Lauren Gawne

@superlinguo.bsky.social

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Linguist Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm Podcast: @lingthusiasm Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz Blog: superlinguo.com She/her(/they)

Emojis: Monarch butterfly, net, meteor, left and right sideways thumb, crumbling face, lighthouse, pickle, eraser
‌Important Dates 17 July 2026 - Deadline for abstract submissions 15 August 2026 - Notification of acceptance 1-4 December 2026 - Conference Dates
Paperback of the AI Con,blue with black and white text
text: ChatGPT can make mistakes.
two rainbow lorikeet on a power supply box
a sulfer crested cockatoo at my open office window with trees behind
Marianne Mithun in a lecture theatre with the slide saying: The place of prosody in the greater scheme of things
Felicity Meakins speaking in a large lecture theatre. Slide says Social salience as a driver of language change
birthday cake emoji with 4 candles
First four paragraphs of an ed zitron post, at least 25% of text is hyperlink
treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, bigfoot, bulging face, bust up cloud, orca
A pack of Assorted Cream biscuits with 4 of the 5 orange creams left
screenshot of text that says AI-generated content may be incorrect
new emoji for 2025: Trombone, Treasure Chest, Distorted Face, Bigfoot, Fight Cloud, Apple Core, Orca, Ballet Dancers
Why the ANDC Matters? - The ANDC is Australia’s leading centre for lexicographical research, jointly funded by ANU and Oxford University Press. - It is the definitive authority on Australian English—documenting regionalisms, Aboriginal English, and producing landmark publications like the Australian National Dictionary. - Its widely celebrated “Word of the Year” initiative connects Australians with their evolving language and identity. - For ANU, it provides immense national and international visibility—while operating as a low-cost, high-impact asset. The Cost of Closure: - Damage to Australian English: Halting systematic documentation of our unique national language. - Setback for Indigenous Languages: Undermining efforts to research and preserve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. - Erosion of National Identity: Undermining the role of language in shaping how Australians see themselves, their history, and their culture. - Damage to ANU’s Reputation: Compromising its mission as a national university and leader in cultural heritage research.
Emily M Bender in conversation with Kobi Leins in a big fancy hall
google ngram viewer for 'unhinged', from 180 there but kind of trending gently down, strong hockey stick curve around the year 2000.
E-reader cover of The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna, sitting next to a chai
two crocheted emoji: a smiling face with three red hearts, and an eyerolling face
Duo notific saying pleaaaaaase do 6 lessons today and you can have your streak back.
A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.
google n gram viewer where "pound of milk" has clear popularity in the middle of the 20th century
a pixelated beach scene, an avatar standing next to a pelican highlighted yellow
The image shows a jar of Kraft Cheez Whiz Original Cheese Dip. The label on the jar has 'ard' added to spell Cheez Whizard
A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.
Animation aesethic but with design vibes of original 1980s Nintendo. Text says "William Labov's Quest for the New Work City Accent" Has a Statue of Liberty, an apple, and an animated Bill Labov
A pale pink bubble tea drink with a cartoon cat riding a skateboard that says 'emoji' holding a bubble tea and a red pistol that says 'super'
Dr Caroline Hughes, a Ngunnawal woman, standing at the front of a lecture theatre with a PowerPoint behind her with the talk title and AIATSIS logo
Samantha Rarrick, a white woman, at the front of a lecture theatre in front of a PowerPoint slide with a nice template
Lauren Reed, a white woman with a dark dress, stressing at the front of a lecture theatre in front of a white PowerPoint slide with black text
Kita, a Japanese man in a white business shirt with the sleeves rolled up, standing in front of a PowerPoint slide with blue gradient background with black text saying Gesture, Language and Thought.
Dave Briton, an affable, bearded white guy in a white linen shirt, standing at a lecturn with a PowerPoint presentation behind him.
Cover of a book The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet by Gerald Roche, with the author on a Zoom forum screen next to the cover
An emoji loaf of bread with sunglasses
Australian Linguistic Society Logo Call for nominations: 2024 Talkley Award The Talkley Award is presented each year to a particular piece or collection of linguistics communication produced by current ALS members (individuals or groups). The Award acknowledges that the discipline of linguistics needs champions to explain its relevance to Australia at large. The winning piece of lingcomm could be a video series, a conversation article, a media interview, a public lecture, a series of meme posts, etc. that has promoted linguistics in the public sphere or explained how linguistic evidence can be used to solve real-life language problems. Please email your nominations (with a sentence or two explaining why the nominated piece should win this year's Talkley) to the ALS postgraduate representative Kate Charlwood (katejc@student.unimelb.edu.au) and cc the president Bill Palmer (bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au). Deadline is 1 November 2024.
new emoji: tired face with bags under eyes, finger print, beetroot, bare tree, harp, shovel, paint splat in purple
Blobby yellow emoji reaching for a trophy and smiling
100 emoji (red text underlined and handwritten style like a grade on a paper) but it's 1000 instead
Screen shot of Etymonline: "kidney (n.) early 14c., kidenere, a word of unknown origin, perhaps a compound of Old English cwið "womb" (see chitterlings) + ey "egg" (see egg (n.)) in reference to the shape of the organ. Figurative sense of "temperament" is from 1550s. Kidney-bean is from 1540s, so called for its shape. also from early 14c."
New emoji in 15.1: head shake, head nod, Phoenix, lime, brown mushroom, chain break, a variety of family configurations and a variety of people moving right instead of left
Australian Linguistic Society logo The Talkley Award is presented each year to a particular piece or collection of linguistics communication produced by current ALS members (individuals or groups). The Award acknowledges that the discipline of linguistics needs champions to explain its relevance to Australia at large. The winning piece of lingcomm could be a video series, a conversation article, a media interview, a public lecture, a series of meme posts, etc. that has promoted linguistics in the public sphere or explained how linguistic evidence can be used to solve real-life language problems.
🥰 with 💜 instead of red hearts