I love seeing linguistics communication work, and the wonderful ways people do lingcomm to bring linguistics to new audiences. I do lingcomm as part of my job as an academic, which means that I also love seeing people share what they learnt about lingcomm with academic audiences. As my Lingthusiasm cohost Gretchen McCulloch says, it’s great to explain linguistics to public audiences, and it’s great to explain public audiences to linguists (and other academics).
Lingcomm research does not have a dedicated publishing venue. There are sometimes edited books with chapter contributions or maybe journal special issues. This does not mean there are not avenues for publishing about lingcomm work. I’ve learnt a lot building and maintaining the LingComm Bibliography, and thought I’d share what I learnt about linguistics and non-linguistics venues for publishing.
Language and Linguistics Compasshas a long history of publishing excellent lingcomm work. This journal operates on a slightly odd “invitation” model, but you can always pitch your idea to the lead editor for Education & Pedagogy and see how things go. Really good for overviews and big picture topics.
Innovations in Linguistics Education does not say so explicitly on their website at the moment, but they’re open to discussions of linguistics education in all contexts, including lingcomm contexts. It is just starting out, but I appreciate that it’s a diamond open access journal, meaning it’s free to publish and read content.
Linguistics Vanguard is an online journal for short (3000 word) articles about innovative approaches in all major areas of linguistics. They publish on lingcomm, I know this in part from doing the bibliography and in part because I’m currently (2024-2026) an Area Editor with lingcomm as one of my listed specialisations.
Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) is the journal outside linguistics that most aligns with lingcomm. It’s also great because it’s a diamond open access journal. They run a whole series called “Practice Insights” about specific projects and their success, which are under 5000 words. I know with some scicomm journals there can be a challenge in convincing them that linguistics is a topic in scicomm (argh), so might require some careful framing.
It can also be good to check in with your area or specialisation journal and encourage them to accept papers about engaging the public in linguistics. I always want to see more research about effective and successful lingcomm projects. And, of course, if you do publish something, don’t forget to add it to the LingComm Bibliography so I can keep up to date with suggestions for where to publish!
Updates!
Research for All is a diamond open access journal that focuses on engagement in research. If you are doing a project that has a lingcomm element that is about engaging the community you are doing the research/lingcomm with, this might be a possibility! (thanks to Hannah Little for this suggestion)
Lingthusiasm Episode 117: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking
Sometimes, a phrase seems to leap off the page and lodge into your mind, crisp and shining like a precious jewel. Other times, you’re reading something and it just won’t stick, your eyes wandering away no matter how hard you try.
In this bonus episode, Gretchen gets enthusiastic about what psycholinguistics can tell us about creative writing, with Julie Sedivy, who’s a psycholinguist based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the author of two general-audience linguistics books, Memory Speaks and Linguaphile. We talk about moving from the style of scientific writing to literary writing by writing a lot of unpublished poetry to develop her aesthetic sense, how studying linguistics for a writer is like studying anatomy for a sculptor or colour theory for a painter, and how you could set up an eyetracking study to help writers figure out which sentences make their readers slow down. We also do a small linguistic experiment on air using the following words, which you can play along with: luggage, liminal, withstand, tremulous, pulchritude, zoo.
Note that this episode originally aired as Bonus 96: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking, and we’ve added an updated announcements section to the top. We’re excited to share one of our favourite bonus episodes from Patreon with a broader audience, while at the same time giving everyone who works on the show a bit of a break.
In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about linguistics podcasting with Helen Zaltzman, host of The Allusionist podcast! We talk about being nearly teenaged in the world of language podcasting (Lingthusiasm turns 10 later this year, and The Allusionist turned 10 last year!) and alternative careers that we had on the way to becoming podcasters (did you know Helen once worked for a reality TV show?). We also talk about breaking the kiki/bouba test, the importance of publishing “failed” experiments, the Bender Rule and the Holliday Rule (both previous Lingthusiasm guests!).
Note that this particular bonus episode is available to everyone who follows us at any level (including free!) on Patreon, so welcome if you’re joining us as an Allusionist fan (or a broke lingthusiasm fan tbh, we’re trying to give you some treats while also trying to keep the show running!!).
Speaking of which…a few people found Patreon’s new community gifting feature before we even knew what to do with it so we’ve been able to give out 7 community-supported memberships so far to people who follow us for free on Patreon. If anyone else is feeling comfortably off in this economy and wants to help both us and your fellow lingthusiasts, we’d be happy to do this again! Follow us as a free member to get announcements whenever we might have gifted memberships to distribute!
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.
This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).
The 2026 LingComm Grants awarded seven $300 (USD) grants, thanks to Lingthusiasm patrons, as well as Lukas Graf, Sarah Kelen, Daniel Currie Hall, enchantedsleeper, Rob Monarch, and Kirby Conrod and friends. Each grant winner was connected to a relevant lingcomm expert for advice and support. The 2026 LingComm Grants received 111 applications.
Tundealao Toyi Joshua, Tone Deaf AI: Visualizing the “Digital Divide” in African Languages
Martina Guzzetti, Mind the Gap: A Zine for Decoding the Language of Your Body
Lacey Wade, Phil Duncan, Jeff Holliday, Utako Minai, Steve Politzer-Ahles, Adam An, Bayleigh Baldwin, Lillianna Lamagna, Language Exploration at the Library
Lingthusiasm Episode 116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!)
Sometimes, you’re talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can’t seem to get comfortable: they’re standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn’t quite feel right. But where do our senses of what feels comfortable in a conversation come from, and how can they be so different from each other?
In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about understanding aliens, fantastical creatures, and perhaps the trickiest group of all, other human cultures. We talk about a science fiction book called Hellspark by Janet Kagan (which was recommended by a listener!) which is a murder mystery set on a planet of cross-cultural communication gone wrong, and which sent us on a whole deep dive into the world of proxemics, aka the linguistics of personal space. We also talk about how these early roots of cross-cultural communication studies have shifted in modern-day linguistic anthropology, and compare several newer speculative fiction books about alternative structures for human societies (plus aliens and/or dragons), including What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed and To Shape A Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose.
Check our our updated topics page! It’s a great resource if you’re not sure what episode to listen to next or what to recommend to someone. We’ve added some new topics that let you browse, for example, which episodes analyze the linguistic elements of all the science fiction and fantasy that we’ve been reading! And we’ve kept the ability to browse episodes by linguistic structural features, which is perfect for when you’re looking for an episode to pair with a topic you’re teaching or studying.
In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about idioms! We talk about some of our favourite idioms, the interplay between idioms and metaphors, why linguists are so excited about breaking idioms by changing one word slightly, and in particular why “the shit hit the fan” was responsible for multi-hour-long discussions that Gretchen participated in during grad school. (Swear warning, because there’s really not another idiom that uh, hits the fan in the same way.)
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.
This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).
This post links to a template for a peer observation of teaching activity. It’s been designed for university teaching, but is flexible enough to be applied to other contexts too. Peer observation can feel quite threatening, this template is designed to encourage structured conversations with meaningful outcomes that can be acted on.
I created this template as part of a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education I completed in 2021. I had to write a motivation for the worksheet as part of the activity, and I’ve made that available too, to explain the motivation behind some of the design choices.
I’ve used this form in peer observation, and had people use it to provide structured feedback on my teaching. I’ve shared it often enough that I thought I’d post it publically here for anyone else who might find it useful.
If you find these documents at all useful, please let me know!
Lingthusiasm Episode 115: The long shadow of Daisy Bates with This Guy Sucked
What do you do when the only records that remain of a language were made by someone who had absolutely horrendous views of the people who spoke it?
In this episode, your host Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about a crossover episode with Claire Aubin of This Guy Sucked! Lauren’s Guy who Sucked is Daisy Bates, who did a lot of early 20th century work documenting over 100 Indigenous languages in western and southern Australia, while also directly adding to policies and narratives that continue to harm Aboriginal Australians to this day. We talk about Lauren’s history with the original archive, how much has changed since Daisy Bates’s day, and where linguistics (and society) still has room to improve.
Please note that this episode includes reference to deceased Aboriginal Australians, as well as reference to attitudes and actions that are harmful to the self-determination of Aboriginal Australians.
In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the second half of our interview with Kory Stamper about her book on defining colour words, and this half contains spoilers!! We talk with Kory about how she learned about Margaret Godlove and many other women whose labour has been forgotten in early colour science and dictionary making.
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.
This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).
I’ve been working at the same university for almost ten years, and last year I moved into a new office with a lovely bookshelf. I had maybe one or two shelves worth when I came to La Trobe. There is an organisational principle that makes complete sense to me and pretty much no one else.
This set of shelves make me happy and I just wanted to share. It’ll be interesting to see how these shelves grow and change over the next few years.
Lingthusiasm Episode 114: Begonia, average coral, and sea pink - Defining colour terms with Kory Stamper
begonia: a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral (see ‘coral’ 3B), bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet William, called also ‘gaiety’.
In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about trying to pin down definitions for colour terms with Kory Stamper, author of the new book TRUE COLOR! Kory is a lexicographer and was Associate Editor at Merriam-Webster for almost two decades. Her first book was Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, which we also loved, and now Kory is back with the fruits of her dive into the mid-20th century quest to standardize colour terms, taking us from dying fabrics to painting cars to assessing grades of maple syrup.
In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about childlore! We talk about our favourite bits of childlore from our own childhoods, such as skipping/clapping rhymes, counting-off rhymes, and fortune-telling. We also talk about tracking down the sources for “All Right, Vegemite!”, a compilation of Australian children’s chants and rhymes from Lauren’s childhood, selectively choosing to pass on less racist and sexist versions of the rhymes, the relationship between childlore and memes, as well as research from folklorists and anthropologists on childlore around the world.
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.
This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).
“I’m sure you saw me today. Or Heard me. Or felt me.”
Victor D. O. Santos has written an utterly charming first person riddle of a picture book. The text balances the rich, multimodal, diverse reality of what language is with accessible vocabulary that is approachable with younger readers.
Re-reading is rewarded by Anna Forlati’s expressive illustrations, which provide some visual red herrings alongside clues to pick over when you come back around.
A fun one for introducing early and mid-primary school children to the diversity of ways language works beyond whatever their own experience of language is.
Get the book:Bookshop, Amazon [buying through these links provides financial support to Superlinguo]
Lingthusiasm Episode 113: Why “it’s a diglossia!” explains so many social dynamics
In some communities, everyone regularly uses two languages or varieties according to the social situation, with one of them being more prestigious (and more likely to be written down) than the other. This particular kind of multilingualism is known as a diglossia.
In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about diglossia! We talk about why diglossia is the answer to so many questions Gretchen gets asked at parties, what “high” and “low” versions of a language have to do with mountains, where the four “classic” cases of diglossia come from (Arabic, Greek, Haitian, and Swiss), and how at least some of them might not be diglossias anymore. We also talk about whether there are new diglossias emerging (French? English???) and how to tell if you might be in a diglossia.
The LingComm grants are running in 2026! If you’re working on sharing linguistics concepts with broader audiences or know someone who is, whether in person, online, with kids, through art, video, audio, writing, in person events (or some other idea we haven’t thought of!), we have $300USD grants to support your cool project. The grants also include a mentoring meeting with Gretchen, Lauren, and/or an experienced lingcommer who we have personally selected to be relevant to your project.
Applications close on 30th of April 2026, that’s the end of April anywhere on earth. Thanks to the generosity of several people we have more grants to give out than we expected, so please apply! Application form and further details can be found here.
In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about what we’ve been up to in 2025 and what’s coming up in 2026! Plus, we go behind the scenes on the Lingthusiasm Supporter Wall of Fame: we finally take our Which IPA character are you? personality quiz ourselves and use the results to give you a look into our artisanal process of assigning phonetic symbols to patrons at the Ling-phabet tier.
Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 100+ other bonus episodes (and get a symbol for yourself). You’ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds.
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.
This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).
Awards and prizes are a lovely way to acknowledge good work being done in your workplace or community. Academia is full of prizes, some of these require self-nomination, others have open nomination or winners are selected by a committee.
These awards recognise good work, but they also act as a signal that this kind of work is valued by a particular group of people. Sometimes, these awards and prizes are created because the specific work being celebrated is not visible within established norms. I was involved in the establishment of the Australian Linguistic Society’s Talkley award, which recognises good work being done to communicate about linguistics outside of academia. This kind of work is not easily recognised within formal workloads of academics, but if there’s one thing universities love, it’s when their academics win prizes.
One of my biggest critiques of awards is that people are not awarded commendations enough. It’s great someone wins the main prize, but there are also usually many other very worthy people who should be given an honorable mention/runner-up/commendation. Even if you don’t print them a certificate or give them a cash prize, it’s still a great thing to do.
I love commendations! And they serve the whole ecosystem well:
Commendations functionally do not cost anything. You don’t need to award a formal prize/trophy/cash. If there’s work that you think honours the spirit of your award but isn’t the winner this year, why not acknowledge that good work?
Commendations boost the aim you are trying to achieve. If your award is aimed at encouraging more of some behaviour, recognising more of that behaviour is good!
Commendations make the scope of your award clearer. Giving a couple of commendations helps people better triangulate what you think is good work. If your public engagement award only gives out prizes to people who write books, then the people making YouTube videos might give up nominating. If your commendations include a variety of genres, it affirms you believe they have value.
Commendations are useful and important currency in academia. Look, CV inflation is real and I hate it, but it’s the game we’re all playing, and there are many people who are doing lots of good work and have no external validation of this work to show for it. Commendations are straight-up academic currency and you can support the early career colleagues in your area by recognising the work they do, even if it doesn’t meet the full prize standard. Giving awards and commendations is the closet you can get to straight up printing money for nothing in the world of academia.
Commendations do not detract from main award winners. You can still give your main prizewinner a trophy, a chance to collect an award at a ceremony, a bigger write up in the newsletter afterwards. Commendations do not dilute the value of the principle award, they demonstrate the highly engaged field in which the winner is seen as the best demonstration of the behaviour you’re trying to encourage.
Shortlists (heck, even long lists!) also operate as preemptive commendations, especially if the awards in your professional world focus on books. Publishers know this, it’s why you see books with stickers like “<book prize> shortlisted” on shelves.
Sometimes you might just not have exemplary work to commend. In such a case, I’d suggest you may have to get stuck in the trenches to build that capacity. I’ve taken to writing to awards bodies in my field, even when I’m not nominating someone, to encourage them to give more commendations. We’ve been giving out commendations since we started the LingComm Grants in 2020 and it’s really affirmed my belief in the net benefit of the practice.
I also love the commendation-to-winner pipeline, I don’t think a commendation should be a disincentive to apply in future years.
If your institution, organisation or academic society has a awards or prizes, make this year the year you also give out a commendation or three!
For three years between 2022 and 2024, we ran a Lingthusiasm listener survey. We’ve used the survey for internal planning, answers to some linguistics questions were shared in bonus episodes and we are writing up some of the answers to those sections. I still wanted to share the things we’ve learnt about the Lingthusiasm audience. One thing that I find myself saying a lot when I do training about lingcomm or science communication is that we are not competing against each other, we are all on team linguistics/science and competing for peoples attention against reality tv or reels of people pretending to cook inedible food.
Digging into the results of our listener survey we found that there are some audience segments that have a deeper connection to linguistics, and some segments where Lingthusiasm is their only way into the topic. Separating out general audiences and academic ones is not always straight forward, and there are many different ways people engage.
One highlight of putting together this article was bringing several of our team members into the writing process! I’m a big fan of collaborative writing and while we’ve worked together for years, it was great to work on this new thing together.
Abstract
Podcasting is now an established entertainment medium, and is a useful platform for content that can find a niche global audience outside of traditional broadcast media. Linguistics is one topic that benefits from this model of internet distribution. Linguistics podcasting can serve both educational and entertainment aims, with audiences that encompass non-linguists interested in scicomm-adjacent topics as well as linguistics students and educators in secondary and tertiary education. To better understand these heterogeneous audience(s) for linguistics podcasts, this article presents survey data for listeners of the Lingthusiasm podcast (2024, 963 participants). We explore survey participant demographic data, as well as people’s relationship to both formal linguistics education and linguistics as a topic of general interest. We show that the distinction between general and academic audiences is complex, and that there are audience segments that are highly-engaged auto-didacts. These results demonstrate the value of linguistics podcasting both as an educational resource and in advancing awareness of linguistics for new audiences.
Reference
Gawne, L., M. Tsutsui Billins, S. M. Dopierala, L. Velleman & G. McCulloch. (2026). Who Listens to Linguistics Podcasting? A Survey of Lingthusiasm Listeners. Language and Linguistics Compass 20(2). e70030. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70030
2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences
We want to see more linguistics in the world!
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support linguistics communication projects that bring pop linguistics to broader audiences in new and engaging ways. The grants also include a mentoring meeting with Gretchen McCulloch, Lauren Gawne, and/or an experienced lingcommer who we have personally selected to be relevant to your project to ask your lingcomm process questions, and promotion of your project to our lingthusiastic audience.
We have six $300 LingComm Grants on any topic related to linguistics and an additional $300 Kirby Conrod and Friends LGBTQ+ LingComm Grant.
The initial grants are funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of our patrons, and judged by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. You can help fund the grants and other LingComm projects here. Additional grants in 2026 were funded thanks to Daniel Currie Hall, Sarah Kelen, Lukas Graf, Rob Monarch and other anonymous donors.
ALT
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Lingthusiasm Episode 112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL)
Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between the raw experience of someone saying something and a linguistic analysis of what they’ve said, there are certain steps that make it easier for that analysis to happen, or to be understood or reproduced by others later.
In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about how language becomes linguistic data. We talk about making recordings of language, transcribing real-life or recorded language, annotating recordings or transcriptions, archiving all those materials for future generations, restoring archival materials from decaying formats, and presenting this information in useful ways when writing up an analysis. Along the way, we touch on playing 100+ year old songs from cracked wax cylinders, the multi-line glossing format used so readers can understand examples in a language they’re not already fluent in, analyzing spontaneous conversation using tapes from the Watergate Scandal, recognizing everyone who’s contributed (including your own intuitions!), and Lauren’s role on a big committee of linguists and archivists formalizing principles for data citation in linguistics.
Not sure about committing to a monthly subscription? You can now sign up for a free trial and start listening to bonus episodes for free right away.
In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about some of our favourite deleted bits from recent interviews that we didn’t quite have space to share with you! First, an excerpt from our interview with Adam Aleksic about tiktok and how different online platforms give rise to different kinds of communication styles. Second, a return to our interview with Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez for a bit about Spanish internet slang, -och, and why “McCulloch” looks like a perfect name for an author of a book about internet linguistics. Finally, deleted scenes from our advice episode, in which we reveal some Lingthusiasm lore about pronouncing “Melbourne” and imitating each other’s accents and answer questions about linguistics degrees and switching languages with people..
Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 100+ other bonus episodes. You’ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds.
Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).
It has been a lovely and busy year. It has been so nice to see Gesture: A Slim guide out in the world. It was about four years from contract to publication, which isn’t long in the world of academic publishing, but it’s been long enough that sometimes it surprises me to see it on my shelf.
I was joined by three new colleagues, who have been wonderfully energetic and collaborative. I also joined the Higher Education Academy as a Senior Fellow, which has given me the opportunity to connect with other people doing interesting teaching work at La Trobe University.
And between the teaching and the research there was (thankfully) still time for podcasting and some blogging. A good year all around.
We celebrated our 100th episode with 100 facts about linguistics, and then half a year later our 100th bonus, and also made our first bonus episode available for everyone to listen to. We also shared 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics, and 10 of the most popular Lingthusiasm episodes. There are 13 bonus episodes for 2025, as we re-released our very first bonus episode (with new introduction) for all patrons, including free supporters.
There were a few posts celebrating the publication of Gesture: A Slim Guide but also over a dozen other substantive posts. It’s good to know that even without putting pressure on myself the blog is ticking along as a broadly monthly concern.
Alongside the publication of Gesture: A Slim guide, there were four academic publications this year, across lingcomm, gesture, Tibetic and linguistics data. Happily, all of these were published open access. It’s great to see funding models are shifting and I am able to more easily publish work that anyone can read.
Rodríguez Louro, C., K. Parton & L. Gawne. For the love of people: Introduction to the special issue in honour of Barbara Frances Kelly. (2025). Australian Journal of Linguistics. 45.3: 259–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2025.2514173 [blog summary]
Gawne, L., K.A. Hildebrandt & S. Styles. (2025). Natural disasters elicit spontaneous multimodal iconicity in onomatopoeia and gesture: Earthquake narratives from Nepal and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 45.3: 448–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2025.2506628 [blog summary]
Gawne, L., H.N. Andreassen, L. Ferrara, A.L. Berez-Kroeker. (2025). Open research requires open mindedness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo. Linguistic Typology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2025-0018 [blog summary]
Gawne, L., & J. O’Donnell. (2025). Micro-patronage for research communication: the Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study of a sustainable funding model. Journal of Science Communication 24(03). https://doi.org/10.22323/146620250609102339 [blog summary]
The year ahead
I submitted an application for promotion in 2025, and will start 2026 as an Associate Professor. A promotion application is not a trivial thing to write (I tracked my time, it was at least 25 hours, and that’s even with documentation pretty organised already).
2026 is hopefully going to be a year of lots of curriculum planning and development. This kind of work is often not very visible, so I’m hoping to document some of it as we go. There are, as always, lots of research and lingcomm plans afoot too.
Browsing old Superlinguo content?
I have a welcome page on the blog that points you to aggregate posts, and series of posts I’ve done over the years, as well as themed collections of posts that have appeared on the blog in the last twelve years.
