroughly enjoyed being on the podcast. If you want to know why some people enjoy hating Richard Gere and what that has to do with language oppression, have a listen.
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📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics!
📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online
🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.
ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!
🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5
📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online
🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.
ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!
🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How to Get Published. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The editors of Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguisticsare jointly sponsoring an online seminar on the theme of publishing in academic journals. This 60-minute webinar is intended to provid...
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March 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics!
📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online
🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.
ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!
🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5
📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online
🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.
ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!
🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5
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@trinitycds.bsky.social The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcddublin.bsky.social is seeking an Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics. Could this be you?
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Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics | University Vacancies IrelandUniversity Vacancies Logo
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March 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
@trinitycds.bsky.social The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcddublin.bsky.social is seeking an Assistant Professor in Applied Sign Linguistics. Could this be you?
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The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice.
It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:
shorturl.at/gDhJA
It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:
shorturl.at/gDhJA
March 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice.
It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:
shorturl.at/gDhJA
It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:
shorturl.at/gDhJA