me on radio tomorrow: 📻 🐈 https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20230905/732542/Weltraummacht-Indien-Katzensprache-im-Internet

Katzenhype im Internet: Forscherin entdeckt neues Sprachphänomen

Cat-Content, das sind all die Katzenfotos, die Memes und andere katzenbezogenen Inhalte, die im Internet kursieren. Mit Katzen lassen sich anscheinend auch menschliche Gefühlslagen gut ausdrücken. Und der Cat Content hat manche Menschen dazu inspiriert, auch ihre Sprache an Katzen zu orientieren.

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #purrieties #German #book #cats #Katze

"Wie Katzen unsere Sprache verändern"
Katzen sind geborene Stars in sozialen Netzwerken von Facebook bis TikTok. Wie sie online unsere Sprache verändern, hat die Grazer Sprachwissenschafterin Edith Podhovnik erforscht. Ihre Arbeit wurde jetzt von der Cambridge University Press verlegt. #orf #interview

https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3220652/

#German #cats #linguistics #purrieties

And just to add #meowlogisms in #German to my ever growing collection of feline-inspired words:

Advokatz (Advokat), Pause Tatze (Pausetaste), Katzapult (Katapult), Miatube (YouTube), Musikatze (Katzenmusikanten),, Duplikatze (Duplikat), schnurrstracks (schnurstracks), schnurrtastisch (fantastisch)

translations into English ): advo-cat, paws button, cat-apult, meow-tube, musician, dupli-cat, straight away, fantastic

#linguistics #purrieties #DigitalSpaces

Here's my very first meowlogism in #ukrainian: котомодель (kotomodel'), which is a feline take on фотомодель (fotomodel'), a model. Кот (kot) is 'cat' in English.

I came across it on #Instagram on the feed of a Ukrainian cat charity based in Kiev.

#linguistics #meowlogisms #purrieties #cats

"gattitudine" - seen in an Italian-language posting on #Instagram; English "cattitude"

#meowlogisms #purrieties #Italian #language #linguistics äcats

Meowza! These are good meowlogisms. Love them, and somehow these are the first contemporary pawliticians from the US that I have come across in my research. Weird somehow, but I have more from the UK and older ones, like Margaret Catcher, Napawleon, and the likes.

Cat Buchanan, Cat Gaetz, Betsy DeClaws
(purrvided by @annaleen and @seachanger

#purrieties #meowlogisms #linguistics #DigitalSpaces

The online booklaunch pawty for my book "Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online" is now official: it is taking place on 08 August 2023, which is #InternationalCatDay (and yes, that is a causal relationship). There might be zoombombing cats, too. Purr Reviewer 2 might drop in

Here's the link for you (and your cat) to register: https://cambridge-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cx5hGWewQ_ecIUitZlE9TA#/registration

#linguistics #DigitalHumanities #sociolinguistics #cats #meowlogism #purrieties

snoopervising: verb, cat variant found on Instagram, variant of supurrvising, involving nose

#meowlogism #purrieties #linguistics #dialect

felinetrovert (noun) = a person who prefers the company of cats over people

#meowlogism #purrieties #cats #linguistics

found on #Instagram

"die Tagesmiau" for "die Tagesschau" @tagesschau

found in a posting of a cat shelter on #Instagram

#purrieties #meowlogism #linguistics #German #cats

pawttorney (English) - chatvocat (French) - advogato (Spanish)

#meowlogism #purrieties found on birdsite

#linguistics #cats #DigitalHumanities

#repawsitory

I was just thinking of "semeowntic purrimes" for #catspeak. We already have the "meowphemes" and "meowphology". So when we talk about cross-cultural purrieties (i.e. cat-inspired online languages on a worldwide scale), we should take into account the "semantic primes" (which are a pawsome concept shown by @Cliff_Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka)

I am continuing in my mission to bring more #cats into #linguistics #purrieties #DigitalHumanities #meowlogisms @linguistics

came across the #German meowlogism 'schnurrtastisch' on #Instagram. It was used in an advert for a carpet. The meowpheme is 'schnurren' (to purr)

@linguistics #purrieties #meowlogism #linguistics

I have started doing #scicomm on #Instagram: sociolinguist concepts and findings with #cats

(Well, and not so incidentally promoting my book) #purrieties #linguistics #sociolinguistics @linguistics

When you look for cats in #linguistics, you'll find them: eg. in Holmes and Wilson (2017) on sociolinguistics: a woman using Breton with the dog 🐶 and French with the cat 😺

I had so much fun on my quest for moggies in linguistic literature

Happy #caturday #purrieties #book @linguistics

@richardogden it's all there in 2.4: Cats and Phonetics

#linguistics #purrieties #phonetics #language

What are cats doing in linguistics? A lot, actually. Not just that they feature in the research literture out there but also because you can use cat examples to explain linguistic concepts. And this is pawsome. Well, for me anyway

#cats #linguistics #DigitalSpaces #variation #sociolinguistics #purrieties

fluff compress: refers to a cat applied in case of headache

#purrieties as used by @devezer

#meowlogism #linguistics #cats #dialectology

This may be a new meowpheme: "zoom" as in "zoomies". Zoom, like Amazon, was invented by cats as we all know. You know, zoom-bombing and cardboard boxes

#linguistics #purrieties #catstodon

yes, what a pawsome #Caturday find: Came across my first 'pôtichat' on #mastodon. Pôtichat is a French purriety meaning 'petit chat'

#purrieties #French #linguistics #cats