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Out now: my monograph on the language of mass shooter manifestos.

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I was blocked by my vacuum about two years ago for entering the password incorrectly too many times. Still blocked. Thank god I can still use the vacuum, but it never fails to reminds me I’m on sufferance here

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I've just found out that the show "Murderbot" (based on Martha Wells' book series) has been translated into Russian... as "Killerbot". Both English words, but one has been borrowed into Russian a few decades ago - and the other hasn't #linguistics

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Hello! This is the new account for Autism in Affinity Spaces project at Queen Mary London. Our linguistics project is examining how autistic young people communicate in online interest-based groups and how we can improve these experiences to build inclusive digital spaces

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Jobs: Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics: Two-Year Fellowship in Semantics & Pragmatics, ZAS

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See you there! 📚

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Welcome to an expert forum on "Language and Identity in Online Interactions" on May 28 (Zoom). P. Faber "The Language of Love Fraud" C. Tebaldi "Semiotic Analysis of Tradwives' Digital Propaganda" @coocho.bsky.social and @sofiaruediger.bsky.social www.isle-linguistics.org/about/news#i...

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Our @sofiaruediger.bsky.social pick-up artist research is featured in a podcast episode of "Analytischer Kaffeeplausch" (in German, for the multilingual BlueSkiers)! open.spotify.com/episode/6EEc... #manosphere #pickupartists 🐦🐦

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The last day of truly fantastic #ADDA25 was marred by getting my ERC Cog rejection, tipping me into the depth of impostor syndrome and feelings of total failure. Now that’s something no one posts on LinkedIn in the land of pink unicorn grant wins

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Goodbye, Tilburg, and thank you to the organizers for a fantastic #ADDA5! Look at those happy panel organizers 😊 @coocho.bsky.social, @nounfraze.bsky.social & Dawn Archer

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Amazing work by @nounfraze.bsky.social, Dawn Archer & Paul Archer on how children think about digital influencers and who influences them on- and offline #ADDA5

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Our food influencer researchers have to get multimodal, there is just no way around it. Here’s Camilla Vasquez, Jihye Kim and Hieu Nguyen’s complex matrix of modes for the analysis of TikTok Food Influencers’ Multimodal Evaluation Practices #ADDA25

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Great crowd so far for our #ADDA25 panel 1 Influencer Discourse: Navigating the Spectrum from Positive to Negative Impact

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Not the kind of submitting you’d expect at a linguistic conference, either #ADDA25 Kateryna Pilyarchuk and Eva-Maria Graf presenting on tradwife identity in insta reels

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A panel is not a panel without a manosphere talk. Take it away, @domini.bsky.social! #ADDA25

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#ADDA25 Public response to beauty influencers’ “collabs” with the White House to spread COVID-related messaging l, by Hanna Limatius @languaging-crises.bsky.social: Joe Biden interviewed on vlogs. I cannot help but wonder if this kind of endorsement of a public messenger without any fiduciary 1/2

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Day 2 of #ADDA5 is about to start! Join us for Panel 1 "Influencer Discourse: Navigating the Spectrum from Positive to Negative Impact" which runs across the full day! Organized with @coocho.bsky.social @nounfraze.bsky.social & Dawn Archer. #InfluencerDiscourse #DigitalDiscourseAnalysis

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@coocho.bsky.social on discourses about influencers on BlueSky. Lots of negative discourse in her dataset from three different points in BlueSky's history of migration to the platform but 'corgi influencers are the best' 🐶

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#ADDA25 Cecilia Lazzeretti presenting her meticulous multimodal analysis of the “Medical Medium” Anthony Williams video: unlike many “alternative” experts who draw on scientific discourse, he positions himself in contrast to medical professionals and aims for street cred

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Obligatory title slide post for #ADDA5 😊 Looking forward to the digital discourse crowd, hosting a panel on influencer discourses with @coocho.bsky.social, @nounfraze.bsky.social & Dawn Archer, and the whole conference shebang 🤓

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Btw, the whole project started with our conference on "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", which so far is the only event I've organized with an official conference trailer. I just checked &, amazingly, it's still available: vimeo.com/475452728 Ah, nostalgia! @coocho.bsky.social

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In this episode we talk about language play in Sámi, multilingual reading, the 500+ year history of joiks, and "language showers" with Dr. Hanna-Máret Outakoski, a professor at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino, Norway soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm...

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Persuasion is finally here!

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#jobs @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social Praedoc, 75%, 3 Jahre in dem vom FWF geförderten Forschungsprojekt "Kommunikationsverben als Indikatoren für situativen Kontext" #BLinguistik

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Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

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📢 Come work with us 📢 We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇 jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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The next #ISLE Online Forum on "Language and Identity in Online Interactions" will feature Pamela Faber and @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social. @coocho.bsky.social and I will moderate. Join us on May 28, 6pm CET, to hear about love fraud and tradwives! More info at: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o...

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