Elizabeth Peterson
@lissu.bsky.social
Linguist, dog lover, coffee drinker, into gardening, native of Utah, home is now Helsinki.
Why Swedish-speaking Finns are hoping to be sent to Eurovision by Sweden. A fascinating read on the complexity of official languages and language attitudes within and across national boundaries.
Elizabeth Peterson@lissu.bsky.social · 2y agoI have a few thoughts about Eurovision 2025, mostly because it overlaps with language attitudes in Finland www.elizabethpeterson.org/post/when-la...
I have a few thoughts about Eurovision 2025, mostly because it overlaps with language attitudes in Finland www.elizabethpeterson.org/post/when-la...
When language attitudes collide with a chance at Eurovision
How a Swedish language song from Finland might make it to Eurovision ... representing Sweden. Ouch!
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Fresh results from @lhekanaho.bsky.social @laifproject.bsky.social survey about language attitudes in Finland. Finnish people, you’ll want to see this! Not listing takeaways because … well, what do YOU think? Let us know! www.laifproject.org/post/mit%C3%...
Mitä suomalaiset ajattelevat englannista? LAIF-kyselyn alustavia tuloksia
Englannin kielen käyttö Suomessa ja englannin kielen vaikutus suomen kieleen herättää monenlaisia ajatuksia suomalaisissa. Kyselytutkimuksen osallistujat pitivät englantia monella tavalla tärkeänä ja ...
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UUSI BLOGI: Miksi tutkia kieliasenteita ja -ideologioita? Tässä kirjoituksessa Laura Hekanaho pohtii kieliasenteiden ja ideologioiden merkitystä. Toivomme, että löydätte aiheen yhtä ajatuksia herättäväksi. Linkki blogiin: www.laifproject.org/post/miksi-t... #Kielitiede #Suomenkieli #Kieliasenteet
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Tietenkin siksi, koska ne ovat niin mielenkiintoisia! Helppo vastaus, mutta toki taustalla on monta muutakin syytä. Kieliasenteet ja –ideologiat kertovat paljon siitä, miten ihmiset suhtautuvat kielen...
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So what are you all doing next week? I’m hosting a conference on swearing. Seems appropriate blogs.helsinki.fi/swisca9hel/ #linguistics
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It’s a new year, it’s my birthday, and I just started my new position as Associate Professor of English linguistics @UniversityofJyväskylä. So please send me all the #linguistics love you can, and I send it right back at you.
I’m just sitting here reading all the #languagelog tributes to Bill Labov and ugly crying. What a legacy.
A student stayed after class to give me the most amazing gift basket of homemade goodies, including these magnets. I LOVE them. We could totally sell these as merch at NWAV, Sociolinguistics Symposium, etc.
I am switching from a mostly university teaching to mostly research career. Here are my top 10 teaching “confessions” as I switch roles. Who can relate? www.elizabethpeterson.org/post/univers...
Confessions of a university lecturer
Today when I opened up my laptop, I began working on the final two in-class presentations I will offer as a lecturer at the University of Helsinki. For sixteen years, I have been a University Lecturer...
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I loved doing this interview and our discussion. And it is so great to get feedback on the textbook I wrote. Use it; it’s free thanks to Open Access funding!
Brynn Quick@brynnquick.bsky.social · 2y ago“Making Sense of Bad English” is such a fab resource for learning about and teaching language ideologies. I loved chatting with @lissu.bsky.social about what the Standard Language Ideology has to do with Santa Clause and why English spelling is so chaotic! www.languageonthemove.com/making-sense...
Our Language Awareness and Ideologies in Finland project made this video on multilingualism at Helsinki’s famous herring festival! www.youtube.com/watch?v=odV_... It includes discussion questions for students. In three languages #suomi #linguistics #svenska
Multilingualism at Helsinki's Herring Market | Strömmingsmarknad | Silakkamarkkinat
YouTube video by LAIF Language Awareness and Ideologies in Finland
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This is not me complaining about language. This is me trying to understand what the quotation marks mean on these signs. Er, it’s the UK: the inverted commas. Minus points if your response includes complaints about apostrophes and the demise of grammar.
I have been in Dublin for all of 10 minutes, and have already heard the f-word twice, and both from unexpected mouths: one an 8-year-old (or so) boy, one from an 80-year-old (or so) woman. Wow 🍀
Reflecting on 20 years as an academic in Finland, plus some news on my future workplace. Thanks for everything, University of Helsinki! Next up, University of Jyväskylä 💫 www.elizabethpeterson.org/post/celebra...
Celebrating 20 years of academic life in Finland -- and some news!
I didn't understand much about the Finnish higher education system back when I received a life-changing phone call during my daily work commute in Washington, DC. This was twenty years ago. The screen...
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For anyone who doesn't already know about it, check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social (and thank me later) #Langsky
Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 2y agoHey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
One year of LAIF: What have we been up to? You can read all about it in this letter from the project PI @lissu.bsky.social www.laifproject.org/post/letter-...
Letter from the project PI: Round-up of year 1
Elizabeth Peterson, project PI, represented the LAIF project at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America in New York City in January 2024. The LAIF project is entering into its second ...
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Because "Life in a New Language" has 6 authors, we've started a podcast series where each author tells their side of the story: in Episode 1, Donna Butorac shares how her experience as an ESL teacher got her interested in the lives of migrant women www.languageonthemove.com/life-in-a-ne...
Life in a New Language, Part 1: Identities
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is Part 1 of our new series devoted to Life in a New Language. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxford University Press. It is a…
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So excited that the long-awaiting new book co-authored by members of the Language-on-the-Move team as a data-sharing ethnography of migrants' language learning and settlement experiences will finally be out in June global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Yesterday I was teaching about third wave linguistics. When I was discussing the Beijing yuppie study, someone raised their hand to ask me to what a yuppie is. And then most of the class concurred: yeah, what’s a yuppie? I didn’t quite recover, and still haven’t. The generation gap is REAL.
Was really lovely to do this podcast and talk about directive multilingual signs and the #LinguisticLandscape! Thanks again to @languageonthemove.bsky.social, lots of other great episodes of their podcast too!
Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 2y agoNew Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Brynn Quick chats with @michaelchesnut.bsky.social about how multilingual signs in monolingual contexts can reinforce stereotypes www.languageonthemove.com/multilingual...
We are very happy to host Dr Matt Hunt Gardner in Helsinki this week to hear about his fascinating work on pulmonic ingressive YUP. Fortunately he made it here, even after after I typed his name wrong on his airline booking. Hope you’ll be able to leave, @matthuntgardner.bsky.social 😘
I am sorry I had to miss this lecture. Jyrki Kalliokoski has been such a supportive and kind colleague 💕
Katariina Pyykkö (she/her)@katariinapyykko.bsky.social · 3y agoJyrki Kalliokosken jäähyväisluento Helsingin yliopistolla käsitteli kieli-ideologioita, kielenoppimista, kielellistä asiantuntijuutta ja kielen omistajuutta. Hieno katsaus viime vuosikymmenten kielentutkimukseen mutta samalla myös koskettava ja lämminhenkinen tilaisuus. ❤️
It was an honor and also a lot of FUN doing this interview with @languageonthemove.bsky.social on my book on language ideologies. Kiitos, Brynn 🤗 for the invitation and inspirational discussion
Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 3y agoJust in time for the weekend: new episode of the Language on the Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social just dropped! Brynn Quick chats with Elizabeth Peterson about BAD English. Enjoy! www.languageonthemove.com/making-sense...
Yesterday I did one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever done in my life: an interview IN FINNISH for TV. I had a sleepless night or two, but somehow I survived it. And I guess the Finnish language will survive it, too.
Here we go!! I am so excited right now. I feel like I do some of my best linguistic work when I’m in the garden. I often find myself thinking of Lesley Milroy, because she is a badass gardener and a badass linguist. Aspirations.
